Perfectly happy employees
With our vouchers, employees receive up to €50 more per month in the form of tax-free vouchers, which they can redeem online and in-store at numerous partner retailers throughout Germany.
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A Benefit of your choice
Your team can fulfill their personal wishes and decide for themselves where they want to redeem their vouchers worth up to €50 per month. In this way you show as an employer appreciation on the next level.
Focus on usability
You can order our vouchers up to the middle of the month and receive them in the same month.
Compliance
We ensure that our processes comply with applicable legal and tax regulations. All vendors in our app are compliant with German regulations.
Online & In-store
Our vouchers can be redeemed anywhere in Germany at our partner shops – online and in shops on site.
Order now, redeem later
Employees can order their €50 voucher every month, even if they want to redeem it later.
Save employer costs
Our digital vouchers are a form of non-cash benefits and completely exempt from social insurance fees according to section 8 (2) sentence 1 of the EStG.
Show appreciation easily
Realtime tracking of your vouchers
Keep track of all your vouchers and their status so that you can redeem them later if necessary. All vouchers are collected in the wallet.
Digital shopping experience
You can easily order new vouchers via the app - once a month up to 50 € are possible - copy the code or download the PDF and redeem it immediately.
Fulfill individual wishes
With vouchers, you show your employees appreciation, offer them a small contribution to compensate for inflation, and leave it open to what they want to use their vouchers for.
Sachbezug vouchers made easy
Fast implementation
In just a few steps, you are turn-key ready and can roll out the new benefit company-wide. Our Customer Success Team will support you with the implementation.
Automated accounting
Automated benefits reports allow for completely digital records and accounting and transfer to your respective payroll system.
Interfaces for payroll accounting
Non-cash benefits as vouchers must be shown on the payslip. This is easily done with our interfaces to DATEV LODAS, DATEV Lohn und Gehalt, and other payroll accounting systems.
Set your own budget
Companies can use our benefits groups in the admin tool to determine the amount of non-monetary benefits available for their employees each month.
What are non-cash benefits or "Sachbezug"?
Find out more about the German legal background and the guidelines in our wiki.
Do you have any questions?
According to the legislature, non-cash goods and services that are not paid out in the form of a salary, for example, are considered non-cash benefits and, in our case, are purchased from third-party providers. These vouchers are redeemed for goods or services at the partner shop, but cannot be exchanged for cash or salary.
Since January 1st, 2022, vouchers from online marketplaces such as Amazon or Zalando are no longer non-cash benefits. You can find more information about the types of income under § 8 paragraph 1 sentence 3 EStG.
Since December 31, 2021, benefits in kind in the form of digital vouchers of up to €50 per month have been exempt from tax and social insurance fees, cf § 8 paragraph 2 sentence 11 EStG. The vouchers in our app are therefore limited to €50 per month.
Maximum one voucher per month. Further information can be found in the BMF letter from March 2022.
No, this is not legally possible, as employees have a maximum of €50 per month in the form of a voucher, cf § 8 paragraph 2 sentence 11 EStG. This means you can receive a maximum of €50 in voucher form at a time.
In some cases, you can redeem multiple voucher codes at once during the checkout process, but this is outside Circula's responsibility.
No, splitting is not possible, as only one voucher can be ordered per month, according to BMF letter.
Yes, non-cash benefits usually have to be shown on the payslip. However, if it can be guaranteed that all non-cash benefits remain within the exemption limit of €50 per month, this can be waived. Circula offers companies the payslip integration.
In this case the voucher expires. It is not possible to order vouchers retrospectively or bundled for several months.
We make employees benefit
Use tax benefits to optimize your employees' wages and reduce your costs at the same time.