Fond Reviews & Insights

Score5 out of 10

12 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Fond are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Helpful Mobile App: Users find the Fond mobile app to be a valuable tool for redeeming rewards on their mobile devices. They appreciate the convenience of being able to access movie tickets and merchant gift cards immediately after making a purchase.

Motivating Rewards System: Many users are motivated by the Fond rewards system, which allows them to work towards goals and earn Fond points. They enjoy recognizing and rewarding others, and they appreciate the various options available for withdrawing their earned rewards.

Easy Recognition Platform: Users value Fond as an easy-to-use platform for recognizing and appreciating employees. They find it beneficial to have a dedicated space for positive reinforcement and giving credit where it is due, both within their own team and across different teams in their organization.

Fond Reviews

4 Reviews

Very Fond of Fond!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 28, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Fond is being used as an employee benefit and reward program. It is a great way to incentivize sales contests as well as perks for employees including discounts in hotels, products, etc. it’s a much easier way to track awards versus having employees expense or doing out of pocket. Also, a great benefit to creating a positive feeling toward the employer.

Pros

Employee perks
Rewards
Gift cards

Cons

More travel perks
Fond debit card
More products

Likelihood to Recommend

Fond is a great way to incentivize your sales team during contests and rewards for top performers. Also, a great way to incentivize your partners such as referral sources and clients. I can’t think of anything where it’s not really appropriate as an offering. Great offering for employee vacation perks.

Jarrod Mobley

Emerging Markets Sales Executive in Sales at Paylocity (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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You'll be fond of Fond

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 29, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Fond is being used throughout our whole company to provide feedback for a job well done and to provide gifts during holidays, birthdays, and work anniversaries. Each person is able to say thank you to anyone else within the company by providing points that can be redeemed for goods and services. Fond offers a lot of great products and exclusive deals.

Pros

Shows appreciation
Great deals on products
Birthday and holiday surprise gifts

Cons

Prices are higher than online for some items
Not enough gift card options

Likelihood to Recommend

The best scenario that Fond is used in our company is to show appreciation for someone that has helped you on a particular task or project. You are able to show direct appreciation to that person. We have not found Fond to be less appropriate in any big cases that I have personally come across.

Makid Ekam

Compliance Specialist in Legal at American Safety Council (51-200 employees)

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3 years of experience

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Very fond of Fond!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 21, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Fond is being used by our entire organization and has made employees more engaged with all facets of the workplace. The Fond points system is regularly used to encourage involvement in office functions (such as raffles for United Way Fundraisers), motivates employees to manage and contribute through volunteer clubs (such as the ATC Green Team), and recognizes employees who excel in their job functions.

Pros

Provides a long list of alternatives that make it easy to use your Fond points for the product/services you truly care about.
Very easy to redeem; select what you want to receive, and click redeem with the points/dollars requested. Typically, gift cards are provided within seconds.
Regularly rotate offerings so that you have many options throughout the year.

Cons

The filtering capability on Fond can be improved.
Discounts versus gift cards/vouchers are hard to delineate sometimes.
There are a number of offers that remain that I'm not interested in. Hard to find the offers I want to use.

Likelihood to Recommend

Fond is a perfect rewards system to encourage employee involvement and provide vouchers/coupons/discounts that employees truly care about. This system replaced an old rewards system that was difficult to use and had limited offerings; Fond was a major upgrade. The interface is intuitive and makes it easy and more attractive for employees to utilize. I have seen a spike in voluntary activities from my coworkers, likely from this new system.

Logan Brecklin

System Protection Engineer in Engineering at American Transmission Company (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Check Out Fond!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 20, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

While I was at Paylocity, they used it as a rewards system throughout the entire organization. You had opportunities to earn Fond money and exchange it for company merchandise, gift cards, and other goods on the Fond website. It provided a great online way to recognize others for their hard work and it could readily be exchanged as soon as the managers gave you your points.

Pros

Fond had so many options to choose from when selecting what you wanted to receive, from gift cards to tech to even local getaways.
The site itself was very user friendly and easy to navigate. I didn't have any trouble finding or selecting exactly what I wanted.
From management's perspective, I heard that it was also very easy to award points to team members.

Cons

When first trying to select a gift card, I'd get an occasional error message, but other than that, it was pretty easy to use.
Getting more widespread with the types of awards that users can redeem is always a plus!
This may have changed since I last used Fond, but last time I tried using the system, the total points you had were tucked away in a somewhat obscure location.

Likelihood to Recommend

Ideally, we used this when trying to provide a more substantial way of rewarding employees for their hard work and dedication to a task. Even doing something brand new was something worthy of a few "Fond bucks," as we called it. As an internal rewarding system, it provided a quick and easy way for management to reward employees without having to spend hours trying to tally points and making sure that everything was lined up correctly.

Hayden Danielson

National Sales Support Representative in Sales at Paylocity (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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