Awardco

awardco.com
HR & Payroll
Weekend Project

Make Employee Recognition More Rewarding

How to Replace Awardco

Overview

Awardco is an employee recognition and rewards platform that empowers teams with recognition that matters. It serves as a culture engine that combines employee engagement, performance recognition, and rewards management with flexibility and configurability across 135 countries.

Features

40 features across 21 categories

AI(1)

Awardco IntelligenceAI

AI-enhanced recognition solutions for smarter insights and recommendations

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

Analytics(1)

ROI Calculator

Tool to create compelling business case for recognition measuring return on recognition investment

Also in: Hugging Face, Notion, Smartsheet

Automation(2)

Automated Recognition Programs

Programs that trigger automatically based on calendared employee milestones like service awards, anniversaries, onboarding, and birthdays

Celebrations

Automate everyday moments and milestones including anniversaries, birthdays, onboarding, and service awards

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

Benefits(1)

Benefits & Perks

Drive engagement through personalized benefits employees actually want

Also in: Justworks, Wagmo, 1Password

Budget Management(2)

Budget Calculator

Simple tool to plan recognition budget effectively

Budget Manager

Control and manage simple and complex budgets with easy-to-use tools and reporting tied to recognition programs, cost centers, and users

Also in: Melio, Plooto, Tipalti

Community(1)

Awardco Admin Community

Customer-only web portal community with forums, user profiles, FAQs, and gamification allowing admins to ask questions and share solutions

Also in: Squarespace, Hugging Face, Obsidian

Customization(1)

Configurable Branding

Bring your brand into the platform with custom logos, colors, homepage design, and email notification templates

Also in: monday.com, Obsidian, Smartsheet

Engagement(1)

Awardco EngagePremium

Comprehensive employee engagement solution that moves from employee feedback to measurable change with surveys, insights, and action plans

Gamification(1)

CompetitionsPremium

Drive individual and team performance with an end-to-end solution for any kind of contest including tracking, leaderboards, and gamification

Global Management(1)

International Program Management

Tools to simplify managing programs across different regions and geographies to create right experiences for diverse global populations

Incentive Management(3)

Earn Incentive Creator

Tool that makes incentive design and execution simple by allowing organizations to create forms, workflows, and approval flows for quick point redemption

Incentive Program Manager

Centralize incentive administration with flexible controls and optimized experience for complex programs with multiple incentives

Incentives

Build custom incentives to drive behavior for any goal with earn incentive creator and incentive program management

Notifications(1)

Notification System

Modernized notification features allowing administrators and employees to configure and control types of notifications and channels

Payment Management(1)

Funding Management

Tools to help the redemption account and other payments stay current to ensure redemptions are always flowing

Points Management(1)

Points Management & Expiration

Create and modify rules around points issued, expiration timing based on employee termination, and redemption options

Recognition(8)

Award Nomination Programs

Complex and recurring award nomination programs with flexibility to celebrate nominations, improve decision quality, and remove bias

AwardCodes

Customizable points cards that enhance employee recognition for offline workers allowing secure scanning or entry to redeem points

Bulk Recognition Tool

Powerful tool for admins to send out bulk recognitions and rewards with scheduling capability

External Recognition

Allow customers, vendors, partners, or any third-party to recognize employee efforts and service with real-time visibility

MemoryBooks

Create crowdsourced recognition for events allowing employees personal space to see positivity sent and creating special moments

Moment-Based Programs

Celebrate roles, communities, individuals, life events, employee appreciation weeks, community events, and causes

Recognition Programs

Create effortless, flexible recognition that builds culture with peer-to-peer and manager-to-peer recognition capabilities

Spot Recognition

Always-on programs that allow employees and leaders to recognize each other with monetary and non-monetary recognition

Reporting(2)

Advanced Reporting

15+ standard reporting templates to manage recognition, redemptions, adoption, and exportable to CSV or scheduled via Rest API

Reporting DashboardsPremium

Reporting dashboards across teams, departments, and filters with correlation and key driver analysis

Rewards(3)

A-Pay CardPremium

A physical or digital payment card that allows employees to redeem 1:1 points for almost anything including subscriptions, memberships, experiences, and shopping

Company StorePremium

A turnkey swag solution offering customized high-quality swag with no order minimums, shipping headaches, or markups

Rewards Network

The world's largest configurable reward network with 300M reward options across 163 currencies

Social(2)

Filterable Social Feed

Social feed experience configured to individual user, department, role, or other metadata with permission-based visibility

My Circle

Enhanced social feature allowing individuals to highlight selected teammates and close associates in recognition flow, memory books, and home page

Support(3)

24/5 User Support

End user support available 24 hours Monday through Friday via phone, email, and live chat to address technical platform issues

24/7 Admin Support

24/7 chat and email support for Awardco admins with 24/5 phone support

Customer Success ManagerPremium

Post-launch support with quarterly business reviews, guidance on platform adoption, and best practices recommendations

Surveys(3)

Annual Engagement SurveysPremium

Comprehensive surveys with automated scheduling, engagement and sentiment scoring including eNPS, and manager-level results

Pulse ProgramsPremium

Ongoing pulse survey programs with automated cadences to continuously measure engagement

Simple Surveys

Easy way to collect information with quick check-ins and lightweight feedback through basic form builder with multiple-choice and yes/no questions

Workflow(1)

Approval Flows

Create simple controls over recognition and nomination flows with variety of paths for review and approval

Pricing

Awardco Recognize

Custom
  • Service Awards Only - includes only service award programs
  • No bulk recognition tool access
  • Access to all other platform capabilities

Automated + 2

Custom
  • Limited to two active spot recognition programs at a time
  • Service Award programs, Birthday programs, and Onboarding programs don't count toward limit
  • Full access to bulk recognition tool

Standard

Popular
Custom
  • Unlimited programs within any two program types
  • Bulk recognition tool and approval flows
  • Simple surveys and earn incentive creator
  • Full list of platform capabilities

Scale

Custom
  • Unlimited programs within any four program types
  • Bulk recognition tool and approval flows
  • Simple surveys and earn incentive creator
  • Full list of platform capabilities

Enterprise

Custom
  • Unlimited programs across any program type
  • Bulk recognition tool and approval flows
  • Simple surveys and earn incentive creator
  • All platform capabilities
  • Access to any newly released program type or premier program type features

Startup Package

Starting at $3,000/year
  • For new startups and small businesses with 100 employees or less
  • Flexible packages

Cost Calculator

Pricing data not available for Awardco. Check their website for current pricing.

Build vs Buy

Should you build a Awardco alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 40 features.

Buy Awardco

Better Value
Monthly costContact Sales
3-year totalVaries
Time to deployDays

Build Your Own

Development cost$24,000
Maintenance$360/mo
3-year total$36,960
Dev time~2 months

Buying Awardco saves ~$36,960 over 3 years vs building.

Estimates based on 40 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.