Zestful - Customized perks, without the reimbursement process 🍋

Hi PH, Mat from Zestful here 👋 Zestful allows companies to create the ultimate perk program, by giving employees a balance to spend on all their favorite products and services (Netflix, Spotify, Airbnb, gyms, food delivery services, charities and hundreds more) - without the reimbursement process! It's made possible with our Zestful Perk Card, which looks and works just like any ol' debit card, but with super powers. The card only works on the specific products or categories that you allow, and only up to the budget that you set. For example, you could create an Allowance of $50/mo that will only work on Fitness products. You can also "stack" as many allowances as you'd like to create the perfect perk program for you/your company. The idea for Zestful started with a survey we sent back in early 2018 to thousands of employees across the US, asking them one simple question: Which would you rather have? - A $130k salary - A $100k salary + Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Spotify, Headspace, a Meal Delivery Service, a Gym Membership, $20/mo to a Charity of Choice, and a $100/mo Experiences Allowance (Concerts, Education, Airbnb, Travel, etc). The results were shocking: 80% chose the lower salary with all the perks! But when we took this info back to companies we realized that creating a perk program with hundreds of products, customized so that each employee could get what they want, AND an easy reimbursement process was borderline impossible... Thus the idea for Zestful was born and here we are today! I'm excited to chat and answer any questions!

Zestful is a customizable company perks card that lets employers set an amount employees can spend on things like Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, Bird/Uber (a list of pre-approved things employers can manage). It instantly resonated and made me think when I was working for a startup and we had a shared login to The Information, which I appreciated having access to (but would not want to pay for). It also made me think of how I ended up canceling the free Equinox membership that was included as a company perk at AngelList + a how few months later bought a 24 hours pass and never expensing it. We also had company credit cards at AngelList – which was super cool – but not many people do in their companies. Enter Zestful to solve all of it and more. Thank you @matvogels for the excellent emoji cold email 🍋 P.S. It took me *way* too long to come up with the wording and take this photo 😅

Overall, Zestful is an awesome solution to employee perks, and we’re eager to continue offering their cards to our core team & top performing freelancers :)

Pros:

Super flexible—works for just about anyone’s desires!

Cons:

The best improvement: discounts at partners (e.g. 5% off purchases at SBUX with a Zestful card). This will be more feasible as they grow!

Congrats Mat and team this product makes so much sense.

Yesss! Mat and team are awesome and this product makes so much sense. Excited to start using it for our team.

Great to see Zestful on ProductHunt!! We can’t wait to roll it out to our top performing PubLoft freelancers.

The results of your survey that showed employees would rather $100k + perks rather than $130k were extremely interesting! I think it's easy to look at things from a binary perspective: "well, employees end up making less money so they lose on this." From a purely monetary perspective this could potentially be true, but this idea of almost customized and almost "scheduled perks" could really impact overall quality of life. Not only are employee perks a logistical challenge for companies, but they also don't fit the individualized needs of the employees. It's clear that Zestful will allow them to frequent their favorite local gym down the street or pay for their favorite meditation app. It's the customization that really shows an employee you care about their needs and why these external work activities are beneficial lifestyle/personal health. It's easy to get caught up in day-to-day business hubbub, but there's a lot more to people on any team. Growing and cultivating those interests is important. Really impressed and will be following Zestful closely!

Cool product, and can see how it solves for offering an engaging program for an ever more diverse workforce (where one size fits all doesn't cut it). I do wonder why you guys built a catalog and don't just keep it open and categorize the spend in some other way. Anyway, amazing stuff and keep up the good work!

Question...how much does this cost?

Does one card work for multiple products?