Customizing and Adding Badges

Badges are a fun addition to the Kudos Awards function, and can be used with or without points as a great way to recognize and congratulate a team member for a big accomplishment, new certification, or reaching an important goal. Kudos comes with a default library of Badges you can utilize, or you can add your own custom designs.

In this article: 

• View & Customize Badges
• Editing & Locking Badge Points

View & Customize Badges

To ensure that Badges are turned on for your account, begin by navigating to Gear Icon ⚙️ > Account > Customize > Giving Kudos and enable Badges. 

To view and add Custom Badges, navigate to Gear Icon ⚙️ > Account > Customize > Badges. Kudos comes with a default library of Badges that you can add or remove. You can decide which Badges you want to make available by clicking the checkboxes in front of the Badge title. 

To add a Custom Badge, click Custom and then click + New Badge under Badge Library. Add a name and description for the Badge, and upload the file from your computer. Badges should be 100px wide by 100px high. Once you’ve uploaded your Badge and given it a name and description, click Save.

You're welcome to design and add your own Custom Badges, or you can purchase a Kudos Success Services package to have your Badges custom designed by one of our talented designers.

Editing & Locking Badge Points

If your organization uses points, you can set a default amount of points associated with each Badge,  and either lock the points amount or leave it editable for the sender to decide when giving out the Badge. You can also lock the points at zero if you want a specific badge to always be associated with no points.

To edit points associated with Badges, navigate to the Gear Icon ⚙️ > Account > Customize > Badges. Here you can edit the Default Points for each Badge.

Clicking Save will prompt you to either Save or Save & Lock.

By pressing only Save the sender of the Badge will be able to set the points amount to anything within their Points to Give allocation. When points are locked to a Badge, they cannot be changed when sending a Kudos Award. 

We hope this helps! If you have any questions, please post a comment below and one of our friendly team members will be happy to assist you.