Where supported, organisations can limit an award to a selected catalogue or reward category. Examples may include a baby-gifts catalogue for a new child, a graduation collection, a marriage or new-home collection, company merchandise, or another event-specific selection.

A focused catalogue can make the experience more relevant and help the organisation align the reward with the purpose of the occasion. Organisations should confirm the available catalogue controls, country coverage, supplier inventory, currency, fulfilment, and employee visibility before promising a specific item or delivery outcome.

Organisations can configure special-occasion programmes around their preferred reward values, budgets, eligible populations, and administrative rules where supported.

For example, a company may use different values for a wedding, new home, graduation, or new child; provide supervisors with a separate budget; or require HR or another administrator to review a recognition before it is delivered.

Organisations should define ownership, budget limits, approval requirements, corrections, unused balances, employee departures, and any tax or payroll review before enabling monetary awards. The available controls vary by programme and agreement.

Depending on the programme, a special-occasion recognition may be initiated by an administrator, manager, supervisor, peer, or another authorised sender. Organisations can use automated awards for recurring events and human-led recognition for moments that require context or discretion.

Programmes may also give managers or supervisors a defined budget for life-event recognition. An organisation can decide whether the sender can issue the recognition directly or whether it must go through an approval workflow first.

The available sender roles, permissions, budgets, and approval steps depend on the selected programme and administrator configuration.

Where the necessary employee data and workflows are in place, organisations can automate recognition linked to a specific date or an approved employee event. Automation helps deliver a reward, notification, or memory-book invitation on or around a significant date, removing the need for HR or managers to track each event manually.

Organisations can also combine automated programmes with recognition initiated by managers, administrators, or peers when an event is not captured in the employee data source or when a more personal approach is preferred.

Automation relies on source data, event type, triggers, timing, employee eligibility, and configuration. Organisations should verify how events are added, amended, cancelled, or removed before going live.

Organisations can configure programmes for meaningful employee moments such as weddings, new babies, adoptions, graduations, new homes, birthdays, retirements, service anniversaries, and other approved occasions.

Organisations may also choose whether to support sensitive events, such as bereavement, based on their policies, culture, employee preferences, and local requirements. Not every event must be enabled, and organisations should use respectful, inclusive language that fits their workforce.

The available event types and experiences depend on the enabled Awardco product and the organisation’s configuration. A public page should avoid implying that every event, country, or employee population is supported identically.