Name: Awardco Live Demo with Shane Stanley
Uploaded: 2025-07-23T18:46:48.916Z
Duration: 30 min 36 s
Description: Awardco Live Demo with Shane Stanley

Transcript for "Awardco Live Demo with Shane Stanley": Okay. Hi. My name is Shane Stanley, and I'm a solutions engineer here at Awardco. Today, we're going to dive into a live demonstration of the Awardco platform. Awardco is the world's most powerful employee recognition and award software designed to build culture, incentivize performance, and power modern, engagement strategies. This is an informal low stakes look at the platform with a live q and a throughout and and at the end. Please hop into the chat and let us know where you're coming from, where you're watching from, and be sure to submit any questions, and we'll have a great discussion. With all that said, let's jump into the platform. As you can see here, we're going to be talking, about a few different features and tools within the Awardco space. We're gonna talk about spot recognition, which is very common use of our platform, automated recognition programs, as well as incentivize programs around earn and spending of points. For ease of use and for understanding of the platform, we have one point in this platform equal to $1. And it makes it very simple for employees to to see the true value of the rewards that they are getting, from from their organization. So within this system, I can come in and I can go to recognize, within the space. With a recognition flow, we go through three steps. One is who do we want to recognize? Two is what program do we want to utilize? And three is why did these individuals or this, person deserve this recognition. We can recognize large groups whether it's a department or a location, or we can simply recognize an individual that may be on our team. What populates in this space is programs that I am eligible to recognize for. As a manager, I've been given budget to award out in this space. I also have the capability to recognize as a peer to peer non monetary aspect, as well as nominate employees to to say, receive this monthly award that the organization can establish. With this recognition, as I go into recognize Christina, we we wanna make sure that this is a powerful personal experience between, the recognizer, the nominator, and those being recognized. And so in this space, we have the capability as Christina has gone in and adjusted things on her profile to set her preferences of how she likes to be recognized. And so I can reference this in in fashion when I am going through to make sure that I'm in line with their personal preferences. I can recognize to have this be posted to a public social feed and have it be visible to everyone within the organization. Or if I know that Christina is more of a private individual with her preferences, given to us, I can send this recognition privately to her. The reason for the recognition, if I'm at a loss for words and some managers may be, we have a recognition assistant tool that can help, by utilizing AI to help curate a recognition for the space. For Christina, it's going to be very easy to recognize. Christina's performance this quarter has been incredible. Keep up the great work. We have the ability to add imagery to these, types of recognition, and that can be in the form of different images or widgets that can be pre established within your system. One way award code is a culture driver as well, in this space is that we can tie recognitions to company core values, or we can align the behaviors that we're recognizing with the organization's intentions and, those values here. Now as mentioned, I'm sitting in the space as a manager. I have access to a budget to go and recognize and award points for this recognition. We can have all of these be custom amounts and and curate this to your preferences as an org. For this recognition, I'm gonna go in and give Christina 10 points. I if I have been given access to multiple budgets, I can also select where those points come from. I can schedule this recognition to go out at a later date and time, or I can simply submit it here. A question that came up in the chat from John, can we customize company values in the platform? The answer is yes. Oftentimes, we will take your organization's values and and grain them within these recognition programs. Now once that recognition has been submitted, a handful of things happen. Christina is notified whether it's through an email notification, a text message notification. We integrate with communication tools like Teams and Slack, and so Christina gets pinged that she's been recognized. We can also have notifications sent to Christina's manager or team members to, bring them to this recognition and see it in the social feed. A question that came up in the chat as well, from Heather, can we recognize more than one person at a time? And the answer is yes. As we, go through a recognition flow, we can add users by typing their name, or we can use metadata to curate and recognize by department location, and and things of that nature. Now as we go to this social feed, we're able to see this recognition. A few things that I like to point out here is that the only people that will see the points associated with this recognition are those that recognize and those that had received the recognition. So Christina's peers won't see the point value attached to this recognition, but they will be able to see the content and and what was shared. They can also come in and react to these recognitions and add their commentary as they see fit. Another way that we provide, individuals the capability to recognize is, say I see a recognition for somebody on my team and I want to provide an encore for that, I can come in and add my 2¢, my recognition and comment, as well as attach points to that recognition. A question from John in the chat. Can AwardCo support different types of recognition programs, like service awards, incentives, and peer recognition? That's a great question, John, and it also helps segue into the next section of automated recognition. With Awardco, we have the capability to integrate with a variety of different HRIS platforms or, use for your user files to come in. And then with that information, we're able to celebrate employees on their service anniversaries as well as birthdays and leveraging automated onboarding programs. And this is something that I would consider as foundational when it comes to Awardco and recognition platforms to make sure that we are celebrating every single employee on on these key milestones and celebrating those those, birthdays as well. Now one thing that we have built into this program is a way to incentivize employees to drive a certain behavior that an organization has has proven to be important to them. And we do that through what we call our earn programs. Within an earn program, we have the capability to provide an employee to go and intrinsically be motivated to go and do an activity or a challenge, so to speak, where they can earn points and be able to, start saving those up to go and spend those points. A great example of this is here at Awardco, we have an elevate and stay active program, where our leaders have promoted the, the wellness activity of hiking and have said, if you go and you participate in these types of hikes, we will award you points for doing so, simply by telling us about the hike and uploading a picture of you, likely at the destination of that hike or at the peak of that summit. Now we've talked a lot about giving points and receiving points. The question is what do we do with those points and and ultimately, we're going to go into the spend port spend points portion of the platform. What I love about this system is that we can configure this to provide valuable gifts to your employees, but also provide a power of choice where they can go and select the gifts that are going to be most pertinent to them. We have featured partnerships whether that is through Amazon, Best Buy, you'll see in here we have egift card vendors as well as swag store capabilities to provide swag and apparel for your employees. But ultimately, a way to say, here are points for doing these things, whether it's being recognized, service anniversaries, etcetera, and now you can go and choose that gift. We have at our fingertips 300,000,000 plus options when it comes to our Amazon partner alone. So we can come in here and we can come and find the gifts that we are hoping to to to purchase. One thing I love about the system is that as I go into search for these AirPods, the value that you'll see within the Awardco platform is reflected in Amazon Prime. And so you'll have a full value of the points that are awarded. And then Awardco has the capability to say, Shane, you only have 85 points available. You do have the capability to split the difference with a credit card or debit card. A question in the chat comes from Sarah. Sarah says, does AwardCo do physical service awards as well as points on the platform? Answer to that, Sarah, is absolutely yes. We do have a full team that's dedicated to those types of awards. We often work with our clients to talk best practices around rewarding employees, providing power of choice, and often there are those that are still looking forward to those types of physical awards and we can facilitate that. Hannah asked a question, are points always one to one or can I choose something different as the admin? This is a great question. You can, change that ratio of one point equaling $1 or being a greater amount or lesser amount. We speak to the best practices around a one to one ratio, but we're able to, facilitate that as as an organization. And then Sydney in the chat as well, can you automate things like birthdays, service awards, etcetera? Absolutely. As we connect with your HRIS, we will receive an employee's hire date. We can automate these recognition programs for onboarding to say, you've been here for x amount of days, let's give you an award or a recognition, as well as those key service milestones having a recognition automatically go into the system. This is something that takes work off of HR's plate and makes it easy to recognize every single employee. Hannah in the chat says, can reward networks be customized? Absolutely. I have organizations that seek to provide custom catalogs where they've established different items that they want in the system. I have organizations that want to limit the type of items or catalogs as well. This is highly, highly configurable. And let's see if there's any more questions popping up here. As we wait for these questions, I do want to emphasize, the integration capabilities of the award code platform where we are able to integrate with HRIS platforms as well as payroll systems, where our support or our reporting tools can, communicate very effectively in a very efficiently. Question from Bill. How does Awardco integrate with our existing HR and payroll systems? Often, we have a prebuilt out of box solution, with a larger variety of different HRS platforms. We also have API capabilities to create custom integrations if if there is a need. Sarah in the chat, does award code do approval systems for recognition or rewards? What do recognition approvals look like and how do they work? It's a great question, Sarah. In our system, we do have the capability to establish a an approval system based on the type of recognition or recognition program that we are, working within. And so an example of that may be through I'm recognizing and, there's a certain limit that I can recognize for, and if it goes over that limit, then it goes through an approval flow. Often, we find our earned recognition programs go through an approval process as well, to go and say, tell us about your challenge. This was an easy hike. Great for families and, submit this recognition or submit this earn program here, and then the approvals will then populate in this space for pending approvals, that are sent to me. As an approver, I would be notified of these, and be able to manage that accordingly. Question from Bill. What kind of programs does Awardco have for offline employees who aren't at a desk? It's a great question, Bill. One of the things that I love to speak towards is our SMS text message capabilities where we're able to reach employees on their mobile devices. And then Awardco has an app that an employee can go and access the, platform and have that be fully branded to your organization and be able to have full functionality to recognize, spend their points, and and all those, things all within, their mobile device. Hannah asks a question of, how is award code different from other employee recognition platforms? One thing that I like to emphasize is the flexibility. As you see here on the home screen, all of these widgets, all of this is customizable. When it goes to recognition programs and your intentions and incentive programs, we can customize and and be very flexible around that. Another piece is our redemption network being the largest in the industry, providing a wonderful power of choice for employees at a zero markup, business strategy that we've established. K. That about wraps it up for this brief look into the platform today. Thanks for joining us for this demo. If you'd like a deeper dive into the Awardco system to see even more premium features in greater detail, click the button at the top of your screen and we'll get in touch. Thanks for joining us today, and we hope you have a great day. Okay.