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Company Info
| Features | Empuls | Bonusly |
|---|---|---|
| Founded in | 2012 | 2012 |
| Employee size | 51-200 | 11-50 |
| Geographical presence | USA, Europe, South-east Asia, Middle East, Australia | USA |
| Go-live time | 0-7 days | 0-7 days |
| Target Company size | Small, Mid and Enterprise | Small and Mid |
Communication Features
| Features | Empuls | Bonusly |
|---|---|---|
| Communities & Groups | - Create groups based on teams, departments, interests, projects etc for effective communication, celebrations, task management and collaboration. - Share and manage work, information, social interactions, likes, comments etc like any workplace social media application. |
Feature not available. |
| Feeds & Announcements | - Feeds visible at group level. Feeds have access controls rights to enable or disable various options. - Send & share recognition with awards/value cards/greetings/hashtags. - Profanity filters & report abuse features. - Post,likes, comments, edit, share, delete options. - Share announcements to specific person or teams or company. - Rich file management with access controls. - Attach documents/files, GIFs, images, video, audio, links, hashtags, e-cards, value-badges and more. |
- Bonusly allows only rewards related feeds. There is no other feed possible. - Recognition/award bonuses feed, access controls is not possible on feeds. - Send recognition with points, hashtags, images, gifs. - Like, comment and add points on the recognition shared. - No file management or announcements. |
| Chat/voice bot | - Chat one to one or in a group. - Chatbot to answer any questions related to the product, any features or workflows. - AI enabled bot for intelligent actions on the platform. |
- Customer chat bot support with article search. - No chat engine for employee communication internally. |
| Notifications & to-do | - Receive notifications on email/mobile app/web browser for all actions like comments, celebrations, mentions, tags, surveys, feedbacks recognition, announcements, events & rewards. - A filtered to-do action list to remind on pending actions. |
- Receive notifications on email/mobile app/web browser for recognition and rewards only. - No to-do action list. |
| Greetings, celebrations & value cards | - Greet instantly with configurable greeting e-card options. - Celebrate life events like marriage, new joinee, retirement, baby shower, work anniversary and more. - Custom celebrations, events, and festivals can be configured and automated DIY. - Recognize values and behaviours exhibited. |
- No celebrations or life events sharing. - Automate only birthday, anniversary, onboarding rewarding. |
| Search | Easy global search for content, groups, users, messages, documents, files, audio/video, employees, mentions and tags etc. | Only for users, bonuses search |
Empowerment Features
| Features | Empuls | Bonusly |
|---|---|---|
| Reward Funds Management | - Manage reward budgets and funds. - Share funds with different teams. - Manage funds with reports and access controls. |
- Manage company, bonuses, reward celebration budgets. - Budget sharing is not possible. |
| Engagement Pulse Surveys | - Pulse surveys to measure employee engagement. - Fill rate, nudges and reminders. - Actionable insights through tables and graphs. - Benchmarking with respective industry data. - Build with top behavioural scientists and experts. - Configure frequency, cadence, audience, and intervals. - Actionables for key insights from the surveys through rewards, recognition, communication and other features. - Access to top independent consultants and consulting firms for execution. |
Feature not available. |
| Anonymous Feedback | - Collect or give anonymous feedback on different dimensions. - Measure sentiments and feedback cohorts. |
Feature not available. |
| Custom survey templates | - Ready templates on employee onboarding, L&D, Hiring, Exit, Diversity & Inclusion, and other similar employee lifecycle events. - Draw insights from reports. - Templates build with top consulting firms in each area of expertise. - Build or use own templates if required. |
Feature not available. |
Motivation Features
| Features | Empuls | Bonusly |
|---|---|---|
| Value & Behaviour Recognition | - Configure values and behaviours as per the organization. - Appreciate/Recognize/Award/Reward people for showing good values and behaviours. - Intelligence and reports with different dimensions. |
- Values and hashtags can be configured. - No smart reports and filters. |
| Nomination Workflows | - Different rule engines for award nominations can be configured as per your organizational needs. - Configurations are self serve and DIY. - Any permutation or combination is possible to build these nomination rules like inter-department, inter-location, inter-teams, reporting structures, approval structures etc. |
- Rule engines are limited, can only define some combinations. - Configurations are not DIY. |
| & Complex rewarding types | - Simple to any kind of complexity can be handled in rewards. - Commonly used reward templates like Peer to Peer, Team, Spot, Jury, Value based, Milestones, Service, Monetary, Non-monetary awards are available. - Any new template can be custom made as per company requirements directly from the platform. - Approval workflows can be configured directly from the platform. - Option to reward in bulk or individually. |
- Complex awarding and workflow is not possible DIY. - No jury or milestone awards functionality. - No bulk rewarding option. |
| Occasion & Festival gifts | - Run un-limited campaigns for various occasions and festivals with elegant e-cards, templates & funds. - Common examples are Birthdays, Anniversary, Mother's Day, New Year, Diwali, Christmas and many more. - Scheduler for deffered gifting. |
- Limited templates for gifting. - No scheduling for gifting. - New templates can't be added DIY. |
| Gamification | - Gamify using leaderboards, milestones, awards and badges. - Advanced rule engines can be built for gamification based on company requirements. - Campaigns based on fitness, health, performance, targets can be easily managed with game elements and reports. |
- Only display of leaderboard with bonuses given/received. - No rule engines for gamification can be set. - No campaigns or milestones available. |
| Award certificate | - Attach certificates for any reward. - Certificates can be customized as per company brand guidelines DIY. |
Feature not available. |
Technology
| Features | Empuls | Bonusly |
|---|---|---|
| Export & Import data | Export or import CSV or xls files for users, rewards, gifts etc directly or through third party systems like HRMS, SFTP etc. | Export & import users, bonuses, rewards data from or to CSV. |
| Reporting and Analytics | - Reports on feeds, groups, engagement, gifts, rewards, influencers, funds, surveys, conversations etc. - Different views, graphs and filters. - System generated nudges based on data intelligence. |
- Reports on bonus feed, participation, rewards & redemption. - No custom filters or nudges. |
| Custom Configurations | - Email Templatization for custom branding. - Configurable access controls. - DIY Whitelabelling of colors, landing page, logo etc. - Custom reward workflows. |
DIY Whitelabelling of colors, landing page, logo only. |
| Third-party Integrations | Integrate with HRMS, HRIS, SSO, SFTP, SAML. Can integrate with Slack, Facebook, Microsoft Teams, Yammer on demand. | Integrate with HRMS, SSO, Collaboration tools. |
| DIY & Self Serve enabled | Free trial, Fully DIY, Set up guides, Resources. | Free trial, DIY, set up guides. |
| Developer APIs & Marketplace Apps | Ready Developer APIs and relevant marketplace apps. | Open Developer APIs and market place apps . |
| Mobile App & Web | Android, iOS & web access. | Android, iOS, web access. |
| Login | SAML,SSO, ADFS, Okta, One login and more integrations. | SAML, Onelogin, Okta. |
| International Languages | Architecture to support any global language | Only English. |
| Security | - Audit logs. - GDPR, ISO 27001 compliant. - Local deployment and Hybrid cloud facility. |
- Audit logs. - GDPR compliant. |
Others
| Features | Empuls | Bonusly |
|---|---|---|
| Support | - Guaranteed 99% up-time SLA. - Dedicated account manager. - 24/7 - Chat/Bot support. - Email/Phone support. - Implementation and onboarding support. - HR consulting partner support. |
- Guaranteed 99% up-time SLA in enterprise. - Dedicated support and consultation team. - 24/7- chat/bot support. - Email/phone support. - Strategy & roll-out support in enterprise. |
| Resources | Blogs, e-books, videos, community, helpcentre, webinars, workshops, trainings. | Blogs, videos, helpcentre, webinars, trainings. |
| Catalog | - 20000+ Global catalog with Nonprofit donations, Perks, Giftcards, Experiences, Cash cards, Catalog personalization and Omni channel rewarding(email/SMS/App). - More than 75 countries covered. - Different currency and geographical taxation support. |
Limited Catalog with donations, giftcards, cash-outs, custom options present in few countries. |
| Pricing | - $3 to $5 per user per month for SMB. - Free trial with fully DIY. - Custom pricing for enterprise. |
- Starts at $3 to $5 per user per month. - Multiple pricing packages. - Free trial with fully DIY. |
Empuls Helps HR leaders, CHROs, and CXOs to effortlessly execute key activities such as award workflows, budget automation, industry-endorsed surveys, and OKRs. With key features such as communication feeds, messaging, groups the software equips employees to engage meaningfully with their peers, and proactively participate in building a culture of collaboration while staying motivated and aligned. Watch out for this space for more such comparison blogs.
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