Automated Birthday eCards. Upload Once, Every Card Sends Itself.
Birthdays from a CSV or your HRIS drive a branded card every year, on the day, in the local time zone, to whatever email is in the directory. Managers can add a note. Nobody has to remember.
30-minute personalized walkthrough · tailored to your program · no commitment
In short
eCardRecognizer sends automated birthday eCards to employees from the birthdays in your directory: upload a CSV or sync your HRIS once, pick a branded template, and every card goes out on the day, in local time, with an optional manager note. Reporting shows opens and who was missed.
- Birthdays from a CSV or HRIS sync, sent on the day in local time
- Optional manager note, card still sends without it
- Opens, clicks, and missing-date report
Trusted by 9,000+ organizations
The birthday that gets missed is the one people remember
A birthday card is the smallest unit of recognition and the easiest to drop. Gallup finds recognition needs to arrive roughly weekly to hold; the birthday is the one date every employee knows you had.
Source: Gallup, Employee Retention Depends on Getting Recognition Right.
The date is in the directory
Upload birthdays once, or sync them from your HRIS. The calendar fills itself for the year.
Local time, every location
The card lands at 9:00 am where the employee is, not where HR is.
A manager note, optional
Copy the manager ahead of time so they can add two sentences. If they do not, the card still goes.
Any inbox, no app
Work or personal email, full screen in any browser. The frontline gets the same card as the office.
Birthdays that send themselves, from one directory
Set it once. Check the report in January.
Set it up once. Every birthday and anniversary goes out on the day, and the team piles on.
Hire dates and birthdays in your directory schedule every card, and years 1 to 50 each get their own designs. One to 30 days ahead, the manager and the department get a heads-up with a Schedule eCard button, and their cards land on the same day. If nobody adds one, the company card still goes out, so every person is covered every year.
- Several designs and messages per milestone, picked at random, so year two never repeats year one
- Local-time sends, weekend shifting, and a 3-year preview of what goes out when
A branded card that opens anywhere, with no login
The card arrives at whatever email is in the directory, work or personal, and opens full screen in any browser, on a laptop or a phone. Nothing to install for the frontline or the field.
- Hundreds of templates or your own artwork
- Your logo and colors on every card
Know what was sent, opened, and clicked, from day one
Sent, delivered, opened, clicked, shared, and bounced, per card, per automation, and per campaign. The CSV export goes to leadership without a spreadsheet.
- Opens and clicks per card
- CSV export for HR and leadership
Three steps, one afternoon
No IT ticket required.
Upload the directory
A CSV with names, emails, and birthdays. Departments and managers if you want the manager copied.
Pick the template and time
Choose a design, set the send time, and decide whether managers get a heads-up the day before.
Turn it on
The first cards go out tomorrow morning. The dashboard shows what is scheduled for the month.
See birthday automation on your templates
30 minutes, on your branding, no commitment.
The same directory runs anniversaries, holidays, and observances
Once the birthdays are running, work anniversaries by year, company holidays, and observances like Nurses Week or Teacher Appreciation Week are a template and a checkbox away.
- Work anniversaries with a different card for years 1, 5, 10, 15, 20
- Company holidays and observances scheduled to everyone or a department
- Gift card rewards on the milestones that deserve one (Enterprise plan)
- One report across all of it
Recognition that is still happening a year after launch
Most programs die the same way: managers forget, the tool gets ignored, and the cards start to feel like a template blast. eCardRecognizer is built for the tough cases, so recognition keeps happening whether or not anyone remembers.
A flood on the day, not one email
Birthday, anniversary, and milestone cards go out on their own from hire dates. Days ahead, the manager and the department get a heads-up and schedule their own personalized cards, so the employee gets a flood of recognition on the day, not one email.
The safety net
Even if nobody schedules a personal card, the company card still lands on the date. Minimum guaranteed recognition: every person, every year, and usually a stack of personal ones on top.
Nothing performative
Every automated card is different: rotating designs, personalized messages, and the manager's own words on top. Year two never repeats year one.
Your campaign, our infrastructure
You write the manager notification emails in your own voice, add in-person shout-out ideas, and run it from SharePoint or Teams. The tool carries the campaign. The culture is yours.
Reaches the plant floor
A share link lets anyone create a card and send it by text, personal email, or messaging app, so frontline staff without a company inbox are in. Customers run this today for factory and field teams.
Locked down to IT's taste
From/to-only cards, no attachments, a profanity filter, and an HR moderation queue when you want one. A security page and questionnaire support for the vetting.
Gift card rewards are optional and stay off until you want them.
What HR and culture leaders say after launch
Verbatim from the people who run recognition at Axon, Modivcare, and a 7,000-person organization.
"We've been using the eCard widget to automate our birthday and service anniversary messages, and it has genuinely transformed our workflow. What once took hours each month now happens seamlessly in the background."
"We have been able to create birthday cards, anniversary cards, company value cards as well as get well soon, thank you, and sympathy. This program has enhanced our overall culture, and I couldn't be more satisfied with my experience."
"A+ customer service and plugin! Loved the plugin/widget from the beginning, and Tim made it even better by being super helpful and responsive to ensure it worked well for our organization of about 7,000 staff."
Small choices that make birthday cards land
From the customers who have run this for years.
Let managers add a line
The company card with two sentences from the manager reads as personal. The heads-up email makes it easy.
Copy the team
A birthday card the team can see invites replies. Keep it to the team, not the company.
Respect the time zone
A card at 3:00 am is a notification. A card at 9:00 am is a card.
Save the reward
Birthdays get the card. Anniversaries and wins get the gift card. The distinction keeps rewards meaningful.
Know who is recognizing, and who is not
Sends, opens, and clicks by campaign, sender, and department. Quiet teams show up the week it happens.
- Sends, opens, and clicks by campaign, sender, and department
- Reward orders and claims in an audit log
- Export to CSV for payroll and leadership reporting
Rated 5.0 on Capterra and G2 by the HR teams who run it
Reviewers rate eCardWidget, the platform behind eCardRecognizer, 5.0 out of 5 on Capterra, with 4.8 for ease of use and 5.0 for customer service, and 5 stars on G2 and the Shopify App Store. Support is a real person who answers the same day.
Milestones, spot awards, and peer thank-yous from one directory
The same directory, templates, and reward rules power every program below.
Automated birthday eCards, answered
Common questions about running birthdays from the directory
See employee birthdays run themselves in 30 minutes
We will load a sample directory, turn on birthday automation on your templates, and show what the employee receives. Bring your current process; we bring the demo account.
- Birthday automation from a CSV or your HRIS, on your templates
- What the employee receives, with no app or login
- No pressure to decide on the call
Book your demo
Pick a time on the next screen. We will come prepared with your use case.