Thank-you cards for employees that go in any direction
Most group cards go one way: lots of people sign, and one person receives. Thank-yous don't always fit that shape. Sometimes a founder wants to thank all sixty people who shipped the launch. Sometimes Engineering owes Marketing a card, and the org chart has no box for that.
In HuddleCard, a card has two sides, who signs it and who receives it, and either side can be one person, a whole team, or a mix. That gives you four kinds of thank-you.
From the team, to one person
The classic. Dana stayed up with the on-call engineers the night the database went down, and the team wants to say so. Everyone gets a link, writes a line or records a voice note, and Dana gets one card with all of it on Friday morning.
From one person, to everyone
A founder thanks the company after a launch. A manager thanks the team after a brutal quarter. One person writes the card, with enough time to record a proper video instead of typing something at 11pm, and everyone receives it the same morning.
Because everyone got the same card, it turns into a small shared space. People like it, reply to it, and the conversation carries on for a few days after it lands.
On Pro, you're billed for the people who actually open it, so thanking 300 people doesn't mean paying for 300 seats.
From one team, to another
Sales wants to thank Customer Success for saving a renewal, or Engineering wants to thank Marketing for a launch campaign that made their work look good. One group signs and the other receives. It's an answer to a familiar complaint: nobody outside the team ever notices what the team does.
From a team, to itself
The same group signs and receives. It sounds odd until you get one. At the end of a quarter or after a big release, everyone writes what they'll remember about the work, and the whole team gets the card back. It's a retro people actually want to reread.
Making it a habit
A thank-you can also be a standing thing. Set a card to repeat every Friday and it collects the week's wins as they happen, or pick a monthly or yearly date instead. Each one opens for signing on its own, and you can skip a week when there's nothing to say.
Fair warning: a weekly card with three generic messages is worse than no card at all. Start with the one-off thank-yous, the launch or the save or the hard quarter, and let a weekly one earn its place.
Smaller than a card: kudos
Not every thank-you needs a card. In a Slack or Microsoft Teams channel, write a message that mentions @HuddleCard and your teammate and includes the word "kudos," like "@HuddleCard kudos to @Dana for the launch!" It's saved to Dana's kudos wall, which only Dana can see. It takes fifteen seconds, and it's still there months later when Dana could use it.
Common questions
Can a thank-you card go to a whole team? +
Yes. Pick one person to sign and a team, several teams, or the whole company to receive. Everyone gets the card on the same morning and can like and comment on it.
Can one team send a thank-you card to another team? +
Yes. Choose one group as the signers and another as the recipients.
Can thank-you cards repeat automatically? +
Yes, on Free and Pro. Set a card to repeat daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. On Lite, cards are one-time sends.
If I send a thank-you card to 300 people, do I pay for 300? +
No. Pro bills for active users: people who signed, opened, or commented that month. The first 10 each month are free.
Can managers send thank-you cards without admin access? +
Yes. People with the Manager role can create one-time cards from the team portal. Repeating cards need an admin.
Keep reading
- Online farewell cards for coworkers: getting clients and former colleagues to sign too.
- Automated birthday cards for employees: add your team once and birthdays run all year.
- Card directions in the Help Center: choosing who signs and who receives.
Free for teams up to 10. No credit card to start.
Pro is from $2.50/active user/month (tiered) after a 30-day trial. Lite is $5 a card, prepaid. Help Center info@huddlecard.com