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Inside Recognition Central

One dashboard. The number your CEO has been asking for.

Recognition volume, participation by department, value distribution, and sentiment trends — all in one view your board update can quote verbatim.

Recognition Central Engagement Dashboard — KPI cards, values distribution, champion leaderboard, sentiment trends
Recognition to reward

One platform. Recognition to reward, all under one roof.

— RECOGNIZE

Peer-to-peer. Gamified.

Peer-to-peer praise. Gamified Bounties. AI-assisted writing. Cross-posts to Slack and Teams so recognition shows up where your team already lives.

— REDEEM

20,000+ rewards.

The largest premium reward catalog in employee engagement — gifts, experiences, and choice-based gifting that gets actually redeemed.

— REPORT

The number your board asks for.

13-widget engagement dashboard covering participation, sentiment, and recognition gap. The number you bring to the board, defended with data.

Trusted by world-class teams
Built into your stack

Lives where your team already works — Slack, Teams, and the HRIS you've already configured.

Slack Microsoft Teams Google Workspace Workday BambooHR ADP Rippling Gusto SAML SSO SCIM provisioning
The engagement gap

The recognition problem you inherited.

You bought a recognition tool. Adoption stalled at 30%. Your CEO wants the engagement scores up by Q4. Sound familiar?

80%

of your workforce is deskless

Most recognition tools are built for desk workers. The frontline never logs in — and never gets recognized.

more likely to quit without it

Employees who don't feel recognized in the first 90 days leave within a year. You feel that math in your turnover line.

$0

defensible ROI from legacy tools

Your board wants the culture number. Your tool gives you a usage dashboard. Those are not the same thing.

Meet Recognition Central

One place for recognition, rewards, and the data that proves it works.

Built into the Givenly platform. Configured by HR. Loved by frontline employees who finally have a place where they're seen.

Recognition Feed

Peer-to-peer praise that anyone can give. Public, mobile-first, and threaded — recognition becomes a behavior, not a top-down memo.

Bounties

Gamified challenges with single, tiered, or parlay rewards. Turn quarterly goals into a leaderboard your team actually checks.

Engagement Dashboard

13 widgets covering participation, sentiment, top recognizers, dollars-out. Board-deck-ready from day one.

AI Co-Pilot

AI suggests who to recognize, drafts bounty copy, and surfaces engagement risks before they hit your retention number. The engagement analyst your team doesn't have.

Recognition Central tablet view — peer-to-peer recognitions with point awards, company values, and reactions
Feature 01 — Company Social Feed

Make your organization social.

Slack channels are noisy. Email gets deleted. The break-room bulletin board is forgotten. Recognition Central is the social hub your company never had — a single place where wins, shoutouts, milestones, and announcements live, and where your team actually engages.

  • Spotlight Stories at the top — birthdays, work anniversaries, recent wins front and center
  • Public feed with reactions, threaded comments, and @mentions
  • Bulletin board for company-wide announcements that don't get buried in email
  • Conversations, not broadcasts — one post becomes a team thread, not a silent ❤️
  • Mobile-native composer so the frontline posts from the field, not just HQ
Feature 02 — AI-Assisted Recognition

Recognition that writes itself.

Recognition dies when it's a blank text box on a Tuesday afternoon. Givenly's AI-assisted composer drafts the message, tags the company value, and attaches the right point award — your team just hits send. Easy. Fun. And impossible to forget.

  • Shoutouts — public peer-to-peer recognition with an AI co-writer that drafts in your company's voice
  • Peer-to-Peer Wallet — every employee gets a monthly points budget they can give away to teammates
  • Company Core Values — every recognition tagged to a value (Innovation, Integrity, Teamwork — your taxonomy)
  • Dashboard tracking — see which values are being lived, by whom, in which teams, in real time
  • Slack & Microsoft Teams — shoutouts cross-post to the channels your team already lives in
Recognition Central AI-assisted composer — write a shoutout, tag a company value, attach points from your Peer-to-Peer Wallet
Bounty Board · Recognition Central
Recognition Central Bounty Board — Simple, Parlay, and Accumulated bounty challenges live for the team
Feature 03 — Bounties

HR challenges your team actually plays.

Bounties turn culture into a game. Post a challenge — Safety Streak, Customer Win, NPS 9+, anything you'd want repeated — set the reward, and watch your team go. Gamified, public, and fun.

  • Simple — one challenge, one reward, first to win wins
  • Parlay — stack wins in a streak, bigger streak earns the bigger payoff
  • Accumulated — every action earns points, hit the milestone, claim the prize
  • Gamified everywhere — live leaderboard, mobile submissions with photos, per-bounty approvers, full audit trail
Engagement Dashboard with KPI cards, values distribution, champions board, department-by-value matrix
Feature 04 — Engagement Dashboard

The number you bring to the board.

Thirteen widgets, one screen, every cut HR actually needs. Participation rate, sentiment trend, top recognizers, dollars-out, redemption velocity, recognition-by-value.

  • Department, team, and individual roll-ups
  • Time-series for every metric — show culture moving, not just sitting
  • Exportable to CSV / PDF for board decks
  • Configurable per-tenant — show the cuts your culture lead cares about
Feature 05 — Mobile-first

Built for the 80% who never check email.

Frontline employees don't sit at desks — and a tool they can't open in 5 seconds is a tool they don't use. Recognition Central looks and feels like the apps they already use.

  • Bottom tab bar — feels like a native app, not a responsive web page
  • Full-screen compose flow with camera-roll photo upload
  • Push-notification-ready (PWA + native wrapper in roadmap)
  • Tables collapse to cards — no horizontal scrolling on a phone
Mobile view of Recognition Central feed
Feature 06 — AI Co-Pilot

The engagement analyst your team doesn't have.

AI is built into every surface of Recognition Central — suggesting who deserves recognition, drafting bounty copy, and surfacing engagement risks before they hit retention.

  • Write with AI — drafts recognition copy from a one-line prompt so the frontline can post in seconds
  • Recognition Gap surfacing — flags employees who haven't been recognized in 30 days before they slip
  • Bounty drafting — AI proposes challenge descriptions, success criteria, and tiered reward structures
  • Engagement risk alerts — sentiment trends and value-coverage gaps surface in the dashboard before they show in turnover
20,000+ gifts & experiences.
The largest premium reward catalog in employee engagement. Because recognition that ends with a thumbs-up isn't recognition — it's a memo.
How it works

Live in a week. No IT lift.

Recognition Central is configured by HR, not your engineering team. Three steps, one Configuration tab.

1

Configure

Set your company values, point budgets, approval workflows, and which features each role can access — all from a single Configuration tab.

2

Launch

Roll out to everyone or to a pilot team. Invitations, mobile onboarding, and the first bounty go out together. Most customers ship within five business days.

3

Measure

Watch the dashboard fill up. Export the participation and sentiment numbers to your next board update. Iterate the bounty calendar quarterly.

Part of the all-in-one Givenly platform.

Recognition Central is one of five pillars — sharing the same engagement data, budget, and 20,000+ reward catalog.

  • Recognition Central — peer-to-peer recognition, Bounties, engagement dashboard
  • Corporate Gifting — 1:1 client gifts, milestones, sympathy & celebration
  • No-Inventory Company Stores — branded swag stores for employees, partners, customers
  • Brand on Demand — print-on-demand premium merchandise, no minimums, fast turnaround
  • Automations — birthdays, anniversaries, onboarding, milestones — run themselves
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FAQ

Questions HR leaders ask before signing.

How is this different from the legacy recognition tool we already have?

Legacy tools were built for desk workers and treat recognition as a top-down email blast. Recognition Central is mobile-first, peer-to-peer, gamified through Bounties, and connected to the rewards your employees actually redeem. The Engagement Dashboard turns culture into a number you can show your CEO.

How long does implementation take?

Most customers are live within five business days. You'll do one configuration session with our team (values, approval workflow, point budget) and then we launch to a pilot group. No engineering work on your side.

What does it cost?

Recognition Central is part of the Givenly platform — pricing is per-employee per-month, with the reward budget on top (you fund whatever amount fits your program). We'll size a proposal during the demo.

How does it integrate with our HRIS / SSO?

SAML SSO and SCIM provisioning are standard. We sync employees, departments, and managers from your HRIS so the org structure stays current without manual upkeep.

Is it secure? We have SOC2 / GDPR / data-residency requirements.

Givenly is SOC2 Type II, GDPR-aligned, and supports US data residency. Recognition data is tenant-isolated; no employee data leaves your environment without explicit configuration. We'll send the full security packet on request.

Can we white-label it for our brand?

Yes — Recognition Central uses the same Brand-on-Demand engine that powers our company-store product. Your logo, palette, and from-name appear on every email, page, and mobile screen.

Ready when you are

Bring recognition to the 80% who never see it.

A 30-minute demo, tailored to your headcount and culture goals. We'll show you the dashboard your CEO has been asking for.

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