- At Numans, we’ve come up with a streamlined process of putting all your employee gifting needs in one place - reducing timelines by upto 2 weeks, reducing dependencies on your internal teams, minimising stakeholder management, and most importantly, freeing up valuable time your team could spend elsewhere.
- Our new interactive catalogue helps you curate, personalise, procure, and ship products to your employees from a single dashboard.
- Through the catalogue, you can choose whether to create gift-boxes to ship to individual addresses or select items to ship to a single location, covering a wide range of use cases.
If you’re in the People and Culture team at your company, it’s likely that you’ve been tasked with the multi-stakeholder challenge that is employee gifting. The brief you get is usually deceptively simple - something employees will appreciate, preferably themed for the occasion, achievable within a budget, personalised if possible, and delivered within a very specific timeline (usually a milestone or festival).
It seems simple enough on paper, but we’ve found that companies take an average of 4-5 weeks to execute each employee gifting campaign. The long timelines and the back and forth between vendors make gifting a painful undertaking for those involved, disincentivizing PnC teams from taking up such campaigns often.
This is a lost opportunity for companies to show employees their appreciation, build culture, goodwill, and loyalty.
At Numans, we’ve come up with a streamlined process of putting all your employee gifting needs in one place - reducing timelines by upto 2 weeks, reducing dependencies on your internal teams, minimising stakeholder management, and most importantly, freeing up valuable time your team could spend elsewhere. From personalisation to fulfilment, we’ve got you covered.
Numans customers are able to take up highly personalised gifting campaigns more frequently and on shorter notice. For example, our friends at Warpdrive send their employees a customised t-shirts almost every month to celebrate company milestones. Last year, our friends at Gokwik designed a branded onesie for any employees who became new parents. Our friends at Swiggy partnered with Numans to design these cheeky customised t-shirts specifically for their developers.
At Numans, we want to make it as easy as possible to do wonderful, memorable things for your employees. When it comes to culture, we’re here to help you build rituals that grow with your team. Through our new feature, the Numans Catalogue, we hope to make giving easier by creating an easy, intuitive, shopping experience around employee gifting.
What is the Catalogue?
The Numans Catalogue, our latest feature, is designed to make employee gifting easier and more enjoyable than ever before. Eliminate the need for vendors. Curate, personalise, procure, and ship products to your employees from a single dashboard.
How does it work?
Accessing the Catalogue
Go to https://app.numanshq.com/store/in/catalogue
Use your email ID to access the Numans catalogue
You have the option of curating merch for one bulk order or putting merch into individual gift-boxes that we’ll ship to your employees. Pick the one that suits your current need best. You can change this at a later stage too.
Creating Gift-Boxes vs Ordering Merch in Bulk
Creating Gift-Boxes: Through this option, you can use the items in your cart to curate identical gift-boxes that will be shipped directly to your employees’ addresses or to a single location where they can be stored until needed. Imagine you are putting together diwali hampers for each of your employees. You want each hamper/gift-box to contain one bar of chocolate, one speaker, one candle, and a packet of snacks. You want these gift-boxes to be designed, assembled, and shipped directly to your employees homes. You want to store some spare boxes in your inventory for new hires, freelancers, or investors. In this scenario, opt for the gift-boxes option. You will later have the option to choose between types of packaging like totes bags, cardboard boxes etc.
Ordering Merch in Bulk: Through this option, all the items in your cart will be packed together and shipped to a single location like your office or a warehouse. Imagine you are organising a hackathon in your office. Every employee will get a company jersey, a can of Redbull, and a set of laptop stickers. You want to distribute these items to employees in office on the day of the event. In this scenario, you will opt for all your merch to be shipped to one location - your office.
Adding Items to Your Cart
Once you make your selection, you will enter the Numans Catalogue. You can browse through 100+ carefully chosen gifting options across categories like electronics, food, beverages, apparel, and more to find gifts that are best suited to the occasion and your team’s culture.
You will be notified as you add items to cart. You can adjust quantities later based on MOQs, discounts, and your needs.
Click on the thumbnails to see specifications of items like colour variants, description, material, brand, available sizes, and more.
Once you’ve made your selection, you will be directed to an order request form.
The form is a way for us to gather your interest and requirements. No payment is required until later in the process.
If you’re choosing to create gift-boxes, make sure to select quantities and packaging
You can also add a custom note to each box. The content of this note will only be needed later in the process.
Submitting Your Request Form
When you’re ready, click ‘Continue to order details’ to fill out an order request form.
When you submit the form, Numans puts together a list of recommendations for branding and personalisation. You can expect a representative from our team to be in touch with you within 24 hours of filling the form. For next steps, we'll connect over a quick call to get a better understanding of you requirement and walk you through how we can help. Once we're aligned on the customisations, price, production timelines, and delivery options, we'll proceed to create a payment order for your finance team. When the payment is made, we'll begin production and share samples for your approval. Once your approve the samples, we'll produce all the units you've ordered and deliver them to the specified address(es). You will be able to track the shipments from your Numans dashboard.
A day before the day of delivery, your recipients will receive a WhatsApp message or email asking for address confirmation. This helps us reduce the wastage of time, effort, and money on account of RTOs. We make sure that your recipients are available and ready to receive their package.
Any undelivered units are held at the Numans warehouse until shipped or collected by a representative of your company.
Numans makes employee gifting effortless by managing vendors, procurement, data collection, and deliveries for you. Whether it's their joining day, birthday, anniversary, a festival, or just a day you want to make memorable, we make sure your employees have experiences they'll never forget. Get in touch with us today to know more!
