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Fringe vs. Awardco: beyond points

While Awardco focuses on points and catalog rewards, Fringe goes further by giving employees real choice and meaningful benefits that impact their everyday life.

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Key Features

How does Fringe compare to Awardco?

Fringe delivers more by focusing on everyday relevance, personal choice, and perks that extend beyond the workplace.

Holistic Employee Experience

Employee Choice

Cost Consolidation

Everyday Life Relevance

Simple Admin Experience

Perceived Impact

Analytics & Reporting

Recognition, rewards, lifestyle benefits, wellbeing, challenges, L&D, swag, gifting

Employees choose what benefits, rewards, and perks matter most

Teams often save 40–60% by replacing multiple point solutions with Fringe

Designed to support how people live, rest, move, learn, and recharge

Intuitive controls, clear budget visibility, and less manual work

Benefits tied to real life and choice, increasing perceived value

Comprehensive reporting on engagement and ROI across all programs

Awardco

Programs are often hidden behind additional costs and pricey tiers

Options are limited to predefined catalog reward items

Often added on top of existing tools, increasing overall stack costs

Focused on recognition moments, not daily life

More complex management across tiers and add-ons

Value tied to catalog points redemption, which may feel transactional

Reporting centered mainly on recognition activity

FAQs about pricing, setup, and more

A closer look at how Fringe works, what it costs, and how it stacks up against other platforms.

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How does Fringe compare to other HR platforms on cost?

Most companies pay for several point solutions. Fringe replaces them all. Our customers often save 40–60% while adding more functionality in a single platform.Explore our plans and pricing.

What’s included in Fringe’s base price?

Everything you need to run a complete employee experience program—recognition, rewards, wellbeing challenges, gifting, lifestyle spending, and more. No separate modules. One platform, one invoice, one simple PEPM.

Can we start small and scale later?

Absolutely. Many companies start with one feature—like Recognition or Lifestyle Spending—and expand as they consolidate. The more programs you fold into Fringe, the more savings and simplicity you unlock.

What kind of analytics can HR teams expect?

One dataset across your entire workforce—clean, simple reporting on participation, spend, and impact, helping prove ROI and guide future budget decisions.

How does Fringe integrate with our HR systems?

Fringe connects with 20+ HRIS and payroll platforms, syncing employee data and milestones, with triggers for birthdays, anniversaries, and new hires.

How long does setup take?

Most teams are live in under 2 weeks. We handle the hard stuff so you can launch quickly. Want to take your time? That’s fine too.

key benefits

What makes Fringe the right strategic choice

Benefits that impact daily life

Fringe’s human-first design delivers perks and programs that truly enhance employees’ everyday lives and experiences.

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Easy admin for lean HR teams

Simple setup, clear budget visibility, and intuitive controls make Fringe easier to manage and adopt.

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Consolidated program cost

Consolidating multiple tools into Fringe reduces complexity, administrative overhead, and overall program spend.

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I appreciate the ease of choosing from the options available on Fringe, which allows me the flexibility to select the benefits that best suit my needs. Additionally, having access to Fringe as a work benefit has provided me and my wife with affordable opportunities to enjoy movie date nights, enhancing our personal life without straining our budget.