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Rewards that work as hard as your team—because pizza won’t cut it.

Forget pizza parties and overengineered rewards programs. Show your team some real appreciation—with the click of a button. ZayZoon makes recognition easy, fast and meaningful.

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Employees at these companies trust ZayZoon

2x more turnover when employees aren’t recognized for their hard work.
29% reduction in turnover for businesses that offer ZayZoon.
74% of employees pay attention to recognition at the company level.

What is ZayZoon
Rewards & Recognition?

ZayZoon’s Rewards & Recognition program simplifies how you show appreciation for your team’s hard work. It’s built to support businesses and industries of all kinds and doesn’t require any new technology or logins.
What is R&R
  • Spotlight and reward when employees go the extra mile
  • Recognize behaviour you want repeated 
  • Celebrate birthdays, special occasions, and life milestones
  • Boost morale across workspaces

Why ZayZoon Rewards & Recognition

Double your retention effort

Combine ZayZoon’s Earned Wage Access (EWA) with financial rewards to keep your employees motivated and engaged at work. Appreciation makes employees feel valued and connected to your company mission.
Employee retention

Actions that get recognized get repeated

Recognize and reward your team whenever, however, with personalized gift cards from hundreds of popular vendors. Public shoutouts appear on a social media-style feed that is visible to all internal team members.
Get recognized

Fast and flexible

ZayZoon Rewards and Recognition helps small businesses deliver enterprise appreciation on a budget. We take the hassle out of purchasing, activating and sending gift cards.
Fast and flexible

Ready to use

Don’t worry about new logins or systems. Employees receive a notification automatically whenever they are recognized. Give your team unlimited public or private shoutouts and gift cards specific to their tastes.

Ready to use

How does ZayZoon Rewards & Recognition work?

Rewards & Recognition is built into the ZayZoon app and available on a pay-per-use basis. Send unlimited recognitions with optional rewards to your employees as you want and build an environment of flexible, frequent recognition and team appreciation.

  1. Write a recognition
  2. Select a gift card and amount
  3. Choose a gift card from hundreds of popular merchants
  4. Hit send
    Employees will receive recognition via push notification, email and the ZayZoon App
  5. Employees can enjoy their rewards instantly
    Team members can view and react to public recognitions on an engaging social-media-style feed
How Rewards and Recognition works
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Business leaders trust ZayZoon

“Implementing ZayZoon was seamless. I think I might have been the first paycheck advance requested. It was great. I got my hundred dollars right away and it showed me where it would come off my next paycheck. I didn't have any hiccups at all.”

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Cari GrayFranchise HR Director, Panera Bread

“ZayZoon ensures our caregivers are financially taken care of, so that they can focus on taking care of our seniors.”

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Jorge GiraldoCEO, Senior Helpers

"When you have a great culture, you don't have to invest as much in hiring because people know you have a great place to work. Offering benefits like ZayZoon can be the difference between hiring a talented employee or not. I would absolutely recommend ZayZoon to another business. From our perspective, it's been seamless."

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What employees say about ZayZoon

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ShaneakaSenior Helpers

A part of my ceiling had collapsed and I needed to fix it without cutting into my mortgage. Luckily, I was able to use ZayZoon to handle the cost of the repairs.

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RanitaLiveOps

My husband was furloughed as a result of the pandemic. ZayZoon helped us put food on the table and pay our bills. We were able to stay afloat until he was back to work.

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AnthonyELFS

ZayZoon is convenient when the unexpected expense of everyday life happens. It makes life a whole lot easier.

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AngelicaSenior Helpers

My life has changed completely. I don't have to depend on others. I can afford to get food, gas, medicine, and pay my bills.