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Xoxoday Empuls allows admins to create and assign multiple wallets or point budgets to employees based on their team, department, event, or recognition category — giving each employee access to the right funds for every recognition moment.
Xoxoday Empuls gives administrators granular control over how recognition budgets are structured and distributed across an organisation. Rather than relying on a single shared pool, admins can create multiple distinct wallets — each tied to a specific team, department, event, or recognition category. This means a quarterly performance award budget and a spot-recognition budget can exist independently, ensuring funds are used exactly as intended. How Budget Assignment Works When an admin sets up a recognition programme in Xoxoday Empuls, they define one or more wallets and specify which employees or groups have access to each. A wallet can be personal (allocated to an individual manager to reward their direct reports), team-based (shared across a business unit), or event-specific (created for a milestone such as a Work Anniversary Week or an annual awards cycle). Each wallet carries its own point balance, expiry rules, and usage scope. Employees see only the wallets assigned to them, keeping the experience clean and focused. A team lead in the engineering department, for example, might hold access to both a monthly peer-recognition budget and a project-completion bonus budget — each with a separate balance they can draw from when nominating colleagues. A Practical Example Consider an organisation running Xoxoday Empuls alongside Workday for HR data sync and Microsoft Teams for day-to-day communication. The HR team can create a “Festive Celebration Wallet” distributed to all employees in a region, a “Manager Discretionary Budget” for people managers globally, and a “Sales Milestone Wallet” for the revenue team. Each budget is isolated — spending from the festive wallet does not affect a manager’s discretionary allowance. Notifications about new wallet allocations surface directly in Microsoft Teams, so employees know immediately when fresh budgets are available. Controlling Spend and Visibility Admins retain full visibility into budget utilisation across all wallets from a single dashboard in Xoxoday Empuls. Budgets can be topped up, adjusted, or revoked at any point in the recognition cycle. This level of control is particularly valuable during compliance reviews, as Xoxoday Empuls is certified under ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, ensuring spend data and employee information are handled securely. Once a wallet is assigned, employees can use available points to reward peers directly or nominate them for structured awards — without raising a manual purchase request or waiting for finance approval. Why Separate Wallets Matter Keeping budgets segmented by purpose prevents overspend in high-frequency recognition moments from eroding funds earmarked for annual or milestone awards. It also gives finance and HR teams cleaner reporting: they can see exactly how much was spent on spot bonuses versus department-specific initiatives versus event-driven recognition — all within Xoxoday Empuls’s reporting suite. This separation makes budget accountability straightforward and audit-ready. Learn more: Empuls Help Centre — R&R program

Setting Up Recognition Awards Programmes

Learn how to configure structured awards cycles, define nomination workflows, and publish award results in Xoxoday Empuls.

Peer-to-Peer Recognition in Empuls

Understand how employees can send recognition, award points, and celebrate colleagues using their assigned wallet budgets.