Awardco vs Bonusly: Which is a better fit?

Kimberley R.: Hi, my name is Kim. I am the director of Total Rewards. My organization, we have about 1100 associates. And rating Awardco, I'd give them a five. Prior to Awardco, we had O.C. Tanner, and had O.C. Tanner for decades. And they were just so antiquated, and it was very difficult. It wasn't like they were trying to expand our recognition opportunities with our associates, and so we did a little RFP, and Awardco came out on top and we've loved them ever since. Yeah, we chose Awardco mostly for the simplicity of the setup and how easy it is to add additional programs. We initially started with just service awards, and we've expanded that now. We use it now for holiday gifts, we do birthday cards and anniversary cards, and all that good stuff. We just recently rolled out peer-to-peer recognition with no monetary value. And for 2024, we're going to be adding manager recognition with monetary value. Okay, so let me just explain. We have very high turnover, and so part of the concern with the previous program is we were sending recognition things to people who had terminated. And so, the lovely part about Awardco, too, is we have a daily feed that goes to Awardco. So when we terminate somebody in our system, automatically their points get archived. So we're no longer recognizing terminated employees. That was a big selling point for us. So again, we have a daily feed and it's just really easy to set up new programs, and we had a great account manager that helped us roll out the initial program. Yeah. I would definitely tell them that if you need something simple, easy to administer, really, I could set up a new program in very little time. I can go in and look and see who's using the points, what they're using the points for. It's just a really easy program. Again, that daily feed for us is critical because of our turnover. I would just say definitely make sure you look at Awardco if you're looking to change your recognition program.

Speaker 1: Hello, my name is Blair, and I am a divisional director at a staffing and recruiting firm. I would rate Bonusly a four out of five stars, and for more reviews like this, please click below. So Bonusly is not a software that we switched from a different platform. We were actually doing more of the old school, traditional employee recognition, you know, maybe physical gift cards or flowers or things like that. Bonusly was our first taste of a more modern recognition system. We chose Bonusly for several reasons at our company. One, it's a fun way to recognize not just work anniversaries and birthdays, but little day-to-day things that can often get overlooked. It allowed it to be a peer-to-peer recognition rather than just the top down. The other main reason we chose it is also for those more traditional ways of recognition, anniversaries, birthdays, it allowed us to automate that as our company grew rather than have to do that manually. Integrating Bonusly was very easy and it had sort of a snowball effect. Once people started using it, we learned some additional features as we went, but the integration was very easy. The main recommendation that I have for those considering Bonusly would be to come up with timeframes of when you would like your employees to be able to use Bonusly. What I mean by that is it can be pretty distracting if you have the notifications popping up throughout the workday. So maybe come up with a system ahead of time. You know, "You are allowed to implement awards from 8:00 to 9:00 AM and 4:00 to 5:00 PM," rather than let it be accessible throughout the workday and distract your team.