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

Mojo Gift vs Perkbox is the comparison that comes up when a UK HR team is deciding between a perks and benefits app that includes recognition, and a managed programme that does recognition only. Both are popular with UK employers. They answer different questions.

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

What Perkbox does

Perkbox describes itself as "one simple app for wellbeing, benefits and engagement that employees love". Its UK site lists perks and discounts to "make everyday life more affordable", salary-sacrifice benefits, wellbeing support including an employee assistance programme, and recognition and rewards to "celebrate great work and special moments on any budget". Employees use the Perkbox app. Named customers include Schuh, Bosch, Rituals and two NHS foundation trusts.

Recognition rewards are points. Perkbox's help centre says points "do not have a fixed monetary value", that "the general guide is that 10 points are approximately equal to £1, but this can vary by brand and reward", and gives examples: 500 points for a GBP 50 Love2shop voucher, around 55 points for a GBP 5 Amazon voucher. Its pricing page publishes no prices; it offers "flexible packages designed around what you need" through a quote form. Point expiry rules are in the help centre behind a login, so check them with Perkbox.

What Mojo Gift does

Mojo Gift is not a perks app. It runs employee recognition as a managed programme, the Mojo Moment Programme, with no app for employees and no platform for managers. 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 recipient chooses an experience or a product from a locally curated catalogue in 190 countries, alone or with up to four people, and the concierge books it. The amount is never shown and the gift never expires. Pricing is published: GBP 25 per Mojo Moment per year for UK employers, from 50 Moments, with gift value funded at face value and tax documentation included.

Mojo Gift vs Perkbox: side-by-side comparison

When Perkbox is the better choice

Choose Perkbox if everyday value for employees is what you are buying: discounts, salary sacrifice and wellbeing support in one app, with recognition alongside. Choose it if you want managers giving small points-based rewards often and your people are happy redeeming vouchers. Choose it if you are UK-based and a single app for everything is what leadership asked for.

When Mojo Gift is the better choice

Choose Mojo Gift if the moments that matter are the ones a points balance cannot carry: a ten-year anniversary, a retirement, a promotion, the end of the year. Choose it if you would rather an experience the person chose than a voucher, and a concierge rather than a redemption page. Choose it if your team is spread across countries, or if nobody has time to run another app.

The tax and compliance angle

In the UK, a gift is a trivial benefit, free of tax and National Insurance, only when it costs GBP 50 or less to provide, is not cash or a cash voucher and is not a reward for performance; long service awards have their own exemption from 20 years. Mojo Gift includes the documentation payroll needs for every gift. With a points platform, the record of who received what value, and why, is assembled by HR. Your payroll provider or accountant decides the treatment; this is general information, not tax advice.

What rollout looks like with each

Perkbox is an app launch across every employee: accounts, communications and adoption. Mojo Gift is set up with you from a spreadsheet: the programme is configured within 48 hours and the first gift is guaranteed within seven days or month one is free. Nobody downloads anything.

Frequently asked questions

How much is a Perkbox point worth? Perkbox says there is no fixed value; the guide is 10 points to about GBP 1, varying by brand: 500 points for a GBP 50 Love2shop voucher, about 55 points for a GBP 5 Amazon voucher.

Does Mojo Gift include perks and discounts? No. Mojo Gift does recognition moments only. For everyday discounts and benefits, Perkbox is built for that.

What does Perkbox cost? It is not published; the pricing page offers packages through a quote form. Mojo Gift's price is on its site.

The bottom line

Choose Perkbox if you want one app for discounts, benefits, wellbeing and everyday recognition. Choose Mojo Gift if you want the milestone moments done properly, as experiences the person chose, delivered by a concierge, with no app to run and a published price. Plenty of UK employers run a perks app and a managed recognition programme side by side. To see how the managed model would work for your team, explore the programme.