By program type
Survey and UX incentives. The original use case. Trigger a reward on survey completion, let respondents choose from any card in their country, and keep participant data out of your accounting system. Fraud screening matters here: duplicate and bot respondents are the main leak in panel budgets.
Typical setup: $5–$50 rewards, Zapier or API trigger, curated catalog, weekly CSV reconciliation.
Recognition, milestones, wellness, referral bonuses. Send a prepaid card or a choice of gift cards with a personal note; pair with an HR tool such as Bonusly for peer recognition feeds. Tax treatment of employee rewards is your accountant’s call; the platform supplies the records.
Typical setup: $25–$250, dashboard sends by managers with approval above a threshold.
Rebates, referral rewards, review incentives, SPIFs. Bulk CSV or CRM-triggered sends; branded emails; catalog restricted to on-brand retailers if you like. Sales SPIFs to partners work the same way across borders without setting up international payments.
Legal settlements, insurance, utility rebates, airline compensation, clinical trial stipends. Here recipients often need cash, so budget for the 4–6% fee or offer prepaid cards as the default. Compliance features (W-9 collection, audit exports, approval flows) are the reason these teams choose a platform over manual checks.
Volunteer stipends, program participant support, donor thank-yous. Free gift and prepaid cards keep overhead near zero; the charity option lets recipients redirect value to a cause. United Way is a named customer.
Fit checklist
- Do recipients accept gift or prepaid cards? If yes, the platform is free.
- Do you send to more than one country? Tremendous handles currency, language and local catalogs.
- Do you need a trigger from a survey, CRM or HR tool? Zapier covers most; the API covers the rest.
- Does finance need approvals, limits and exports? Built in.
- Is bank cash mandatory and margin thin? Compare a payout processor.