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HR software that connects your people

Replace spreadsheets and disconnected systems with a single platform built for HR teams managing complex, global workforces.

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Leave Management

Allocate, request, approve and track all leave types in one place

Time & Attendance

Clock in/out, online timesheets, project time tracking and working time compliance

Absence Management

Track sickness, triggers, Bradford Factor and return to work – all automated

Workforce Scheduling

Drag-and-drop scheduling, skills-based shift assignment and rota management

CORE HR

Built to transform your everyday HR tasks

Leave & absence management beyond anything you’ve seen before

Most HR platforms include leave and absence as an afterthought – a basic booking system bolted on to a broader suite. edays is built differently. Leave and absence are the foundation everything else is built around.

Our customers love:

  • Request, approve and track every leave type in days, half-days or hours – with full support for part-time, shift-based and flexible working patterns
  • Unlimited custom leave types with configurable rules for how each is used, accrued and carried over – wellbeing days, volunteering, duvet days, long service awards and anything else your organisation needs
  • Sickness absence logged with reasons, fit notes and return-to-work forms stored automatically in the employee record – no paperwork, no chasing
  • Bradford Factor calculated continuously in the background with live scores on every employee profile – turn it off with one click if you don’t use it
  • Absence triggers configured to your exact thresholds, managers alerted automatically the moment a pattern needs attention, before it escalates
  • Carryover and accrual rules set per country, team, contract type or individual, the system does the maths so HR doesn’t have to
  • Minimum staffing levels enforced per team, simultaneous leave requests that breach cover rules are flagged before they’re approved
Leave Management
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Reporting & analytics that turns absence data into decisions

Most HR systems give you data. edays gives you the answers. With a fully configurable report builder and dashboards, HR teams and managers can see exactly what’s happening across their workforce.

Our customers love: 

  • Custom report builder with total flexibility, pull any combination of absence, leave, time and attendance data across any team, location or time period
  • Schedule reports to run automatically on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis and land in the right inboxes
  • Default system reports out of the box
  • Bradford Factor reporting across individuals, teams and locations in a single view
  • People Insights dashboard for a live snapshot of absence trends, leave balances and workforce health across the whole organisation
  • Drill down from organisation-wide data to individual employee records in a few clicks, spot outliers, understand context, act with confidence
  • Export absence and time data directly to payroll, accurate figures, no manual reconciliation, no errors at month end
  • Gender pay gap, compensation and workforce analytics reports
  • Role-based access controls on reporting, managers see their teams, HR sees everything, sensitive data stays protected
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Online timesheets that remove the admin from working hours

edays gives employees a fast, accurate way to record and submit their hours, daily, weekly or monthly, with manager approval workflows that run automatically, so HR never has to chase.

Customers love:

  • Create and submit timesheets on a daily, weekly or monthly basis using start and end times or total duration
  • Assign hours to projects, tasks or activities for a clear picture of how time is spent across the organisation
  • Timesheets routed to line managers automatically on submission, approve or reject with reasons in one click
  • Employees notified instantly on rejection and can edit and resubmit without HR involvement
  • Mandatory breaks enforced automatically, overtime logged and accrued in the same system
  • Export approved timesheet data directly to payroll, no manual reconciliation at month end
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Don’t just take our word for it…

Thanks to customers reviews, we’re consistently voted as the market leader.

  • edays voted users most likely to recommend
  • Voted Highest performing absence management system
  • edays voted best support 2026
  • edays voted EMEA leader 2026

HR SOFTWARE

Get the essentials right

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Leave and absence management in one system

edays gives HR teams complete control over every type of leave and absence, planned and unplanned, from a single platform. No spreadsheets, no manual chasing, no gaps in your data.

What our customers love:

• Request, approve and track all leave types in days or hours — including part-time and shift patterns
• Log sickness absences with reasons, fit notes and return-to-work forms — all stored in the employee record
• Set absence triggers to alert managers when thresholds are met — catch patterns before they escalate
• Automatic Bradford Factor calculation with live scores on employee profiles
• Create unlimited custom leave types to match your organisation’s unique requirements

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Time & attendance tracking that feeds payroll accurately

From clocking in and out to online timesheets and project time tracking, edays captures how your people spend their time, and makes it ready for payroll without manual data entry.

What our customers love:
• Clock in and out with a single click via desktop or mobile app, or via QR code in different locations
• Create and submit online timesheets on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, with manager approval workflow
• Assign hours to projects, tasks or activities for clear visibility of how time is spent
• Enforce mandatory breaks and track overtime automatically
• Managers notified instantly when timesheets are submitted, approve or reject with reasons

absence and leave reporting

HR reporting and analytics across your whole workforce

edays turns absence, leave and time data into clear, actionable reports so HR teams and finance can make confident decisions instead of chasing spreadsheets.
What our customers love:

• Create and schedule custom reports on absence, leave and time –  daily, weekly, monthly or annually
• Report on gender pay gaps, sickness trends by location & department, by sickness type and more
• Bradford Factor reporting across individuals, teams and locations in one view
• Export data directly to payroll – accurate figures, no manual reconciliation
• People Insights dashboard for a live view of absence trends and workforce health

TESTIMONIALS

Cut out the manual work and automate HR Software 

“When I started comparing options for a new system, I found that no one else had the level of automation that edays did. You can set up the templates per country, per person, per leave type… so edays was the solution that jumped out. From the offset I thought it was going to make our lives so much easier.

It’s made such a difference to us, I feel like edays has been there forever now! It is really intuitive and it’s great that managers are able to gain full visibility with the group calendars. We also have great rapport with the edays team and if we need something, they either help us with it, or look into getting new things developed to support us.”

Heather Wells

Senior HR Operations Specialist

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“It gives people a lot more visibility, they can access everything easily from wherever they are and it makes reporting so much more accessible. Implementing edays has also had a really positive impact on other areas of our business too. Since overtime and holiday calculations are so much more accurate now, it means fewer problems with payroll each month.”

David Littlejohn

HRIS & KPI Manager

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“edays has helped us to streamline and effectively monitor absences within the company globally. The support team is very helpful and quick to respond – to date we have been very impressed!”

David Glennon

HR Administrator

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“edays provide a quick and reliable system. It’s not too complicated and it gives employees single sign-on access and we don’t have difficulties with the system ever being down. The back end, administrator panel, within the system is very efficient too, on top of this reporting is made very easy, especially for our two-week holiday policy.”

Rebecca Daly

HR Manager

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Cloud HR Software to suit your needs

HR software is a cloud-based platform that helps organisations manage the entire employee time cycle, from booking leave and tracking sickness absence, to clocking in and out, submitting timesheets and planning workforce schedules. It replaces spreadsheets and manual processes with automated workflows, real-time data and compliance tools, giving HR teams a single system of record for all absence and time data across the organisation.

Yes. edays is fully cloud-based, hosted on Microsoft Azure and accessible via any web browser or the edays mobile app, no software installation required. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit, and edays is ISO 27001 certified. Employees and managers can access the platform 24/7 from any device, anywhere in the world.

Yes, and this is one of the key reasons organisations choose edays. Most HR tools handle leave or time & attendance separately, which creates data gaps and manual work at the payroll stage. edays manages both in one platform: employees can book leave, log sickness, clock in and out, and submit timesheets through the same system. Managers get a single view of who is in, who is off and why — with reporting across all absence and time data combined.

Yes. edays is used by 1,400+ organisations across 120 countries and supports 25 languages. The platform handles different leave entitlements, working time rules and public holidays for each country or user group, including EU Working Time Directive compliance built in. Global teams can be managed from a single instance, with localised configurations applied for each location.

Implementation timelines depend on the size of your organisation and the complexity of your configuration. Most edays customers are up and running within just a few weeks. Our implementation team supports you throughout, including data migration, configuration for different user groups and locations, and integration with your existing payroll or HRIS. Training and ongoing support are included and we’re always on hand to support if needed.

edays is a complete workforce management platform. Alongside the core HR software features, leave management, absence tracking, time & attendance and scheduling, edays also includes Core HR tools (employee directory, document management, workflow builder), a mobile app, People Insights analytics, and integrations with HRIS, payroll and SSO providers. Everything is managed from one platform.

edays is purpose-built for organisations where HR is genuinely complex, multiple locations, mixed working patterns, global compliance requirements and a mix of office and field-based staff. Unlike general HR platforms that treat absence, time and leave as secondary features, edays is built specifically around them. Our system is highly configurable: you can create custom leave types, set up localised rules for different countries, and integrate with your existing tools in ways that off-the-shelf platforms can’t match. That configurability, combined with dedicated implementation support, is why 1,400+ organisations trust edays to manage their workforce.

Security is a top priority at edays. We are ISO 27001 certified and all data is hosted on Microsoft Azure. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit using modern encryption standards. We also support single sign-on (SSO) and role-based access controls to ensure only the right people see the right data. For full details see our security page.

HR software is the broad term for any platform that manages HR processes operationally, leave, absence, time and attendance, scheduling. A HRIS (Human Resource Information System) is a specific type of HR software focused on storing and managing employee records and data. In practice the terms are often used interchangeably. edays sits across both: it manages operational HR processes and holds employee data in a centralised record. For a detailed comparison, see our guide to HR software vs HRIS.

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