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. The reward is worth its full face value the moment it lands, with 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, at face value, only when the moment earns one
On the Enterprise plan, attach a gift card from your own Giftbit account or a pool of codes you already own to a milestone tier, a spot award, or a campaign. The employee claims it with a one-time code and no account. Per-card ranges, hourly, daily, and monthly caps, and an audit log with CSV export keep Finance and payroll happy.
- Stays off until you turn it on; cards without a reward still go out
- Caps set once, every order and claim logged
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.
- Hundreds of templates or your own artwork
- Your logo and colors on every card
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
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 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."
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 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.
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.