GEP SMART gift card & rewards integration
Automate expense tracking and reconciliation between GEP SMART and your Hoppier balance. Once GEP SMART is connected, approved requisitions, purchase orders, invoices and expense reports can drive funding and payouts, with every send written back to GEP SMART for your books.
Popular ways to use GEP SMART with Hoppier
Same-day reimbursement
When: An expense report is approved in GEP SMART
Hoppier: Reimburse the employee straight onto their Hoppier card
Event budget from a PO
When: A purchase order for a team event is issued
Hoppier: Load the organizer's Hoppier budget with the PO amount
Release the quarter's budget
When: The Hoppier funding invoice is marked paid
Hoppier: Release the quarter's recognition budget to managers
Audit-ready month end
When: Any reward is sent or spent
Hoppier: Write it back to GEP SMART with an audit note so the books match to the cent
Supported GEP SMART triggers and actions
A trigger is the GEP SMART event that sends a reward; an action is what Hoppier does back in GEP SMART afterwards.
- Purchase requisition approvedTrigger
A requisition is approved in GEP SMART, so the requester's budget can be funded.
- Purchase order issued / updatedTrigger
A purchase order is issued or changed.
- Invoice approved / paidTrigger
An invoice is approved or marked as paid.
- Expense report approvedTrigger
An employee's expense report is approved for reimbursement.
- Update financial / vendor recordAction
Post Hoppier sends and balances back to GEP SMART for reconciliation.
- Create audit note / approval taskAction
Attach an audit note, or route an approval task to finance.
- Send notificationAction
Tell the requester or approver when funds are loaded or spent.
Our team wires these as custom rules on your account today - tell us the event and the reward, and it runs. Self-serve trigger configuration ships with the public gift card API.
How to set up GEP SMART with Hoppier
Once GEP SMART is connected, set who gets what and when, and Hoppier handles delivery, choice, tracking and returns. Every card can carry merchant restrictions, a spend window and a cap.
Want to build it yourself today? Use Zapier or the Hoppier API.
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Create your free Hoppier account (or log in) and open Integrations in your dashboard.
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Tell us you'd like GEP SMART: add it as a custom request when you sign up, or chat with us from your dashboard. We typically add a new integration within 5 business days.
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Choose which GEP SMART events should send a reward - like "Purchase requisition approved" or "Purchase order issued / updated" - and set the program, amount and card message for each.
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Rewards go out on their own. Each recipient gets one link and picks from 3,000+ gift cards or a prepaid Visa in their own currency.
About GEP SMART
GEP SMART is GEP's AI-powered source-to-pay platform for sourcing, procurement, contracts and supplier management.
With Hoppier: Fund, track and reconcile Hoppier spend in GEP SMART.
They choose, worldwide
One link each: 3,000+ gift cards or a prepaid Visa, in 60+ countries and their own currency.
Unspent money comes back
37% of gift value goes unspent on average. On Hoppier Plus it returns to your balance instead of vanishing.
Guardrails on every card
Merchant restrictions, spend windows and per-card caps - set once, enforced on every send.
Clean records for finance
Every send, claim and return is tracked per recipient, with an export your finance team can reconcile.
Frequently asked questions
Does Hoppier integrate with GEP SMART?
GEP SMART is available on request. Ask for it during signup or from your dashboard and we'll connect it - most new integrations take about 5 business days. In the meantime, Hoppier's Zapier app, the Hoppier API (beta) and CSV bulk sends work with any tool.
What can I automate between GEP SMART and Hoppier?
GEP SMART events like purchase requisition approved, purchase order issued / updated, invoice approved / paid and expense report approved can send rewards once connected, and Hoppier can update financial / vendor record or send notification in GEP SMART afterwards. A popular setup: an expense report is approved in GEP SMART - reimburse the employee straight onto their Hoppier card.
What rewards can recipients choose?
Each recipient gets one link and picks from 3,000+ gift card brands or a prepaid Visa, redeemable in 60+ countries in their local currency.
What happens to cards nobody uses?
On Hoppier Plus plans, 100% of unspent value returns to your balance. Across 2,090 programs on our platform, 37% of gift value goes unspent on average - recovery is usually the deciding economics.
Can I start rewarding GEP SMART events before the integration is switched on?
Yes. Export a list from GEP SMART and upload it as a Hoppier bulk send, use Hoppier's Zapier app to add people to a program from any app Zapier connects to, call the Hoppier API (beta) from your own code, or connect an AI assistant to the Hoppier MCP and ask it to run the send.
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Take the hassle out of GEP SMART rewards
Think about the hours a year you spend buying, tracking, and sending gift cards. Now picture that number at zero.
