How to set up employee Christmas reward quickly without the admin headache

Make your end-of-year reward send pain-free this year

Setting up a new system before Christmas can sound like a project you don't have time for. In practice, getting started with digital employee reward delivery can be incredibly quick and pain-free.

This article covers what setting up Christmas employee reward really involves and why it's a lot easier than you might think.

What setup actually involves

A good service should get you live within days of a short scoping call, not weeks. For example, with Select Employee Reward, most organisations are live within 72 hours. There should be no lengthy onboarding, no trial period stretching over weeks and no minimum commitment holding you back from sending one round first and scaling from there.

The send itself is handful of short steps and you can start straight way. Set up your account, add your recipient list and reward values, choose a retailer catalogue that employees can redeem from, and send.

What IT involvement is typically required

You should need no IT involvement. A dedicated reward delivery service runs independently. So there's no security review, no lengthy procurement cycle and no IT project to schedule in.

If you need to give payroll or finance visibility, you’ll find it easy to grant them access to live digital reporting, again without asking IT for help.

How it fits alongside your existing systems

A good reward delivery service will complement your HR and payroll systems rather than competing with them. Give it a recipient list and it handles everything from there, frictionlessly and without disrupting what's already working.

To make life even easier for you, look for a model with no recurring licence fee where you simply pay for what you issue.

A realistic timeline, even at scale

Scale shouldn't multiply the complexity of the way you send. Digital reward delivery enables you to issue fifty or five thousand rewards in the same way, with the same amount of steps and without a practical limit on volume.

This is important if you’ve started working on Christmas employee reward later than you’d have liked to. Whatever the size of your workforce, wherever people are located, you can still deliver rewards comfortably before Christmas.

What happens after you press send

Delivery is instant. Employees receive an email with personalised messages that you can manage either by individual or employer group. The message includes an eGift code that employees can redeem easily from a wide range of retailers to suit their needs.

Then, real time reporting built in enables you to see who's received and redeemed their reward without chasing anyone for an update. When employees don’t redeem rewards, the value returns to your budget automatically

Setting up Christmas employee reward doesn't have to be the major project it sounds like. Choose a service built to be quick and simple and let the system do the work instead of adding a layer of admin on top.

Our Christmas Employee Reward Hub shows you how to get set up this year, whatever stage of planning you’re at.