Swpe Stores · $150 a year

A $150 Swag Budget per Employee, Landed in India

About ₹13,200 a head, and the band engineering-heavy teams and GCCs tend to set. It is where the range stops being apparel and drinkware and starts carrying desk and tech items, which is what an engineer actually wants. It also approaches the ₹15,000 mark at which the income-tax perquisite exemption runs out, so it is the first band where the tax treatment is worth a conversation with your CA before the budget is signed.

Produced and warehoused in Pune, delivered to 21,000+ pincodes on a GST invoice. No import, so no duty and no customs paperwork for your employee to file.

What $150 reaches

One way to spend it, from our real catalogue at real prices: 8 pieces coming to ₹10,592 of the ₹13,200 available. An employee picks their own combination, and most take fewer, better things. At this budget the whole of our standard branded range fits inside one employee’s balance, so a store at this level is built on a premium range quoted for you rather than on the open catalogue.

Wellness Hamper, Premium

₹1,999 · MOQ 10

Executive Desk Gift Set

₹1,799 · MOQ 10

Crystal Trophy (Personalised)

₹1,499 · MOQ 5

Premium Welcome Kit

₹1,299 · MOQ 25

Wireless Charging Pad (15W)

₹1,299 · MOQ 10

Diwali Hamper, Classic

₹999 · MOQ 20

Acrylic Shield Award

₹899 · MOQ 10

Client Thank You Gift Box

₹799 · MOQ 15

Catalogue prices exclusive of GST and branding. A store built for you carries a range approved by you, which is usually narrower and better than the open catalogue.

How the budget is actually spent

You fund, they choose

Every employee sees $150 as a balance when they sign in with their work email, and spends it on what they want, in their size, to their own address.

Billed on redemption

The company is invoiced for what employees actually take, on one GST invoice. Budget nobody spends is not billed, so a generous allocation costs nothing until it is used.

They can add their own money

An employee can put the difference on their own card and take something above the balance on the same order, which is the point at which people start buying the logo because they want it.

Questions about a $150 budget

Does $150 a year create a tax liability in India?+

About ₹13,200 sits under the ₹15,000 aggregate at which gifts in kind stop being treated as nil-value for income tax, a threshold raised from ₹5,000 on 1 April 2026. It is close enough that a mid-year top-up could cross it, and sources disagree on whether crossing it taxes the excess or the whole amount. We set the position out with the instruments on our swag tax page, and your own advisor should sign it off.

What does the extra $50 over the common band buy?+

Range rather than quantity. At $100 the store is apparel, drinkware and bags; at $150 it can carry desk objects, tech accessories and a heavier outer layer, so people with different tastes all find something they will use. That matters more than a second t-shirt.