BirthdayBot's new features and updates 2025 Q2🚀
We minimized our coffee breaks to make our product seriously better this season! Our latest updates were inspired by the needs of office-based, remote, and distributed teams and HR wishes and expectations. Find your ways to celebrate your team and grow employee recognition and engagement with BirthdayBot (and check out the exciting new features below.)
💼 Multi-brand gift cards for 60+ countries
Celebrating birthdays in international teams just got easier! Now, users can contribute to a Global Gift Card in USD, which the birthday person can redeem in 60+ countries with their favorite brand.
Automatic currency exchange ensures seamless redemption.
Hundreds of options for most countries
If the minimum value for a specific brand is unmet, recipients can add their own funds to claim the gift card they want.
We’re integrated with GoGift - a global gift card provider
How to send Gift Cards to teammates in BirthdayBot?
The Birthday Gift Card feature is available via the ‘Send a gift card’ button. By default, it appears in Celebration Channels and personal reminders, but you can easily configure it from the Home tab to align with your company’s culture and values. More
🎁 Anytime gift cards
Want to send a personal gift beyond birthdays? Try Anytime gift cards and surprise your work besties for any occasion.
Select a teammate to receive the gift.
Choose a date and time for delivery.
Add a personal message to make it special.
👀 Find this feature in the Home tab. You can also use the ‘Send a gift card’ button in Celebration Channels or reminders to send belated birthday gifts.
👋 New hire celebrations (Standard & Pro Plans only)
The New Hire Celebrations feature helps welcome new employees with a personalized message in the channel of your choice.
Automatic notifications about new workspace members.
Customizable messages to introduce and celebrate newcomers.
Easy opt-out if you prefer not to receive these notifications.
📅 This feature is unlimited and does not impact billing, even if BirthdayBot is added to new channels. Pricing is based on the number of birthdays and work anniversaries tracked, not the number of channels used.
🎈Custom celebrations
BirthdayBot is excited to introduce Custom Celebrations, the newest way to make recognition personal, fun, and culturally inclusive.
With this feature, teams can:
⭕ Celebrate any milestone: From project wins to team achievements, you can honor what matters most.
⭕ Include official holidays: Automatically recognize US holidays and the world’s most popular holidays, keeping celebrations global and timely.⭕ Use pre-built templates: 12 ready-to-use celebration templates that help HRs and team leads enrich company culture.
⭕Tailor messages and visuals: Customize texts and images in messages to reflect your team’s unique style.
⭕ Schedule anywhere, anytime: Send celebrations automatically to Slack channels.
Custom Celebrations make it easy to connect, engage, and recognize your team, even across remote and hybrid setups. Now, recognition goes beyond birthdays and anniversaries, helping your culture thrive with every celebration.
📢 Love BirthdayBot?
Our new referral program lets you earn 15% from every referral payment—forever.
After the first website visit, your referral has 60 days to decide and install BirthdayBot.
They also get extra time for a free trial.
The process is fully automated, just share the link and start earning!
👉 Learn more in our blog post and sign up here to start earning.
BirthdayBot is always evolving to bring you better celebrations, smoother gifting, and more team engagement. Stay tuned, more revolutionary updates are coming soon! 🚀🎂