Staff recognition for every building and every role, on the date.
Milestone and birthday cards from your HR system, appreciation weeks scheduled to every building, peer thank-yous. Employee data only.
See it on your branding in 30 minutes
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What happens after you book
- 1Pick a time on the next screenThirty minutes, on a day that suits you.
- 2We set it up on your branding firstA sample directory and your templates, loaded before the call.
- 3Watch it run liveA birthday, an anniversary, and a peer thank-you sent and opened while you watch.
- 4Ask anythingHRIS sync, SSO, rewards, and rollout. No pressure to decide on the call.
In short
eCardRecognizer is staff recognition for schools and districts: birthday, work anniversary, and service milestone eCards sent automatically from your HR system or directory, appreciation weeks scheduled to every building, and peer thank-yous from an intranet form. No app or login for staff. Employee data only, nothing about students.
- Reaches every building and role at the email in the directory
- Automations from hire dates, no spreadsheet
- Employee directory only, no student data
Trusted by 9,000+ organizations
One building remembers. Twenty-eight buildings need a system.
A principal with a birthday list keeps one school warm. Across a district, recognition depends on who remembers, and support staff in transportation, food service, and custodial are the first to be missed. Gallup finds employees who receive high-quality recognition are 65% less likely to be looking for another job, and districts feel every mid-year departure.
Source: Gallup, Employee Retention Depends on Getting Recognition Right.
Every building, every role
Teachers, aides, drivers, cafeteria, custodial, and central office get the same branded card on the same day, at the email in the directory.
Automated from hire dates
Birthdays, anniversaries, and service milestones send themselves from your HR system or a CSV. No principal has to remember.
Appreciation weeks, scheduled
Teacher Appreciation Week, School Bus Driver Appreciation Day, and custodian and nurse observances schedule to the right groups in advance.
Employee data only
The directory holds staff names, emails, buildings, and dates. No student information ever enters the system.
Milestones, appreciation weeks, and peer thank-yous from one directory
One directory, every building.
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
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
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
See which teams are recognized, and which are quiet
Sends, opens, and clicks by campaign, sender, and department. Quiet teams show up the week it happens, and the CSV export goes to leadership without a spreadsheet.
- Opens and clicks per card
- CSV export for HR and leadership
Live across the district in a day
Load the directory, turn on the dates, embed the form.
Load the directory
Import from your HR system or a CSV each fall: name, email, building, role, hire date, birthday. SCIM keeps it current on the Enterprise plan.
Turn on the automations
Pick templates for birthdays, anniversaries, and milestone tiers. Schedule appreciation weeks to the right groups.
Embed peer recognition
Drop the recognition form on the staff intranet. Analytics by building show who is recognizing whom.
See recognition reach every building on your branding
30 minutes, on your branding, no commitment.
Nothing for IT to install, nothing about students in the system
Staff never install anything or create an account. The directory holds employee names, emails, buildings, and dates only, so nothing about students is ever stored or sent. HR gets reporting by building and role.
- Employee directory fields only: name, email, building, role, hire date, birthday
- No student data, no SIS integration
- SSO (OIDC) and SCIM 2.0 provisioning on the Enterprise plan
- Recipients open the card in any browser, no login
eCards for education
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."
What works in district recognition
Four choices that keep recognition reaching every building.
Include the roles that get missed
Transportation, food service, and custodial staff rarely see appreciation weeks. Put them in the directory with their own observances.
Send on the date, not at the board meeting
A milestone card on the anniversary reads as personal. A name read into the minutes in June does not.
Report by building, not just totals
Recognition analytics by building show which schools are quiet, so principals get a nudge instead of a memo.
Keep rewards simple
When a milestone earns a reward, a real gift card claimed in one click beats a points balance a teacher has to remember to spend.
Know which buildings are recognized, and which are not
Opens, clicks, and sends by building and role, exportable for the board and the superintendent.
- Sends, opens, and clicks by campaign, building, and sender
- Reward orders and claims in an audit log
- CSV export for HR and leadership reporting
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, appreciation weeks, and thank-yous from one directory
The same directory and templates power every send. Turn them on once.
District recognition, answered
Common questions from school and district HR teams
See district-wide staff recognition in 30 minutes
We will load a sample directory with buildings and roles, turn on milestone sends on your branding, schedule a Teacher Appreciation Week send, and show the reporting by building.
- Milestone and birthday automations from hire dates, on your templates
- An appreciation week send scheduled to one building, with open tracking
- Peer recognition form your staff can use without a login
- No pressure to decide on the call
Book your demo
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