It’s no longer news that happy and engaged employees are crucial to the success of any organization. Businesses with happy workers can make 21% more money, according to Moka HR, a recruitment software company.
Rewarding employees as a way of recognizing their efforts is crucial to their happiness and retention. About 92% of them do more when they are praised, according to the Moka HR survey.
Employee gift card programs are one way to achieve this. Gift cards have been embraced as reward options because they are flexible (a wide variety of choices), budget-friendly, global (can be delivered anywhere), instant (can be accessed at a go), and scalable.
But designing successful employee gift card programs that confer these advantages requires access to a gift card platform that provides:
- Access to a large number of retailers
- Global reach that caters to international employees
- Customization options to include brand identities and personalized messages
- Discounted offerings that ensure cost-effectiveness
- Easy and quick integration to any mobile and web platform
All these and more are what we offer at Reloadly. With our platform, you can create cost-effective employee recognition gift card programs that will help you nurture a happy and productive workforce.
In what follows, we highlight the reasons organizations like TikTok, Unicef, Ayoba, and Crypto.com use Reloadly for their employee gift card programs and how you can join this elite team in a few steps.
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Why businesses use Reloadly for employee gift card programs
Businesses have continued to trust us because we offer the exact features they need to derive maximum value from their employee gift card programs. These include:
1. A large network of retailers
We have a gift card catalog of over 14,000 products across 300+ retailers.
With such a massive catalog, you can provide flexible redemption options to all your employees. Those who want popular gift cards like those from Amazon and Spotify, or more obscure ones from Crypto Voucher and Nintendo, can all have their desires satisfied.
And those who are not interested in any particular retailer will find prepaid cards from Visa, MasterCard, and American Express useful, since they can use these at any store that accepts debit cards from these institutions.
In other words, by providing multiple gift options, everyone can have the gift of choice.
What better metric of success can corporate gift card programs have that is better than all team members getting the perfect gift for them?
2. Global gift card access
But that’s not all. If you are a business with an international network of employees, you have another category of workers to satisfy.
These workers may have local retailers that are more relevant to them than, say, Amazon or PlayStation. In that case, the access to global retailers we provide will come in handy.
Also, we support over 100 currencies, which means you can use Reloadly irrespective of your business location. Similarly, if you have many employees in multiple locations, you can create different wallets in different currencies for each of those locations.
3. Promotions and price discounts
Though corporate recognition gifts can improve employee wellness, ensure employee satisfaction, and enhance company culture, they don’t necessarily have to require breaking the bank.
Reloadly offers discounts for bulk orders that can significantly reduce the cost of your employee gift card rewards. In addition to these consistent bulk order discounts, we offer regular promotional offers that will further minimize your cost.
4. Customization and personalization
Reloadly allows you to add your brand identities to your digital gift cards before delivering them to your employees and sales teams. The inclusion of brand identities can help them better appreciate these gifts as coming from you. They serve as a constant reminder that you recognize them.
You can also create personalized gift cards by adding personal messages. Imagine your employees receiving a note signed by the CEO or a direct supervisor appreciating their hard work. Words of affirmation combined with e-gift cards for employees can be the best employee appreciation combination that will scale up employee engagement.
5. Dedicated support
Though we have created an easy-to-use platform and a smooth onboarding process, we have also provided you with a dedicated support team that can help you at any stage of the onboarding process and during your usage of the platform.
If you encounter any problem, you can attempt to find a solution through our Help Center. There, you will find answers to frequently asked questions and solutions to frequently encountered problems.
When these don’t help, you can easily reach out to our support team for more hands-on/practical help.
6. Usage-based billing
Reloadly does not require that you make any upfront commitment, pay any regular subscription fee, or maintain a minimum amount in your account.
Once you are done with an employee reward program, you can wait till the next one before you make a fresh purchase of gift cards. Within that period of inactivity, you won’t bear any additional cost.
(Though if you have an extensive employee reward program, where you are providing sales incentives to your sales team, general rewards to all employees, and specific perks to employees who achieve certain milestones, your period of inactivity would be short.)
Like we said above, we are committed to providing you with maximum value at the minimum cost possible.
7. Fast delivery
Whether you are a small-sized organization with fewer than 50 employees, a medium-sized organization with up to 200 employees, or a large organization with more than 250 employees, we will execute your bulk orders in real-time (within five seconds).
Our automation ensures that your employees won’t have to wait to start enjoying the perks they deserve.
8. Detailed usage and transaction reports
As they say, whatever is not measured cannot be improved.
Since incentive gifts for employees are meant to have an impact on their well-being, satisfaction, and productivity (and the organization’s profitability), you can evaluate them and identify areas for improvement.
For example, you can consider whether employees react better to higher gift card amounts, more frequent incentive programs, general rewards, or specific gifts for certain milestones (work anniversaries and birthdays, for example). You can also check if personalized messages attached to staff recognition cards improve the value of those gifts.
To carry out these experiments, we provide you with detailed transaction and usage reports. By poring over these data points, HR teams can derive insights that will help create a better recognition strategy that will improve workplace culture.
9. Intuitive platform for developers
Businesses that are also interested in reselling our gift card products to their customers have found the ease of integrating our API to their website and apps useful.
If you are also interested in this, you only need to write a few lines of code to get started. We provide a dedicated coding toolkit and plug-and-play SDKs and widgets to make the process as seamless as possible.
You can check the Reloadly Developer Documentation for all relevant information about our developer tools. If you ever need help during the API integration, our dedicated support team will be there to help you.
10. Easy integration for non-developers
If you are using website builders like WordPress and WooCommerce, you can integrate our gift card solution through the Reloadly plugin. This is a simple system that does not require any coding knowledge or experience.
11. Secure platform
Whether you are integrating our API or plugin, we have put in place security mechanisms to protect you. These include:
- Two-factor authentication: This helps to protect sensitive endpoints and prevent unauthorized access during the integration process.
- Whitelisting: You can whitelist trusted IP addresses or domains and block traffic from unauthorized addresses.
- Security API checklist: We also provide a list of best practices that will protect you during the process.
How to start using Reloadly for your employee gift card programs
Do you want to join the growing list of new and established brands using Reloadly to purchase gift cards for employees? You can get started with a few easy steps:
1. Register for a new account
You can get started by registering for a new account. At this stage, you will need a first name, last name, email address, and a password.
After this, you will receive a verification link at the email address you provided. Once you click on this link, you will be ready to log in to your account.
The next step is onboarding. You will provide more information relating to your company (company name, industry, website, size, etc.), how you want to use the platform, and your preferred integration method (API or plugin).
Finally, since security is paramount, you will be prompted to set up two-factor authentication (2FA) and whitelist your preferred IP addresses.
2. Access your homepage and dashboard
Once you are done, you will land on the homepage with the following tabs.
If you click on the dashboard, you will find information regarding your wallet balance and sales. Just below this, you will see more detailed reports about your activities.
3. Integrate API or plugin
(If you are only purchasing gift cards for employee rewards, this section might be unnecessary. Integrating our API or plugin is useful when you intend to be a gift card reseller who can offer these products for sale on your website or app. You can skip to the next section if you don’t think you will ever need to list our products on your platform.)
If you have a little coding knowledge and experience, you can go through the API integration path.
To do this, click on the “developers” tab at the far right. The resulting page will look like this.
You will need these API keys to generate an “access token” in the Postman collection. It is this access token that will be required for subsequent API calls.
(For more information on how to integrate Reloadly’s API, read “How to Integrate a Rewards API to Start Incentives on Day 1”)
If you don’t have coding knowledge or experience, you can choose to integrate a plugin into your WordPress or WooCommerce website. You can do this by going to the plugin tab.
The next page will look like this:
Once you input all the required details, you will be ready to configure Reloadly and add it to your website.
4. Fund your wallet
After you have completed the integration process, you can go to the wallet tab to add money to your wallet in any currency of your choice.
The acceptable payment methods include:
“Other Options” include Google Pay, Apple Pay, and other channels available in your particular market.
5. Access the list of gift cards
When you click through the “gift cards” tab, you will find an alphabetical list of all the available gift card options.
You can filter this list by country (more than 90 countries available) and category (payments, software, entertainment, gaming, crypto, travel, etc.), or you can search for a specific brand.
If you click on any of the products, you will arrive at a page like this:
If you are using API calls, you can get a list of available gift cards through the “GET Products” endpoint.
6. Purchase and deliver gift cards of choice
You can fill in the details of the recipient, the amount of the gift card you are purchasing, and the quantity. By clicking on “buy now,” you can complete the purchase with the money in your wallet. If you have not added any money, you can also do so at this stage.
For a successful transaction, you will receive a message like the one below:
If you are using the API, you can purchase selected gift cards using the “POST Order” endpoint.
Once you have completed a purchase, the gift card will be delivered within 5 seconds. Remember that this fast processing time applies even to bulk orders.
7. Access your reports
Once you have completed a transaction, you can now go to your dashboard to access usage and transaction reports.
If you are only buying gift cards for incentives, your reports will be simple. However, if you are also reselling gift cards, your report will be more detailed since it will include both purchase and sales data.
Start using Reloadly for employee gift card programs
Employee recognition gift cards can help you nurture a happy workforce, which is crucial to the success of any organization.
With a gift card provider like Reloadly, you can streamline your recognition programs and quickly deliver a large variety of gift card products from global retailers to your employees across the globe.
Our usage-based billing, dedicated support team, and simplified integration process make us the choice for many reputable brands.
Are you ready to optimize your employee recognition programs? Sign up now for a Reloadly account or request a demo to see how you can easily get started purchasing the best gift cards for employee recognition.
