Gift Cards for Employees, Delivered Inside a Branded eCard
Attach a real gift card to any birthday, anniversary, spot award, or campaign card. Funded from your own Giftbit account or codes you already own, bounded by caps Finance sets once, claimed by the employee in one click. No points, nothing to redeem later.
30-minute personalized walkthrough · tailored to your program · no commitment
In short
eCardRecognizer delivers real gift cards to employees inside branded recognition eCards: automated birthdays and anniversaries, spot awards, employee of the month, or a campaign. Rewards are funded from your own Giftbit account or code pool, bounded by caps you set, claimed in one click, and logged for payroll. Enterprise plan.
- Your Giftbit balance or your own codes; nobody holds your funds
- Per-card and velocity caps, audit log, CSV export
- Attach once to an automation and every send carries it
Trusted by 9,000+ organizations
A gift card on its own is a transaction. Inside a card, it is recognition.
The reward is the same fifty dollars either way. What changes is whether the employee knows why, from whom, and that anyone noticed. Gallup ties high-quality recognition to a 65% drop in job hunting, and quality means specific, timely, and personal.
Source: Gallup, Employee Retention Depends on Getting Recognition Right.
The card carries the reason
The message names the anniversary, the win, or the person who noticed. The gift card is one click inside.
Your money stays yours
Rewards come from your own Giftbit balance or a pool of codes you bought elsewhere. Nobody holds your funds.
Caps Finance sets once
Per-card range, spend limits by hour, day, and month, card-count limits, and a master enforcement toggle.
Built for payroll
Gift cards are taxable wages in the US. Every order and claim is logged and exports to CSV, so year end is a download, not a hunt.
Attach once, every send carries it
Rewards ride on the sends you already make.
A real gift card inside the card
On the Enterprise plan, attach a gift card from your own Giftbit account or a pool of codes you already own. The employee claims it with a one-time code. No points, nothing to redeem later.
- Amount inside the range you allow
- Claimed in one click, logged for payroll
Caps Finance sets once and never polices
Per-card minimum and maximum, spend limits by hour, day, and month, card-count limits, and an audit log of every order and claim. Gift cards are taxable wages in the US, so the export is built for payroll.
- Velocity limits with a master enforcement toggle
- Audit log and CSV export
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.
- 500+ templates or your own artwork
- Your logo and colors on every card
Upload the directory once. Dates do the rest.
Birthdays and hire dates from a CSV or your HRIS drive every send. Anniversary years 1 to 50 each get their own card, and the calendar shows what goes out and when.
- Merge tags fill in name, department, and years
- SCIM keeps the directory current on the Enterprise plan
Live the same day
Connect, set the guardrails, attach.
Connect Giftbit or upload codes
Paste your Giftbit API key, or upload a pool of codes you already own. Your catalog appears in the dashboard.
Set the guardrails
Per-card minimum and maximum, spend caps by hour, day, and month, card-count caps, and turn velocity enforcement on.
Attach rewards to sends
Add a gift card to an automation, a milestone tier, a campaign, or the spot award form. Every send from then on carries it.
See a gift card claimed inside a branded eCard
30 minutes, on your branding, no commitment.
What Finance gets before anyone sends a dollar
The controls are set once in the dashboard and enforced on every order. Nothing ships outside them, and every change to them is logged.
- Per-card minimum and maximum
- Spend limits by hour, day, and month, plus card-count limits
- Audit log of every order, claim, and setting change
- CSV export for reconciliation and payroll
Recognition without points, catalogs, or balances that expire
Most recognition platforms run on a points ledger: budgets to prefund, points that buy less than dollars, and balances that expire at year end. eCardRecognizer skips the whole economy. A branded eCard says what was done and who noticed, and a real gift card can ride along when the moment calls for one.
No points ledger
Recognition is a branded eCard with a real message, not a currency employees have to bank, convert, or watch expire.
No catalog
Nothing to browse, nothing converted into a points value. When you want a reward, it is a real gift card the recipient claims in one click.
Nothing to remember
Birthdays, anniversaries, and service milestones send themselves from hire dates in your directory or HRIS.
No app, no login
Frontline, hourly, and multi-site staff open the card at whatever email is in the directory. No account to set up.
Gift card rewards on the Enterprise plan.
What HR and culture leaders say after launch
Verbatim from the people who run recognition at Axon, Modivcare, and a 7,000-person healthcare system.
"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."
Where gift cards belong in a program
Four patterns that make the reward mean something.
Tiered service awards
A set amount per tenure milestone, sent on the anniversary. Five years gets more than one.
Spot awards with a cap
Managers send the same day with a reward inside the range you allow. The message names the win.
Employee of the month
The winner's announcement card carries the reward. Everyone sees the recognition; the winner claims the gift.
Appreciation Day campaigns
One campaign, every employee, a card and a gift card each. Opens and claims tracked per campaign.
Know what was sent, claimed, and spent
Orders, claims, and spend against your caps, in the dashboard and by API.
- Orders by send surface: widget, campaign, or automation
- Claim status per order, spend against hourly, daily, and monthly limits
- CSV export for reconciliation and payroll
Rated 5.0 on Capterra and G2 by the HR teams who run it
Reviewers rate 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.
Employee gift cards, answered
Common questions about running gift card rewards
See gift cards inside recognition eCards in 30 minutes
We will attach a real gift card to a branded eCard, set the spend caps Finance will ask about, and show the audit log and payroll export. Bring your reward budget; we bring the demo account.
- A gift card claimed inside a branded eCard, live on the call
- Spend caps, Giftbit or your own codes, audit log and CSV export
- 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.