EOFY thank you gifts that don't end up in a drawer

EOFY thank you gifts that don't end up in a drawer

June is the one month of the year with a built-in excuse to thank people. The financial year wraps up on 30 June, targets are hit or survived, and a thank-you that arrives in EOFY week lands very differently to one that arrives at random in August. The problem is that most corporate gifts are forgettable. Branded pens get pocketed. Gift cards feel like an amount. Wine assumes things about the recipient.

Food gets eaten, shared and talked about, which is the entire job of a thank-you gift. We've supplied EOFY orders to Sydney businesses from our Leichhardt bakery for years, and here's what works.

Who to thank, and with what

The EOFY list usually has three tiers. Clients you want to keep, the team that did the actual work, and the handful of partners or referrers who sent business your way all year.

For clients and referrers, a branded box does the most work. Our corporate range can carry your logo on every cupcake or cookie through edible printing, so the box opens to your brand rather than a generic treat. It sits in their office, gets shared around their team, and your name is attached to the best fifteen minutes of that office's day. See how logo printing works on our corporate page.

For your own team, skip the logo, they know where they work. A generous mixed box from the cupcake range on the last Friday of the financial year says more than the same spend split into individual trinkets. If the team is spread across sites or working from home, we deliver to multiple Sydney addresses off one order, which beats couriering things yourself in the last week of June.

Why cupcakes and cookies over the usual options

A few practical reasons, learned from watching what gets reordered. Everyone can participate: our whole range is nut free, and vegan boxes cover dairy and egg allergies, so nobody at the receiving office is left out of the thank-you. Cookies keep and travel, so branded cookies suit clients you can't hand-deliver to. And the price per recipient is modest for the impression it makes, which matters when the list is forty names long.

Timing, and the trap in the last week of June

Everyone has the same idea in the same week. Orders for delivery between 23 and 30 June stack up fast, and the earlier you lock yours in, the better your pick of delivery days. The comfortable version of this: send us your list in the first half of June through our contact page, including logos and addresses, and the whole run is scheduled before the rush.

Left it to the actual last week? Still workable. Our same day delivery covers Sydney, and more than one accountant has ordered thank-you boxes on 30 June for delivery that afternoon. We don't judge. It's your busiest week too.

A note on the tax question

Every June someone asks whether client gifts are deductible. The honest answer is that it depends on the gift and your circumstances, and your accountant will know in thirty seconds. We bake, they advise.

Quick answers

Can you put our company logo on the cupcakes?
Yes, printed edibly on cupcakes and cookies. Send your logo through the corporate enquiry form and we'll set it up.

Can one order go to multiple offices?
Yes. Give us the address list and we'll split the delivery run across Sydney.

How late can we order for end of financial year?
Same day delivery is available across Sydney, but the last week of June books out, so earlier orders get first pick of dates.