Guides
Plain-English walkthroughs for sending gift card rewards — from a single card to a spreadsheet of thousands, by hand or from your own code. No fluff, no sales pitch, and we tell you when a different tool is the better answer.
What people send rewards for
SendReward is a general-purpose way to pay people with gift cards. The same flow covers a lot of ground:
Employee recognition
Spot bonuses, thank-yous and milestone rewards for your team, sent in seconds.
Customer rewards
Thank a buyer, reward a loyal customer, or recover a bad experience with a card they choose.
Referral programs
Pay a referral bonus the moment a signup is verified — by hand or straight from your code.
Marketing & giveaways
Run a promotion, contest or giveaway and send every winner a reward from one upload.
Research & surveys
Compensate survey, study and clinical-trial participants without a payment batch.
Support goodwill
Turn a frustrated ticket around with an instant apology reward.
The guides
Send rewards from your code in 5 minutes
A no-SDK quickstart for the API: get a test key, send a reward in curl, PHP, Node or Python, and go live.
How to stop people claiming the same reward twice
Defenses against duplicate and fraudulent reward claims in any program — unique references, idempotency keys, and the design checks that catch one person with two emails.
Why we don’t charge a platform fee
The gift card margin, explained line by line — where the money really comes from, where costs hide, and the honest truth about "free."
How to pay survey participants with gift cards
One common use case, walked end to end: pay a whole study from a single spreadsheet in about ten minutes, no code.
Not sure where to start?
If you just want to try it, create a free account — every account comes with a $1,000 test balance and no sales call. If you are choosing between platforms, read our honest comparison of gift card platforms. And if you are paying survey or study participants specifically, that guide walks the whole flow end to end.
Send your first reward in a minute.
Free account, $1,000 test balance, face value, no sales call.