Getting Started with Milestones

What is the Milestones feature?

Milestones is a HeyTaco feature that automatically celebrates team members' birthdays and work anniversaries with taco-filled messages. It helps create a culture of appreciation without needing manual reminders or planning. Milestones posts are sent in Slack channels on the appropriate day, making recognition easy and consistent.

How to set up birthday and work anniversary recognition?

Milestones can be enabled from your HeyTaco admin dashboard. Once enabled and set up, HeyTaco will begin sending automatic messages for team members with birthday and/or work anniversary dates saved in their profiles. You can customize the messages and choose which channel they are posted in.

Step 1. Navigate to Admin --> Milestones page, and click Get Started.

Step 2: Choose the channel for Milestone celebration, as well as Milestones you'd like to celebrate.

Step 3: Select or edit the birthday message you'd like everyone to receive.

Step 3: Select of edit the work anniversary message you'd like everyone to receive.

Step 5: Send a request to users to enter their Milestone dates. People can always opt out.

Milestones feature overview: How it works, when tacos get sent, and where

HeyTaco checks for birthdays and work anniversaries daily. If a team member has a milestone, HeyTaco will send a celebratory work anniversary message (including tacos) in the designated Slack channel (set on the Admin → Settings page), typically around 10 a.m. local time, and a birthday message around 9:30 am local time.

Change Milestone settings on the Admin --> Settings page.

Can the number of tacos for each Milestone be adjusted?

A HeyTaco administrator can decide how many tacos everyone will receive for their birthdays. That can be adjusted on the Admin → Settings page.

Edit Birthday celebration settings on the Admin --> Settings page.

Tacos sent for work anniversaries equal the number of years of service the employee is celebrating. For example, if it is someone’s 3rd anniversary, they will receive 3 tacos.

Edit Work Anniversary celebration settings on the Admin --> Settings page.