Recognitions
Peer-to-peer recognition and awards program.
MangoApps
Overview
MangoApps Recognitions runs peer-to-peer shout-outs, manager awards, and structured nomination programs from one social feed, with company-value badges and configurable points behind each one.
An AI coach rewrites a quick draft into something warmer and more specific before it posts — the giver still reviews and sends it. The same assistant can give a recognition, submit a nomination, or approve one from a chat message, so routine ones don't need a trip into the app.
Points earned here bank into the Company Store balance for redemption, and recognition history surfaces inside Performance Management reviews. Budgets, approval chains, and anti-gaming limits are all set by admins, not fixed in the product.
Highlights
Capabilities
Recognition Types
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Peer-to-peer recognition post with company-value badge
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Manager-to-employee awards and quick shout-outs
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Group recognition — recognize several people at once One post per recipient, full points each, shared group thread; up to 50 recipients
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Lifecycle milestone awards (service anniversary, birthday, role anniversary, promotion)
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Boost — add points to a colleague's existing recognition
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Anonymous recognition (admin-configurable, off by default)
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Bulk recognition import (CSV) — upload a roster, each row becomes a full award Rows post through the same pipeline as manual awards — notifications, store-points credit, and budget draw-down all fire
Writing, Voice & In-the-Flow
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AI message coach — rewrites a draft warmer and more specific (review before posting)
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Voice-to-text via browser speech recognition Hides itself on browsers/devices without speech support
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Smart recipient suggestions ranked by work context
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Recognize straight from a chat message
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Inline message translation to the viewer's language
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AI Recognition Agent — give recognition, submit nominations, approve/reject via chat
Nominations, Approval & Moderation
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Custom award programs with categories, value ranges, and per-program eligibility
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Nomination form with title, description, justification, and attachments
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Time-boxed award cycles with committee winner selection
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Manager approval + multi-level approval (up to 5 levels) with AI content-moderation queue
Points, Rewards & Budgets
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Value-bearing recognition points per award
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Monthly peer giving allowance (Mango Kudos) per role tier
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Per-program and hierarchical group/department budgets with spend tracking + overage alerts
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Anti-gaming governance — max recognitions per giver per month + duplicate-recipient cooldown Opt-in; 0 = off. Exempts system-generated awards (cycles, nominations, milestones)
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Reward-points exclusion by worker classification (contractors, interns, volunteers)
Feed, Sharing & Recognition Wall
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Organization-wide social feed with filters and visibility scopes (public, department, team, private)
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Reactions (emoji) and comments on posts and awards
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Share / re-share recognition posts
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Recognition wall — auto-refreshing public display of recent activity, with tap-to-applaud The public display works without login; tapping to applaud requires the viewer to be signed in
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Printable recognition card with scan-to-view QR code
Insights & Notifications
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Leaderboard (top recognized + top givers)
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Recognition Wrapped — personal year-in-review recap
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Value-of-the-Month spotlight, under-recognized-value nudge, and pay-it-forward prompt
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Participation, at-risk, and retention-correlation analytics with CSV export
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Industry benchmark comparison — your participation and recognitions-per-employee vs. published R&R benchmark bands Illustrative published-research averages, labeled as such; override with your own source in settings
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Notifications to recipient / approver / author + opt-in weekly digest email
Integrations & Ecosystem
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Company Store points redemption + period sync Received points bank in the recipient's Company Store balance; redemption happens in the separate Company Store app
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Performance-management integration (EPMS) — recognition summary surfaced inside performance reviews
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Auto-recognition when an EPMS goal or training course is completed Fires a real award through the standard award pipeline (goal trigger is admin-toggled)
Limits & Specs
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Recognition post content length: 10–1,000 characters
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Max approval levels per program: 5
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Default monthly giving allowance: 1,000 IC / 2,000 manager / 5,000 leadership points
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Social-action rate limits: 30 reactions, 10 comments, 20 shares per minute; 10 nominations per hour
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Anniversary milestones (default, admin-configurable): 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 years
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License: Required (opt-in per business)
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Use cases
FAQ
Each recognition can carry a configurable number of points. Received points accumulate in the recipient's balance and can be redeemed in the Company Store when that app is enabled. Separately, admins can turn on a monthly peer giving allowance so employees have their own points to give.
They're two separate apps that work together. Recognitions is where appreciation happens — posts, badges, awards, and the points that come with them. The Company Store is the redemption catalog where those earned points are spent on swag and gift cards. Points a person receives bank into their Company Store balance, but the actual redemption happens in the Company Store app, which has to be enabled separately.
Yes. Admins can create award programs with custom categories, value ranges, eligibility criteria, nomination forms, and approval chains of up to five levels. You can also run time-boxed award cycles where a committee selects the winners.
Yes. Group recognition lets you pick several teammates in one flow and posts an individual recognition per person — each recipient gets the full points, not a split share — while a shared group thread ties them together. You can recognize up to 50 people in a single group recognition.
Yes. Recognitions appear in a social feed that employees can view, react to, and comment on. Each post has a visibility scope — public, department, team, or private — and admins control feed-wide settings.
Optional governance controls cap how many recognitions a single person can give per month and enforce a cooldown before the same recipient can be recognized again. Both are off by default (set to 0), and system-generated awards — award cycles, approved nominations, and milestone celebrations — are always exempt. High-value peer gifts can also be held for approval above a points threshold you set.
Yes. Recognition history is surfaced inside the Performance Management (EPMS) review, so a manager sees a person's recognitions in context during a review. Admins can also enable auto-recognition that fires a real award through the standard pipeline when an EPMS goal or a training course is completed.
Yes. An optional AI message coach rewrites a quick draft into a warmer, more specific message that names a concrete contribution and its impact. It never invents facts and never auto-posts — the employee reviews the suggestion and chooses to use it or keep their own wording.
Mostly, yes. Employees can dictate the message with browser voice-to-text instead of typing, or recognize a teammate straight from a chat message with the wording already filled in. Anyone signed in can also tap to applaud a post right on the recognition wall display — no typing at all. On a shared device, kiosk mode identifies someone with just an employee ID and PIN (no corporate email or password) before they type a quick message.
Yes. Recognitions is a licensed app that each business opts into — there's no automatic free tier. An admin enables it for the tenant, and per-employee giving allowances, budgets, and program settings are configured from there.
