Best Employee Recognition Software 2025

Employee Gifting solution to celebrate special days

Power your employee gifting strategy with Empuls’ gifting platform. Automate and easily scale your gifting campaigns for every occasion, whether it’s a milestone or festive moment.

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Purpose-built for the Global Workforce. Trusted by Leading Enterprises.

Truly Global

The platform supports 100+ languages and 50+ currencies. It's built for scale with cloud-agnostic deployment, compliance, and access to 10M+ reward options.

Industry Leading Value

Flexible pricing models—whether on redemption, distribution, or issuance - gives a greater control over budgets and spend efficiency.

Enterprise Grade Reliablity

Compliance with GDPR, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 ensures trusted, global-ready operations, paired with advanced privacy controls and role-based access.

Highly Configurable

Empuls offers the flexibility to support processes and workflows through highly configurable features & seamless integrations.

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How it works

Gifting is quick and easy with Empuls gifting tool

Automate gifts for every occasion

Place holder. Develop a deep understanding of your team members to enhance engagement and cultivate a culture conducive to their growth and success.

Step 1

Create a list of events and upload the list of recipients.

Step 2

Add a personalized message and an e-card for each event.

Step 3

Assign points to redeem for gifts. Shipping is always included.

Step 4

Set up a workflow to automate each step and let Empuls do the rest.

Get ready to celebrate with gifts

Place holder. Develop a deep understanding of your team members to enhance engagement and cultivate a culture conducive to their growth and success.

Step 1

Personal messages and e-cards are delivered to the inbox.

Step 2

Get a link to redeem your points from a vast gift catalog.

Step 3

Pick a gift that’s most meaningful to you in the moment.

Step 4

Get gifts delivered home (physical) or instantly to your inbox (digital).

Employer

Automate gifts for every occasion

Place holder. Develop a deep understanding of your team members to enhance engagement and cultivate a culture conducive to their growth and success.

Step 1

Create a list of events and upload the list of recipients.

Step 2

Add a personalized message and an e-card for each event.

Step 3

Assign points to redeem for gifts. Shipping is always included.

Step 4

Set up a workflow to automate each step and let Empuls do the rest.

Employee

Get ready to celebrate with gifts

Place holder. Develop a deep understanding of your team members to enhance engagement and cultivate a culture conducive to their growth and success.

Step 1

Personal messages and e-cards are delivered to the inbox.

Step 2

Get a link to redeem your points from a vast gift catalog.

Step 3

Pick a gift that’s most meaningful to you in the moment.

Step 4

Get gifts delivered home (physical) or instantly to your inbox (digital).

Celebrations that resonate with your teams

Onboarding to Exit

Onboard new hires with welcome gifts. Say goodbye to exiting employees with farewell gifts.

Life Events

Mark life's chapters, like weddings and baby showers, with thoughtful gift hampers.

Festivals & Holidays

Bring in the festive spirit with holiday wishes and gift boxes that amplify the celebrations.

Personal Achievements

Applaud personal achievements, like TED talks or 10K runs, with gifts of their choice.

Personal Milestones

Celebrate employee birthdays and work anniversaries with curated gifts that bring the party.

Professional Milestones

Cheer employees hitting goals at work, like certifications and promotions, with surprise gifts.

Give your employees the gift of choice

Explore Empuls' dynamic reward marketplace, featuring tangible gifts from Amazon, personalized in-house swag, a global catalog of gift cards, brand merchandise, experiential rewards, and custom options.

Integrations

Works with your everyday work tools

Your employees are already navigating multiple tools at work. We made it easy for them by integrating Empuls with your everyday collaboration, HRIS/HRMS/HCM, and single sign-on tools.

Microsoft Teams

Allow employees to recognize, reward, share feedback, and engage within Teams.

Slack

Integrate with Empuls to deliver recognition, rewards, and surveys in the flow of work from within Slack.

UKG

Keep employee data fresh and automate milestone celebrations with this integration.

SAP SuccessFactors

Automate employee inclusion in engagement initiatives and never miss any milestone celebrations.

Google Workspace SSO

Involve every employee in your engagement initiatives with secure, single sign-on access to Empuls.

Azure AD

Provide employees secure access to Empuls with single sign-on and multi-factor authentication.

BambooHR

Seamlessly sync employee data from BambooHR to engage every employee every day on Empuls.

Freshteam

Keep employee data up-to-date in Empuls to involve your entire workforce in engagement programs.

Keka

This integration ensures that employee data in Empuls is up-to-date for continuous engagement.

Our customers love us

“Seamless, easy to navigate, and very user-friendly”

"We have been using Empuls for our employee engagement initiatives and have successfully encouraged our U.S. team to adopt it for recognition and rewards (R&R). With over 3,000 employees, we all actively engage with the platform. The product is seamless, easy to navigate, and very user-friendly."

- Senior Director and Head - HR, Illumifin

“Wonderful tool to appreciate and strengthen team bonds”

The Empuls portal has proven to be a wonderful tool to appreciate and strengthen team bonds across our organization, particularly in the hybrid work model. The ease of peer-to-peer and manager appreciation has made recognition remarkably convenient. Empuls has become an integral part of our R&R program.

- Chief Happiness Officer & Founder's Office

“An engaging experience”

At Techwave, Empuls proved to be more than just a platform; it’s an engaging experience. The transition from a manual process to an automated program with Empuls was a lot smoother than most well-known service companies. Overall, it’s a 5-star rating from Techwave!

Angela Paulmony

- Human Resources

“Empuls has a solid foundation with all the features”

I appreciated the availability of helpful contacts, guides, and real-time support from the Empuls team. Overall, Empuls has a solid foundation with all the features and resources you’ll need to kick-start employee engagement at your company.

Danamaisie Carmona

- Operations Manager

Industry-leading Engagement & Recognition Platform

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Market Guide for Voice of the Employee Solutions™ 2023
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Forrester Employee Recognition Landscape, Q1 2023

Everest Group R&R Solutions PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2023

Shortlister Top employee recognition software award

Software reviews - Top employee engagement software award

FAQs

What makes Empuls an all-in-one employee engagement platform?

Empuls is built on four pillars of employee engagement, namely communication, alignment, empowerment, and motivation. Empuls' features - social intranet, engagement and lifecycle surveys, values and goals-based recognition, and delightful rewards enable a multi-dimensional approach to fixing disengagement. Empuls eliminates the hassles of investing in and managing multiple solutions to drive people initiatives that drastically cut down complexity and costs, and improve ROI.

How does Empuls deliver ROI for my organization?

Empuls drives measurable ROI by enhancing employee engagement, increasing productivity, and reducing turnover. It creates a culture of recognition, improves retention, and streamlines rewards and feedback processes. With Empuls, you empower employees, foster collaboration, and build a thriving workforce aligned with your organizational goals.

What types of gift cards are available on Empuls?

Empuls offers 10M+ options, including gift cards, experiential rewards, prepaid cards, and charitable donation opportunities.

Can gift cards be automated for occasions?

Absolutely! Automate gifts for birthdays, work anniversaries, and other milestones to ensure timely delivery.

How are gift cards delivered to employees?

Get gifts delivered directly to employees' homes (physical) or instantly to their inboxes (digital).