Bonusly

An admin-exclusive report that provides helpful, dynamic insights about your recognition program participation, adoption, and cost.

Admin Dashboard

If you're using an HRIS integration, you can set up Activation rules to control which employees are automatically activated in Bonusly.

Setting up Activation rules

Help your teams to feel more connected to important company initiatives with Bonusly announcements!

Announcements

Bonusly makes it easy to track and refund company exclusives or allowance boosts from one screen.

Refunding a company exclusive or a Points Boost

Learn how to navigate the between pages in your Bonusly account.

User Navigation

Use Flash Points to promote special events by adding extra points to each user's giving balance that will expire after a set time period.

Flash Points

Learn how to create New Hire Celebrations

New Hire Celebrations

Understanding Recognition Quality with Admin Analytics

Recognition Quality Score Report

Admin managements of Pulse Checks for the entire organization

Managing Pulse Check Settings

Using the Pulse Results Report

Review Recap Data and Participation

Learn how to embed the Bonusly widget in an Intranet or HTML page.

How to Embed the Bonusly Widget

Upgrading from Free to Team/Organization

Lets Bonusly administrators update account defaults, configure custom domain & SSO, set account branding, etc.

Account Administration

Reward your employees (and yourself!) with hassle-free swag!

Integrating Bonusly with AXOMO

Axomo Swag Integration

Learn how Bonusly can provide beneficial and insightful information about your team.

How can managers use Bonusly?

A few best practices from the Bonusly team for improving participation

Boosting participation

Learn how to read and utilize the Analytics Dashboard!

Understanding the Analytics Dashboard

Analytics:

Set up the monthly recognition points allowance and configure custom rules!

Setting the monthly allowance

Customize Bonusly to best reflect your company and culture with our different hashtag modes.

Setting your hashtag mode

Promote your company's core values with Bonusly's company value hashtags

Company values hashtags

Setting your company’s domain name(s) allows you allow users to auto-join by clicking a link

Setting your domain names

Managing your Account settings

Managing Program Settings

Set your monthly points allowance and give amounts for your peer-to-peer program

Managing Peer-to-Peer Recognition Settings

Company > Settings:

Learn how to add multiple users to your Bonusly account with the bulk upload feature.

Adding Users to Bonusly

It's easy to manage and make changes to an individual user's information in Bonusly.

Editing an individual user

Our bulk upload feature makes it easy to edit multiple users at once.

Editing multiple users

When an employee is no longer employed with your organization, it's easy to deactivate or archive their Bonusly account.

How to deactivate a user

It's easy to re-activate an archived user and restore their Bonusly account.

Reactivating an archived user

Learn how to manage your Bonusly user roster if you set up an HRIS/HRMS integration.

Why can't I add or delete users?

Users > Manage > Manual user management

Learn how the Bonus Quality Bot automatically flags poor bonus behavior.

How the Bonus Quality Bot reports bonuses

Learn more about how users can report poor recognition behavior and how you can take action.

How users can report recognition

Bonuses > Reported:

You can easily enable administrator permissions for any user in your account to let them manage users, recognition, payments and more.

Adding or removing admin permissions

Learn about the different types of admin permissions and what they allow access to.

Types of Admin Permissions

Learn how to choose and manage user modes to customize Bonusly to your company's needs.

User modes

Learn how to give allowance boosts to your user's monthly point allowance, so they can use extra points to recognize their peers.

Allowance boosts

Adding in your users' birthdays and hire dates will let them receive automated bonuses from our Celebrations.

Adding birthdays and hire dates

Users > Manage: Features

Discover the steps to take to resolve reward redemption issues through billing settings

Why am I being asked to approve rewards? Why can't I redeem rewards?

Administrators can easily delete a bonus at any time.

Removing a recognition post

Bonuses > Manage:

Learn about Awards, Celebrations and Incentives available for Bonusly Connect users!

What are Bonusly Awards, Celebrations and Incentives?

Learn how to give out recognition using Awards!

How to give an Award on the homepage

Awards are a customizable feature for recognizing employees for specific contributions and events

How to set up Awards

Celebrations give automatic recognition to welcome new employees and celebrate birthdays and work anniversaries.

Types of Celebrations

The Welcome! Celebration is an easy and customizable way to recognize and welcome new employees to your company!

The Welcome! Celebration

The Happy Birthday Celebration is an easy and customizable automated award that recognizes your teammates for another trip around the sun.

The Happy Birthday Celebration

It's Your Work Anniversary is a customizable Celebration you can program to recognize your employees' years of service

It's Your Work Anniversary Celebration

Learn how to review pending Awards & Incentives on the Pending Approvals page

Reviewing Pending Recognition Programs

Incentive Ideas + Templates

Learn how to create, claim, and manage incentives

Incentives

Learn how to upload a CSV of user emails to give a custom group award

Create a Custom Group Award using a CSV File

Learn how to create and manage Custom Celebrations

Custom Celebrations

Managing Celebrations

Awards, Celebrations, & Incentives:

Check out these ideas for creating low-cost company exclusives to add a little fun into your Reward Catalog.

Creative Company Exclusives

Bonusly makes it easy to add a company exclusive and keep track of inventory and availability.

Adding Company Exclusives

Learn how to add a charity of your choice as a company exclusive!

Adding a charity as a Company Exclusive

Bonusly makes it easy to approve and track fulfillment of company exclusives from your catalog.

Fulfilling Company Exclusives

Learn how to add meaningful and valuable rewards to your custom catalog that your users will want

Company Exclusive Best Practices

Rewards Catalog & Custom Rewards

Purchasing power parity (PPP)

Here's a list of helpful resources for managers to get the most out of Bonusly to help support their team! 🎉

Manager Resources

Here is a list of helpful resources to guide you through account configuration and setup.

Account Configuration Resources

As you get started with Bonusly, you may have a few questions about how to set up your account. Here are some that we hear most frequently:

Account Configuration FAQs

As you get started, you may have a few questions about how Bonusly works. Here are the answers to our most frequently asked questions!

How to use Bonusly

Check out the recordings and dig into helpful resources from our previous best practice sessions!

Best practice webinar recordings and resources

Learn about and sign up for our Bonusly best practice webinars!

Best practice webinars & events

How to get the most out of your Bonusly Trial and set yourself up for success

Free Trial Resources

During your trial, you may have a few questions about how Bonusly works. Here are the answers to our most frequently asked questions!

Free Trial FAQ's

Improve company culture and boost employee engagement

Why should I implement peer recognition?

Learn how Bonusly uses AI to make recognition and performance smarter, faster, and more actionable.

How Bonusly uses AI

Answers to common questions about Bonusly.

FAQs

Learn more about how Bonsuly charges for state sales tax.

Does Bonusly Charge Sales Tax?

What is swag with AXOMO?

Having trouble finding your reward? Look no further!

Where's my reward?

Learn what to do if you see a suspicious or inappropriate bonus.

Reporting a recognition post

Learn how to access the reports needed for taxes.

How do taxes work?

Learn about the different features and options for rewards redemption for users who have left your company.

What are the redemption options for former employees?

Frequently asked questions:

Learn how to read and utilize the User Accounts page for user reports and take advantage of the data!

Users accounts

Learn how to read and utilize the Total Points Earned report to get the most out of your Bonusly data!

Total Points Earned report

Learn how to read and utilize the Total Points Given report to get the most out of your Bonusly data!

Total Points Given report

Learn how to read and utilize the Participation Summary report to get the most out of your Bonusly data!

Participation Summary report

Learn how to read and utilize the User Import Management report to get the most out of your Bonusly data!

User Import Management

Learn how to read and utilize the Recognition Activity report to get the most out of your Bonusly data!

Recognition Activity Report

Learn how to read and utilize the Reported Post report to get the most out of your Bonusly data!

Reported posts report

Learn how to read and utilize the Redemptions Activity report to get the most out of your Bonusly data!

Redemptions Activity report

Learn how to read and utilize the Rewards Cost Summary report to get the most out of your Bonusly data!

Rewards Cost Summary report

Learn how to subscribe to different types of reports

Reports and Subscriptions

Get a clear view of participation across your organization, helping you track engagement for managers and their teams.

Participation Report

Reporting

Learn how Bonusly admins can enable Multi-factor authentication (MFA) for an entire company.

Setting up Multi-factor Authentication for your company

Security Settings

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