Fringe vs HiFives Comparison

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Fringe

Employee Recognition Software

4.7 241 user ratings

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HiFives

Employee Recognition Software

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Overview

Description

Fringe is an employee recognition platform that enables you to empower your workers with lifestyle perks that can be tailored to relieve stress, free up time, have a positive influence on the family, and bring pleasure to their lives. It allows you to consolidate current suppliers, stipends, and reimbursement schemes into a single, automated platform to save time and money. Fringe is a smart platform that offers you features for employee wellness, rewards and recognition, peer-to-peer giving, employee contributions, recruitment incentives, and more. It provides selected alternatives for caregiver support, financial wellbeing, further learning, enjoyment, and much more, in addition to mental and physical health. It helps you provide a monthly, quarterly, or yearly stipend and allows your employees to tailor their benefits to their specific needs. With Fringe, you can increase the variety and flexibility of your wellness programs while reducing the administrative burden. Fringe takes care of everything to make your rewards programs run smoothly. It eliminates the need for gift cards or refunds and helps you offer managerial incentives, anniversaries and milestones, birthdays, and peer-to-peer giving benefits. Read more

HiFives is an advanced employee recognition, rewards and engagement SaaS platform that allows companies to automate, transfigure, and computerize employees' experience. It serves industries and partners with startups, large enterprises, and small and medium industries across geographies. It allows employees and managers to recognize, nominate and reward employees based on the points-based system. With HiFives, you get a robust digital platform that helps clients get high return of investment from their programs. Employees can effectively redeem their reward points with the global redemption system. The platform comprises social features that include location, wall of fame along with e-certificates and leaderboards. It also facilitates budget management, multi-level approval workforce, and Jury-based evaluation by integrating with all leading HRMS systems. HiFives’s cutting-edge digital platform and consultative approach helps customers get the most out of their initiatives. They can improve their work experience, match employees with corporate objectives, and promote values and culture with ease. It also allows for the digital transformation of HR processes. Additionally, the platform offers best practices in incentives and recognition, as well as quick adoption depending on company needs. Read more

Pricing Options

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SW Score & Breakdown

82% SW Score The SW Score ranks the products within a particular category on a variety of parameters, to provide a definite ranking system. Read more

Features The Feature Score % is calculated using the weighted average method, where core features hold more weight in the final calculation. Read more

77%
Reviews

74%
Momentum

62%
Popularity

81%

83% SW Score The SW Score ranks the products within a particular category on a variety of parameters, to provide a definite ranking system. Read more

Features The Feature Score % is calculated using the weighted average method, where core features hold more weight in the final calculation. Read more

96%
Reviews

60%
Momentum

60%
Popularity

75%

Features

Total Features	7 Features	17 Features
Common Features for All	Access Control Defines application access to various users. Includes role-based system that controls options to be displayed to different users based on their role Badge Management Facilitates assigning and managing badges to employees or students Benchmarking Setting up standards and targets for your team and team members, so that they are performing at their best Customization Helps to customize the system for use in industry-specific use cases Dashboard A digital insight of reports and other workings on a single screen Employee Discount and Perks Provides employees with access to a wide variety of consumer products and services at a special discount price Employee Segmentation Segregates the employees into small groups by defined criteria such as location, demographics, and position. Gamification Helps in applying game mechanics to the work environment for better collaboration and engagement Goal Management Helps in setting targets of a team or an individual and track progress to reach business objectives HRIS Integration Seamlessly connect with HRIS to automatically sync data and manage permissions Manager-to-peer Recognition Allowing managers to acknowledge, nominate, recognize and reward employees in the form of awards, digital badges, points, or messages Peer-to-Peer Recognition Allowing employees to acknowledge each other in the form of digital badges, awards, or messages Points and Rewards A points-based system that allows users to redeem the achieved points for a reward of their choice Pulse Surveys Helps managers to measure employee satisfaction and health of the company on a time-to-time basis Recognition Tracking Allows tracking the number and types of recognition that individuals, teams, departments, or the whole company gave or received in a given period Reporting (Analytics) Provides insightful reports and important business metrics to track and measure the outcomes and progress. Rewards & Recognition Helps to acknowledge the achievements, accomplishments of an employee, acquaintances, peers, team, and team members Social Recognition Broadcast individual recognition with team members and managers through a social network-esque feed or a built-in customizable web portal + 4 More - Show Less	Access Control Defines application access to various users. Includes role-based system that controls options to be displayed to different users based on their role Badge Management Facilitates assigning and managing badges to employees or students Benchmarking Setting up standards and targets for your team and team members, so that they are performing at their best Customization Helps to customize the system for use in industry-specific use cases Dashboard A digital insight of reports and other workings on a single screen Employee Discount and Perks Provides employees with access to a wide variety of consumer products and services at a special discount price Employee Segmentation Segregates the employees into small groups by defined criteria such as location, demographics, and position. Gamification Helps in applying game mechanics to the work environment for better collaboration and engagement Goal Management Helps in setting targets of a team or an individual and track progress to reach business objectives HRIS Integration Seamlessly connect with HRIS to automatically sync data and manage permissions Manager-to-peer Recognition Allowing managers to acknowledge, nominate, recognize and reward employees in the form of awards, digital badges, points, or messages Peer-to-Peer Recognition Allowing employees to acknowledge each other in the form of digital badges, awards, or messages Points and Rewards A points-based system that allows users to redeem the achieved points for a reward of their choice Pulse Surveys Helps managers to measure employee satisfaction and health of the company on a time-to-time basis Recognition Tracking Allows tracking the number and types of recognition that individuals, teams, departments, or the whole company gave or received in a given period Reporting (Analytics) Provides insightful reports and important business metrics to track and measure the outcomes and progress. Rewards & Recognition Helps to acknowledge the achievements, accomplishments of an employee, acquaintances, peers, team, and team members Social Recognition Broadcast individual recognition with team members and managers through a social network-esque feed or a built-in customizable web portal + 14 More - Show Less

Technical Details

Organization Types Supported	Large Enterprises Medium Business Small Business	Large Enterprises Medium Business Small Business
Platforms Supported	SaaS/Web/Cloud	SaaS/Web/Cloud
Modes of Support	Online	Online

Reviews & Ratings

User Rating	4.7/5 241 user ratings	Not Available
Rating Distribution	Excellent 78% Very Good 18.3% Average 2.1% Poor 0.4% Terrible 1.2%	Not Available
Review Summary	User reviews of Fringe consistently highlight its wide variety of redemption options, ranging from practical services like Instacart and DoorDash to experiences like travel and entertainment. Users appreciate the platform's ease of use and the flexibility it offers in choosing rewards. However, some reviewers express a desire for more options, especially for smaller point increments and more mainstream retailers. While the platform is generally well-received, some users have reported minor issues with customer service.	Not Available
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Pricing

Pricing Options	Free Trial Not Available Offers Custom plan.	Free Trial Available Starts at $0.25. Offers Custom plan.
Pricing Plans Monthly Plans Annual Plans	Fringe Custom	Basic Plan $0.25 $0.25 per user / month Premium Plan $0.50 $0.50 per user / month Premium+ Plan Custom
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