Rewardian vs Awardco for Sales Incentives

Both are good fits, because both run recognition and sales incentives in one platform. Awardco suits teams that mainly want managers to hand out fast, flexible sales rewards — SPIFFs, spendable A-Pay cards and on-the-spot AwardCodes — on top of a highly rated recognition program. Rewardian suits teams that want sales incentives to run on defined rules and real sales data, with contests and gamification built in, and that may also want to extend the same program to distributors, dealers or other channel partners.

Rewardian’s sales incentives can earn automatically from your CRM: points for calls made, meetings set, training completed, deals closed and quota attained, under rules for tiers, multipliers, bonuses, growth targets and specific products or SKUs. Managers can still award points directly. Awardco offers SPIFFs and targeted incentives with automation, but does not publish the rule types it supports, so ask for a demonstration against your own incentive plan. If your program depends on product-level or quota-based rules, test both vendors on the same plan.

Both support sales challenges and contests. Rewardian adds challenges tied to sales targets, training or other goals, leaderboards, Bingo boards, scratch-off games and badges, and lets you assign gamification across the whole company or by role. Those mechanics already drive participation in Rewardian’s recognition programs: Stars Behavioral Health Group recognized 100% of its employees within eight months using a Bingo-based program, and 76% of Wheels employees played the Scratch Off Board when its program relaunched.

Rewardian publishes its pricing; Awardco is quote-only. Rewardian lists $2–$5 per seat plus a one-time setup fee of about $2,500, and sales incentives are included in the Engagement Plus tier at $5 per seat, alongside recognition. Contracts carry a 12-month minimum term and a monthly minimum, and some integrations carry one-time setup fees at lower tiers, typically waived at Engagement Plus. Awardco does not publish per-user pricing, offers Core, Plus and Pro plans, and bills implementation separately. Rewards are funded separately on both platforms; Awardco’s markup-free Amazon catalog stretches merchandise budgets further.

Both assign dedicated support. Awardco provides a customer success manager and a Center of Excellence for program design and ROI modeling. Rewardian assigns a dedicated Account Manager to every client from implementation onward, holds monthly client meetings and quarterly business reviews, and can bring in creative, product and technology staff when a program needs them. Rewardian also runs its own in-house reward fulfillment, and participants get a separate, US-based support team by phone, email and in-platform, in English and Spanish, with critical issues handled under documented SLAs. Before launch, Rewardian worked with Opportunities, Inc.’s executive team to design a payout plan tied to each department’s monthly KPIs, so the build itself was straightforward.

Rewardian targets a guided 4–6 week implementation that includes incentive and program design, a staging environment for testing rules before launch, weekly implementation calls and role-based training. Awardco implementations typically run 4–12 weeks depending on scope. When Wheels merged with Donlen and LeasePlan, Rewardian moved the combined workforce off two separate rewards platforms, and 96% of employees received points from a manager’s budget within the first 90 days.

Rewardian connects natively to Microsoft Dynamics for CRM-driven earning, and other CRMs connect through its REST Open API; its HR connectors include Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, ADP and Oracle/PeopleSoft, plus Slack, Microsoft Teams and SSO. Awardco lists Salesforce among its integrations, alongside a Workday-certified integration, ADP, SAP SuccessFactors, BambooHR, HiBob, Slack, Microsoft Teams and SSO. On security, both hold SOC 2 Type 2 and are GDPR-compliant; Awardco adds ISO 27001, HIPAA and CCPA, and Rewardian adds PCI. Rewardian’s custom-field payroll exports also help finance teams handle the tax treatment of sales rewards.

Yes, particularly for teams that want sales incentives driven by rules and real sales data. Rewardian runs recognition and sales incentives in one platform, earns points automatically from CRM activity and results, adds contests and gamification, and includes a dedicated Account Manager at published pricing. Awardco remains a strong choice for fast, manager-issued sales rewards on its recognition platform.

Yes. Awardco offers SPIFFs and targeted incentives for sales teams, A-Pay cards that let winners spend rewards immediately, and AwardCodes — trackable physical cards managers can hand out for sales challenges and contests. Its incentives are for a company’s own employees; it does not run channel partner programs.

Rewardian’s native CRM integration is Microsoft Dynamics. Salesforce and other CRMs connect through Rewardian’s REST Open API, so sales activity and results can still drive points; confirm the scope for your setup during evaluation.

Sales incentives are included in Rewardian’s Engagement Plus tier at $5 per seat, alongside recognition, plus a one-time setup fee of about $2,500, with a 12-month minimum term and a monthly minimum. Rewards are funded separately. Channel partner programs are priced on request.

Yes, on both. Rewardian and Awardco each run employee recognition and sales incentives in one platform with one rewards catalog. Rewardian can also extend the same program to external channel partners such as distributors and dealers.