Guusto helps HR and Operations leaders recognize every employee, not just the ones at a desk. AI does the heavy lifting behind the scenes for admins and managers, so your frontline receives more genuine human recognition.
Each gets its own workspace with its own budget, admins, rules, branding, and recipients.
Milestones, anniversaries & birthdays
Automate recognition to ensure your people feel appreciate on their special day.
Manager-led, peer-to-peer, shoutouts & nominations
Scalable recognition for every personal achievement, so no moment is missed.
Performance & incentive awards
Reward high performance and incentivize key behaviors like safety, attendance streaks, learning milestones, and KPIs.
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From hospital floors to store aisles to job sites, Guusto is built to work whether people are at a desk, on the floor or in the field.
Your cleaning staff, cooks, drivers, floor staff, and crews are the hardest to reach and retain. Guusto gets recognition to every one of them.
No contact info? Show a QR code on phone, print a gift card, or route the reward to a manager for in-person delivery. Recipients can redeem with no account and no login required, so no one gets left out.
Start sending rewards today, then launch a small program with a few managers, and expand when you're ready. No company-wide peer-to-peer rollout on day one. Crawl-walk-run
Because there's nothing to provision and no training push before you can send, most programs are live in about 14 days, not quarters!
Only pay full price for senders. Recipients cost a fraction. Compare that to platforms that charge per user across your whole headcount.
Unclaimed rewards get credited back to you instead of pocketed by the vendor, there are no markups on gift cards and no shipping fees, and it's dollar-for-dollar.
Launching recognition is the easy part. Keeping it going six months later, when the buzz fades, is the hard part.
AI recognition scores and insights show managers how they and their teams are doing, then nudge them to act in the moment, so adoption holds without the work landing on HR.
And the AI stays where it belongs: behind the scenes, helping the people who run the program. Your frontline never has to touch it. All they get is a genuine thank-you from a real person and a reward they actually want.
Connect your HRIS once so onboarding, milestones, anniversaries, budgets, permissions, and reporting access are all automated.
Drive learning outcomes by connecting your LMS so people are rewarded for finishing a course or certificate in Cornerstone or Axonify.
The simplicity of Guusto lends itself to great adoption with frontline workers
Forget plaques and pins. Guusto cards redeem for hundreds of brands across 175+ countries, branded company swag, charity donations, or custom rewards, so recipients pick what means something to them.
Give managers autonomy with all the guardrails to scale without losing control. Set individual limits with approval workflows, or shared cost centres let several managers draw from one pool.
Real-time reporting shows where every dollar goes, and Finance gets full taxable-benefit reporting for payroll.
Guusto connects to the systems you already run: HRIS platforms, SSO providers, and collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and UKG Pro, so recognition happens in the flow of work.
Data flows back out too: schedule report exports over SFTP for analytics and payroll, and use our open API to trigger rewards on the events that matter to you.
Plenty of our customers came to us from other providers, fed up with support that was slow or impossible to reach.
Our Stevie Award-winning team is the opposite: they're with you from rollout through every question after - quick to respond and resolve issues.
We believe great culture drives results: employees who feel recognized do their best work, which leads to happier customers, and happier customers grow the business.
We've teamed up with the One Drop Foundation to donate a day of clean-water access for every Guusto reward sent, so recognition inside your team does some good outside it too.
Honestly, you guys have made this program so simple. So simple to administer and simple to redeem, so we love that.
Carolyn Tyrie, Chief Human Resource Officer at Harry Rosen
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Twice as many people stay that have received our Gem Award through Guusto, and we retain 28% more of our Gem winners.
Andy Maus, Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Compass One Healthcare
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