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Empuls sends reward certificates with achievement badges via email to recognized employees, supports automatic CC to managers or stakeholders, and delivers acknowledgment emails to recognizers confirming their nomination was received.
Recognition means most when it travels beyond the moment it is given. Empuls ensures that every formal award creates a lasting record — delivered directly to the employee’s inbox in the form of a polished reward certificate, complete with the achievement badge tied to their award program. Certificate Emails with Achievement Badges When an employee receives a recognition in Empuls, the system automatically generates a reward certificate and emails it to the recipient. The certificate includes the achievement badge associated with the specific award — whether that is a Spot Award, Values Champion award, or a Long-Service milestone. Employees can save, print, or share this certificate, giving the recognition a tangible life outside the platform itself. Certificates reflect the program they belong to, so each one is contextually meaningful rather than generic. A five-year anniversary certificate looks and reads differently from a peer-nominated values award. Automatic CC to Managers and Stakeholders Empuls supports configuring certificate emails to automatically CC the recognized employee’s manager or other designated stakeholders. This means recognition does not stay siloed in a single inbox. When a product engineer at an organization using SAP SuccessFactors or Darwinbox is recognized for shipping a critical feature, their manager receives the same certificate email — creating visibility up the reporting chain with no manual follow-up required. This is especially valuable for people operations teams that feed recognition data into performance review cycles, where manager awareness of team achievements directly informs calibration conversations. Recognizers Receive Acknowledgment Emails Empuls closes the loop on the recognition experience by sending a confirmation email to the person who submitted the nomination or recognition. This acknowledgment tells the recognizer that their effort was received, processed, and acted upon. It is a deliberate design choice: participation in recognition programs grows when contributors feel that their nominations lead to visible outcomes. Over time, this creates a reinforcement cycle — employees who nominate peers, receive a confirmation, and later see those peers publicly acknowledged are significantly more likely to participate again. End-to-End Recognition in Practice Consider a people ops team running a quarterly Values Champion program in Empuls, with Microsoft Teams connected for real-time announcements. When the award is issued, the winning employee receives their certificate email with the badge attached, their manager is CC’d automatically, and the nominator receives an acknowledgment in their inbox. At the same time, the recognition is announced in the connected MS Teams channel, amplifying visibility across the organization. This entire flow — nomination to certificate delivery to manager visibility to recognizer acknowledgment — runs without manual intervention, making it scalable whether an organization has 200 employees or 20,000. Empuls is built on SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified infrastructure, so all email communication and employee data involved in this flow meets enterprise security standards. Learn more: Empuls Help Centre — Certificates

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