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Billy Birthday
Celebrate birthdays and work anniversaries
CELEBRATE EMPLOYEES
Celebrate birthdays together at work
Billy automates birthday and work anniversary celebrations in Slack 
"The worst feeling is interacting with a co-worker all day long and getting home to see on social media that it was actually their birthday."
Alexandra Sohn
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Billy the birthday bot makes it easy for either account owners or the user themselves to enter their birthday info. Bonus points for the customer care team being attentive and timely in their responses!
Katrina Ross, Executive Director @ Aggieland Humane Society
The worst feeling is interacting with a co-worker all day long and getting home to see on social media that it was actually their birthday. Now that we have Billy, we are all notified first thing in the morning through Slack about our co-workers Birthdays and it has been such a blessing!
Alexandra Sohn, Director of Marketing & Public Relations @ Faithful Platform
We are happy to have Billy installed on our Slack, the employees are delighted to receive a little attention on their birthday.
Sarah Khau, Office Manager @ smallable
We're absolutely thrilled with Billy. It was incredibly easy to implement, and our entire team adores it.
People and Culture Coordinator @ SafetyWing
Billy Birthday has been amazing. It's very intuitive and easy to configure my preferences. I had no problems dealing with Billy Birthday and I loved the functionality of uploading an xls file to import birthdays.
Victor, Happyness Manager
Billy Birthday is fantastic. It helps us keep track of our teammates' birthdays and strengthen our team's social connections. Adding this feature to our Slack channel is a great way to enhance our human relations.
Sofía Ramírez, AgFunder
I've been trying to find an affordable solution to automate the celebration of employee birthdays and anniversaries for over a year now. Very appreciative to the Billy Birthday team!
Laura Winegardner - Senior Employee Experience Manager @ May Mobility
Billy is awesome and has helped me to focus on other things. Celebrating birthdays was a bit difficult prior to Billy.
Efe Ebueku - People Operations @ Payfi
What makes Billy shine 
Celebrate birthdays together at work
Have you ever felt bad discovering that you forgot a teammate's birthday few days after the date ? Won't happen again with Billy. Wishing a happy birthday is a simple thing, we make it simple for you to do it.
Increase employee engagement and team cohesion
The best effort/impact ratio you can find to increase employee engagement and recognition is to automate birthday and anniversary celebrations. It is cross cultural, cross-religious, cross-generation, cross-timezone etc. And it makes people genuinely happy to receive some positive vibes during this special day.
Distributed teams have never been closer
The way we work has changed. Working remotely and having a distributed team has a lot of advantages, but social events and celebrations need a little more help. We're here to fill the gap and build the Future of work together.
Bring some fun into everyday routine
The celebration messages from Billy really bring a fresh wave into every day work routine. We make sure to have the best copywriting to provide fun yet professional wishes.
How it works
Follow these few steps to get started.
1
Install in Slack
One click secure installation. Then you're taken to a configuration page to select a channel and set things up.
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Choose a channel
You can add Billy to existing channels (public or private)
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Configure birth date collection
Automatically (The bot will ask the users to enter their birth date) or manually (we provide a spreadsheet template for you to enter the dates).
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You’re all set, start celebrating
The bot will send notifications automatically. You can configure the time and channel via the settings.
Features of Billy Birthday
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Birthday and work anniversary messages
Celebrate birthdays and work anniversaries of your coworkers.
Define custom events
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Fun & Customizable Copywriting
Billy posts warm and fun messages. You can choose to include GIFs or to customize each celebration.
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Opt-out option
Anyone can opt-out from birthdays or work anniversaries if they don't want to be celebrated.
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Week-end management
When birthdays happen on week-ends, you can choose to delay the message on the next Monday or to celebrate on Friday.
Add manual public holidays
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List of upcoming events
See next events and search for anyone's birthday.
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Auto-collection of dates
Billy can reach out to your colleagues to collect their birth dates.
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Spreadsheet bulk import
You can import people's dates inside a spreadsheet that we provide.
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Private channels
Billy can be added to any public or private channels.
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Buddies reminders
Be notified in advance for birthdays and work anniversaries.
