The recognition program a 30-person company can run in an hour a month. Every person, every year, on the day.
Upload your team once. Birthdays and anniversaries send themselves, you get a heads-up days ahead to add your own note, and peers say thanks from a link. Live in an afternoon, nothing to install.
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30 minutes on your branding. No commitment. A real person replies the same business day.
From a 30-person team to a 7,000-person organization
In short
eCardRecognizer is employee recognition software for small businesses: upload your team once and birthday, work anniversary, and thank-you eCards send themselves on your branding. The free plan is enough to start, and it runs itself from there.
- Set up from a CSV in an afternoon
- Birthdays and anniversaries automated every year
- Live in an afternoon
Trusted by 9,000+ organizations
Most recognition platforms are built for companies ten times your size
Minimum seat counts, annual contracts, prefunded points budgets, and an implementation project. For a 40-person company that is a reason to keep using a birthday calendar and hope someone remembers. Gallup finds employees who receive high-quality recognition are 65% less likely to be looking for another job, and small teams feel every departure.
Source: Gallup, Employee Retention Depends on Getting Recognition Right.
Set up in an afternoon
Upload a CSV of names, emails, birthdays, and hire dates. Pick templates. Done. No implementation call required.
Never forget a birthday again
Birthdays and work anniversaries send themselves every year. The owner or office manager stops being the reminder system.
Runs itself, so HR time goes to people
A branded eCard with a real message. A gift card inside when you want one, on the Enterprise plan. No budget to prefund.
Simple reporting
See what was sent and opened. Enough to know the program is working, without a dashboard to learn.
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
Three steps, one afternoon
Upload, pick templates, turn it on.
Upload your team
A CSV with names, emails, birthdays, and hire dates. Ten minutes.
Pick your templates
Choose from 350+ branded designs or upload your own artwork and logo.
Turn on the automations
Birthdays and anniversaries send themselves from now on. Send holiday and thank-you cards whenever you like.
See birthdays and anniversaries run themselves
30 minutes, on your branding, no commitment.
Start free, upgrade as you grow
A free plan is available to start. Nothing to prefund, nothing to install, so you are live in an afternoon.
- Free plan to start; upgrade as you grow
- Birthday and anniversary automation from an uploaded CSV
- Your logo and colors on every card
- Email support with replies within 24 business hours
How birthday automation works
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 teams under 200
Four choices that keep recognition personal on a small team.
Make it personal, not corporate
On a small team everyone knows everyone. A card that names the win in two honest sentences beats a generic "great job".
Automate the dates, hand-send the moments
Let birthdays and anniversaries run themselves. Save the personal touch for thank-yous and milestones.
Use your own brand
Upload your logo and colors once. Every card looks like it came from you, not from a vendor.
Add rewards only when you need them
Most small teams start with cards alone. When you want a gift card inside, the Enterprise plan adds it with caps and a ledger.
Know it is working without a dashboard to learn
Sends and opens per card, plus a simple export.
- Sends, opens, and clicks per campaign
- Reward orders and claims in an audit log (Enterprise plan)
- CSV export when you need it
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.
Start with birthdays. Add the rest when you are ready.
The same directory and templates power anniversaries, thank-yous, holidays, and spot awards.
Small business recognition, answered
Common questions from owners and office managers
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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