Frequently asked questions
Engage implementation can move at the pace that works best for your team. Some organizations move quickly, while others take more time to finalize program details, reward options, communications, and internal approvals.
Most companies launch Engage within 2–4 weeks, depending on program complexity, internal review timelines, and any data, eligibility, or payroll setup needed.
Implementation is organized into five phases to keep the process clear and manageable:
- Phase 1: Kickoff and planning
- Phase 2: Program design and configuration
- Phase 3: Data, eligibility, and reward setup
- Phase 4: Testing, review, and admin training
- Phase 5: Employee launch and ongoing support
Teams can choose between a guided implementation with support from the IncentFit team or a more self-directed setup process, depending on how hands-on they want the experience to be.
Engage includes the foundational wellness tools in Essentials, plus expanded features designed to increase participation and give employees more ways to take part.
- Wellness Challenges: Team or individual challenges across fitness, hydration, mindfulness, and more
- Preventive Care Incentives: Rewards for checkups, screenings, vaccinations, and other preventive health activities
- Health Assessments: Confidential employee assessments with aggregate insights for HR teams
- Fitness Rewards: Incentives for movement of all kinds, from gym visits to walking, biking, yoga, and at-home workouts
- Personal Goals: Employee-selected goals across wellness areas like activity, sleep, nutrition, and mindfulness
- Health Education: Medical encyclopedia resources and health newsletter content to keep wellness top of mind year-round
Engage is designed to support broader participation across a diverse workforce while keeping program management simple for HR.
Essentials is a strong fit for organizations that want a simple, focused wellness program with challenges, preventive care incentives, and basic assessments. Engage is a better fit for companies that want broader activity options, more personalization, and a stronger participation strategy.
Engage is commonly used by organizations that want:
- Higher employee participation across a larger or more diverse workforce
- Expanded activities across multiple areas of wellness
- Fitness rewards in addition to challenges and preventive care incentives
- More flexible program design and reporting options
- A wellness program that can grow and evolve over time
If Essentials is about launching a simple foundation, Engage is about increasing participation and giving employees more ways to stay involved.
Engage supports a wide range of fitness and wellness activities so employees can participate in ways that fit their routine, preferences, and ability level.
- Gym visits and fitness classes
- Walking, running, cycling, and hiking
- At-home workouts, yoga, and strength training
- Activity minutes tracked through connected devices or apps
- Manual activity logging through the mobile app or web portal
- Document submissions for activities that require proof of completion
This flexibility makes it easier to build a program that works for gym-goers, outdoor enthusiasts, remote employees, and people who prefer everyday movement.
Engage can be used to encourage employees to complete important preventive care activities, including:
- Annual physicals and well visits
- Biometric screenings
- Dental and vision exams
- Vaccinations, including flu shots
- Cancer screenings
- Mental and behavioral health screenings
Activities can be verified through document submissions when needed, and aggregate reporting helps employers understand completion trends across their population.
Wellness challenges help make participation simple, social, and goal-based. Engage includes access to challenges that can be used to support everyday healthy habits across different wellness areas.
- Step and walking challenges
- Hydration challenges
- Mindfulness and mental wellness challenges
- Team-based competitions
- Seasonal or themed wellness campaigns
Admins can choose the challenge structure, timing, rules, and rewards, while employees track progress through connected devices, the app, or the web portal.
The Engage Health Assessment gives employees personal insight into their well-being while helping employers understand population-level health trends.
- For employees: A digital survey covering physical, mental, and lifestyle health. Individual results are private and only accessible to the employee.
- For employers: Aggregate-level reporting that helps identify trends, measure progress, and plan future wellness initiatives.
Employers never see individual employee responses.
Engage is designed to minimize day-to-day management for HR. Once the program is configured, there is very little for admins to manage on an ongoing basis.
- Reward fulfillment can be automated
- Activity tracking and verification happen in the background
- Dashboards make it easy to monitor participation and incentive spend
- Reports help teams share progress with leadership
Instead of spending time on spreadsheets, manual tracking, or one-off employee follow-up, HR can rely on IncentFit to handle the day-to-day program management.
Engage includes reporting tools that help admins track program performance, understand engagement, and communicate results over time.
- Participation by activity type
- Preventive care completion trends
- Reward and incentive spend
- Health assessment trends, when applicable
- Exportable reports for internal review
These reports help HR teams monitor progress, manage budgets, and share program impact with leadership.
IncentFit uses privacy and security safeguards to help protect employee health and wellness information.
- Health data is protected in transit and at rest
- Employers only see aggregate population-level reporting
- Individual employee results are not shared with employers
- Access controls help limit who can view admin data
Employees keep control of their personal health information, while employers get the high-level insights they need to manage the program responsibly.
Engage is flexible enough to support different locations, shifts, employee groups, and wellness priorities. Admins can configure the program around the needs of their workforce.
- Which activities to incentivize, including fitness, preventive care, challenges, nutrition, mindfulness, and more
- Which reward options to make available
- Rules around participation, verification, eligibility, and payouts
- Program communications, reporting views, and engagement strategy
Employees can participate in the activities and rewards that fit their lifestyle, while employers maintain structure and visibility across the program.
Engage supports a wide range of reward fulfillment options, so employers can choose the approach that fits their benefits strategy, budget, and employee population.
- Payroll integration
- Direct deposit
- HSA/HRA contributions
- Premium offsets
- Merchandise and gift card mall rewards
- Charitable donations
- Paid time off
- Third-party points systems
For Engage programs, payroll integration and direct deposit are two of the most popular reward options because they are simple for employees to understand and easy for employers to manage.
Yes. Engage is designed to fit into existing systems and reduce manual administrative work.
- Wearables and wellness apps, including Fitbit, Apple Watch, Garmin, Strava, MyFitnessPal, and more
- Payroll providers for streamlined reward fulfillment
- HRIS and SSO systems, such as ADP, Workday, and Okta
- Custom APIs for enterprise clients, when needed
This helps employees participate through tools they already use, while HR avoids managing multiple disconnected systems manually.
