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6/3/2025 Tip Tuesday - Discover What Rewards Your Employees Really Want
Want to know what your employees are truly valuing and redeeming their points on? Dive into the Points Redeemed report! This powerful tool gives you a clear picture of redemption activity, helping you understand spending habits and refine your reward offerings. What it does:The Points Redeemed report tracks how points are…
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Get Ready for the Future of Recognition: Introducing Awardco 2.0!
We're thrilled to announce Awardco 2.0, a major evolution of our platform designed to make employee recognition more intuitive, engaging, and personalized than ever! Our goal is to empower your recognition culture and create the best employee experience possible. In the coming months, you'll see a suite of powerful new…
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Federal Tax on Small Awards
What have others done when taxing awarded points but the amount is not large enough to generate federal tax? We are concerned that while each individual point awards may not generate federal tax, when you add all the awarded points for a period, it may require federal tax. We don't want the employee to be penalized but not…
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How is your wellness program (earned) criteria?
We are looking at adding an earned program alongside the recognition program. I have many questions. We are a non-profit organization with 1-120 employees. What is your wellness program criteria? How do users opt in to the program? How did you promote it within your company? How do you manage it? What point value limits do…
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Expiring Points Reminder
For those of you who send a reminder to Managers (or employees if they receive points as well) do you send those internally or do you use the sample reminder email within the Awardco platform? If you send internally, is there a template you use?
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Episode 51 - "Awardco 2.0: Notifications 2.0"
https://awardco.wistia.com/medias/6qdoqcjr4y Join @Brandon.orme and Product Manager @NatalieMcKenzie as they dive into Notifications 2.0, a key component of Awardco 2.0. This session explores the enhanced notification system, offering a centralized framework with greater customization for admins and users alike. Discover…
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June '25 Badge of the Month - Summer Experiences: Share Your Plans!
Hi Community, Summer is officially here, bringing with it longer days, warmer weather, and a fantastic opportunity to create memorable experiences for your employees! Whether it's team-building events, wellness challenges, or just fun ways to unwind, summer is a perfect time to boost morale and foster connection. This…
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Onboarding Tutorials for New Backend Admin
Hi - we are adding 1-2 people to help manage the backend logistics and admin of our AwardCo program. I am looking for online setup tutorials that include videos or screenshots for users to walk through to learn and troubleshoot at their own pace. Does AwardCo offer a resource library for new admin users - not employees…
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Has anyone used their recognition program to support a contest?
Our Experience & Delivery team is focused on expanding the use of automation to regain staff capacity and save money where contractors are currently used. This team has asked to use the current peer-to-peer recognition program as the platform for this contest as an incentive to motivate their team's work with points. This…
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8/19/2025 Tip Tuesday - A Head Start on Holiday Recognition 🎁
The holiday season will be here before you know it! Getting a head start on your recognition strategy now can make all the difference in creating a meaningful and stress-free experience for everyone. Here are a few things to start thinking about to ensure a smooth and impactful holiday season. 1. Plan Your Budget and…
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7/15/2025 Tip Tuesday – Automating User Data: Less Admin Work, More Impact! 🚀
Are you looking for ways to lighten your administrative load while ensuring your Awardco platform always has the most accurate user data? You're in luck! Automating user data updates is a powerful way to keep everything precise and secure, freeing you up for more impactful work. Maintaining accurate user data is crucial…
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Upcoming service awards reporting?
There is no way to report on upcoming service awards. I feel it would be beneficial to be able to report off this data rather than scrolling through the pending queues tab. In addition to reporting on this data, a filter would be helpful as well. Whether it be upcoming birthdays or upcoming anniversaries.
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How are you Leveraging the "Printing Recognitions as Certificates" feature?
As it states, I'm curious what other admin are doing in their platforms in regard to using the printing recognition as certificates feature. This is separate from the service awards memory book/service award letters but am hoping to learn more about others experiences with this feature and if there's any best practices…
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8/5/2025 Tip Tuesday – Understanding Your Awardco Invoices 🧾
Ever wondered why you receive different types of invoices from Awardco? Our goal is to make the process as seamless as possible, and a big part of that is understanding what each invoice means. Sometimes a funding request invoice will come with a report to show what the invoice is billing for, but it’s always good to have…
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For anyone with employees in Germany --- How do you handle taxing recognition points?
We are about to roll out our employee recognition program globally. Our German HR professionals are questioning our plan to tax employees on the points they receive. They are stating we must gross up the points prior to taxing otherwise - "it will lead to the situation that the employee will get less than the regular…
