Welcome new joiners on Day 1
A new joiner profile in HiBob triggers a welcome reward, an intro message, and a buddy-recognition prompt. Onboarding feels personal without People Ops having to micromanage the calendar.
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HiBob with Xoxoday
Connect Xoxoday with HiBob to automate recognition and reward delivery from HR events.
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What you can do
Four things you can do once HiBob is connected
HiBob handles HR data. Xoxoday adds rewards without adding a second admin platform, using the employee data already in HiBob.
No second employee list to maintain
- Adds, updates, and exits flow through automatically
- Add an employee in HiBob and they show up in Xoxoday on the next sync. Title changes, location moves, and exits flow through the same way. No manual upkeep, no leavers still showing as active.
- The org chart comes with it
- Department, manager, location, and title come along with every profile. Recognition, celebrations, and surveys stay pointed at the right people.
Celebrations and welcome moments, on their own
- Birthdays and anniversaries, on the day
- Birth dates and joining dates come in with each profile. Xoxoday sends the message and gift on the day, on its own. Anniversary rewards can grow with each year served.
- Welcome moments for new joiners
- A new HiBob profile triggers a Xoxoday welcome flow: a Day 1 message, a starter reward, or a peer-recognition prompt to a buddy.
Recognize people the right way
- Recognition with the right approvers
- Manager and reporting line come from HiBob. Xoxoday can require manager approval on high-value awards, route reward budget by team, or show recognition trends by department.
- Surveys and rewards by team, region, or role
- Xoxoday reads department, location, and title from HiBob. Run a recognition program for one team, a survey for a region, or a milestone reward just for managers.
Run rewards and surveys in one place
- One catalog across recognition and rewards
- Peer-to-peer recognition, manager awards, milestone gifts, perks, and a company feed. All of it runs on the same HiBob-fed list.
- Surveys with built-in segmentation
- Pulse and engagement surveys segment by the department, location, and tenure fields that come straight from HiBob. No manual list building.
Use cases
Who runs it, and what for
Three patterns we see across HiBob customers running Xoxoday.
Birthdays and anniversaries, sent automatically
Birthdays and work anniversaries get sent from the HiBob dates. Reward amounts can grow with each year served (5-year, 10-year, 15-year), and manager approval can be routed automatically.
Peer recognition with a fresh employee list
Managers and peers can recognize anyone in the org without picking from a stale list. New joiners show up the day after they join. Leavers disappear on their exit date.
How it works
From Bob record to delivered reward
Step 1
Employee records sync from Bob
New joiners, profile updates, and exits flow from Bob to Empuls automatically. Empuls stays in sync with your live headcount.
Step 2
Celebrations trigger on the right day
Birthdays and work anniversaries are read directly from Bob. Empuls sends the celebration on the day without any manual scheduling.
Step 3
Recognition follows the org structure
Peer nominations and award approvals route through the reporting lines in Bob. Changes to the org chart are reflected on the next sync.
Step 4
Rewards reach the right inbox
Reward links go to the email stored in Bob. Leavers are deactivated automatically before any pending reward is delivered.
Setup
OAuth-connected. Under 15 minutes to live
No API keys to copy. Sign in to HiBob from the Xoxoday admin console, grant the permissions, and you are connected.
Native HiBob integration. Connects through OAuth.
OAuth. Click Connect with OAuth in the Xoxoday admin console and authenticate against your HiBob tenant in a new tab.
One-way, HiBob to Xoxoday. Runs once every 24 hours. Field-level mapping with conditional formatting.
Under 15 minutes. OAuth login plus field mapping is the entire setup. First sync can run immediately or be scheduled.
Common Questions
Frequently asked questions
Common questions from HR admins, People Ops, and IT reviewers evaluating the integration.
Still have a question? Talk to usEvery 24 hours, automatically. You can also schedule the initial sync to align with a launch announcement, or trigger a manual sync from the Xoxoday admin console.
Full name, display name, first name, surname, second name, email, avatar URL, start date, manager, department, title, employee ID, reports to, site, tenure duration, years of service, duration of employment, original start date, and About section.
OAuth. There is no API key to copy and paste. Click Connect with OAuth in the Xoxoday admin console, sign in to HiBob, and grant the permissions in a new tab. Xoxoday only sees the fields you map.
Yes. The setup includes allowed-domain and excluded-email filters so consultants, contractors, and external accounts can be excluded before the first sync runs.
One-way. HiBob is where the data lives, Xoxoday reads from it. Recognition, reward, and survey activity captured in Xoxoday stays in Xoxoday. We do not write back to HiBob.
When the employee status changes in HiBob, Xoxoday removes the person from the active list on the next sync. They stop receiving recognition prompts, surveys, and reward triggers.
See it in your own HiBob setup
A 30-minute call. We'll connect a sandbox tenant to a sample HiBob setup and walk through the four flows live.
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