🎉 Introducing Milestones: Celebrate Birthdays & Work Anniversaries—Automatically!

HeyTaco August, 5 2025 1 minute read

What’s better than a surprise taco? A taco that shows up on your birthday or work anniversary—without anyone having to remember to send it.

We’re excited to announce our newest feature: Milestones, now available in HeyTaco!

Milestones make it easy to build a culture of appreciation by automatically recognizing birthdays and work anniversaries with taco-filled messages. No more missed celebrations or awkward “Oh no, that was today?” moments. With Milestones, your team gets recognized on the days that matter, effortlessly.

How it works

Once enabled, HeyTaco will automatically send a personalized message (with tacos, of course 🌮) to your selected Slack channel whenever a teammate celebrates a birthday or work anniversary. You can customize the messages, set the number of tacos, and choose the perfect channel—like #celebrations or #shoutouts—to keep the good vibes flowing.

Milestones are built to support the rituals that make your team stronger. Because small moments, consistently celebrated, have a big impact on connection and morale.

Now available in the new Deluxe plan

Milestones is one of several powerful features in our brand-new Deluxe plan, designed for organizations ready to take recognition to the next level.

Here’s what you’ll get with Deluxe:

Milestones: Automatic birthday and work anniversary tacos 🎂 🎉
Instant Gift Cards: Reward team members instantly with digital gift cards they can actually use
Dedicated Account Manager: Get personalized support, rollout guidance, and best practices tailored to your team
All the features you already love from our Classic plan

Whether you’re leading a fast-growing startup or managing a global team, Deluxe gives you the tools to make recognition easier, more consistent, and more meaningful—without extra work.

Why this matters

We built Milestones because so many of you asked for it—and we wanted to get it right. The goal was to automate the moment, without automating the sentiment. It had to feel real, warm, and in line with the taco-powered joy HeyTaco is known for.

This feature is for every team that wants to make people feel seen, not just for the big wins, but for showing up year after year. Recognition shouldn’t rely on someone remembering—it should be baked into how we work together.