Connect your Giftbit account and any birthday, anniversary, spot award, or campaign eCard can carry a real gift card from your Giftbit catalog. Funded from your own Giftbit balance, bounded by caps you set, claimed by the employee in one click. eCardRecognizer never holds the money.
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5.0
9,000+ organizations
1 click
For the employee to claim
$0
Held by eCardRecognizer
USD
Gift card currency
$50 Amazon.com card attached
Funded from your Giftbit balance
Claimed with a one-time code
No account, no app
In short
eCardRecognizer integrates with Giftbit so a real gift card from your Giftbit catalog can ride inside any branded recognition eCard: automated birthdays and anniversaries, spot awards, employee of the month, or a campaign. Rewards are funded from your own Giftbit balance, bounded by caps you set, and claimed by the employee in one click. Enterprise plan, USD.
Bring your own Giftbit key; eCardRecognizer never holds the funds
Attach once to an automation and every send carries it
Per-card and velocity caps, audit log, CSV export
Trusted by 9,000+ organizations
Why this pairing
Giftbit handles the gift card. eCardRecognizer handles the reason, the timing, and the delivery.
A gift card on its own is a transaction. A gift card inside a branded card that names the anniversary, the win, or the person who noticed is recognition. Gallup finds employees who receive high-quality recognition are 65% less likely to be looking for another job. The reward matters less than the moment it arrives in.
Connect the Giftbit account you already have. Rewards are fulfilled from your Giftbit balance, so there is no second wallet to prefund and no vendor holding your money.
Attach once, sends forever
Add a reward to a birthday or anniversary automation and every future send carries it, on the right day, from hire dates in your directory.
Claimed inside the card
The employee opens the branded eCard, clicks the claim link, confirms a one-time code sent to their email, and the gift card is theirs. No account, no app.
Caps Finance sets once
Per-card minimum and maximum, hourly, daily, and monthly spend limits, and card-count limits. An audit log and CSV export for reconciliation and payroll.
Keep Giftbit, add the card
The reward you already fund, inside a card worth opening
Your Giftbit catalog and balance stay where they are. What changes is what the employee receives, and how little HR has to do to send it.
Reaches every employee
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
Rewards when the moment calls for one
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
Peer recognition
Anyone can send a thank-you in under a minute
A recognition form on your intranet, a kiosk, or behind a QR code. Pick a colleague from the directory, write two sentences, send. No login for the sender or the recipient.
Embed on SharePoint or any intranet page
Every send shows up in reporting
Finance controls
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
app.ecardwidget.comReward rulesPer-card range$10 to $50$75Monthly spend cap$2,500Cards per day120Velocity limitsEnforce every cap above on every sendSaved. Finance never has to police it.Audit logMaya Chensent $25 to Devin Okafor10:14Grace Whitfieldraised per-card max to $75nowPriya Nairclaimed $50 anniversary card09:52Tom Alvarezexported payroll CSVYesterdayGrace · Finance
Setup
Live in an afternoon
Three steps, one connection, no code.
1
Connect Giftbit
Paste your Giftbit API key into the Enterprise settings. Sandbox first if you like, then production. Your catalog appears in eCardRecognizer.
2
Set the guardrails
Per-card minimum and maximum, spend caps by hour, day, and month, and card-count caps. Turn velocity enforcement on so the caps actually cap.
3
Attach rewards to sends
Add a gift card to a birthday or anniversary automation, a milestone tier, a campaign, or the recognition form. Every send from then on carries it.
If you already buy gift cards elsewhere, upload the codes as a pool. Each send assigns the next available code, with live inventory so a campaign never runs dry mid-send. Giftbit and code pools are both Enterprise plan features.
Giftbit: catalog, funding, and fulfillment from your own account
Manual pool: any brand, codes you already own, assigned automatically
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.
A typical points platform
eCardRecognizer
Prefund a points budget and load a catalog
Upload your directory and pick templates
Roll out an app and train managers on points
Managers send a card from any browser
Employees bank, convert, and lose points
Employees open a card. Nothing to redeem.
Quarterly admin, minimums, and a long contract
Live in an afternoon
Gift card rewards on the Enterprise plan.
Customer stories
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."
D
Devin Locascio
Employee Experience Program Manager, Axon
"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."
D
Donte Fears
Director, Culture and Team Member Experience, Modivcare
"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."
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, and nobody has to remember the date.
Spot awards with a cap
Managers send a branded thank-you the same day with a reward inside the range you allow. The message names the win, the card carries the thanks.
Employee of the month
The winner's announcement card carries the reward. The whole company 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.
Reporting
Know what was sent, claimed, and spent
Orders, claims, and spend against your caps, in the dashboard and by API.
Opens and clicks
Per card, per campaign
By department
See which teams are quiet
CSV export
For payroll and reporting
Audit log
Every reward order and claim
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 stars
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.
5.0
Overall on Capterra
5.0
Customer service
4.8
Ease of use
One engine, every kind of recognition
Rewards ride on the sends you already automate
Birthdays, anniversaries, spot awards, and employee of the month all run from the same directory and templates.
Common questions about running gift card rewards through the integration
Your Giftbit account, catalog, and balance stay exactly as they are. What changes is what the employee receives: a branded, animated eCard with a personal message and the gift card inside, instead of a claim link. Birthdays and anniversaries run from your directory instead of a list upload, peers can send thank-yous without budget access, and cards with no reward at all still go out, so recognition never waits on budget.
Yes. You connect your own Giftbit API key on the Enterprise plan, and rewards are fulfilled from your Giftbit balance. eCardRecognizer never holds or moves your funds. A sandbox mode lets you test before going live.
Whatever your Giftbit account offers. The catalog your Giftbit account has (Amazon.com among many others) appears in eCardRecognizer when you set up a send, and you choose the brand and amount inside the per-card range you allow.
It is attached to the eCard itself. The employee opens the branded card, clicks the claim link, confirms a one-time code sent to their email, and the gift card is theirs. No account to create and no app to install.
A per-card minimum and maximum, spend limits by hour, day, and month, card-count limits by day and month, a master enforcement toggle, and an audit log of every order, claim, and setting change. Orders export to CSV, and gift cards are taxable wages in the US, so the export is built for payroll.
Yes. Upload the codes as a manual pool and each send assigns the next available code, with live inventory. Giftbit and manual pools are both Enterprise plan features and use the same claim flow and controls.
Yes, read and reporting: orders, analytics, available products, pool inventory, spend limits, and settings. Rewards are attached to sends through the widget, a campaign, or an automation, and every state-changing action is one-time-code gated in the dashboard.
Because the calendar depends on someone remembering. Upload the same list once and every birthday, anniversary, and milestone sends itself on your branding, with opens and clicks reported by department so you can show it ran. Your existing card designs can be uploaded as custom templates.
Book the demo, see it running on your own templates, and decide after. Nothing to prefund, nothing to install, and the demo is 30 minutes with no pressure to decide on the call.
30-minute personalized demo
See a Giftbit gift card land inside a branded eCard in 30 minutes
We will connect a sandbox Giftbit account, attach a reward to an anniversary automation on your templates, claim it live, and show the audit log Finance will ask about. Bring your questions; we bring the demo account.
A reward attached to an automation and to a spot award, sent live
The claim flow the employee sees, start to finish
Spend caps, the audit log, and the payroll export
No pressure to decide on the call
5.0 on Capterra
5 stars on G2
9,000+ organizations
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