Employee recognition gifting
Lumi helps HR and people teams send personal recognition gifts for birthdays, work anniversaries, welcomes, spot rewards, holidays, and milestones. Set the budget and timing once, prompt managers for real notes, and let every employee choose gifts within budget.
Trusted by teams at
Work anniversary · $250 budget
Manager note ready
From Brian, Engineering Manager
To Alex, Senior Engineer
Happy 5th anniversary. Your leadership on the migration gave the team a cleaner foundation and a calmer quarter. Thank you for making the hard work feel possible.
Alex picked 3 gifts
$194 used
Rocks Whiskey set
$110
Candle
$36
Journal
$48
The conversion point
Most employee recognition programs fail in the gap between the good intention and the actual gift. Lumi turns the manual follow-up into a repeatable operating system.
Manual employee rewards
Automated with Lumi
Recognition workflows
Set the rules once. Managers add the personal note. Employees choose what they want. HR and accounting stay in control.
Set a budget rule and important moments to recognize for. Then gifts for employees get scheduled automatically.
Manager gets reminded to leave a message before the gift is sent.
Employee receives a unique email link to redeem the gift. They can select as many items as they want up to the intended budget, then add a shipping address.
HR and Accounting get a monthly report. Expired gifts will be credited back to the account for other gifts.
Built for every stakeholder
The employee experience is warm. The operating layer is controlled. The reporting gives leaders a reason to keep investing.
Build a consistent employee recognition program without running every birthday, anniversary, and manager reminder by hand.
Get prompted to write a specific note before the gift goes out, so appreciation still sounds like it came from a person.
Set budgets, recover unused credits, track redemptions, and keep recognition spend visible before month-end close.
Choose gifts that fit their taste, location, and budget instead of receiving another one-size-fits-all reward.
What improves
Rules and dates run in the background, so recognition is not dependent on memory, Slack threads, or one overloaded people ops teammate.
Manager notes, recipient choice, and thoughtful gift packaging make each send feel intentional, even when the workflow is automated.
Weekly, monthly, and annual reporting make it easier to see redemptions, credits, savings, and social impact across the organization.
Cost control
Lumi is designed for employee recognition programs that need warmth and financial discipline at the same time. Employees get choice. Finance gets budgets, credits, and reporting. HR gets a program that keeps running.
Typical savings
~$1,200
per 100 employees
Keep researching
Recognition, personalization, and message quality all affect whether a program feels meaningful or mechanical.
FAQ
The details teams usually ask for before switching from manual employee rewards or gift card programs.
Employee recognition gifting is a rewards program where employees receive a thoughtful gift and personal note for moments like onboarding, work anniversaries, birthdays, spot awards, holidays, and major milestones. Lumi automates the timing, manager reminders, recipient gift choice, budget controls, and reporting.
Lumi earns a small percentage from participating vendors when gifts are redeemed. Businesses pay for the gift, shipping, applicable taxes, and a 2.9% + $0.30 card processing fee when paying by card. There is no card processing fee when paying by ACH direct debit.
There isn't a subscription to use Lumi. You pay for the cost of the gift, shipping, taxes, and a processing fee (2.9% + 30¢ on the total for any card payment, or free ($0) if paid via direct ACH payment through BILL / Stripe) when you send a gift. Discounts available for organizations with higher volume. If you're weighing cost, the question is usually whether a modest gift budget pays for itself when it helps you keep even one teammate you would have lost.
Yes. Recipients can choose one or more items up to the budget you set. A $200 recognition gift can become one higher-value item or several smaller items, so the employee gets something they actually want without exceeding the company budget.
Lumi can automate welcome gifts, work anniversaries, birthdays, spot recognition, holidays, and personal milestones. Teams can also send a one-off employee appreciation gift to one person, a department, or a large recipient list.
Typical savings are about $1,200 per 100 employees from payroll tax exemptions on qualifying gifts, credits on unredeemed gifts, and lower shipping costs through a global dropship network.
Yes. Lumi reminds managers to add a personal message before a scheduled recognition gift goes out, so automation keeps the program consistent without stripping out the human touch.
The organization can set an expiration window. If the gift is not redeemed, the unused credit returns to the organization's available fund instead of disappearing into an unused gift card balance.
Register your organization, set the first recognition budget, and replace the spreadsheet chase with gifts employees can choose for themselves.