Fresh Upgrades to Kudos: Your Quarterly Product Update

Whether you’re already using Kudos or just starting to explore what modern recognition should look like, what matters most is choosing a solution that keeps improving and adapting to today's workplaces.  

At Kudos, we build with intention, listen closely to our users, learn from how teams actually work, and continuously evolve the Kudos platform to meet the real challenges HR leaders face today.  

Below is a look at the latest product updates and enhancements, now live, designed to give organizations like yours more flexibility, better insights, and a recognition experience people genuinely enjoy and keep coming back to.  

🌍 Designed for Growing, Global Teams

The challenge: As teams expand across regions, inconsistent language support can quietly limit participation and inclusion.  

The solution:

Expanded Language Support

Kudos now supports Simplified Chinese as a language option in user settings, helping global and multilingual teams participate in recognition more naturally. For organizations scaling across regions, this means fewer barriers and a more inclusive employee experience. Other supported languages include English, French, and Spanish.  
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🎁 A More Meaningful Rewards Experience

The challenge: Rewards programs can feel rigid, hard to manage, or disconnected from company culture.  

The solution:

‍Custom Rewards Storefronts

You can now create custom rewards storefronts in Kudos for your team, tailoring branding and reward offerings to reflect your company's values and culture. These catalogs of redeemable rewards are 100% unique to you with items like your company-branded swag, or more creative options like gift cards to local businesses, a special parking spot, or lunch with the CEO.

Featured Rewards

Kudos Admins can spotlight specific rewards within the storefront to guide employee choices and promote high-value or time-sensitive items.  

Scheduled Reward Availability

Plan ahead with confidence. You can now schedule Rewards to appear or expire automatically; ideal for seasonal campaigns or limited-time offerings.  

Inventory Tracking

Built-in inventory tracking gives admins real-time visibility into custom reward availability, helping teams manage budgets and avoid fulfillment issues before they happen.  
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🤝 Recognition That Flows Easily

The challenge: Recognition shouldn’t pause just because someone is on vacation, on leave, or too busy.  

The solution:

Activity Delegation

Kudos Admins can specify individuals who can send recognition on behalf of other team members, ensuring appreciation continues to be timely regardless of other constraints. A typical use case for this would be to provide permission for an Executive Assistant to send recognition on behalf of their CEO.

🔐 More Control for IT & Admin Teams

The challenge: HR and IT teams need better control without creating barriers for everyday users.  

The solution:

Session Duration Timeout

Kudos Admins can now define how long users remain signed in before being automatically logged out to support unique security policies and IT requirements.  

Login & Password Reset Improvements

We’ve streamlined login and password reset flows to reduce friction, improve clarity, and help users get back into Kudos faster on their own.  

Automated Teams Rule Builder Enhancements

New Country and State-based rules give admins more flexibility when automating team creation, making it easier to manage growing or distributed workforces.  

🧭 Cleaner Navigation & Faster Performance

The challenge: With so much valuable data available, finding what you need quickly can become harder than it should be.  

The solution:

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‍Updated Main & Admin Menu Navigation

Navigation across the platform has been refined to make it easier for users to find what they need faster.  

Optimized Chart Components

All chart components across dashboards and reports have been optimized for improved speed and responsiveness.  

📊 Clearer, More Actionable Reporting

The challenge: HR teams often have data, but not always the clarity or structure needed to act on it.  

The solution:

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Unified Reports Landing Page

A new Reports landing page provides a centralized view of all available reports, making it easier to understand what insights are available and where to find them.  

Engagement Summary Report

Kudos Admins can now access a high-level summary report showing overall engagement trends across the platform.  

Activity-Level Reports

New detailed reports provide deeper visibility into recognition activity, enabling more granular analysis and insight.  

Standardized Report Naming

Reports now follow a clear Summary vs. Activity naming structure, making it easier to understand their purpose at a glance.  

Enhanced Redemption Reporting

Redemption reports now include total redemptions, and total points redeemed, giving admins clearer insight into reward engagement and usage trends.  

🧩 Cleaner Integrations, More Reliable Data

The challenge: Inaccurate or incomplete data syncing creates extra admin work and inconsistent reporting.  

The solution:

Enhanced Custom Mapping

For teams integrating Kudos with their HR or identity systems, we’ve improved custom mapping and linked account support, ensuring cleaner data syncs and less manual maintenance as teams grow.  

Built for Today. Improving for Tomorrow.  

For existing customers, these updates reflect our ongoing investment in making Kudos easier to manage and more impactful to use. For prospective customers, they’re a snapshot of how quickly and thoughtfully Kudos evolves alongside the needs of modern HR teams.  

And this is just the beginning.  

If you’re a customer, your Client Success Manager can help you activate or learn more about any of these features. If you’re exploring Kudos, we’d love to show you how these updates fit into a recognition strategy that actually scales.  

Because recognition shouldn’t stand still, and neither should the platform behind it.  

See you next quarter with the next round up of updates!

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