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Small Business · 19 April 2026

Reward your staff and kit out the office for less

Multi-brand cards mean one invoice, happy staff, and tech credit toward the office upgrade.

By the A1 Desk19 April 20266 min readFree to read
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Running a small business, the problem with rewarding staff is rarely motivation — it's logistics. You want something thoughtful, not tat. You want one invoice, not fifteen. You want it to arrive the day you said it would. And you'd quite like it to help the company too, not just the person receiving it.

Multi-brand gift cards solve two of those problems in one move, and the A1 Tech Deals loop quietly solves the third. A Buyagift or Restaurant Card lets the recipient pick what they actually want. The business gets a single, clean expense. And the store credit earned on the purchase sits in the company account, ready to be spent on the next round of office monitors, a new laptop for the intern, or the meeting-room TV that's been on the list since January.

How the loop works
01

Buy the gift card

Pick any brand and pay as you would for tech. The code is sent straight to your email.

02

We reward you

A1 Tech Deals credits your account with store credit — funded by us, not the brand.

03

Spend it on tech

Use the credit at checkout on anything at a1techdeals.com — phones, laptops, accessories.

The numbers on a staff-reward budget

The math
Monthly multi-brand gift cards spend
£500
Avg cashback on multi-brand gift cards cards
10.2%
Monthly store credit
£51.03

That's £612 a year of store credit — more than enough for office tech upgrades.

Where the office credit lands

Kit for the team, on the team's reward budget

Multi-brand and experience cards earn some of the highest cashback rates in the catalogue — Buyagift and Virgin Experience Days regularly sit above 15%. So a £500/mo staff-reward budget doesn't just buy good morale; it quietly funds a meaningful share of the hardware you'd have bought anyway.

Cards that handle 'pick what you want'

Two small-business setups

A case study

The monthly staff reward

A 15-person studio gives a £30 Buyagift card to one standout employee each month (£30/mo) plus £400 of multi-brand cards for the team at Christmas (averaged £33/mo).

£30 × 15% + £33 × 15% = £9.45/mo avg... but at Christmas scale it's ~£60 on the £400 haul

Around £120/yr of credit toward a meeting-room monitor — and a team that feels like the business actually noticed them.

A case study

The client-thank-you budget

A consultancy sends £75 Virgin Experience Days or Restaurant Cards to ten clients a year after big projects close.

£750/yr × ~14% avg = £105 in credit

A pair of noise-cancelling headphones for whoever takes the most client calls — on money you were spending on client gifts anyway.

Questions readers ask

What people always want to check.

Yes — they're invoiced like any other business purchase. Tax treatment depends on the reason for the gift (staff reward vs client gift vs trivial benefits) — talk to your accountant, but the purchases themselves are straightforward on the invoice side.
The next step

Reward the team, kit out the office

One invoice. Zero guesswork for the recipient. Store credit toward tech, automatically.

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