FOR THE HR GENERALIST
Birthday Buddy
Automatic birthday recognition so none gets missed.
Employee birthdays get recognized on time without the HR Generalist keeping a separate calendar. The notification is already waiting before the day starts, and the announcement takes care of itself.
- Time back
- 5 min
- per calendar event
- Cost
- 15¢
- 30 Rivets per calendar event
How it works.
3 steps, and your team only touches the ones that need a person.
- 1.
The daily check runs every morning
Each morning, Birthday Buddy checks the employee list for anyone whose birthday is today. The check runs every day on its own. There is no list to build and no separate calendar to keep, and you only pay when a birthday actually lands.
- 2.
The HR Generalist and manager are notified
When the check finds a birthday, the HR Generalist and the employee's manager get a notification through their chosen channel so they can recognize the person before the day gets away from them. That notified birthday is the one moment you are billed for.
- 3.
The announcement goes out if it is set up
If the company has turned on birthday announcements, a personalized email goes to the team's recipient list on its own, with the employee's name already filled in.
Try it.
A small working model of Birthday Buddy. Nothing here touches a real customer.
Drag through October and see the daily checks run, with a note to the team only on birthday mornings.
A day for the HR Generalist.
- 8:00 AM
The HR Generalist opens the calendar to check whether anyone has a birthday today. Two people do. They only know because one of them mentioned it in passing yesterday.
- 9:30 AM
They draft a birthday email to the team and look up the spelling of the employee's name. It goes out three hours into the workday.
- 11:00 AM
The manager finds out about the birthday from a coworker in the break room and has already missed the window to say something first thing.
- 4:00 PM
One birthday was missed entirely. The employee noticed. The HR Generalist follows up with an apology.
- 7:30 AM
The notification arrives before the office opens. The HR Generalist and the employee's manager both know before the employee walks in.
- 8:00 AM
The birthday announcement email goes out to the team on its own, already personalized and already sent.
- 8:15 AM
The manager greets the employee when they arrive. No scramble, no awkward catch-up later in the day.
- 4:00 PM
Every birthday was recognized on time. Nothing was tracked by hand, and nothing was missed.
What it won't do.
So nobody's surprised later.
- Does not send announcements to employees who have opted out of company-wide recognition.
- Does not manage birthday gifts, cards, or any physical recognition.
- Does not notify external contacts or customers.
- Does not track birthdays for contractors or non-employee records.
More for the HR Generalist.
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- 66 to 93 mobile PageSpeed, from a contractor's old site to the preview we built in under 10 days
Let’s talk about your shop.
No slide deck. Tell us how your team runs today and we'll show you what we'd build first. If it's a fit, we send you a quote.
