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Increase customer retention with timely celebrations.

Customers renew when they feel valued, not just billed. Peoplewisher AI spots account anniversaries, product milestones and user birthdays, then sends a personal message, card or gift on the day, automatically and with your approval.

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  • Account anniversaries & milestones
  • REST API & per-group webhooks
  • Approve before anything sends

Sound familiar?

Why most SaaS customers never feel celebrated

Retention and expansion depend on relationships, yet most software companies only talk to customers about features, invoices and renewals.

  • Product-led means faceless

    Self-serve onboarding scales beautifully, but customers rarely feel that a real person knows they exist.

  • Every email is a pitch

    Release notes, upsells and renewal reminders. Customers learn to skim anything with your logo on it.

  • Anniversaries pass in silence

    A customer’s first year with you is a big moment, and usually nobody on your side notices it.

  • Milestones live only in the database

    Your product knows when a customer hits 1,000 of something. Nobody turns that into a moment.

  • Champions are invisible

    The admin who chose you and defends you internally gets the same automated emails as everyone else.

  • Goodwill builds too late

    Customer success often reaches out only when usage drops, which is the hardest time to start a relationship.

What changes

Where your current stack stops

Your CRM, billing and lifecycle email tools hold the dates. None of them turns those dates into a personal celebration.

CRM + lifecycle email

With Peoplewisher

Subscription start dates sit in Stripe and nobody looks at them

Every account anniversary is celebrated on the day, every year

Lifecycle emails are generic templates sent to everyone

AI writes a unique message for each customer, using their details

Milestone events stay in product analytics

Product events reach Peoplewisher via API or webhook and trigger a celebration

Only email, and only from a no-reply address

Email from your founder, plus WhatsApp, SMS, Slack and social shoutouts

Building it yourself means cron jobs, timezones and templates

Send people once; Peoplewisher handles timing, cards and delivery

Everything it handles

Every celebration a SaaS company can run

Peoplewisher itself uses Peoplewisher to celebrate its own customers: account anniversaries, plan upgrades, in-product milestones like “you’ve celebrated 1,000 people”, user birthdays and holiday campaigns, all automatically.

Customer account anniversaries

Thank customers for every year they stay.

  • Years counted for you “1 year with us” and “3 years with us” are worked out from each account’s start date.
  • Start dates from Stripe or your CRM Import subscription dates from Stripe, or sync them from HubSpot or Salesforce.
  • A note from the founder Send from your founder’s Gmail or Outlook so the thank-you feels personal, not automated.
  • Plan upgrade thank-yous Celebrate the moment a customer upgrades, with a warm note instead of just a receipt.

Proactive AI

Peoplewisher AI spots the moment before you do

It watches your customer dates and product events, suggests what to send, waits for your approval, then does the work.

  1. 1. SuggestsSpots the moments coming up and proposes a plan.
  2. 2. You approveOne tap to approve, edit or skip.
  3. 3. It executesMessages, cards, songs and gifts go out on the day.

  • Next week

    Acme hits 1 year as a customer next Tuesday. Draft a thank-you email from your founder, with a branded card and a digital gift card for Aisha Khan, their admin?

    Approve Edit Approved in one tap. The email, card and gift go out on the anniversary.

  • Today

    Lucas Martin’s team just celebrated their 1,000th person in your product. Send a milestone card and post an alert to #customer-wins in Slack?

    Approve Edit The customer gets a personal card; your success team sees the win in Slack.

  • In 3 weeks

    Your holiday campaign has no WhatsApp step yet, and many of your users prefer WhatsApp. Add one with an AI-written greeting?

    Approve Edit A multi-step holiday campaign, ready for review before launch.

Your data, connected

Connect your product, CRM and billing data

Send customers to Peoplewisher from the systems you already run. Your app only has to say who your customers are and when their moments happen.

Product events, CRM & Stripe

  • API & webhooks
  • HubSpot
  • Salesforce
  • Stripe
  • Intercom
  • Zendesk
  • Zapier
  • Celebration form
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Email, WhatsApp, SMS & Slack

  • Email
  • WhatsApp
  • SMS
  • Slack
  • Teams
  • Social
  • Songs
  • Gifts
  • New customers flow in through the REST API, a webhook or your CRM sync
  • Product events reach a group’s webhook directly or through Zapier, Make or n8n
  • HubSpot and Salesforce changes sync live; Stripe, Intercom and Zendesk come in by guided import
  • Users can add their own birthday through a branded celebration form

Time back

How much time would this save your team?

Doing this by hand means checking dates, writing each note, making a card and sending it. Adjust the numbers to match your customer base.

What the manual minutes cover

  • Spotting anniversaries and milestones
  • Writing a personal message
  • Designing a card
  • Sending and logging it

Assumes 3 celebrations per person a year. Move the sliders to match your team.

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Ideas to plan

Celebration ideas for software companies

Start with one and add more once you see how customers respond.

  • “One year with us”

    A founder-signed thank-you and branded card on each account’s first anniversary.

  • Usage milestones

    A card for their 100th project, 1,000th message or whatever your product counts.

  • Go-live day

    Celebrate the day a customer launches on your product with their team.

  • Upgrade thank-you

    A warm note when a customer moves to a bigger plan, separate from the invoice.

  • Champion birthdays

    A personal wish and song for the admins who chose you and keep choosing you.

  • Holiday greetings

    A season’s greeting to every customer, with no discount code attached.

Get started

Live in minutes, not months.

Almost nothing to configure. Everything stays under your control.

  1. 1

    Connect your customers

    Sync HubSpot or Salesforce, import from Stripe, or send customers through the REST API or a webhook.

  2. 2

    Approve the plan

    Peoplewisher AI suggests groups, messages, cards and channels. Change anything, then approve.

  3. 3

    Let it run

    Anniversaries, milestones, birthdays and holidays are celebrated automatically, with every send logged.

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Goals

Pick the outcome. Peoplewisher runs the plan.

FAQ

Questions from saas & software companies.

Still have a question? Talk to us.

Why should a SaaS company celebrate its customers?

Because retention and expansion depend on relationships, and most of what customers hear from a SaaS company is a feature update, an upsell or an invoice. A celebration is a rare positive touchpoint with nothing to sell. Customers who feel valued have one more reason to stay when renewal comes.

What customer moments can a SaaS company celebrate?

Account anniversaries, plan upgrades, product and usage milestones, go-live days, user and champion birthdays, and holidays. Peoplewisher itself celebrates its customers’ account anniversaries, upgrades, in-product milestones and birthdays this way.

How do product milestones reach Peoplewisher?

Your app sends the customer to a celebration group through the REST API or the group’s private webhook URL, directly or through Zapier, Make or n8n. That group’s message, card and channel settings then apply. See developers.

Can we embed celebrations for our own users inside our product?

Yes. Use the REST API, per-group webhooks or a MySQL or MariaDB database source to sync your users’ people into Peoplewisher. It handles the dates, messages, cards, timezones and delivery, so you do not build that stack yourself.

Will customers see it as automated marketing?

Not when it is done well. AI writes a unique message per person using their details, you can send from your founder’s or CSM’s own email address, and you approve everything before it sends.

Can our team get notified when an account hits a milestone?

Yes. Reminders and digests can go to Slack, email or WhatsApp, and celebrations can post to a Slack or Microsoft Teams channel so your success team sees the moment.

How much does Peoplewisher cost for a SaaS company?

There is a free plan available, and paid plans include every feature, including the REST API and webhooks. See pricing.

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