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Overview

In Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise (SOE), site administrators can create up to 10 custom awards for users to earn. They work much like the built-in site badges, but you can customize them to encourage participation and recognize outstanding contributors.

The recipient of a custom award will receive an inbox notification just as if they had earned a built-in award.

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Manage custom awards

As an administrator, click Admin Settings then Custom Awards. A table shows any existing custom awards, listing each award's name, description, current number of recipients, creator of the award, and whether it's featured on the home page.

To create a new custom award, click Add a new award. The "Create a new award" screen will appear. Here you specify a name and description for the award, and choose an icon. You can also choose one or more users as recipients of this award. Click Save to create the award.

To edit an existing award (including adding or removing recipients), click Edit for that award. To remove an award that has no recipients, click its Delete link.

NOTE: You can't delete an award if it has recipients. Its Delete link will be grey and inactive.

You can feature up to four custom awards on the right-hand side of the site's home page. To feature an award, click its toggle in the Featured column.

You can also create custom awards for Private Teams if you've enabled the Private Teams feature on your SOE site.

NOTE: You can't give custom awards to User Groups—only individual users.