Culture Cloud vs Guusto

Culture Cloud is O.C. Tanner’s employee recognition platform for enterprises, combining peer recognition, celebrations, rewards, stores, and custom awards. Employees can recognize colleagues through social tools, while organizations can mark service anniversaries, company milestones, and life events. Global rewards and custom stores can support holiday gifts, company merchandise, and lifestyle spending accounts. The mobile app supports eCards, points, nominations, award presentations, and reward redemption, but requires participation in an employer’s O.C. Tanner recognition program. Access is listed for web, iOS, Android, APIs, and a Chrome extension. Integrations include Workday, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom, SAP SuccessFactors, UKG, Oracle, Outlook, and SharePoint. O.C. Tanner provides developer tools and APIs for adding recognition to employee workflows. It lists ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 reports, PCI DSS compliance, and NIST framework alignment. Pricing is available on request, and feature availability may vary by region.

Guusto provides employee recognition and rewards software intended for both frontline and office workers. Programs can cover milestones, anniversaries, birthdays, peer recognition, manager awards, nominations, performance awards, safety incentives, and learning incentives. Rewards can be sent by email or SMS, printed, displayed as QR codes, or routed to a manager for in-person delivery. Recipients can redeem Guusto cards for gift cards, company swag, charity donations, or custom rewards. Program managers get workspaces with separate budgets and admins, approval workflows, cost-center pools, real-time reporting, and taxable-benefit reporting. Integrations include HRIS, single sign-on, and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and UKG Pro; the API supports recognition and reporting connections. The service is available on Android, iOS, web, and API. A free plan is listed, and the pricing note includes a 30-day trial. Essential costs $4 a month per sender seat and $0.70 a month per recipient seat, with a $200 monthly minimum and annual billing. Premium costs $5 a month per sender seat and $1 a month per recipient seat, with a $500 monthly minimum and annual billing.