For People Ops & HR
Day-1 matters more than you think. Don't ship their kit Day-3.
A welcome kit that lands the morning they log in — hand-delivered same day across SoCal, tracked ground everywhere else.
Who it's for — Heads of People at Series-B SaaS companies running 50–150 remote hires a year who are tired of 'it'll arrive when it arrives.'
Running onboarding at scale? Explore our full employee onboarding gift box lineup — Day One Kits, three tiers from $48 with no minimums.
The Day-1 welcome-kit promise
On your new hire's doorstep the morning of Day 1 — guaranteed.
A kit that lands after Day 1 misses the moment it was bought for — the new hire started without it. So lock in the start date and we hit it.
Individual remote-hire kits: tracked ground
One-off welcome kits prep in 72 hours, then ship tracked ground to any US address. Usually 1–3 days inside SoCal, 2–5 days CONUS. Scheduled to land the morning they log in.
50+ onboarding cohorts: SoCal hand-delivery
Quarterly onboarding batches or full new-hire classes in LA / OC / SD unlock same-day hand-delivery on the prep-complete day — across the whole cohort.
Address-less sending for remote hires
Send the link, the recipient enters their own address and size preferences, kit is on the way the hour the prep wraps.
Requires 10 business days' notice for branded kits, 5 business days for non-branded. Address must be collected by kit-build cutoff.
Read the full SLA →The problem, and the fix
What breaks today. What we do differently.
Pain
A welcome kit that lands after Day 1 misses the moment it was bought for. Your new hire spent their first morning without it, and the box turns up as an afterthought instead of a welcome.
What we do
Lock the start date, we lock the Day-1 arrival. Confirm the hire 3 business days out — we prep in 72 hours, then route each kit to land the morning they log in (tracked ground for individual remote hires, same-day SoCal hand-delivery for 50+ onboarding cohorts). Miss the date we agreed and that kit is on us — full credit for the box, not just the shipping, and no ticket queue to get it.
Pain
The Sendoso / Reachdesk / Alyce stack adds platform fees, seat licenses, inventory storage, and shipping. You're paying six figures a year before a single kit ships.
What we do
No platform fee, no seat fee, no inventory fee — because there is no platform to charge for. A monthly gift plan runs $199–$499 and buys kits, not access; the boxes are the line item. Overflow at member pricing.
Pain
Your IT team ships the laptop via Rippling. Swag ships via somebody else. Snacks ship via a third vendor. Your new hire gets three half-boxes on three different days.
What we do
One box, one delivery window, one tracking number. Send the new-hire details as they are confirmed — a line in a spreadsheet, or the recipient filling in their own address through your private gift page — and nobody is standing over mailing labels every Friday.
Pain
Finance wants ROI language to protect a $200/kit line item. The recognition benchmark is qualitative; the kit budget fight is quarterly.
What we do
The argument for finance isn't qualitative vibes — it's that Day-1 recognition measurably improves early belonging and reduces voluntary turnover in the first year. We put together a one-page ROI brief you can forward, with sourced industry benchmarks your finance partner can pressure-test.
Recommended boxes
Three tiers. Transparent prices.
Single box
Signature
$95
Per-hire Day-1 kit — $95 all-in, no per-unit add-ons for personalization.
- —4–6 curated SoCal artisan items
- —Branded box, tissue, and hand-tied ribbon
- —Handwritten card (recipient-named)
- —72-hour prep · tracked ground ship (50+ orders get same-day SoCal hand-delivery)
- —Logo on the inside of the lid (no upcharge)
Monthly gift plan
Gift Program — Team
$349/mo
A monthly plan for Compass teams and HR programs running under 50 kits a month.
- —3 boxes / month ($125 avg tier value)
- —Private gift page — no need to collect home addresses internally
- —Company dashboard: shipments, remaining inventory, low-stock alerts
- —Logo + branded card included
- —Prepay twelve months and save 20% ($3,350/yr)
Monthly gift plan
Gift Program — Growth
$499/mo
A monthly plan for Series-B SaaS and mid-market HR teams running 50–150 kits a month.
- —5 boxes / month included ($125 tier)
- —Overflow boxes at $85 each
- —Company dashboard with monthly program reporting
- —A named contact who knows your program
- —Prepay twelve months and save 20% ($4,790/yr)
How we compare
Pacific Gift Box Co. vs. Sendoso + SwagUp
Questions we hear
Answers, not fluff.
- How do you ship to remote hires in 15 states?
- We collect the address via send-by-link (the hire clicks, enters their address, we ship). No spreadsheet. The hire sees a branded page, not a Sendoso-looking pop-up they distrust. National ship is 1–5 business days via tracked ground for the lower 48. If a start date is tight, tell us when you order and we will confirm in writing whether it can be met.
- Can we put our logo on the kit without it being a commodity screen-printed hoodie?
- Yes. Your logo goes on the inside of the lid (included, no charge), on a custom insert card, or on the ribbon. We can also co-pack a branded item you already own (a YETI mug, a hoodie from your preferred swag vendor) alongside our artisan curation. The box doesn't have to be all-us.
- Swag vendors already give us branded merch. Why add another vendor?
- Different job. SwagUp et al. are great for the conference-booth hoodie. We're for the curated-box moment that isn't about branded merch: Day-1 welcome, anniversary, client gift, remote-team holiday. Most of our HR customers use us for the curated boxes and keep their existing swag vendor for commodity items.
- What's the per-kit cost math for a 120-person company?
- Mid-market benchmark: $75–$125 per welcome kit, $100–$200 per client gift. A 120-person Series-B SaaS running 60 new hires × $100 + 20 client gifts × $175 + 120 anniversary touches × $45 lands around $20,500/year — which the Growth plan ($499/month, or $4,790 prepaid for the year) handles cleanly with overflow at member pricing.
- Which line items does the HR budget owner typically expense this to?
- Three common buckets: (1) Onboarding / T&E under the People Ops cost center for welcome kits; (2) Recognition / engagement programs for work-anniversary refreshes; (3) Marketing / ABM co-funded with sales for client-gift batches. We invoice with clear SKU codes so your finance team can split them without chasing you on Slack.
Text us. We reply within the hour.
Send-by-link, logo file, or a rough budget — we'll send back two or three options the same day.
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