PerkUp is a global gifting platform for swag, products and gift cards, with HRIS-scheduled gifts and a PerkUp Visa Card. ChangeEngine runs swag and e-gifting for People teams from your HRIS, alongside recognition, onboarding and every other employee comm, with every PerkUp fact checked against its own website.
Book a demoGet started freeChangeEngine is the stronger choice for People and HR teams. HRIS events trigger every gift, managers are notified automatically, budgets and approvals follow each occasion, and the same platform runs recognition, onboarding and employee comms across Outlook, Gmail, Slack and Teams. PerkUp fits teams whose main need is a branded Visa card alongside swag and gift cards.
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PerkUp sells swag, gift cards and a PerkUp Visa Card, with HRIS connections that send new hire kits, birthday gifts and anniversary swag on schedule. ChangeEngine's Swag and eGifting hub covers the same moments, and adds the manager, the message and the approval path to each one.
The same platform runs recognition automation, onboarding and company comms, so a gift is part of every employee moment. We checked every PerkUp fact below against perkupapp.com on November 6, 2026.
PerkUp facts checked against its own website on November 6, 2026. ChangeEngine facts from changeengine.com on the same date.
Five things teams switch for, shown in the product. No new app for employees, and nothing that needs an IT project to launch.
Write the message once. ChangeEngine sends it to Outlook, Gmail, Teams, Slack, SharePoint and SMS, and employees never log in to anything new.
A new hire, a promotion or open enrollment triggers the right messages automatically, branched by role, team or location.
The AI Content Studio turns one prompt into an on-brand email, manager guide, poster, infographic or video script.
Open, click, view and action rates by team, location and channel, ready to export for leadership.
Employee Hub AI builds an on-brand employee hub from your domain. Change it in plain English, then add it to Teams or SharePoint.
ChangeEngine runs the whole moment, from the HRIS trigger to the manager note to the announcement. PerkUp describes itself as a global swag partner and sends new hire kits, birthday gifts and work anniversary swag on schedule once your HRIS is connected, with posts to Slack, but not Microsoft Teams, for birthdays, anniversaries and rewards.
ChangeEngine treats the gift as one part of the employee experience. Gifts trigger for onboarding, birthdays, work anniversaries, promotions and one-off thank-yous, managers are notified automatically and each gift can carry a note from the manager. The Employee Journey Builder sends the welcome email, the first-week check-in and the anniversary announcement from the same workflow, branched by role, team and location.
Messages go out through Outlook, Gmail, Microsoft Teams, Slack, SharePoint and SMS, plus WhatsApp, mobile push and QR posters for frontline teams. The gift, the note and the announcement reach people in the tools they already use, and the same audience rules target your onboarding, benefits and company updates.
ChangeEngine gives every occasion its own budget, owner and approval path. PerkUp offers real-time tracking, customizable dashboards and acceptance rates you can filter by team, milestone or region, and its security page describes permission levels for app settings, billing and user data.
In ChangeEngine, you set budgets and tiers per program and track spend as it happens. Approvals match the occasion: anniversaries send automatically within budget, new hire kits are pre-approved, holiday budgets are approved once, managers spend within a quarterly budget for spot awards and retirements get People team sign-off. Each program can have its own owner while HR keeps oversight.
Reporting shows spend by team and program, redemption rate and who has claimed. Every gift note and announcement also rolls into Engagement Analytics with open, click, view and action rates by team, location and segment.
ChangeEngine includes design, warehousing and global fulfillment in the program. PerkUp stores swag in 10 warehouses, ships to 100+ countries and offers 5,000+ gift cards tailored to each recipient's location, and its pricing page lists swag warehousing as an add-on.
A ChangeEngine design and fulfillment team designs your swag, with mockups and eco-friendly options before you order. ChangeEngine warehouses, packs and ships your inventory, offers on-demand kitting, tracks stock by item and program and sends replenishment alerts. Welcome kits with a hoodie, bottle and notebook in each new hire's size ship before day one.
Global delivery covers every major country, with customs, couriers and local catalogues handled. Recipients pick a gift card, a swag item or a charity on one claim page and enter their own address, so your team never handles home addresses.
Yes. With the ChangeEngine MCP, you plan, write, target and schedule gifting comms from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Microsoft Copilot. "Send a $50 e-gift to everyone who joined the support team this quarter, add a thank-you from their manager." The MCP finds the right people from your HRIS data, drafts each note, builds the audience and shows you who the send will reach before it goes. Every send waits for your review.
You can also order welcome kits for next month's starters or check anniversary spend by team in the same chat, then turn the answer into an announcement in Slack and Teams.
People teams pick ChangeEngine because gifting, recognition and employee comms run from one platform and one set of HRIS data. HRIS events trigger every gift, managers are notified automatically, swag is designed, stored and shipped for you and every program has its own budget and approval path.
You also get onboarding, benefits and company comms on the same platform, AI Content Studio for notes, announcements and posters, and services help with design, video, swag and e-gifting. You don't run a gifting tool next to a separate comms tool and a separate recognition tool. If a PerkUp Visa Card alongside swag and gift cards is your core need, PerkUp covers that.
Switching from PerkUp is mostly a program and timing job. Start by connecting your HRIS so start dates, birthdays, anniversaries and promotions flow in automatically. Map each PerkUp automation, such as new hire kits, birthday gifts and anniversary swag, to a ChangeEngine program with its own budget, owner and approval path.
If PerkUp warehouses swag for you, plan the inventory move before cutover, and export your gift history so you can compare spend and acceptance. Rebuild your gift options as ChangeEngine claim pages, where employees choose swag, an e-gift card or a donation. Time the switch to your PerkUp renewal date so you never pay for two gifting tools. Run one month of employee gifts in ChangeEngine, check that every kit shipped and every gift was claimed, then turn PerkUp off for those programs.
ChangeEngine's services team covers design, videography, swag and e-gifting, so new kits and claim pages look on brand from the first send. Most teams launch the full platform in under two weeks, with branded content from day one and forward-deployed engineers for anything custom. Your security team can review ISO 27001, SOC 2 and GDPR evidence, SSO options and US, EU or Canadian data residency in the ChangeEngine Trust Center before you sign.
Connect the ChangeEngine MCP to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot and ask: "Tell everyone hitting their one-year anniversary next month that an anniversary gift is on the way, with a poster for the office."
list_subject_dates finds anniversaries and other milestone dates from your HRIScreate_draft writes the note in your brand and tonecreate_design makes the poster from a templateset_schedule sends on the milestone dateThe message lands the same day as the moment it celebrates. It acts with your own permissions, and every send waits for your review.
ChangeEngine is a ‘force multiplier’ for our small internal comms team. The platform is super easy to use, and everything looks professional and on brand.
I can finally organize all our programs and visualize moments and communications in a single platform, and give visibility to the C-suite.
Over 40 campaigns personalized by location and role. Engagement is up and Slack channels are buzzing.
No rip-and-replace project. Keep the tools that work, connect the data you have, and start with the program that matters most this quarter.
Start read-only with Workday, ADP, BambooHR, UKG or any of 75+ HRIS platforms. Segments and triggers come from the system you already run.
Fonts, colors and logos load once. Plan, write and schedule from the AI Content Studio, or from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot with the ChangeEngine MCP.
Send your first program across email, chat and SMS. Most teams launch the full platform in under two weeks, timed around their renewal date.
After launch
Most vendors hand over software and move on. Your ChangeEngine team stays accountable for whether people read, click and use what you ship.
Your services team
Design, video, swag, data and engineering experts work inside your account, so programs keep landing long after launch.
Yes. ChangeEngine replaces PerkUp for employee swag, welcome kits, milestone gifts and e-gifts, and adds HRIS-triggered recognition, onboarding and company comms on the same platform.
Yes. The ChangeEngine MCP lets you plan, write, target and schedule gifting comms from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Microsoft Copilot, including e-gifts, welcome kit orders and spend checks. You can check who a send will reach before it goes, and every send waits for your review.
ChangeEngine sells modular packages priced on request and doesn't publish a price list. PerkUp prices through its sales team, shows $299 a month beside integrations on its pricing page and lists swag warehousing as an add-on.
Most teams launch the full ChangeEngine platform in under two weeks. Connect your HRIS, rebuild your gifting programs and budgets, move any stored swag and time the cutover to your PerkUp renewal.
Yes. ChangeEngine sends gift notes and milestone announcements through Microsoft Teams, Slack, Outlook, Gmail, SharePoint and SMS from one platform, with managers notified automatically.
Yes. Approval paths follow the occasion, from automatic anniversary gifts within budget and pre-approved new hire kits to manager spot awards within a quarterly budget and People team sign-off for retirements.
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See ChangeEngine running with your own programs
Teams using ChangeEngine save ~20 hours per new hire. Book a demo to see onboarding, recognition or your next big rollout sent across email, Teams, Slack and SMS.
ChangeEngine is employee communication software for People, HR and internal comms teams. It turns one message into email, Slack, Teams, SMS and print, triggers programs like onboarding from your HRIS, and shows you what landed.
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