Empuls Vs. Zaggle

Are you looking for a holistic employee engagement platform that encompasses surveys, rewards and recognition, perks and benefits, and a social intranet? Empuls is a leader in the employee engagement space, helping organizations use a comprehensive approach to create a thriving workplace.

In contrast, Zaggle focuses on employee benefits, incentives, rewards, and recognition solutions. Here’s why organizations choose Empuls over Zaggle for their employee engagement programs.

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1000+ CHROs globally power their employee engagement strategy with Empuls

EMPULS

Offers a broad range of rewards with 10M+ options and counting, spanning 50+ categories and 100+ countries, featuring local and global brands to match the preferences of your workforce.

Zaggle

A limited selection of rewards coupled with slow processing times makes finding and redeeming rewards difficult.

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EMPULS

Empuls’ AI capabilities are integrated across recognition programs, communication channels, and surveys, simplifying work through an intuitive UI, recommendation engine, intelligent prompts, and insights.

Zaggle

No AI capabilities make it hard to identify gaps in recognition and engagement, analyse data, and get actionable insights.

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EMPULS

Holistic well-being

Empuls offers holistic perks and benefits for allgenerations, spanning discounts, cashback, deals,offers, early wage access, tax-saving benefitsadministration for India, a multi-wallet card, andflexible, company-sponsored benefits, all aimed atenhancing overall employee well-being.

Zaggle

Limited to food coupons, books and periodicals, fuel cards, travel vouchers, and gift cards, does not enable holistic employee well-being.

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EMPULS

Supports 70+ currencies, 50+ regional languages, and global data deployment. Compliant with GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, CPRA, CSA, and ISO 27001(ISMS). Ideal for large enterprises seeking robust security and customization.

Zaggle

Scant enterprise capabilities compared to Empuls and limited security compliance and customization.

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Hear from customers who switched from Zaggle to Empuls

Sirish R

Enterprise (>1000 emp.)

5.0 out of 5

“We work hard and enjoy the employee perks given by our companies through Empuls rewards”

I truly admire the multiple options in xoxo day.

Mayank T

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0 out of 5

“User friendly and boosting employee moral”

User-friendly interface, customizable reward options.Best platform for employee benefits and appreciation.

Farah G

Mid-market (51- 1000 emp.)

5.0 out of 5

“Empuls is a great tool”

Its benefits selection is great, it’s got a vast repository of employee rewards to choose from.

Your Complete Employee Engagement Platform

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Features

Empuls

Zaggle

Recognition

Core Value Badges

Tie recognition with your core values by uploading custom value badges or choose from 150+ built-in value badges.

Peer Awards

Set up Peer-to-Peer Recognition that can be tied to rewards and does not require approval.

Limited

Spot Awards

Empower people managers to recognize team members in the moment when they deliver outstanding results.

Limited

Nomination-based Awards

Choose built-in workflows for seeking award nominations and defining nominators, approvers, and nominees.

Limited

Jury Awards

Deliver exclusive awards annually or bi-annually, using a jury panel to review award nominations.

Long Service Awards

Recognize employee loyalty with service awards that celebrate the completion of a significant tenure.

Limited

Milestone Awards

Celebrate significant milestones in the employee’s journey, from onboarding to exit and everything in between.

Employee Incentives

Tie company goals and KPIs with incentives, motivating employees to meet and exceed expectations.

Contests & Challenges

Run contests tied to rewards focused on employee well-being, such as step challenges, group hikes, meditation rituals, and more.

Wall Of Fame

Digital wall to showcase employees celebrating milestones, service awards, performance awards, and receiving frequent recognition.

Yearbook

Celebrate service anniversaries with a personalized yearbook that highlights the employee's journey, achievements, and moments of recognition throughout the year.

Public & Private Recognition

Based on employee preference, admins can set the visibility for recognition and awards to be either public, or private.

Recognition & Reward Programs

Rule-based workflows enabling the automation of multiple types of recognition and awards based on various triggers, conditions, and reward criteria, including approvals.

Reward Program

Implement reward program framework spanning multiple types of awards, across locations, departments, and teams on a single dashboard.

Limited

Reward Cycles

Automate start and end dates, nudge nominators and approvers, announce winners, and deliver rewards.

Reward Scheduler

Schedule rewards in advance for planned events, milestones, and holidays.

External Recognition

Let your customers, vendors, partners, clients or patients acknowledge your employees for their hard work.

Rewards

Budget Distribution

Set up automated point distribution for peer and manager budgets on a monthly, quarterly, or annual cycles.

Limited

Redemption Wallet

Stock your redemption wallet with funds to enable seamless reward redemption by employees.

Point-based rewards

Points are the currency on Empuls. Set your reward budget on Empuls to create reward points that power your rewards, incentives, and gifting program.

QR-code based rewards

Allow companies with deskless teams to offer QR-code based rewards for employees who do not utilize any digital device at work.

Gifting

Celebrate professional and personal milestones, festivals, and holidays with gifts and greetings that can be sent individually or in bulk.

Limited

Custom Leaderboards

Define the criteria for ranking participants and set up scoring rules for the leaderboard.

Perks

Discounted Gift Cards

Launch a corporate discounts program with savings across 30 categories and discounts ranging from 5% to 50% on more than 6,000 local and international brands.

Limited

Brand Offers

Unlock exclusive corporate offers from major brands.

Exclusive Deals

Access deals on popular categories, from dining to essentials, travel and more.

Cashback

Earn cashback on most brands, enhancing the value of purchases made with credit cards.

Benefits

Tax-free Benefits

Disburse employee benefits with a single multi-wallet card covering tax-free meal, fuel, periodicals, and telephone allowances.

Company-sponsored Benefits

Roll out company-sponsored benefits that reflect your company’s culture and focus on employee well-being.

Fringe Benefits

Offer employees flexible lifestyle benefits linked to Lifestyle Spending Accounts, empowering employees to choose the benefits that align with their life goals.

Limited

Early Wages

Offer early access to earned wages to help employees tackle unplanned expenses and emergencies.

Surveys

Engagement Surveys

Gain insights into employee sentiments, identify areas for improvement and measure their engagement.

Lifecycle Surveys

Continuous and regular connect with employees to measure engagement levels.

Custom Surveys

Editable surveys covering multiple use cases and a repository of questions to gather insights and find gaps in engagement.

Personalized Conversations

Gather organic feedback with AI that adapts to individual responses, uncovering deeper insights.

Survey Analytics

Analytics and insights, that help you gauge the organization's pulse.

Action Plans

Close the feedback loop through acknowledgment of employee feedback and data-backed action plans.

Social Intranet

Central News Feed

The town hall page lets you share news, make announcements, and celebrate wins and milestones to drive a culture of open communication.

Limted

Social Recognition Feed

Automatically broadcast all appreciations in a social feed to amplify visibility for information and crowdsource wishes.

Limted

Quick Links

Highlight important links or documents to your employees, both external and internal on the Empuls home page.

Posts

Broadcast company news, customer wins and policy updates. Customize the news feed as per your preferences.

Polls & Quizzes

Crowdsource opinions in a quick way. Drive awareness and adoption of new and existing company policies.

Limted

Videos

Upload videos that highlight your product, showcase recent activities or spotlight key achievements.

Ask Me Anything

Open the forum for questions from employees to leadership during All-Hands or other important meetings

Reactions

Allow employees to react and engage with content using comments, likes, high-fives, GIFs, emojis, videos, images, and attachments.

Only like and comment

Social Sharing

Built-in integration with LinkedIn allows employees to showcase their recognitions on LinkedIn.

Pinned Posts

Pin a post to the top of the newsfeed to feature an important announcement or highlight your best content.

Wishboards

Collate greetings and wishes from peers across the org on a single board to celebrate birthdays, work anniversaries, and more

Employee Directory

Employees can search for colleagues across the organization and access their contact details.

Org Chart

The organizational chart provides employees with the leadership hierarchy and view the structure of any team.

Digital Signage

Broadcast essential updates and achievements across your office, stores, or factory floors via large display screens.

Easily search and connect with people across the organization.

Employee Profile

Profile Page

Allows every employee to showcase their personal and professional details, giving coworkers a peek into their personality.

Account Statement

The account statement gives each employee an overview of reward points received and redeemed.

Order History

The order history provides an employee with information on all orders linked to their reward redemption.

Account Preferences

Every employee has the flexibility to set security, language, and notification preferences.

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Community Groups

Types of Groups

Use community groups to bring people from the same department, location, project, or interests together.

Groups Use Cases

Leverage groups for hobbies, onboarding, upskilling, knowledge banks, classifieds, and more.

Content Moderation

Utilize content moderation settings to decide how members interact and converse in a group.

Group Settings

Group settings include membership restrictions, privacy settings for each group, and activity notifications.

User Access Settings

Access Controls

Empuls has four user access levels, namely Super Admins, General Admins, Managers, and Users. Super Admins and General Admins can configure access permissions for all users.

User Management

Super Admins and General Admins can add, edit, or remove user accounts on Empuls, and view the list of active, invited, and disabled users.

Admin Access Delegation

Users with Admin access, such as business leaders or department heads, can delegate their access to other users temporarily to complete critical tasks such as award approvals.

User Authentication

You can choose from standard and custom login methods or set custom SSO login for user authentication on Empuls.

Notification Settings

Manage notification settings for reminders, engagement nudges, and catalog nudges for your organization, across email, app and SMS, and in-product.

Limited

AI Capabilities

Weekly Accomplishment Logging

Prompt employees to log weekly achievements, which are collated and shared with managers, nudging them to recognize team members in the moment.

Recognition Insights for Managers

AI shares valuable insights with managers, such as highlighting team members who've been recognized frequently versus those who haven't been recognized in a while.

Automated Award Creation

Simplify award creation by using AI to generate personalized award graphics, subject lines, and details on demand.

Automation of Milestone Celebrations

Schedule milestone celebrations, like birthdays, work anniversaries, service awards, and special days, with automated greetings, nudges to colleagues to join the celebrations, and deliver timely gifts and rewards.

Limited

Personalized Conversations

Integrations with communication and social media channel for timely and accurate cPersonalized Conversationsommunications

AI-generated Feedback Insights

By using employee responses to open-ended questions in the engagement survey, AI summarizes the feedback and provides sentiment analysis.

AI-based Content Moderation

AI detects and flags inappropriate content across content published on the social intranet and community groups.

Reward Catalog

Gift Vouchers

eGift vouchers spanning 25+ categories like electronics, fashion, utility, food, grocery, ecommerce, travel & more. 8000+ Brand Gift cards across 100+ countries.

Experiences

The experiential rewards catalog offers once-in-a-lifetime experiences (1000+), across 40+ categories and 50+ countries.

Limited

Amazon Store

Our API integration with Amazon for Business lets you offer employees specific products or an entire category from the Amazon Store, backed by FBA (Fulfilled by Amazon).

Limited

Brand Merchandize

Offer a diverse range of merchandise as rewards, from popular, local, and international brands across 15 categories, and backed by Empuls’ seamless shipping and support.

Custom Swag

Offer premium products personalized with your company’s branding for reward redemption, and we’ll take care of inventory management, shipping, and support.

Custom Catalog of Rewards

Manage your custom rewards catalog with Empuls, to offer rewards such as lunch with the CEO, paid time off, a free massage, dinner with the family, and more.

Travel & Entertainment

Send people to destinations they love and take care of every comfort from start to finish for their travel expeditions - flights, hotels, taxis, sightseeing.

Limited

Donations to Charity

Give employees the flexibility to donate to charitable causes from your pre-approved list of charities across the world.

Prepaid Cards

Allow employees to make purchases with prepaid cards wherever Visa or Mastercard are accepted, for allowances such as meals, fuel, and gifts

Personalization

Program Settings

Replicate your program framework with options to add your Name, Points Name, Time Zone, Language, Currency, Conversion Factor, etc.

Branding

Showcase your company’s branding to make the platform truly yours.

Limited

Feed Card Background

Customize cards for posts on Birthdays, Service Anniversaries, Welcoming New Joinees, and Leaderboard Winners

Banners

Customize banners for the Birthday Wish Board, Service Anniversary, New Employee Welcome Wish Board, Wall of Fame, and Profile Page.

Platform Theme

Customize the platform theme using options such as Light or Dark Interface Options, Platform Color Theme, Choice of UI Widgets, Color of Icons in the LHS Menu, and Feed Header Image.

Security & Compliance

Security

Our advanced system safeguards against misuse and fraud with intelligent checks and balances.

Data Privacy & Compliance

Empuls adheres to all global standards including WCAG, SOC II, ISO 27001, CCPA, HIPPA and GDPR.

Tax Compliance

Simplify tax reporting and stay compliant with tax regulations with built-in support.

Enterprise Capabilities

Multiple Currencies

Facilitate global rewards with multi-currency support

Multiple Languages

Enhance accessibility with multi-language support across all touchpoints

Limited

Multi-region Deployment

Flexibility to choose how and where you run and store your data.

Cost of Living Index

Ensure parity in rewards for teams spread across the globe.

Integration

HRMS

Integrate with your HRMS to ensure every employee in your system of record is a part of your people initiatives.

Collaboration tools

Collaboration tools to recognise, reward, share
feedback, and engage in the flow of work.

SSO

Integrate with popular identity provider systems to let employees access Empuls using work their credentials

** All comparisons are based on open-source data

Enterprise grade platform that is fully secure and designed to scale

Data protection is of utmost importance at Empuls, and we are committed to providing a safe, secure, and compliant loyalty ecosystem for businesses.

Our customers love us

"Empuls emerged as the preferred platform"

“Empuls emerged as the preferred platform, enabling Essilor to conduct custom pulse surveys seamlessly. Sandhya George, spearheading the decision-making process, highlighted Empuls's user-friendliness, stating, “It’s super easy to set up the survey through our platform and execute it to end users”

Sandhya George

“So easy to launch surveys and get feedback from our employees”

Rishab's unwavering support, responsiveness and willingness to go the extra mile has made working with Empuls a pleasure. Launching Empuls has made it so easy to launch surveys and get feedback from our employees. I would definitely recommend it.

Arya Pillai

People Analytics Manager

"Empuls made it easy to celebrate special occasions"

"In addition to automating rewards for recurring employee milestones, Empuls made it easy to celebrate special occasions such as a wedding or the birth of a baby with gifts and rewards. And the survey feature of Empuls is being extensively used to obtain New Hire feedback on the onboarding processes."

Shirin Varghese

Deputy Manager, HR

"Empuls gave us exactly what we wanted"

“In fact, we did not evaluate anybody else because Empuls gave us exactly what we wanted. The team came in and gave a presentation on how it works. All I had to do now was coordinate with only one point of contact and the rest was taken care of. The employees were surveyed for their affinity towards the Empuls platform and amazingly, 80% of them scored themselves as ‘promoters’.

Rukmini Divakar

HR Manager