Awardco vs. Bonusly

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Awardco
Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Amazon are available through Awardco for rewards and recognition. Awardco has partnered with Amazon Business to bring millions of reward choices, lower vendor fees and dollar-for-dollar recognition spend to organizations. The vendor boasts more choice, more capability, and less spend, in a simple platform.N/A
Bonusly
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
Bonusly helps teams improve engagement and adopt the behaviors that set them, and their organization, up for long-term success. It is used to make recognition meaningful and habitual, and to help organizations build cultures where people want to stay and grow together. The vendor states that more than 3,400 global organizations, including DoorDash, Toast, Seat Geek, and Magna-Tiles, use Bonusly’s recognition to see what recognition done right can achieve.N/A
Pricing
AwardcoBonusly
Editions & Modules
Awardco Enterprise
Varies
Recognition program needs
Appreciate
Custom
per year per seat
Connect
Custom
per year per seat
Achieve
Custom
per year per seat
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AwardcoBonusly
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAwardco Enterprise is priced fairly depending on your recognition program needs, and is often much lower than the industry standard. Our previous customers have found that they can use a portion of their previous recognition budget to implement and utilize Awardco, and the rest of the funds can be directed immediately back to their employees, thus rewarding them even more than before.Custom enterprise pricing includes every Core & Pro feature, plus: - 99% guaranteed uptime SLA - Dedicated support and consultation team - Launch strategy and rollout support - Manager resources and training
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Community Pulse
AwardcoBonusly
User Ratings
AwardcoBonusly
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(0 ratings)
9.4
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.5
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AwardcoBonusly
Likelihood to Recommend
Awardco is a very well priced solution that allows for recognition, interactions and more. I think it’s well suited for small to mid sized companies who want to honour and recognize their coworkers but not put tons of bloat into a software to do so. It may be less appropriate if your company has employees in multiple countries or is over 200 people.
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Bonusly has provided us a formal space to post recognition. While face to face recognition still occurs, this is a place where staff can post publicly or privately, but a majority choose public. It has been incredibly popular since our implementation. Staff love the ability to earn time off through recognition. That customized redemption is our most popular reward.
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Pros
  • Easy to use point system for understanding how much you have to spend on different items.
  • Easy to use inventory system so you can explore different items and products that fit within your point values.
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  • Great platform design - easy to navigate and fun to use
  • Great job connecting teams to communicate and celebrate hard work
  • Aces it on employee recognition and peer to peer feedback
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Cons
  • I would like the system to be able to send email notifications to more than the employee and the HR Manager. It would be great if we could include the manager and the GM as well. Now I just forward the message to the others.
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  • There should be more option to redeem points like custom rewards.
  • Then, more digital gift cards are popular for that specific country. We have a global workforce and there are different countries involved.
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Likelihood to Renew
Excellent product, easy to implement and use, solid customer service, employees love it
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Usability
It’s not super user friendly compared to other apps I have used in the past, and it also offers not as many partners. One feature that would improve it, would be connecting award bucks to a digital credit card. That way employees can spend it on what they want without having to get a visa gift card which is the current solution/ work around
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Bonusly is easy to use and intuitive for anyone familiar with technology and using websites. There is a page where posts are made, and a page where rewards are redeemed. It is very straightforward.
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Reliability and Availability
Never an issue
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Performance
We have not experienced any performance issues
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Support Rating
I am giving a "middle of the road" rating of 5 because I don't have experience with Awardco support. I have never had to reach out to the support team for anything, so I don't have any substantial feedback in this particular area. The program is so easy to use, so I've never needed to contact the support team.
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I never had any issues with support. It's especially nice to be able to add location-specific rewards.
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Online Training
We had a dedicated person and he went over everything we needed to know on how to operate the system. Lots of examples and test environment was used
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Implementation Rating
It was very in depth and easy to understand. There was a dedicated person that was assigned to our account and that made it easier to move forward. The process was very easy to follow
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Alternatives Considered
I have only used a few other award programs and selections have been extremely limited. There is nothing worse than receiving a catalog with 10-15 items to choose from and you don't really want any of the items. It is even worse when the company spends two to three times the cost on a gift that can be purchased elsewhere for much, much less. The employee has an idea how much something costs and as a result feels like the company didn't appreciate them by giving an inexpensive gift. Awardco gifts are dollar for dollar.
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I haven’t found any other platform that I would consider in a similar product to Bonusly. When we got involved with the platform, it was the only one of it’s type and we’ve been blown away with it since then.
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Scalability
This product was deployed across our entire organization from the start and replaced an old manual process
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Return on Investment
  • We are a company that thrives on competition & rewards. Awardco has helped us simplify that rewards process, and it's much easier for us as we create competition prizes.
  • Our employees are much more engaged in the competitions because they know they will win points that can be used on just about anything.
  • Since we've started using Awardco we have hit record numbers in sales in a month.
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  • Employees are encouraged to "live the values" as other members see and recognize their achievements monetarily.
  • This spreads a load of recognition from just leadership/managers across the entire organization, potentially eliminating/reducing a recurring existing task your company is currently doing.
  • Features/freedom of posting in a 'social media' style environment encourages light-hearted comradery between employees.
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ScreenShots

Awardco Screenshots

Screenshot of Simple, direct, and transparent, the Awardco platform makes it easy to recognize anyone in your organization.

Bonusly Screenshots

Screenshot of Bonusly's interface, which puts peer-to-peer recognition front and center. Giving recognition is a natural, social interaction, not a stuffy form! GIFs, videos, images, links, and emojis help make recognition posts and the live feed engaging and personal.Screenshot of Bonusly's international Reward Catalog, which offers instantly-available digital gift cards from the world's most popular brands, quick cash-out options, and nonprofit donations. With everything in one place, viewers can track and control your rewards spend, or offer employees a wide variety of rewards with no markup and instant fulfillment. Bonusly can be integrated with a swag provider so employees can put their Bonusly points towards branded gear.Screenshot of how integrating Bonusly with chat tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams (pictured) boosts employee participation. Employees can give recognition and see others being recognized in the channels they're already actively using.Screenshot of Bonusly's Team Activity Page, which offers complete visibility into team recognition data. Filter by time frame and export to a .csv file to make data-driven performance reviews a breeze. Viewers can evaluate all direct reports' contributions, not just the most recent ones.