What Is a Client Birthday Card Service?

A client birthday card service mails a card to each of your clients for their birthday, so nobody at your business has to track dates, address envelopes or remember to mail them. You send the service your list with names, mailing addresses and birthdays once, and it mails each card at the right time, all year. Ours is the Cards for Causes birthday program: we print your branded card, address every envelope with a real Pilot G2 gel pen in blue ink, and mail each card the week of the client's birthday.

How our birthday program works

1. Pick your card. Choose a design from our birthday collection and add your message, logo and signatures. You'll see your price right in the customizer.
2. Check out and send your list. One payment covers your cards and the mailing. Upload names, mailing addresses and birthdays at checkout, or send them after.
3. We print your cards once and keep them. Your cards print in one run and stay with us.
4. We mail every week, all year. Each card goes out the week of the recipient's birthday.

What's included

• Your branded card from our birthday collection, with your message and branding inside.
• Real-pen envelope addressing. Recipient and return addresses, written in real ink. Envelopes are addressed with a real pen by default. If you'd rather have printed addresses, we can do that too.
• Weekly birthday-week mailing. We mail once a week, so each card goes out the week of the birthday. No monthly batches, no early or late cards.
• Stuffing, stamping and mailing, done by our team, with a person checking every card before it goes to USPS.
• List changes any time. Add or remove recipients with at least a week's notice before the birthday.

Two things to ask any birthday card service

• When does each card mail? We mail every week, so a card goes out the week of the birthday rather than in a monthly batch.
• How do changes work? With us, you add or remove recipients any time with at least a week's notice before the birthday. Our guide on adding and removing names covers the details.

Who it's for

Professional service firms, from medical practices to advisors, CPAs and realtors, use Cards for Causes for their client care. Any list with names, mailing addresses and birthdays works: clients, employees, members, constituents. We have guides for financial advisors, insurance agencies, real estate agents, dental offices and elected officials.

What you send us

A spreadsheet with each recipient's name, mailing address and birthday (month and day; we don't need the year). Excel, Google Sheets or CSV works. Upload it in the customizer or send it after checkout.

What it costs

One price per recipient: your card at its price for your quantity, plus mailing, plus postage at cost. Pricing runs from $1.75 per recipient for larger mailings on a digital design to $3.75 for a foil design at 100 recipients, before postage. Postage is USPS First-Class at cost, never marked up. You pay once, at checkout, and programs start at 100 recipients. Our guide on what a client birthday card service costs breaks it down.

When the first cards go out

As soon as your cards are printed and we have your list, we start with that week's birthdays. Want to start on a set date, like January? Tell us when you send your list.