CorporateGift

CorporateGift combines a gift marketplace with tools for customizing, scheduling, and sending company gifts and swag. It suits HR teams running recurring employee appreciation programs, particularly those sending to large groups. Its campaign and personalization options are broad, though useful paid features start at $199 per month and some Starter workflows carry fees.

Overview

The marketplace offers more than 15,000 gift and swag options, with recipient choice and bulk checkout for sends to hundreds of people. Teams can schedule gifts for employee occasions or set up event-based campaigns in advance, making the service a better fit for planned programs than occasional one-off gifting.

Senders can brand eGift landing pages and emails with cover images, videos, greetings, and calendar links. CorporateGift launched in 2017 and describes its audience as HR professionals and teams managing ongoing employee appreciation.

Key features

Campaigns and personalization

Scheduled campaigns help teams prepare for recurring occasions, while multi-recipient checkout supports larger sends in one workflow. Recipient choice can make a gift program more flexible; branded eGift pages and messages give companies room to add context to digital gifts. These tools are especially relevant when gifting is a repeatable employee program rather than a single shipment.

Integrations and security

CorporateGift lists integrations with Zapier, Salesforce, HubSpot, and HiBob, plus an open-source API for connecting other systems. SSO is available with Okta, Azure, and Google. The company states that its platform is PCI DSS compliant and maintains an ISO 27001 certified information security management system; it also describes encryption in transit and at rest, with daily encrypted backups distributed across geographic locations. Those provisions may matter to organizations evaluating a gifting platform for company use.

Pricing

CorporateGift uses a freemium model. Starter costs nothing and is the lowest-commitment way to send physical gifts and eGifts, create automated campaigns, and use a single account. Its eGift sending fee is 10%, and custom eGift collections have a $499 setup fee, so the free plan does not remove costs from those workflows.

Power gifter costs $199 a month, billed $199 / mo. It adds one admin, Company Store campaigns, Pop-up Stores, integrations, waived fees, and access to exclusive brands. This is the relevant tier for a single-admin team that needs those paid capabilities; the monthly commitment may be hard to justify for infrequent sending.

Team has custom pricing. It adds multiple admins, unlimited users, international shipping, multiple cost centers, and SSO login. Warehousing and inventory starts at $499 per project. This plan is aimed at organizations with broader access, shipping, or inventory needs, but buyers must discuss pricing. A free trial is available.

Platforms

CorporateGift is available on the web and through an API. That combination supports browser-based campaign management and connections to other systems, while the published integrations cover common CRM and workplace tools.

Who it's for

HR teams coordinating employee appreciation across recurring occasions are the clearest fit. The marketplace, recipient choice, and advance scheduling help support ongoing programs, while bulk checkout is useful for large sends. Smaller teams can start on Starter, but should account for its eGift fee and custom-collection setup charge. Organizations needing multiple admins, unlimited users, or international shipping will need to consider Team.

Pros and cons

• Pros: More than 15,000 gift and swag options, recipient choice, and checkout for hundreds of recipients suit varied and high-volume campaigns.
• Pros: Advance scheduling and branded eGift pages and emails support recurring occasions and personalized digital sends.
• Pros: Integrations, an open-source API, and SSO options give teams several ways to connect the platform to business systems.
• Cons: Starter charges a 10% eGift sending fee and $499 to set up custom eGift collections, which can make a no-subscription start costly for those uses.
• Cons: The $199 monthly Power gifter plan is a substantial step up for teams that need its features but send gifts only occasionally.
• Cons: Team requires custom pricing, and warehousing and inventory starts at $499 per project.

Alternatives

For a broad comparison, browse Sales Gifting Software.

• GiftM is another freemium option, with web, mobile, and API platforms and a free sandbox tier with tier-based API rate limits.
• Avail may suit teams focused on swag operations: its free Basic plan includes project planning, order tracking, product sourcing, a DAM system, swag stores, alert thresholds, live inventory reports, and an activity feed.
• Giftbit is worth considering for reward programs without subscription, platform, or minimum fees; users pay face value for rewards and a 2.9% credit card funding fee, with fees applying to select products.
• Goody offers a free Starter plan with unlimited sends in the US, UK, and Canada, sends to 1,000+ recipients at once, and on-demand branded swag with no minimums.
• Imprint Engine has a free plan with one portal seat and free campaigns for one-time or fixed use; fulfillment and shipping are billed per shipment.
• Kotis Swag Platform is another option for swag programs, with an Enterprise plan tied to $500k/year swag spend and a $2,500 one-time setup cost.
• Loop & Tie offers a free plan for one user, with $5/gift flat-rate shipping.
• Merch.com offers free platform use, with product, storage, and fulfillment charged separately.

Verdict

CorporateGift is a strong fit for HR teams that need a large gift catalog, scheduled employee campaigns, and bulk sending with branded eGift options. Starter provides a way in, but its transaction and setup fees matter, and the $199 monthly Power gifter tier is best justified when its additional tools will see regular use. Teams requiring multiple admins, unlimited users, or international shipping should weigh Team's custom pricing against their program needs.