Mojo Gift vs Guusto: Which Is Right for Your Team?

Mojo Gift vs Guusto is the comparison that comes up when a team wants to reward people without running a points economy, and is deciding between a per-seat gift-card platform and a managed, experience-first programme. Both skip the catalogue-of-points model. They differ on what the reward is, who does the work, and how the cost scales.

This comparison is written from Mojo Gift's perspective, so it is not neutral. What it is, is honest: there are teams for whom Guusto is the better fit, and we will say so.

What Guusto does

Guusto is a gift-card rewards platform. Managers send a gift by email, SMS, push, QR code or print-out, and the recipient picks a gift card from "hundreds of brands across 175+ countries", with "no account and no login required". Unclaimed rewards are credited back to the company, and Guusto says it adds "no markups on gift cards and no shipping fees".

Its home page speaks to "teams with deskless workers" in healthcare, hospitality, retail, construction and manufacturing, and the delivery options follow: breakroom screens, frontline comms apps and routing a gift to a manager to hand over in person. Named logos include Marriott, Unilever, Compass Group and Boston Scientific.

Pricing is per seat and published: a Free tier with no subscription fee, a Lite plan at USD 150 a month with one sender seat and 250 recipient seats, an Essential plan at USD 4 per sender seat and USD 0.70 per recipient seat with a USD 200 monthly minimum, and a Premium plan at USD 5 and USD 1 per seat with a USD 500 minimum. HRIS integration starts at Essential; Microsoft Teams, SSO and the API are Premium. The page shows a USD and CAD toggle. It does not state whether gifts expire, so check the current terms.

What Mojo Gift does

Mojo Gift runs employee recognition as a managed programme, the Mojo Moment Programme. You send four fields per person: name, occasion, date and work email. The Occasions Engine flags each anniversary, birthday, promotion or long-service date before it arrives, and a human concierge delivers a Mojo Moment with a personal message on the day.

The reward is not a gift card. The recipient chooses an experience or a product from a locally curated catalogue in 190 countries: a dinner, a weekend, a course, or something delivered to their door, alone or with up to four people. The concierge books it. The recipient never sees the amount, and the gift never expires.

Pricing is per Moment, not per seat: EUR 25 per Mojo Moment per year, GBP 25 in the UK, from a 50-Moment minimum, with gift value funded on top at face value and tax documentation included for 190+ countries. There is no platform for managers to learn and no portal for employees.

Mojo Gift vs Guusto: side-by-side comparison

When Guusto is the better choice

Choose Guusto if your workforce has no email and you need print-outs, QR codes and breakroom screens. Choose it if you want managers sending many small, instant thank-yous and a gift card is the right size for those. Choose it if your budget starts at a few hundred dollars a month and you want to switch it on today without talking to anyone.

When Mojo Gift is the better choice

Choose Mojo Gift if the moments you care about are the big ones, work anniversaries, long service, promotions, the end of year, and you want each one to feel like an event rather than a code in an email. Choose it if your people sit in several countries and you want one list, one invoice and one experience of being recognised everywhere. Choose it if nobody on the HR team has time to run another tool.

The tax and compliance angle

A gift card and an experience are both non-cash benefits, and both can be taxable depending on the country, the value and whether the reward was for performance. Mojo Gift includes tax documentation for every gift in 190+ countries, so payroll has the value, the occasion and the recipient without chasing. With a per-seat gift-card platform, that record is yours to assemble. Either way, your payroll provider or accountant decides the treatment; this is general information, not advice.

What rollout looks like with each

Guusto is self-serve: create an account, load funds, add senders and recipients, and start. Mojo Gift is set up with you: share the team list and occasions, the programme is configured within 48 hours, and the first gift is guaranteed within seven days or month one is free.

Frequently asked questions

Is Guusto cheaper than Mojo Gift? For a small team sending occasional gift cards, often yes: the Free tier has no subscription fee and the paid plans start at USD 150 or USD 200 a month. Mojo Gift starts at 50 Moments a year, EUR 1,250, plus the gift value. The question is what you want to send.

Does Mojo Gift work without company email? A Mojo Moment is delivered by email or a private link, so the recipient needs an inbox or a messaging app, not an account. Guusto's print and QR options suit workforces with no email at all.

Can we use both? Some teams do: a gift-card tool for frequent small thank-yous and a managed programme for milestones. They do different jobs.

The bottom line

Choose Guusto if you run a frontline workforce and want managers sending quick gift cards through every channel, including paper. Choose Mojo Gift if you want the milestone moments handled end to end, across a global team, with an experience the person chose and no platform to run. To see how the managed model would work for your team, explore the programme.