Recognize Customer-Facing Teams

Build better customer service through recognition

Happy employees create happy customers—and effective recognition creates happy employees.

Features for Customer-Facing Teams

Recognize the people that drive customer joy

89% of companies with strong employee engagement report better customer satisfaction. It’s that simple.

External Recognition

Customers recognizing employees builds better culture.

Customers scan a QR code, type up a shout out, and send
Real-time appreciation from customers reinforces good work
Employees see their impact and are motivated to do more

Peer-to-Peer Recognition

Allow employees to recognize each other quickly and easily.

Strengthen good vibes with shoutouts & kudos
Add points that can be spent on millions of rewards
Boost teamwork and collaboration

Incentivize Behavior

Drive productivity, performance, sales, learning, and more.

Create competitions with leaderboards and points
Incentivize learning by rewarding course completion
Boost productivity, promote wellness, or encourage compliance

Motivate Feedback

Incentivize participation and reward great feedback.

Integrate with existing customer support feedback surveys
Award points for participation
Track participation in one unified location

Recognize Customers

Rewards for your customers and fans to boost loyalty.

Create custom catalogues for customers or fans to select gifts
Send packages to recognize loyal customers
Compensate volunteers, donors, and other patrons

return on recognition

Stronger customer loyalty starts with better employee experience

Over half of customers leave after a bad experience. Employee rewards and recognition create positive vibes for both employees and customers, driving engagement and loyalty.

39
%
improvement in employee engagement with recognition.
48
%
lower burnout rates with effective recognition programs.
31
%
reduction in turnover with rewarding employee recognition.

testimonials

See how teams succeed with Awardco

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Utah Valley University
Awardco has democratized employee recognition and made it so that anyone in the company that sees you doing great work can recognize and reward you for that.
Luke Dean
CFP Program Director
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Americare Senior Living
Our main goal was to move platforms and not lose traction because the use of the platform was so important to us. And we were able to do that. We were able to meet that goal and we exceeded that goal.
Sarah Mazzocco
Chief People Officer
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Utah Valley University
Before Awardco Nominations, we had to piece everything together manually. Now everything lives in one place, making the process much easier and more intuitive.
Brenda Betteridge
Business Development Manager
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4Refuel
We have an on-the-spot recognition program where leaders can immediately recognize a CRP for demonstrating safe behavior. That recognition is visible across the organization, which motivates others to do the same. Instead of focusing on what went wrong, we’ve shifted our culture to spotlight what’s being done right—and that’s encouraged everyone to follow that path.
Roshan Varghese
Sr. Director, Environment, Health & Safety
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Hertz
It’s super easy to use and very intuitive.
Mark Nelson
Senior Human Resources Business Partner
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Lockton
Awardco is not just a recognition tool—it’s a risk mitigation solution. Our tax and payroll teams love that we can now accurately track and report gifting, with proper IRS compliance.
Selia Wood
AVP, Talent & Engagement
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CloudFit Software
Awardco has provided significant time savings. Our previous program was clunky, manual, and time consuming. Now, with the automation capabilities available through Awardco, my team saves 5-8 hours a week!
Kymberlee Stephens
Director of Employee Experience and Wellness
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Americare Senior Living
There are many ways to define Americare’s culture, but at its foundation it has always been about recognition, recognition for our employees and for each other. We’ve built that into so many of our programs and systems.
Pat Cokingtin
Senior VP of Sales & Marketing
 
 

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Can customer-facing and employee-facing experiences run on the same platform?
 

Awardco can support internal employee recognition and customer-facing recognition use cases, and the tenant structure, user populations, branding, integrations, permissions, and commercial treatment may differ.

Some organizations may use separate experiences or program configurations for customers and employees. Others may connect the programs through shared administration, reporting, recognition workflows, or rewards where supported. Customer users and employee users should not be assumed to have the same access, authentication, permissions, or catalog experience.

Confirm the intended populations, data boundaries, administrator roles, branding, integrations, and deployment model before describing the setup as one shared platform or as separate platforms.

Can Awardco recognize both customer-facing and behind-the-scenes employees?
 

Yes. Organizations can use customer feedback to recognize customer-facing employees while also providing internal programs for teams whose contributions are less visible to customers, such as operations, engineering, finance, logistics, implementation, or support functions.

A balanced recognition strategy can combine external recognition with peer-to-peer, manager-to-peer, nominations, service awards, onboarding, and other internal programs. Organizations can use eligibility, program, location, department, or role rules to ensure that the right employees see and participate in each experience.

The specific program mix and visibility settings should be designed to avoid making recognition dependent only on customer access or customer volume.

How does Awardco reach customer-facing and frontline employees?
 

Customer-facing and frontline employees may access recognition through mobile experiences, push notifications, SMS or other configured communications, QR codes, AwardCodes™, or other workflows designed for employees who are not regularly at a desk.

Organizations can also provide physical or digital ways for managers, leaders, customers, or peers to initiate recognition where employees work. The goal is to make recognition visible and convenient without requiring every employee to rely on a desktop computer or corporate email.

Available channels, identity requirements, notifications, language support, and device experiences vary by product, country, configuration, and organizational policy.

Can organizations support multiple locations, departments, brands, or employee groups?
 

Organizations can structure customer-facing programs around their operating model, including locations, departments, hospitals, branches, properties, business units, brands, or employee groups.

Depending on configuration, an organization may use separate programs, branded experiences, location-specific rules, distinct approval routes, or shared access methods. Some organizations may also want a single recognition entry point while routing submissions to the appropriate employee, manager, or location based on the information collected.

The exact number of programs, QR codes, links, fields, locations, and routing rules depends on the Awardco configuration and agreement. Confirm the intended structure before promising that one link or code can support every use case.

How can Awardco support customer-facing organizations and employees?
 

Awardco can support organizations with customer-facing workforces such as healthcare, hospitality, retail, financial services, education, field services, customer support, and other service environments.

Organizations can use Awardco to recognize customer-facing employees for service, care, responsiveness, expertise, problem-solving, and other behaviors that contribute to a positive customer experience. Programs can also support employees who work behind the scenes, so recognition is not limited to the people customers happen to see most often.

Depending on the organization’s needs, Awardco can support internal employee recognition, external recognition from customers or other people outside the organization, rewards, and related employee-program workflows. The appropriate setup should be defined during solution design.

Retain customers, improve employee experience

Happy employees lead to happy customers, which leads to better results and impressive ROI. See how recognition can fuel the cycle.