Group card services compared: Kudoboard, GroupGreeting, Thankbox, Junto and more

How to choose a group card service

Start with five questions: who will sign, where they are, whether you are collecting money, how private the card needs to be, and how much you want to spend.

All four online services compared here let contributors sign through a link without creating an account. The real differences are pricing model, gift options, languages and where data is stored.

Prices change. The figures on this page were checked on 8 November 2026 on each service’s official pages; check the live pricing page before you buy.

Best fit for an office farewell

For a one-off farewell in a team of 10 to 50 people, any of the online services works. A basic paid card costs between €4.99 and €5.90, or $5.99 and $6.99, depending on the service.

If your company sends many cards a year and wants central billing, HR integrations or single sign-on, Kudoboard’s business plans or GroupGreeting’s 12-month bundles are built for that.

If someone in the team simply wants to organize one card and pay once, Junto and Thankbox keep it to a single purchase. Junto needs no account to start; Thankbox lets you create without registering and pay when you send.

Best fit for a nursery or school parent group

Parent groups usually live in WhatsApp and include people who will not create an account for a one-off card. Choose a service where signing works from a shared link inside the chat.

Junto opens in WhatsApp’s in-app browser, lets the organizer switch photos off for the whole card, and offers a printable A4 QR poster for the nursery entrance. That makes it a good fit for educator and teacher thank-yous.

If a class teacher should receive a gift card from a large US or UK retailer, Kudoboard, GroupGreeting and Thankbox can bundle one with the card. Junto shows a chip-in note but does not handle money.

Best fit for international and multilingual teams

Kudoboard, GroupGreeting and Thankbox present their sites in English and price mainly in US dollars. GroupGreeting’s FAQ says messages can be written in most languages.

Junto’s interface is available in English, German, Spanish and Turkish and switches automatically to each viewer’s language, so a German organizer and a Turkish-speaking colleague each see the card in their own language.

Kudoboard lets gift card contributions be collected in USD, EUR, AUD, CAD or GBP, which helps when a team spans several currencies and wants a shared gift card.

Best fit for privacy-sensitive cards

Sympathy cards, get-well cards and anything involving children deserve extra care about who can see the card and where the data lives.

Kudoboard states that its data is stored in US-based data centres. GroupGreeting’s privacy policy says information may be stored and processed in the United States. Thankbox lists application hosting in London and media storage in the UK and Ireland.

Junto is hosted in the EU (Frankfurt), uses no ads or tracking cookies, keeps cards private to people with the link and out of search engines, and strips location data from photos. For groups in the EU that prefer EU hosting, that is the clearest choice of the four.

Best fit on a tight budget

For up to 10 messages, two services have a free option: Kudoboard’s free mini-board (up to 10 posts) and Junto’s free card (up to 10 messages, with a small “Made with Junto” mark). Thankbox is free to start but is paid when you send it, and GroupGreeting has no free plan.

For more than 10 messages, Junto’s €5.90 card has unlimited messages and photos with no subscription. Kudoboard’s Lite board at $6.99 allows up to 20 posts, so larger groups would need Premium at $9.99.

A paper card passed around costs only the card. It works well for a small team in one office, but people who are remote or on leave cannot sign it.

When another service is the better fit

Choose Kudoboard or GroupGreeting if you want a gift card from a large US retailer bundled with the card, or a company-wide plan with central billing. Kudoboard also lists HRIS, SSO and intranet integrations and a separate enterprise plan for organizations above 500 employees.

Choose Thankbox if you want a collection pot that the recipient can redeem for digital gift cards, PayPal or a bank transfer, or flowers and hampers for UK recipients. Thankbox Classic also includes scheduled sending today, while Junto’s scheduled email delivery is still coming soon.

Choose Kudoboard Premium or Thankbox Premium if you want video messages. Junto messages are handwriting-style text with an optional photo.

Where these facts come from

Kudoboard: prices and business plans from kudoboard.com/pricing; the free mini-board from a Kudoboard card page (kudoboard.com/cards/birthday-cards-for-him); hosting from kudoboard.com/features/security; no contributor registration and gift card currencies from Kudoboard’s help centre at support.kudoboard.com.

GroupGreeting: prices and bundles from groupgreeting.com/pricing; no free plan, no signer registration and message languages from groupgreeting.com/faq; storage location from groupgreeting.com/privacy; gift cards from groupgreeting.com.

Thankbox: prices, free start and collection limits from thankbox.com/pricing; “No account required”, the €4.99 price and gift options from thankbox.com; hosting from thankbox.com/subprocessors.

All pages were read on 8 November 2026. Where a service did not state something, the table says “not stated” rather than guessing. Kudoboard, GroupGreeting and Thankbox are trademarks of their respective owners.

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