The Kudoboard API
Automate. Embed. Elevate appreciation for employees and beyond.
Use the Kudoboard API to programmatically create, send, and manage group cards, eCards, and gifts at scale. Trigger recognition and engagement from your internal systems, workflows, or products. Never miss a moment to build connection across your organization.
Why the Kudoboard API?
Recognition shouldn’t rely on reminders, spreadsheets, or someone “owning it.” With the Kudoboard API, recognition and engagement becomes:
- Automatic — triggered by real moments, not manual effort
- Integrated — embedded into other tools you use
- Scalable — from 10 people to 10,000,000+
- Visible — sharable, social, and meaningful
What can you do with the Kudoboard API?
Turn everyday moments into meaningful recognition—automatically creating, delivering, and managing experiences across your employee or customer touchpoints. Here’s a snapshot of what’s possible:
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Automate Every Recognition Moment
Trigger boards, eCards or gifts automatically for birthdays, thank-yous, shout-outs, anniversaries, new hires, and events— without manual effort. -
Create and Customize Boards and eCards
Generate automatically with personalized messages, titles, and branded themes—keeping every experience on-brand. -
Invite Contributors and Set Recipients
Drive participation at scale. Automatically assign recipients and invite teammates or departments to contribute. -
Schedule and Trigger Delivery
Deliver recognition at the right moment by triggering real-time delivery, with timezone support. -
Manage Settings at Scale
Control privacy, moderation, permissions, and visibility.
Want more API inspiration?
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HRIS-driven recognition automation
Connect platforms like BambooHR, Workday, and Rippling. Automatically trigger Kudoboards and eCards for work anniversaries, new hires, birthdays, and promotions.
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Build recognition into internal tools
Embed Kudoboard directly into employee portals, intranets, HR dashboards, Custom internal apps, display networks. Build a culture where recognition becomes part of daily workflows.
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Customer & partner appreciation
Use the API to send group cards to clients. Celebrate partnerships. Deliver gifts with personalized messages. Increase engagement and visibility with your brand.
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Power recognition for sales teams
Trigger recognition when meaningful events occur—like closing a deal in your CRM. Whether it’s sales performance, customer success, or internal achievements, you can build recognition anywhere.
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Innovate. Build what’s next
The Kudoboard API isn’t just for internal use. It gives developers, partners, and platforms the ability to embed recognition, appreciation, and gifting directly into their products, workflows, and customer experiences.
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Build recognition into your products
Use the Kudoboard API to embed appreciation and gifting into your own software products, workflows, or services—triggering meaningful experiences from real moments like transactions, milestones, or customer interactions.
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Enhance customer experiences
Integrate Kudoboard into your service or product to automatically send thank-you eCards, group messages, or gifts after interactions. From completed bookings to successful transactions, turn customer touchpoints into memorable experiences.
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Create entirely new offerings
Use the Kudoboard API to build new features, products, or services that center around connection and appreciation. From celebration platforms to engagement tools, the API becomes a foundation for innovation.
How to get API access
We believe great ideas shouldn’t be blocked by access. If you’re looking to build with the Kudoboard API, we offer a free extended Enterprise trial for qualified teams—so you can explore and test without limitations.
- HR, People Ops, and IT teams
- Product and engineering teams building internal tools
- Organizations looking to automate or scale recognition
Most APIs give you endpoints.
We give you a way to transform culture at scale.
We offer extended trials because:
- Recognition is best experienced—not explained
- The value becomes obvious when it’s live in your workflows
- The best use cases are often built by our customers
Unlock and start building with the API
Kudoboard API Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
The Kudoboard API allows organizations to programmatically create and manage group cards, eCards, and employee recognition workflows.
Yes. You can trigger boards and cards automatically from HR systems like Workday, BambooHR, or Rippling.
Yes. You can send physical gifts and digital gift cards using integrated gifting collections with global currency support.
Yes. Kudoboard offers a free extended Enterprise trial for approved teams to test and build API integrations.
HR teams, People Ops, IT teams, Sales Teams, Marketing Teams, and Software Developers looking to automate employee recognition, customer engagement and employee engagement workflows.
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