Recognition that reaches the floor. Any phone, no app, no login.
Birthday and milestone cards from your HRIS at the email staff actually check, and spot thank-yous supervisors send from any browser.
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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 employee recognition for frontline and hourly teams: birthday, anniversary, and milestone eCards sent automatically from your HRIS or directory, plus spot thank-yous supervisors send from any browser. Staff open the card on any phone with no app and no login, and there are no points to manage.
- Opens on any phone, nothing to install
- Automated from hire dates, no spreadsheet
- Spot awards with real gift cards on the Enterprise plan
Trusted by 9,000+ organizations
Recognition platforms assume a desk. Most of your workforce does not have one.
Points apps need a download, an account, and time on a screen. Hourly and field staff have none of that on shift, so the program quietly becomes a head-office perk. Gallup finds employees who receive high-quality recognition are 65% less likely to be looking for another job. That only helps if the recognition reaches the floor.
Source: Gallup, Employee Retention Depends on Getting Recognition Right.
Opens on any phone, no app
The eCard is a link in an email. It opens full screen on a personal phone in the break room with nothing to install.
Automated from hire dates
Birthdays, anniversaries, and milestones send themselves from your HRIS or a CSV. No supervisor has to remember.
Spot thank-yous from the floor
A supervisor sends a branded thank-you in under a minute from a browser or a QR-linked form. A gift card can ride along on the Enterprise plan.
Reporting by site and shift
See which locations and supervisors are recognizing, and which are not, without asking anyone.
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
Rolled out to every site without an app
Load the directory, turn on the dates, give supervisors a form.
Load the directory
Import from your HRIS or a CSV: name, email, site, shift, hire date, birthday. SCIM keeps it current on the Enterprise plan.
Turn on the automations
Pick templates for birthdays, anniversaries, and milestone tiers. Add safety or service observances on your own schedule.
Give supervisors a form
A recognition form on the intranet, a kiosk, or behind a QR code lets any supervisor send a branded thank-you from the floor.
See a spot award reach a phone on the floor
30 minutes, on your branding, no commitment.
Nothing for operations to install, train, or support
The recipient gets an email with a link. The supervisor uses a form in a browser. IT rolls out nothing, and HR does not run a points budget.
- Recipients open the card in any browser, on any phone
- Supervisor recognition form works from a browser or a QR code
- Gift card rewards with caps and an audit log (Enterprise plan, USD)
- Send and report by department: use it for site, shift, or role
How spot awards work
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 for hourly and field teams
Four choices that keep recognition on the floor instead of at head office.
Collect the email they check
Many frontline staff never open a work inbox. Store a personal email in the directory and the card lands where it will be seen.
Recognize on the shift, not at the review
A safe quarter or a covered shift deserves a card the same day. Supervisors need a tool that takes a minute, not a form for HR.
Put the form where the work is
A QR code on the break room wall or a link on the kiosk gets more use than a menu buried in the intranet.
Keep rewards real
A gift card claimed in one click beats a points balance a warehouse associate has to remember to spend before it expires.
Know which sites are recognized, and which are not
Sends, opens, and clicks by location and supervisor, exportable for operations reviews.
- Sends, opens, and clicks by campaign, site, and sender
- Reward orders and claims in an audit log
- CSV export for HR and operations
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 service awards, birthdays, spot recognition, and peer kudos. Turn them on once.
Frontline recognition, answered
Common questions from operations and HR teams with deskless staff
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.
Book your demo
Pick a time on the next screen. A real person replies the same business day.
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