Cheerly – Gamified Employee Recognition Platform

Description

Turn everyday appreciation into a habit your whole team can see

Cheerly is a self-hosted, Laravel-based employee recognition and rewards platform built for organizations that want recognition to be visible, frequent and fun. Instead of praise disappearing into private messages, it gives teams a shared feed, points, badges and friendly competition — so good work is celebrated in the open and momentum keeps building.

Why teams will actually use it

The platform is designed around participation rather than paperwork. Employees can recognize each other quickly, managers can see who is giving and receiving recognition, and admins keep control of rewards, budgets and reporting from one central panel. Because it can also run as a subscription service, it works both for a single company and for providers serving many organizations.

Key features

• Peer-to-peer shout-outs: A live recognition feed where colleagues celebrate each other with points and reactions.
• Points and leaderboards: An automatic points ledger with individual and team rankings that turn recognition into friendly competition.
• Team challenges: Time-bound challenges that employees can join and complete for bonus points and extra engagement.
• Rewards catalog and redemptions: Categorized rewards with a complete redemption and approval workflow managed by admins.
• Recognition reports: Engagement analytics showing who recognizes, who receives recognition and how team culture is trending.
• Frontend CMS: Editable landing-page sections, menus, themes, blog posts, testimonials and newsletter tools for your marketing site.
• REST API with Swagger documentation: A Sanctum-secured API, including social login endpoints for mobile apps.
• Multi-organization support: Organizations, team invites and per-organization team management for SaaS-style use.
• Subscription plans: Admin-managed pricing plans with per-plan feature restrictions.
• Seven-plus payment gateways: Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, Paystack, Flutterwave, SslCommerz and manual or offline payments, plus transaction history, multi-currency support and refund management.
• Powerful super admin panel: Analytics, organization and user management, pricing and billing, payments and gateways, rewards and redemptions, recognition controls and more.
• Roles and permissions: A granular permission editor for creating custom admin roles with exactly the access they need.
• Notifications and security: Editable email templates, system notifications, web push and Firebase setup, delivery logs, audit logs, login-activity tracking, two-factor authentication enforcement and reCAPTCHA settings.
• Platform tools: A media manager, language and translation manager, support tickets, AI settings and global search.
• Internationalization: A built-in language manager and in-admin translation tools to reach teams in different regions.

Built for managers, admins and growing organizations

For managers, Cheerly makes recognition measurable without adding reporting work. For admins, it brings users, organizations, plans, payments, rewards and content together in one place. For growing businesses, the subscription and multi-organization structure makes it easy to start small and expand as more teams join.

A practical way to strengthen workplace culture

Recognition works best when it is timely, specific and visible. Cheerly supports that rhythm every day: a quick shout-out, points that add up, a leaderboard that sparks healthy competition and rewards that make appreciation tangible. The result is a workplace where people feel noticed — and where great work is more likely to be repeated.