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Bonusly

Score9.5 out of 10

50 Reviews and Ratings

What is Bonusly?

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.

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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.

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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.

The best plataform for remote teams

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Bonusly to improve motivation in our team and also feedback beetween each other. It helped with our environment and relashionships.

Pros

  • Funny gifs
  • Good gift cards and prizes
  • Visually pretty

Cons

  • More options on prizes
  • Be more easy to exchange for paypal money
  • More visually with the company brand

Return on Investment

  • Improved the environment, leading us to a GPTW achieviement
  • Better results on environment surveys
  • Improved the relationship

Usability

Other Software Used

Slack, Notion

Great Recognition and Rewards Platform

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Bonusly as a public recognition and rewards program. Staff receive 100 points to give to other employees each month. Once points are accrued, staff can use them for rewards. This includes a terrific selection of gift cards as well as customized company rewards such as time off or company swag.

Pros

  • Recognition
  • Simplicity
  • Integration with BambooHR
  • Easy to Use Platform

Cons

  • Occasional issues with automatically syncing new employees and providing initial welcome bonus

Return on Investment

  • Engagement Increase
  • Culture Boost
  • We consistently achieve over 90% participation each month.

Usability

Boost Engagement for Your Remote Workers with Bonusly.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to improve engagement with employees, recognition, birthday greetings, and work anniversary greetings.

Pros

  • It will show the entire company who was recognized for a job well done at work, who was having a birthday, or a work anniversary.
  • Can create company rewards like, free 2 days off with your points. Just Redeem it!
  • Easy redemption of points.

Cons

  • 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.

Return on Investment

  • It boosts morale!
  • Boost engagement.
  • Boost collaboration and we enjoy the GIFs.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Motivosity

Other Software Used

Motivosity, Slack, ChatGPT, Gemini, Axero, Freshdesk Omni, BambooHR®

Great tool for remote employees

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our whole staff uses Bonusly to show recognition to each other. Employees give points to each other to say thanks or give a shout-out. This boosts morale and helps connect teams - especially while being remote.

Pros

  • Build culture
  • Show recognition
  • Engage employees in their work

Cons

  • Show who has not given recognition to before.
  • Better reports for management

Return on Investment

  • Improved recognition scores on culture surveys.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Donut

Other Software Used

Slack, Donut

Opportunity for a remote company to stay connected while recognizing efforts genuinely.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Rewards and recognition. Small issues that resolved timely.

Pros

  • Ease of use
  • Integration of gifts
  • Smooth implementation

Cons

  • Timeliness in responses
  • Reminder flags
  • Nothing else

Usability

Other Software Used

Goody