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Employee Rewards and Recognition Software

Employee Rewards and Recognition

What is Employee Rewards and Recognition Software?

Rewards and Recognition software enables the team members and managers within a company to collaborate and share ideas. Features include employee portals, badges, social recognition, employee metrics, leader boards, and goal setting tools.

Common Features

  • Employee Portal
  • Gamification
  • 3rd Party Integration
  • Mobile Functionality
  • Metrics and Analytics
  • Peer to Peer Recognition
  • Leaderboards
  • Social Recognition
  • Surveys Feedback
  • Automatic Notifications
  • Goal Setting

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Top Employee Rewards and Recognition Software 2024

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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9.0 /10
CX Score
9.1 /10

This comprehensive solution provides the essential tools to foster a positive work environment and boost employee morale. Easily implement peer-to-peer recognition, allowing employees to acknowledge each other's efforts and achievements on an engaging social feed. Managers can set up automated celebrations for milestones like work anniversaries and birthdays, ensuring no special moment goes unnoticed. Applauz Recognition Starter helps you build a culture of appreciation and motivates your team to perform their best.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Unique Features
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Vantage Circle

Vantage Rewards

Composite Score
8.9 /10
CX Score
9.1 /10

Vantage Rewards is a holistic rewards & recognition platform that leverages AI-powered technology to foster a culture of appreciation for an increasingly hybrid workforce. Designed to enhance employee productivity, Vantage Rewards simplifies and automates the entire recognition experience with on-spot and timely appreciation. With its SOLI based framework, it ensures regular and equitable rewards across organizations, especially those with global presence. Our cross-channel integrations along with diverse redemption options elevate the entire user experience of a rewards and recognition platform.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Respectful
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
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Kudos Inc

Kudos

Composite Score
8.9 /10
CX Score
8.9 /10

As a communication tool, Kudos enables team members, managers and leadership to stay connected, collaborate and coach. It promotes the entire team to share important information, from personal status updates to the organizational vision and goals.

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Pros

  • Efficient Service
  • Fair
  • Saves Time
  • Performance Enhancing
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Qarrot

Qarrot

Composite Score
8.8 /10
CX Score
8.9 /10

The Qarrot platform is an integrated solution for HR, team leads, and small business owners to centralize all of their recognition, motivation, and celebration initiatives. It is recognition software for growing businesses to improve workplace culture and employee performance. It provides an affordable tool for growing companies to empower their managers and employees to send points and badge-based recognitions, to motivate individual and team performance with performance-based awards, to celebrate birthdays and work-anniversaries with automated milestone awards, to increase their program's visibility with an engaging public social feed.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Trustworthy
  • Saves Time
  • Respectful
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Clarity Wave

Clarity Wave

Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Clarity Wave is an automated all-in-one engagement and motivation system for your organization. With Clarity Wave, you receive a constant stream of insights on what team members really need and want. Weekly surveys provide answers and comments to help you pinpoint areas of opportunity and put out any potential fires in a timely manner.

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Pros

  • Transparent
  • Friendly Negotiation
  • Fair
  • Respectful
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Bonusly Company

Bonusly

Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Bonusly is a smart and fun engagement solution that powers daily connections between teammates, driving big organizational wins. Bonusly combines 360-degree recognition and rewards that employees love to drive engagement. Bonusly helps you celebrate everyday contributions and key milestones, automate time-consuming HR admin processes, run and incentivize participation in company initiatives, and offer digital rewards your employees

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Inspires Innovation
  • Respectful
  • Fair
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Motivosity

Motivosity

Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

Motivosity is a full suite employee engagement & recognition platform, with the mission to make people happier at work. Motivosity improves company cultures by focusing on three of the top drivers of employee satisfaction: feeling appreciated for your work, being part of a community, and having a meaningful relationship with your manager. Our software helps organizations measure & improve eNPS, retain top talent, and truly drive positive company culture.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Caring
  • Trustworthy
Awardco

Awardco

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

Awardco is an all-in-one Rewards & Recognition Solution and has teamed with Amazon Business to provide a powerful and flexible software for all your recognition programs. Using the largest reward network in the world you can show your employees how much you appreciate them by allowing them to choose rewards they actually care about - with no markups.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
  • Client Friendly Policies
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Recognize

Recognize

Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

Recognizeapp.com’s peer recognition program empowers employees to acknowledge each other through proven badging mechanics and reinforcing company values. This innovative approach not only boosts morale but also aligns individual contributions with organizational goals. Recognize supports your company culture with meaningful, value-driven peer recognition.

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Pros

  • Caring
  • Respectful
  • Effective Service
  • Saves Time
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Reward Gateway Ltd

Reward Gateway

Composite Score
7.6 /10
CX Score
7.7 /10

Reward Gateway's all-in-one Employee Engagement Platform helps create a streamlined and centralized employee experience customized for each organization. A flexible platform empowers HR to choose the right combination of engagement tools – from market-leading reward and recognition solutions, communications, surveys, wellbeing and employee discounts – in order to meet the changing needs of their people and their company.

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Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
  • Helps Innovate
  • Effective Service
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