Recognition that reaches every branch on the date, with nothing for IT to install.
Milestone and birthday cards from your HRIS, peer thank-yous across branches, and reporting by branch. Employee data only.
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From a 30-person team to a 7,000-person organization
In short
eCardRecognizer is employee recognition for banks, credit unions, and advisory firms: birthday, work anniversary, and service milestone eCards sent automatically from your HRIS or directory, peer thank-yous across branches, and institution-wide moments scheduled to any segment. No app or login for staff. Employee data only, nothing about customers.
- Reaches every branch and role at the email in the directory
- Automations from hire dates, no spreadsheet
- Employee directory only, no customer data
Trusted by 9,000+ organizations
Tenure is the brand. Most recognition programs never reach the branch.
A 25-year teller is the reason members stay, and a points app that lives in a corporate inbox never reaches her. Gallup finds employees who receive high-quality recognition are 65% less likely to be looking for another job, and that recognition needs to arrive roughly weekly to hold. Branch staff need a card that lands on the day, not a portal.
Source: Gallup, Employee Retention Depends on Getting Recognition Right.
Every branch, every role
Tellers, loan officers, call center, and operations 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 HRIS. No branch manager has to remember.
Peer recognition across branches
A recognition form on the intranet lets anyone thank a colleague at another branch, with the card branded to your institution.
Employee data only
The directory holds staff names, emails, branches, and dates. No customer or account 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 branch network in a day
Connect the directory, turn on the dates, embed the form.
Connect the directory
Sync from your HRIS (SCIM on the Enterprise plan) or upload a CSV with emails, branches, hire dates, and birthdays.
Turn on the automations
Pick templates for birthdays, anniversaries, and milestone tiers. Add institution-wide moments to the calendar.
Embed peer recognition
Drop the recognition form on the intranet. Analytics by branch show who is recognizing whom.
See recognition reach every branch on your branding
30 minutes, on your branding, no commitment.
Nothing for IT to install, nothing about customers in the system
Staff never install anything or create an account. The directory holds employee names, emails, branches, and dates only, so no customer or account data is ever stored or sent. IT gets SSO and SCIM on the Enterprise plan; HR gets reporting by branch.
- Employee directory fields only: name, email, branch, role, hire date, birthday
- No customer data, no core banking integration
- SSO (OIDC) and SCIM 2.0 provisioning on the Enterprise plan
- Gift card rewards with caps and an audit log (Enterprise plan, USD)
Security and data protection
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 across a branch network
Four choices that keep recognition reaching every branch.
Make tenure visible
Long-tenured branch staff are the institution to members. A 20-year card the whole branch sees does more than a line in the annual report.
Send on the date, not at the quarterly meeting
A milestone card on the anniversary reads as personal. A name read out in June does not.
Report by branch, not just totals
Recognition analytics by branch show which locations are quiet, so regional managers get a nudge instead of a policy.
Keep rewards simple and on the record
A real gift card claimed in one click, with an audit log and CSV export for payroll, beats a points balance a teller has to remember to spend.
Know which branches are recognized, and which are not
Opens, clicks, and sends by branch and department, exportable for leadership.
- Sends, opens, and clicks by campaign, branch, 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, peer thank-yous, and service awards from one directory
The same directory, templates, and reward rules power every send. Turn them on once.
Branch network recognition, answered
Common questions from bank and credit union 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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