Streamline annual leave booking & tracking processes

Here are some of the benefits of using a staff holiday booking system:

1. Data-driven decision making

edays staff holiday booking system lets you generate valuable reports and analytics on leave trends, absence patterns, and how employees prefer to use their leave, and more. These insights provide data-driven support for informed decision-making on HR policies, staffing needs, and overall workforce planning.

2. Enhanced employee experience

Offer employees a user-friendly and convenient way to manage their leave with staff holiday booking software. Self-service portals empower employees to submit requests, track their leave balances, and take ownership of their working time. This fosters a positive employee experience and boosts morale.

3. Reduced errors and increased compliance

A staff holiday booking system enables you to minimise the risk of human error in tracking leave allocations and ensuring compliance with legal and country-specific requirements. Automated reminders and notifications help prevent overbooking and ensure fair leave allocation across the team.

4. Improved visibility and planning

Gain real-time insights into team availability and holiday trends with a staff holiday booking system. Forecast potential staffing shortages and proactively address them. This empowers better workforce planning and resource allocation, ultimately enhancing operational efficiency.

5. Streamlined and efficient processes

Ditch manual spreadsheets and long email chains. A staff holiday booking system automates leave requests, approvals, and cancellations. This saves significant time and reduces administrative burden, allowing HR to focus on strategic initiatives.

Yes. edays can account for public holidays for countries around the world. Our country templates enable you to manage leave according to the statutory entitlements and national holidays that vary in different regions. Our system can also be set up in another language, so that employees in different countries can access the platform in their native language.

Yes. edays enables you to track all types of leave – from statutory entitlements and public holidays to additional allowances. Custom leave types can be set up in the system to cater for things like birthdays off, wellbeing leave, and volunteering days. Maternity, paternity, bereavement, emergency time off and more can also be clearly logged in the system – so you know exactly who is off, when, and why.

There are many benefits to using edays leave management software, which vary depending on the size and type of organisation you are, and which industry you’re operating in. edays is a great option if you’re looking to reduce your admin burden and eliminate the need for spreadsheets and paper forms when dealing with employee leave requests. This is helpful to most organisations, that are either SMEs and therefore short on resources, or large and global organisations looking for a consistent, reliable and centralised system for handling employee holidays, leave, time tracking and sickness absence in one place.   We can also offer many industry-specific benefits, too. edays provides a streamlined platform for handling holiday and leave for organisations that have a mix of employees, including office and non-office based staff, part-time and full-time employees, and multiple locations in one country and/or around the world. For industries or countries that mandate time off, this can also be configured into the system. Any type of leave can be logged – from statutory entitlements such as annual leave and maternity leave, to organisation-specific leave, such as birthdays off, volunteering days, and wellbeing days.   From employee experience perspective, edays leave management software enables employees to log on to their desktop or mobile app, and simply request annual leave in seconds. No need for email chains, submitting forms or updating spreadsheets. Their line manager can then approve or deny the leave request just as quickly, reducing the admin drain.   Employees and their managers can also view their leave entitlement, as an easy way of helping them plan out when they’d like to use it. Group calendars let people see when their team members are planning to take leave, to avoid clashes in requests and minimum staffing issues.   To explore how we can help your organisation’s specific needs, please visit our solutions and industries pages to find out more.

As well as leave management software, edays also offers absence management software – giving organisations a reliable, accurate way of recording and tracking employee absence. This includes short-term and long-term sickness absence, emergency time off, lateness, and any other type of unplanned absence. We also offer time tracking software, which includes clock in and clock out functionality and online timesheets. Our modules are packed with innovative, customisable and useful features – many of which you won’t find elsewhere. Thanks to our configurability, we’re able to help thousands of organisations around the world track employee holiday, leave, sickness absence, and working hours in ways that best suit their operational needs.

edays supports all custom absence types, allowing you to add as many types as you like. You also have the ability to define rules for how these are to be used and managed. Visit our leave management system page to find out more.

Yes. As a cloud-based system, edays can be accessed 24/7 meaning employees always have access to their absence records and can check their entitlement through our annual leave tracker. And, authorised users can export specific absence data from the system at any time.

Yes. edays has the unique ability to manage and track employee long service awards.

Leave management is the process of managing all types of employee leave within an organisation. This is includes annual leave, or holiday entitlement, whereby employees are entitled to take a certain number of days off per year. In the UK, almost all employees are legally entitled to statutory leave which is 5.6 weeks paid holiday per year. This varies in other countries. In addition to statutory leave, organisations may also choose to offer additional holiday entitlement to employees – such as wellbeing days and birthdays off. Leave management also refers to managing other types of leave that employees are legally entitled to, which includes maternity leave, paternity leave, and other types of leave.