Replace the leave form and the shared spreadsheet. Employees apply from a phone, managers approve in a tap, and balances update automatically — with unpaid leave flowing straight into payroll.
The spreadsheet is usually not wrong on the day it is written. It goes wrong three months later, when two people edited it, a carry-over was applied twice, and nobody can reconstruct which version was correct. A leave system removes the ambiguity by making the balance a calculation rather than a cell someone typed into.
Accruals, carry-over and deductions are calculated rather than typed, so the balance an employee sees is the balance HR sees.
Requests route to the right manager automatically and escalate when someone is away, so leave does not stall on one inbox.
Managers see who is out before approving, which prevents the clashes that only surface on the Monday somebody is missing.
Unpaid leave reaches payroll automatically instead of being remembered — or forgotten — at the end of the month.
Yes. Annual, sick, maternity, paternity, compassionate and custom types can be configured with their own accrual and approval rules.
No. Leave can be requested and approved from a mobile browser, which suits staff who are not desk-based.
Carry-over rules are configurable per leave type, including caps and expiry, and are applied automatically at the cycle boundary.
Yes. Approval routing follows your reporting structure, so multi-site and multi-department teams work without a separate process per location.