eCardRecognizer is employee recognition for remote and hybrid teams: birthday, anniversary, and milestone eCards sent automatically from your HRIS or directory, peer kudos from an intranet form, and company-wide moments scheduled to any segment. No app, no login, no points economy.
Lands in the inbox on the date, in every region
Peer kudos across teams without a login
Reporting by team and region
Trusted by 9,000+ organizations
Why remote recognition slips
Out of sight is out of mind, unless the program runs itself
Nobody walks past a desk to say happy anniversary on a distributed team. Recognition either lands in the inbox on the date or it does not happen. 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.
Birthdays, anniversaries, and milestones send from your HRIS or directory. Managers are not the reminder system.
Peer kudos across teams
A recognition form linked from your intranet lets anyone thank a colleague in another city, with the card branded to you.
Lands in the inbox, opens anywhere
A full-screen branded card at the email on file. No app, no login, no points balance.
See which teams go quiet
Recognition analytics by department show which remote teams are recognizing, and which are not.
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."
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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."
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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."
Milestones, kudos, and company moments for a distributed team
One directory, every region.
Automation from hire dates
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
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
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
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
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How it works
Live for every region in a day
Connect the directory, turn on the dates, open peer recognition.
1
Connect the directory
Sync from your HRIS (SCIM on the Enterprise plan) or upload a CSV with emails, teams, hire dates, and birthdays.
2
Turn on the automations
Choose templates for birthdays, anniversaries, and milestone tiers. Add company-wide moments to the calendar.
3
Open peer recognition
Link the recognition form from your intranet or team wiki. Watch the analytics by team.
Nothing for employees to install. HR gets automation, segmentation by region and team, and reporting. IT gets SSO and SCIM on the Enterprise plan.
Send and report by department: use it for team, region, or role
SSO (OIDC) and SCIM 2.0 provisioning on the Enterprise plan
Gift card rewards with caps and an audit log (Enterprise plan, USD)
Recipients open the card in any browser, no account
The full recognition platform
Distributed team setup
regionsUS, EU, APAC
directoryHRIS via SCIM
milestones1, 3, 5, 10, 15
peer formintranet, all staff
app installnone
Every region
Same card, same day
No points economy
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.
Program design
What works for remote and hybrid teams
Four choices that keep recognition visible across distance.
Make recognition visible, not just delivered
Ask managers to read peer cards out in team meetings, so good work in one region is seen in another.
Land on the date, not in the Monday digest
A birthday card on the birthday reads as personal. A list of names in a weekly update does not.
Recognize across teams, not just within
Cross-team kudos are the ones remote workers rarely get. Put the form where cross-team work happens.
Keep rewards simple across borders
A gift card claimed in one click on the Enterprise plan, without a catalog to localize.
Reporting
Know which remote teams are recognized, and which are not
Sends, opens, and clicks by team and region, exportable for leadership.
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
Sends, opens, and clicks by campaign, team, and sender
Reward orders and claims in an audit log
CSV export for HR and leadership reporting
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
Milestones, kudos, and service awards from one directory
The same directory, templates, and reward rules power every automation. Turn them on once.
Remote employee recognitionAutomated work anniversary eCardsPeer-to-peer recognitionThe full recognition platform
Remote team recognition, answered
Common questions from HR teams running distributed workforces
Yes. Automations send on the calendar date to the email on file, wherever the recipient is. Company-wide moments can be scheduled to any segment, including by region.
No. The card arrives at the email in your directory, work or personal, and opens full screen in any browser on any device. Nothing to install and no account to create. Senders using the peer recognition form do not need a login either.
Embed or link the recognition form from your intranet or team wiki. Anyone picks a colleague from the directory, writes a message, and sends a branded card. Reporting by team and sender shows where kudos are flowing.
On the Enterprise plan, SCIM 2.0 provisioning keeps the directory in sync as people join, move, and leave, and SSO (OIDC) handles admin sign-in. Any plan can import and update a CSV export from your HRIS or payroll system.
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 recognition reach every region in 30 minutes
We will load a sample distributed directory, turn on birthday and anniversary sends on your branding, send peer kudos across two teams, and show the reporting by region.
Automations from hire dates, on your templates
Peer kudos sent and opened during the call
Segmentation and reporting by team and region
SSO and SCIM options for IT
5.0 on Capterra
5 stars on G2
9,000+ organizations
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