Set the Rules. Forget Them.
Leave policies are the rulebook for how time off works in your company. A policy defines four things: how much leave is granted, how it accrues over time, what carries over at year-end, and who it applies to. You can have multiple policies of different types — vacation as a balance policy, sick leave as a spell policy, senior leadership on unlimited — and attach each to an employment type or to specific people. Mid-year hires are pro-rated automatically; tenure-based entitlement adjustments roll forward without manual intervention. Once a policy is set, every approved request, every leave-year rollover, and every contract anniversary updates the worker's balance without anyone reaching for a calculator.
Pick How Leave Should Work.
Most teams use one. Some use two or three for different categories of leave.
Balance
A number of days you're entitled to. Accrues per month, per pay period, or year-front-loaded. Carries over with optional cap and expiry. Use for vacation.
Spell
Tracks consecutive illness as a single event, tied to a tenure-based entitlement window. Used by Swiss EFZG, German continued-pay, and equivalents in other supported countries.
Unlimited
No counter, no balance, no cap. The policy is 'use it sensibly.' Common for senior or fully-salaried roles where time-off is trusted, not metered.
Five Minutes per Policy.
Or however long it takes you to read the four questions and pick answers.
Pick the type.
Balance, spell, or unlimited. You can have different policies of different types in the same company.
Set how it accrues.
Per month, per pay period, year-front-loaded, or hours-worked-based. Pro-rated automatically for mid-year hires.
Set carryover.
How many days roll forward at year-end. Optional cap so balances don't grow forever. Optional expiry so carryover days lapse.
Apply it.
Attach the policy to an employment type, or to a specific person. Their allowance updates automatically — including pro-ration if their start date is mid-period.
Two Views, One Source.
Same data, different depth.
In the app.
Current balance in days. Accrued so far this period, projected to year-end. Pending and approved requests on a calendar. How much carries over at year-end.
In the dashboard.
Per-person balances across the team. The transaction ledger — every grant, accrual, booking, reversal. Coverage impact when someone requests time off. Bulk operations: grant carryover, adjust balances, change policy mid-year.