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.
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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.
The reward you already fund, inside a card worth opening
Your Giftbit catalog and balance stay where they are. What changes is what the employee receives, and how little HR has to do to send it.
A branded card that opens anywhere, with no login
The card arrives at whatever email is in the directory, work or personal, and opens full screen in any browser, on a laptop or a phone. Nothing to install for the frontline or the field.
- Hundreds of templates or your own artwork
- Your logo and colors on every card
A real gift card inside the card, at face value, only when the moment earns one
On the Enterprise plan, attach a gift card from your own Giftbit account or a pool of codes you already own to a milestone tier, a spot award, or a campaign. The employee claims it with a one-time code and no account. Per-card ranges, hourly, daily, and monthly caps, and an audit log with CSV export keep Finance and payroll happy.
- Stays off until you turn it on; cards without a reward still go out
- Caps set once, every order and claim logged
Anyone can say thank you in under a minute, with no login to forget
A recognition form on SharePoint, your intranet, or behind a share link you can put on a QR code. Pick a colleague from the directory, write two sentences, send. The card arrives by email, text, or WhatsApp and opens in any browser, so frontline staff without a company inbox are in.
- Embed with one iFrame or share the link; no login for sender or recipient
- Profanity filter and domain allowlists keep it tidy; every send shows in reporting
Caps Finance sets once and never polices
Per-card minimum and maximum, spend limits by hour, day, and month, card-count limits, and an audit log of every order and claim. Gift cards are taxable wages in the US, so the export is built for payroll.
- Velocity limits with a master enforcement toggle
- Audit log and CSV export
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 that is still happening a year after launch
Most programs die the same way: managers forget, the tool gets ignored, and the cards start to feel like a template blast. eCardWidget is built for the tough cases, so recognition keeps happening whether or not anyone remembers.
A flood on the day, not one email
Birthday, anniversary, and milestone cards go out on their own from hire dates. Days ahead, the manager and the department get a heads-up and schedule their own personalized cards, so the employee gets a flood of recognition on the day, not one email.
The safety net
Even if nobody schedules a personal card, the company card still lands on the date. Minimum guaranteed recognition: every person, every year, and usually a stack of personal ones on top.
Nothing performative
Every automated card is different: rotating designs, personalized messages, and the manager's own words on top. Year two never repeats year one.
Your campaign, our infrastructure
You write the manager notification emails in your own voice, add in-person shout-out ideas, and run it from SharePoint or Teams. The tool carries the campaign. The culture is yours.
Reaches the plant floor
A share link lets anyone create a card and send it by text, personal email, or messaging app, so frontline staff without a company inbox are in. Customers run this today for factory and field teams.
Locked down to IT's taste
From/to-only cards, no attachments, a profanity filter, and an HR moderation queue when you want one. A security page and questionnaire support for the vetting.
Gift card rewards are optional and stay off until you want them.
What HR and culture leaders say after launch
Verbatim from the people who run recognition at Axon, Modivcare, and a 7,000-person organization.
"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
- No pressure to decide on the call
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