Kudos® vs. Tango Card

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Kudos®
Score 8.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Kudos® is an employee engagement and recognition platform, that harnesses peer-to-peer recognition, casual rewards, values reinforcement, and open communication to help organizations boost employee engagement, reduce turnover, improve culture, and drive productivity and performance.N/A
Tango Card
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Tango Card provides digital rewards and incentives. Users can access a global catalog that includes popular e-gift cards, digital Visa and Mastercard rewards, non-profit donations and bitcoin e-gift cards. Tango Card backs their catalog with technology and expert support. Incentives can be delivered in bulk, on-the-spot, or by API integration. The vendor’s value proposition that this provides convenience for their customers and guarantees that rewards arrive exactly at the right time to…
$0
You only pay for the incentives
Pricing
Kudos®Tango Card
Editions & Modules
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Only One Edition
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You only pay for the incentives
Only One Edition
$0
You only pay for the incentives
Delivery to an Individual
$2.00
Per Card
Delivery to a Corporate Addtess
$2.00
Per Card
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Kudos®Tango Card
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsKudos® pricing is based on the number of users and the length of the contract.We provide all of our services at no additional cost. The only cost is the face value of all e-gift cards or other rewards and incentives send via our API.
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User Ratings
Kudos®Tango Card
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(13 ratings)
3.0
(10 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Kudos®Tango Card
Likelihood to Recommend
Kudos®
Kudos is especially useful and helpful during project deployment where team members can be awarded kudos and appreciation and motivation for their team efforts in meeting milestones and targets. In some instances, the reward types or gifts may seem irrelevant to some departments in certain regions or my company' operations in other parts of the African continent.
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Blackhawk Network
If you use this program to provide gift cards make sure to warn the recipients to use them asap! In my experience, strange things can happen with on-line purchases. Maybe send a reminder to the recipient explaining that Tango is "banking" on you not to spend all of the funds.
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Pros
Kudos®
  • One of the most useful aspects of this tool is that it allows you to save the profile of each of the employees individually and to be able to track their activities and give them the recognition they deserve.
  • Another useful feature of "kudos is that the system allows you to assign badges to each profile based on their job performance.
  • I also really like that the platform has a dedicated portal for employees. In which they can see their badges, recognitions and awards obtained for their efforts.
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Blackhawk Network
  • Tango Card is very easy to use and set-up
  • Tango Card makes it easy to allow for multiple gift card options
  • Tango Card allows for excel imports of respondents, which keeps things nice and simple
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Cons
Kudos®
  • Rewards take a long time to be given out, but this I would put on the company's policy.
  • From my own perspective on a mobile phone, it's not so smooth like on desktop, like searching for a colleagues name sometimes is difficult.
  • Sometimes email notifications take too long to come, or they don't even come at all.
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Blackhawk Network
  • The initial setup of the API with all the ACH info was a bit complicated.
  • The only speedbump (not big concern) is the branding of a Tango Card - when saying that to recipients, they don't "get it" immediately and some quick-to-judgement folks can say they don't want it.
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Usability
Kudos®
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Blackhawk Network
No issues to report = 10. I cannot think of simpler usability in this category.
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Support Rating
Kudos®
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Blackhawk Network
Giving it a 9 only because I haven't been using it for more than 6 months but that said, I've had enough projects and redemptions to get a full understanding of its performance. TANGO CARD just works better than the rest for the redemption experience for the end recipient.
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Alternatives Considered
Kudos®
I used to work at a company called Sparc that developed its own in-house platform called Teamphoria. It was great software that coupled a lot of the same features as workday but also with a recognition system. Essentially it allocated certain types of recognition levels per month, 1 platinum, 5 gold, 20 silvers, where each was worth a drawing ticket. At the end of the month, someone would be drawn from that pool based on their received recognition and then receive a gift card. However, some abused this system and devalued its purpose and inflated the meaning behind it. Kudos seems to do a good job by having a direct point/monetization system which isn't up for random chance. This can help even incentivize employees to go above and beyond, getting them to work harder since they are receiving recognition for it.
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Blackhawk Network
We liked Tango Card much more as it was easier to use and had more flexibility within our company. It allowed us to be more creative as well. The scale of cards and ease of use, both front and back end were huge decision points for us. Everything about Tango Card appeared to be much better than Tremendous and we are happy with our choice.
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Return on Investment
Kudos®
  • Incentivizes employee to work harder.
  • Helps with thanking our employees for jobs well done without having just a normal "Thank You."
  • Allows the employees to use kudos for company SWAG or items they may need in their lives and it's all possible to get thanks to KUDOS.
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Blackhawk Network
  • Tango Card has increased out survey response rates
  • Tango Card has increase our overall response counts
  • By doing so, some of our board KPIs are better measured
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