Recognition that pays off, whatever shape your team is

A free, no-faff platform for recognising people across financial services; fintech, building society, or wealth management. Send gifts digitally, or via a printed QR code card - instant recognition, minimal admin.

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We work with 2,000+ businesses

Reaches every office, branch and remote desk

Manager and team budgets, no approval queue

200+ brands & 1000s of gifts to choose from

Free platform, just pay for the gifts you send

"Huggg has enabled GoCardless to create seamless, ad hoc surprise and delight moments, build relationships and find a more human connection with our customers."

Hamish Wood

VP, Customer Success, GoCardless

How it works

Choose how you recognise

Give managers and branches their own gifting budget
Distribute gifting QR cards for instant thank-yous
Send gifts in bulk to a team or department with a CSV

The Huggg send flow showing scheduling and delivery country options

Send gifts in seconds

Send a gifting link via Slack, Teams, email or SMS
Send by SMS, or hand over a printed QR card
They pick the gift they want from 200+ brands

A recipient upload list with a sending progress indicator

Track from one place

See who's recognising and who's recognised
Track spend across teams and sites in one view
Get built-in VAT receipts and P11D tracking

The Huggg gifts report showing purchased, sent and claimed status

Recognition has to reach everyone, however you work

Fintech & challenger banks

Talent's hot and the big names are always hiring, so great work flies by unnoticed. Share a gifting link in under two minutes. Managers get a budget, you keep the guardrails.

Building societies

You answer to members, not shareholders - we know that looking after people is the whole point. Give every team the same recognition by link, email, SMS or QR card.

Wealth & investment

Client-facing people hold the relationships - if they leave, the client goes too. Make teams feel seen with recognition set up once, and run by managers - with controls you need.

✅ Gifting links, email, SMS, and printed QR cards

✅ No logins needed for the person receiving

✅ Manager and team budgets, no sign-off delay

✅ SSO, VAT receipts and P11D tracking

Why do businesses in the Finance Sector choose Huggg?

Built for distributed or closely-governed teams

Why recognition matters

Distributed teams drift apart

Spread people across offices, branches and home desks, and connection slips. Employees working across regions are 70% more likely to feel disconnected without deliberate shared moments. (Microsoft Work Trend Index, 2021-2023)

Recognition has to land in the moment

A thank-you weeks later barely registers. When recognition is specific and tied to a real moment, people are 4x more engaged than with generic praise. (Gallup, From Praise to Profits, 2023)

Hybrid and split teams get left out

Two-thirds of hybrid employees feel excluded from the social side of work. They're the ones who miss the cultural moments, so reach has to be deliberate. (McKinsey & Company, 2022)

Belonging fades without the moments

Miss the moments that bring a team together and it shows. People who rarely attend work socials report a 25% lower sense of belonging and 35% weaker connection to their team. (CIPD, Social Connection in the Workplace, 2022)

Retention is a talent-war problem

In finance, someone's always hiring your best people. The stay-or-leave decision is made in the day-to-day, long before the exit interview. Quick, genuine recognition is how you hold on to them.

Compliance can't be an afterthought

Ad-hoc rewards with no audit trail and unclear tax treatment are a real risk in a regulated firm. Recognition needs P11D tracking and a clean paper trail, not a spreadsheet.

200+ brands across every category

200+ brands, including names your people will feel good about choosing. B Corps, women-owned businesses and independents sit right next to the big household favourites. So when someone picks their gift, they can back a business they actually care about.