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.
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30 minutes on your branding. No commitment. Plans from $120 a month, priced for your team below.
What it costs
The price for your team, before the call.
$120 a month covers the first 100 employees. Each employee after that is $0.25 a month. Annual billing takes 10% off. No hidden fees, cancel anytime.
- Unlimited eCard designs, portals, and internal sends
- Employee directory, stats and analytics, Zapier and API access
- Advanced white-label branding and top-priority support
Gift card rewards, SSO, and SCIM are on the Enterprise plan.
$1,701 a year on annual billing. About $0.63 per employee per month.
Pick a time for my demoPer-seat recognition plan. Billed monthly or annually.
From a 30-person team to a 7,000-person organization
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.
Four pillars, one directory
Turn on what you need. Add the rest when the first one is running. The directory, the automations, the heads-ups, and the reporting are the program, not a card library.
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
Anyone can say thank you in under a minute, with no login to forget
A recognition form on SharePoint, your intranet, or behind a share link you can put on a QR code. Pick a colleague from the directory, write two sentences, send. The card arrives by email, text, or WhatsApp and opens in any browser, so frontline staff without a company inbox are in.
- Embed with one iFrame or share the link; no login for sender or recipient
- Profanity filter and domain allowlists keep it tidy; every send shows in reporting
One holiday card to the whole company, scheduled ahead, and you see who opened it
Pick a design, write the message once, and schedule it to the whole directory or one department. Merge tags fill in each name, so a card to 2,000 people still reads one to one. Opens and clicks are tracked per campaign, and the yearly holidays run on their own as fixed-date automations.
- Whole directory or a department filter; CSV and bulk paste too
- Sent, delivered, opened, and clicked per campaign, exported to CSV
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
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 that is still happening a year after launch
Gallup ties high-quality recognition to employees being 65% less likely to be job hunting. Most programs never get there: 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 heads-up emails in your own voice, add in-person shout-out ideas, and run it from SharePoint or your intranet. The tool carries the campaign. The culture is yours.
Reporting and stats from day one: sent, opened, and clicked per card, per automation, and per campaign, exported to CSV for the leadership deck.
Gift card rewards are optional and stay off until you want them. Available 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 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."
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 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, 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 it running on your branding in 30 minutes
We load a sample directory and your templates before the call, then send a birthday, an anniversary heads-up, a peer thank-you, and a company-wide card while you watch.
- 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.
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