IRIS Cascade gift card & rewards integration
Automate milestone rewards from IRIS Cascade: birthdays, work anniversaries, onboarding and welcome gifts. Your employee directory syncs into Hoppier, keeping status, eligibility and access up to date automatically.
Popular ways to use IRIS Cascade with Hoppier
→Day-one welcome gift
When: A new hire's start date arrives in IRIS Cascade
Hoppier: Send a $50 welcome card on their first morning
→Birthdays on autopilot
When: An employee's birthday comes around
Hoppier: Send a $25 birthday treat, every year, without a calendar reminder
→Tenure-scaled anniversaries
When: An employee reaches a work anniversary
Hoppier: Send $50 at one year and $100 at five
→Clean offboarding
When: Someone is offboarded in IRIS Cascade
Hoppier: Remove their Hoppier access and stop scheduled sends
Supported IRIS Cascade triggers and actions
A trigger is the IRIS Cascade event that sends a reward; an action is what Hoppier does back in IRIS Cascade afterwards.
- Employee hired / onboardedTrigger
A new hire is added to IRIS Cascade or reaches their start date.
- Work anniversary reachedTrigger
An employee hits a service milestone.
- Birthday reachedTrigger
It's an employee's birthday.
- Employee status changeTrigger
A promotion, transfer or other status change is recorded.
- Performance review completedTrigger
A review cycle closes for an employee.
- Training / certification completedTrigger
An employee finishes a course or earns a certification.
- Peer recognition submittedTrigger
A teammate submits recognition for a colleague.
- Employee offboarded / terminatedTrigger
Someone leaves - Hoppier removes their access and stops future sends.
- Interview compensationTrigger
A candidate completes an interview or take-home you pay for.
- Update employee recordAction
Write reward history back to the employee's profile in IRIS Cascade.
- Create HR note / taskAction
Log a note, or create a task for the manager or HR partner.
- Send notificationAction
Let the manager know a reward went out.
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 IRIS Cascade with Hoppier
Connect IRIS Cascade once, 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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Find IRIS Cascade in the Integrations directory and tell us you'd like it connected. Integrations are in beta, so the Hoppier team switches IRIS Cascade on for your account and lets you know when it's ready.
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Choose which IRIS Cascade events should send a reward - like "Employee hired / onboarded" or "Work anniversary reached" - and set the program, amount and card message for each.
- 4
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 IRIS Cascade
IRIS Cascade is a UK HR and payroll system for managing employee data, absence and self-service.
With Hoppier: Birthday, anniversary and onboarding rewards from IRIS Cascade.
Teams sent $1.4M in recognition and milestone rewards on Hoppier last year, most of it set up by hand.
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 IRIS Cascade?
Yes - the IRIS Cascade integration is in beta. Tell us you'd like it from the Integrations page in your Hoppier dashboard and our team switches it on for your account. You can also reward IRIS Cascade events today through Hoppier's Zapier app, the Hoppier API (beta), a CSV bulk send, or an AI assistant connected to the Hoppier MCP.
What can I automate between IRIS Cascade and Hoppier?
IRIS Cascade events like employee hired / onboarded, work anniversary reached, birthday reached and employee status change send rewards automatically, and Hoppier can update employee record or send notification in IRIS Cascade afterwards. A popular setup: a new hire's start date arrives in IRIS Cascade - send a $50 welcome card on their first morning.
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 IRIS Cascade events before the integration is switched on?
Yes. Export a list from IRIS Cascade 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 IRIS Cascade rewards
Think about the hours a year you spend buying, tracking, and sending gift cards. Now picture that number at zero.