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Keep your employee morale high after the office disappears

E-commerce teams that shifted to remote work lost the casual moments where recognition used to happen — the launch-day high five, the spontaneous team lunch. Karma brings them back digitally — peer recognition, employee rewards, and automated celebrations wherever your team works.

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  • 85%

    Active user adoption — 67 of ~80 team members regularly engaging

  • 7090

    Karma points granted in a single year across the team

  • 256

    Rewards redeemed — gift cards, food, books, and team perks

  • 988

    Achievements received — from peer kudos to milestone badges

Remote e-commerce teams lost the moments where appreciation used to happen naturally

Before remote work, recognition in e-commerce companies was built into the physical environment — the office reaction to a successful product launch, the spontaneous lunch after a strong sales week. When those moments disappeared, so did the informal appreciation culture that held teams together.

What Acro Commerce discovered with Karma

  • "Karma is more passive — you can sit at your computer, ping off quick encouragement, and acknowledge someone's contribution without needing to engage in small talk" — exactly right for private or introverted team members
  • Karma embedded naturally into existing Slack interest groups — cooking channels, D&D clubs, pet channels — making appreciation feel organic rather than mandated
  • Reward catalog with gift cards, food perks, and books — employees choose what matters to them, not what HR chose for them
  • Recognition data feeds into performance reviews — connecting daily kudos to formal evaluation cycles so good work gets documented, not just appreciated in the moment

What e-commerce teams struggle with

  • Product launches go uncelebrated — the team worked hard, the results are great, and nobody acknowledges it beyond a Slack message that gets buried
  • Recognition tools that require forced social interaction fail with introverted team members — not everyone wants a virtual coffee chat
  • Generic reward catalogs miss what employees actually want — branded merchandise and Amazon vouchers feel like afterthoughts
  • Isolation builds quietly — without visible recognition, remote employees start to wonder whether their contributions are noticed at all

How Acro Commerce rebuilt team culture after going remote

A Canadian e-commerce solutions company founded in 1998 — office-first for over two decades, then suddenly fully remote in 2020. Here's how they got engagement back.

    • E-Commerce Solutions
    • ~80
    • Canada

    85%

    Active user adoption

    7090

    Karma points / year

    256

    Rewards redeemed

    988

    Achievements received

    You can always tell when a product launch has happened — because the next morning, there'll be a ton of Karma going out!

    Nadia Bokhammas

    Vice President of Operations, Acro Commerce

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Five features e-commerce teams use to rebuild engagement

Every feature works inside Slack, MS Teams, Telegram, and Karma's standalone web platform — no new habit for your team to form, no separate dashboard to remember to open.

  • Peer-to-peer recognition

    Quick, passive kudos with @name++ — no small talk required. Exactly what worked for Acro Commerce's private team culture.

    See how it works

  • Rewards & gift cards

    Gift cards, food rewards, books, charity donations, or custom non-monetary perks. Employees choose what matters to them — not what HR chose for them.

    See rewards

  • Milestone automation

    Workiversaries, birthdays, and achievement badges celebrated automatically — the launch-day energy that used to happen in the office, recreated digitally.

    See milestones

  • Anonymous feedback

    Pulse surveys with rating scales and open-ended questions — fully anonymous, delivered in Slack. Surfaces the isolation feelings Acro Commerce needed to address. Available for Slack.

    See feedback

  • Culture analytics

    AI-powered reports from recognition data — morale trends, values adoption, connectivity maps. The data Nadia Bokhammas uses to document contributions in performance reviews.

    See analytics

  • All customer stories

    See how teams across e-commerce, software, SaaS, logistics, and education have built recognition cultures with Karma.

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Frequently asked questions

How do e-commerce companies boost employee morale?

The most effective way to boost morale at work in e-commerce teams is consistent peer recognition tied to real contributions — product launches, customer wins, operational improvements. Karma makes this happen continuously rather than in quarterly bursts: team members give kudos directly in Slack, MS Teams, Telegram, or the web platform, points accumulate toward a rewards catalog, and managers get culture analytics showing whether morale is actually improving over time.

How do you keep remote e-commerce employees engaged?

Remote e-commerce teams lose the casual recognition moments that happen naturally in an office — the hallway congratulations after a product launch, the spontaneous team lunch after a strong quarter. Karma recreates these digitally: a simple peer kudos in the team channel after a launch, automated workiversary celebrations, group rewards toward shared goals, and anonymous pulse surveys to surface how the team is actually feeling. Acro Commerce saw 85% active user adoption after introducing Karma in 2022.

What employee rewards work best for e-commerce teams?

E-commerce teams respond best to rewards that feel personal and immediately redeemable — gift cards are consistently the most popular choice because employees can spend them on what actually matters to them. At Acro Commerce, gift cards were the top redemption choice, followed by food rewards like donuts and pizza that foster team camaraderie, and books for personal development. Karma lets companies configure any combination of gift cards, custom non-monetary perks, group rewards, and charity donations in a single catalog.

How do you celebrate employee appreciation day for a large e-commerce company?

For large or distributed e-commerce companies, employee appreciation day works best as a company-wide recognition campaign — encouraging every team member to give kudos across Slack, MS Teams, or the web platform, setting up group rewards toward a shared celebration, and posting leaderboards of the year's top contributors. Karma automates the milestone message and awards bonus karma points on the day, making it a visible team-wide moment rather than an HR email that gets skimmed.

How does Karma integrate with existing e-commerce team workflows?

Karma integrates into existing workflows by living inside the tools your team already uses — Slack, MS Teams, Telegram, or a standalone web platform. At Acro Commerce, Karma was embedded into Slack interest groups (cooking communities, D&D clubs, pet channels), making appreciation feel natural rather than forced. It also integrates into performance review cycles: recognition data provides supporting evidence that managers use in quarterly reviews, connecting day-to-day kudos to formal evaluation processes.

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Karma bot privacy policy

Effective date: 18 August 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Sliday LTD ("Sliday", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, shares, and protects personal data. It covers both the Karma application (for Microsoft Teams, Slack, Telegram, and the web) and the https://karmabot.chat website.

Who we are and how to contact us

The data controller is Sliday LTD, a private limited company registered in Cyprus under company number HE450506, with its principal place of business at Pavlou Valdaseridi 2A, 1st floor, Larnaka, Cyprus, 6018.

For any privacy-related enquiry, or to exercise your data protection rights, contact us at hi@karmabot.chat.

Privacy matters are overseen by our Legal Advisor / Operational Security Manager, Stas Kulesh. A dedicated Data Protection Officer has not been appointed, as Sliday LTD is not required to appoint one under Article 37 of the GDPR; privacy responsibilities are held by the Legal Advisor.

Personal data we handle and where it comes from

From the Karma application

When your organisation installs and uses Karma, we process the following personal data, obtained from Microsoft Teams / Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) and from your use of the application:

  • Display name — from Microsoft Teams / Microsoft Graph
  • Email address — from Microsoft Teams / Microsoft Graph
  • User Principal Name (UPN) — from Microsoft Graph (/me)
  • Microsoft Entra (Azure AD) object ID and tenant ID — from Microsoft authentication
  • Profile photo — from Microsoft Graph (/me/photo)
  • Team and channel names — from Microsoft Teams
  • Karma activity (karma given and received, associated messages) — from your use of the app

Where Karma is used with Slack or Telegram, the equivalent identity and workspace data is obtained from that platform instead.

From this website

  • Contact details you give us — such as your email address and name when you subscribe to updates, request a demo, or contact support
  • Usage and device data — IP address, browser type and version, pages visited, date, time and duration of visit, referring page, and similar diagnostic data
  • Cookies and similar technologies — see "Cookies and website analytics" below

Why we process personal data

We process personal data to:

  • Identify you and link you to your organisation's Karma workspace
  • Operate the core recognition ("karma") features, leaderboards, and adaptive cards
  • Display your name and profile photo within the app
  • Deliver notifications and service communications
  • Administer subscriptions and billing
  • Provide customer support and respond to your enquiries
  • Monitor, secure, maintain, and improve the service, and detect and address technical issues
  • Send newsletters, marketing, or promotional material where you have chosen to receive it — you can opt out at any time via the unsubscribe link in any email, or by contacting us

Lawful basis for processing

We process personal data on the following lawful bases under the GDPR:

  • Performance of a contract — to provide the Karma service to your organisation
  • Legitimate interests — to operate, secure, and improve the service, where not overridden by your rights
  • Consent — for marketing communications and for non-essential cookies and analytics, where consent is required
  • Legal obligation — where we are required by law to retain or disclose data, including for tax and accounting purposes

Where your organisation is the controller and we act as processor, processing is carried out on your organisation's documented instructions.

Who we share personal data with

We share personal data only with the sub-processors listed below, each of which is necessary to deliver the service and is engaged under an appropriate data processing agreement. This is the complete list of sub-processors with access to personal data. We do not sell personal data.

Service sub-processors

  • DigitalOcean — application hosting and managed database
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) — profile photo storage (S3)
  • Cloudflare — edge delivery and web application firewall
  • Microsoft — authentication, the Teams platform, and Microsoft Graph
  • Stripe — subscription billing and payment processing
  • Sentry — error monitoring
  • MailerLite — notification and marketing email delivery

We do not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Stripe, our payment processor, whose use of your personal information is governed by its own privacy policy (https://stripe.com/privacy). Stripe adheres to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council.

Website analytics and marketing providers

The https://karmabot.chat website additionally uses:

We may also disclose personal data where required to do so by law or in response to a valid request by a public authority, or where necessary to protect our legal rights, prevent or investigate wrongdoing, or protect the safety of users or the public.

Cookies and website analytics

Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your device. We use cookies and similar technologies (including beacons, tags, and scripts) to operate the website, remember your preferences, keep the service secure, and understand how the site is used.

The cookies we use fall into these categories:

  • Essential cookies — required to operate the website and keep it secure
  • Preference cookies — to remember your settings and choices
  • Analytics and marketing cookies — set by the providers listed above to measure traffic and advertising performance

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is set. If you refuse cookies, some parts of the website may not function correctly.

We do not currently respond to browser "Do Not Track" (DNT) signals.

How long we keep personal data

We retain personal data for the duration of your organisation's active subscription and for six (6) months after subscription cancellation, after which it is deleted. This applies to customer account and identity data, profile photos, and karma transaction records.

  • Database backups operate on a rolling 7-day point-in-time recovery window, so any backup containing erased data is automatically superseded within 7 days.
  • Upon a verified data deletion request, we action it as promptly as reasonably possible and in any event within one month, as required by the GDPR.
  • Billing and accounting records may be retained for longer where required by law.
  • Operational data — error telemetry, security logs, and backups — is disposed of automatically as it ages out of the relevant service's retention window.

Full details are set out in our Data Retention and Disposal Policy.

Your data protection rights

Subject to applicable law, you have the right to:

  • Be informed about how your personal data is used
  • Access the personal data we hold about you
  • Rectification — to have inaccurate or incomplete data corrected
  • Erasure — to have your personal data deleted
  • Restriction — to request that we restrict processing of your personal data
  • Data portability — to receive your data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format
  • Object to our processing of your personal data
  • Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling — Karma does not carry out automated decision-making producing legal or similarly significant effects
  • Withdraw consent at any time, where we rely on your consent

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at hi@karmabot.chat. We may ask you to verify your identity before responding.

Making a Subject Access Request (SAR)

To submit a Subject Access Request, contact us at hi@karmabot.chat. We respond to all SARs within one month, as required by the GDPR, unless the request is complex or numerous, in which case we may extend the response time by a further two months and will tell you if we do. We maintain a data mapping process that lets us locate and retrieve all personal data held about a specific data subject across our systems — principally the production database and the profile photo object storage — so that a SAR can be fulfilled thoroughly.

International transfers and safeguards

Karma production data is hosted in the United States (DigitalOcean SFO region). As Sliday LTD is established in the EU (Cyprus), this involves a transfer of personal data to a third country.

Such transfers — and transfers to other sub-processors located outside the EU/EEA, including Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare, Stripe, Sentry, and the analytics providers listed above — are protected by appropriate safeguards, principally the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) incorporated into each sub-processor's Data Processing Agreement, supplemented by those providers' certification frameworks, including the EU–US Data Privacy Framework where the provider participates.

Sliday LTD takes all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Your right to complain to a supervisory authority

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.

Our lead supervisory authority is the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection of the Republic of Cyprus:

You may also lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority in your own country of residence.

Security of data

The security of your data is important to us. We apply technical and organisational measures appropriate to the risk, including encryption in transit, access controls, vulnerability scanning, and error monitoring. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Children's privacy

Our service is not directed at anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us and we will take steps to remove it.

Our service may contain links to sites we do not operate. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content or privacy practices of any third-party site. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated policy on this page and update the effective date at the top. Where changes are significant, we will notify you by email and/or a prominent notice on our service before the change takes effect. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us:

  • By email: hi@karmabot.chat
  • By post: Sliday LTD, Pavlou Valdaseridi 2A, 1st floor, Larnaka, Cyprus, 6018