Giftbit Gift Cards, Delivered Inside Your eCards
Connect your Giftbit account and any birthday, anniversary, spot award, or campaign eCard can carry a real gift card from your Giftbit catalog. Funded from your own Giftbit balance, bounded by caps you set, claimed by the employee in one click. eCardWidget never holds the money.
30-minute personalized walkthrough · tailored to your program · no commitment
In short
eCardWidget integrates with Giftbit so a real gift card from your Giftbit catalog can ride inside any branded recognition eCard: automated birthdays and anniversaries, spot awards, employee of the month, or a campaign. Rewards are funded from your own Giftbit balance, bounded by caps you set, and claimed by the employee in one click. Enterprise plan, USD.
- Bring your own Giftbit key; eCardWidget never holds the funds
- Attach once to an automation and every send carries it
- Per-card and velocity caps, audit log, CSV export
Trusted by 9,000+ organizations
Giftbit handles the gift card. eCardWidget handles the reason, the timing, and the delivery.
A gift card on its own is a transaction. A gift card inside a branded card that names the anniversary, the win, or the person who noticed is recognition. Gallup finds employees who receive high-quality recognition are 65% less likely to be looking for another job. The reward matters less than the moment it arrives in.
Source: Gallup, Employee Retention Depends on Getting Recognition Right.
Bring your own Giftbit key
Connect the Giftbit account you already have. Rewards are fulfilled from your Giftbit balance, so there is no second wallet to prefund and no vendor holding your money.
Attach once, sends forever
Add a reward to a birthday or anniversary automation and every future send carries it, on the right day, from hire dates in your directory.
Claimed inside the card
The employee opens the branded eCard, clicks the claim link, confirms a one-time code sent to their email, and the gift card is theirs. No account, no app.
Caps Finance sets once
Per-card minimum and maximum, hourly, daily, and monthly spend limits, and card-count limits. An audit log and CSV export for reconciliation and payroll.
Your Giftbit catalog, attached to sends you already make
Rewards ride along with the widget, a campaign, or an automation. There is no separate rewards tool to run.
Pick from your Giftbit catalog
Choose the brand and amount from the catalog on your Giftbit account (Amazon.com and the rest of your available brands) when you set up the send.
- Amount inside the per-card range you allow
- Same catalog your Giftbit account already has
Attach it to any send
A birthday automation, a work-anniversary tier, a spot award a manager sends today, an Employee Appreciation Day campaign, or a recognition form on your intranet.
- Widget, campaign, and automation sends
- Different amounts for different milestone tiers
Every order on the record
Orders, claim status, spend against limits, and a full audit log in the dashboard, with CSV export and a read-only API for your own reporting.
- Reconcile against your Giftbit balance
- Payroll export, since gift cards are taxable wages in the US
Live in an afternoon
Three steps, one connection, no code.
Connect Giftbit
Paste your Giftbit API key into the Enterprise settings. Sandbox first if you like, then production. Your catalog appears in eCardWidget.
Set the guardrails
Per-card minimum and maximum, spend caps by hour, day, and month, and card-count caps. Turn velocity enforcement on so the caps actually cap.
Attach rewards to sends
Add a gift card to a birthday or anniversary automation, a milestone tier, a campaign, or the recognition form. Every send from then on carries it.
See a gift card claimed inside a branded eCard
30 minutes, on your branding, no commitment.
Prefer codes from another vendor? Upload a pool.
If you already buy gift cards elsewhere, upload the codes as a pool. Each send assigns the next available code, with live inventory so a campaign never runs dry mid-send. Giftbit and code pools are both Enterprise plan features.
- Giftbit: catalog, funding, and fulfillment from your own account
- Manual pool: any brand, codes you already own, assigned automatically
- Both: one-click claim, spend caps, audit log, CSV export
- Every state change (cancel, rescind, reveal a code) is one-time-code gated in the dashboard
Recognition without points, catalogs, or balances that expire
Most recognition platforms run on a points ledger: budgets to prefund, points that buy less than dollars, and balances that expire at year end. eCardWidget skips the whole economy. A branded eCard says what was done and who noticed, and a real gift card can ride along when the moment calls for one.
No points ledger
Recognition is a branded eCard with a real message, not a currency employees have to bank, convert, or watch expire.
No catalog
Nothing to browse, nothing marked up against a points value. When you want a reward, it is a real gift card the recipient claims in one click.
Nothing to remember
Birthdays, anniversaries, and service milestones send themselves from hire dates in your directory or HRIS.
No app, no login
Frontline, hourly, and multi-site staff open the card at whatever email is in the directory. No account to set up.
Free plan available. Gift card rewards on the Enterprise plan.
What HR and culture leaders say after launch
Verbatim from the people who run recognition at Axon, Modivcare, and a 7,000-person healthcare system.
"We've been using the eCard widget to automate our birthday and service anniversary messages, and it has genuinely transformed our workflow. What once took hours each month now happens seamlessly in the background."
"We have been able to create birthday cards, anniversary cards, company value cards as well as get well soon, thank you, and sympathy. This program has enhanced our overall culture, and I couldn't be more satisfied with my experience."
"A+ customer service and plugin! Loved the plugin/widget from the beginning, and Tim made it even better by being super helpful and responsive to ensure it worked well for our organization of about 7,000 staff."
How teams use Giftbit rewards inside eCards
Four patterns that make the reward mean something.
Tiered service awards
A set amount per tenure milestone, sent on the anniversary. Five years gets more than one, and nobody has to remember the date.
Spot awards with a cap
Managers send a branded thank-you the same day with a reward inside the range you allow. The message names the win, the card carries the thanks.
Employee of the month
The winner's announcement card carries the reward. The whole company sees the recognition, the winner claims the gift.
Appreciation Day campaigns
One campaign, every employee, a card and a gift card each. Opens and claims tracked per campaign.
Know what was sent, claimed, and spent
Orders, claims, and spend against your caps, in the dashboard and by API.
- Orders by send surface: widget, campaign, or automation
- Claim status per order, spend against hourly, daily, and monthly limits
- CSV export for reconciliation and payroll
Rated 5.0 on Capterra and G2 by the HR teams who run it
Reviewers rate eCardWidget 5.0 out of 5 on Capterra, with 4.8 for ease of use and 5.0 for customer service, and 5 stars on G2 and the Shopify App Store. Support is a real person who answers the same day.
Rewards ride on the sends you already automate
Birthdays, anniversaries, spot awards, and employee of the month all run from the same directory and templates.
Giftbit and eCardWidget, answered
Common questions about running gift card rewards through the integration
See a Giftbit gift card land inside a branded eCard in 30 minutes
We will connect a sandbox Giftbit account, attach a reward to an anniversary automation on your templates, claim it live, and show the audit log Finance will ask about. Bring your questions; we bring the demo account.
- A reward attached to an automation and to a spot award, sent live
- The claim flow the employee sees, start to finish
- Spend caps, the audit log, and the payroll export
- Enterprise pricing for your headcount, with no pressure to decide on the call
Book your demo
Pick a time on the next screen. We will come prepared with your use case.