ApplaudIQ
ApplaudIQ Features
Complete Guide to Every Employee Recognition and Reward Capability
ApplaudIQ by The Reward Store is a full-featured employee rewards and recognition platform. Below is a complete breakdown of every core capability, what it does, and the measurable business impact it delivers.
Simplifying Rewards for Your Team
Points-Based Reward Distribution
What it does: HR administrators and managers allocate reward budgets as points. Employees accumulate points through recognised achievements and redeem them from a curated global catalog.
Why it matters: Points-based programmes give employees choice - the single most important driver of reward satisfaction. Employees who choose their own rewards report significantly higher satisfaction than those who receive fixed gifts.
Why it matters: Points-based programmes give employees choice - the single most important driver of reward satisfaction. Employees who choose their own rewards report significantly higher satisfaction than those who receive fixed gifts.
Peer-to-Peer Recognition (Cheers)
What it does: Any employee can publicly recognise a colleague by sending a Cheer — a visible, shareable appreciation message with optional points. Cheers appear on the Wall of Appreciation and in team feeds.
Business impact: It distributes recognition beyond the manager layer, ensuring all contributions are seen and valued.
Business impact: It distributes recognition beyond the manager layer, ensuring all contributions are seen and valued.
Impact:
Peer recognition increases engagement by up to 14% (Deloitte).
Tiered Rewards by Role and Seniority
What it does: Configure different reward allowances, catalog access, and recognition types by employee level, tenure band, or department. Senior leaders and new graduates receive appropriately different recognition experiences.
Business impact: Role-relevant rewards drive targeted motivation and ensure senior employees remain engaged with the programme rather than dismissing it as tokenistic.
Business impact: Role-relevant rewards drive targeted motivation and ensure senior employees remain engaged with the programme rather than dismissing it as tokenistic.
Impact:
Drives targeted motivation, increasing employee satisfaction.
Automated Milestone Recognition
What it does: ApplaudIQ automatically triggers reward delivery for pre-set milestones — work anniversaries (1, 3, 5, 10, 25 years), birthdays, probation completions, promotions, and team-level targets. No HR action required after setup.
Business impact: Automation ensures no employee is missed, regardless of manager attentiveness.
Business impact: Automation ensures no employee is missed, regardless of manager attentiveness.
Impact:
Milestone recognition reduces turnover by 31%
(Gallup).
(Gallup).
Custom Awards and Nomination Programmes
What it does: Create named company awards - 'Employee of the Month', 'Culture Champion', 'Innovation of the Quarter' — with nomination workflows, approval processes, and broadcast announcements. Awards can be one-off or recurring.
Why it matters: Named awards create aspirational recognition - employees work toward them for the public acknowledgement, not just the reward value.
Why it matters: Named awards create aspirational recognition - employees work toward them for the public acknowledgement, not just the reward value.
HRMS Integration
What it does: ApplaudIQ connects to your HRMS via REST API. Employee joining dates, roles, departments, and managers sync automatically - ensuring milestone triggers are accurate and reward budgets are allocated correctly without manual input.
Supported platforms: Darwinbox, Zoho People, SAP SuccessFactors, BambooHR, and other major systems.
Supported platforms: Darwinbox, Zoho People, SAP SuccessFactors, BambooHR, and other major systems.
Impact:
Saves HR teams 10–15% of administrative effort and eliminates errors from manual roster management (Gartner)
Slack and Microsoft Teams Integration
What it does: ApplaudIQ embeds recognition natively into Slack and Microsoft Teams. Managers and peers recognise colleagues directly from their daily workflow tools - without logging into a separate platform.
Business impact: Visibility in team channels amplifies the social impact of each recognition.
Business impact: Visibility in team channels amplifies the social impact of each recognition.
Source:
Workflow-embedded recognition increases programme participation by 20% (Microsoft).
Global Rewards Catalog - 5,000+ Brands
What it does: Employees worldwide redeem points from a catalog including gift cards from 5,000+ brands, hotel bookings (TAJ, Marriott, Hyatt), flight bookings (British Airways, Air India, Qatar Airways), prepaid Visa/Mastercard cards, mobile recharges, and curated gift hampers. Local currency support ensures relevance across geographies.
Multi-Channel Reward Notifications
What it does: When an employee receives recognition or a reward is triggered, they are notified instantly via email, push notification, and in-app message. Real-time notification ensures recognition lands with maximum emotional impact.
Leaderboards and Wall of Appreciation
What it does: Display top-recognised employees on department and company-wide leaderboards. The Wall of Appreciation archives all public recognition - creating a living record of the organisation's appreciation culture.
Why it matters: Public recognition is 4.6x more motivating than private recognition (Gallup). Visibility motivates others to earn recognition and reinforces desired behaviours.
Why it matters: Public recognition is 4.6x more motivating than private recognition (Gallup). Visibility motivates others to earn recognition and reinforces desired behaviours.
FAQs
Q1. Can we customize the rewards catalog to include our own company merchandise?
Yes. ApplaudIQ supports custom catalog items - company merchandise, experience vouchers, and branded perks - alongside the global 5,000+ brand catalog.
Q2. Can ApplaudIQ be configured for employees in multiple countries?
Yes. ApplaudIQ supports multi-region deployments with local currency reward redemption, regional catalog options, and centralised programme administration.
Q3. How do Slack and Teams integrations work?
ApplaudIQ has native integrations for both Slack and Microsoft Teams. Once connected, employees send peer recognition, view their points balance, and receive reward notifications without leaving their communication tool.
The Reward Store is an all-in-one rewards platform dedicated to transforming the way businesses engage, motivate, and retain their teams through customized rewards and loyalty programs. With a focus on innovation, we offer a wide array of employee rewards, channel partner incentives, and business gifting solutions designed to suit diverse organizational needs.
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