Staff holiday booking system that makes time off work harder
Support better resourcing, reduce burnout risk, and give everyone the clarity they need to plan effectively.
Say hello to a staff holiday booking system that’s packed with functionality
Manage leave requests
Approve leave requests in just a tap, or automate the process entirely.
View shared calendars
Use team calendars to plan leave and manage resources accordingly.
Create custom leave types
Set up leave allowances that are specific to your organisation.
FEATURES
Easily manage leave according to your requirements
Designed for efficiency and visibility
Our staff holiday booking system allows you to manage all kinds of leave on one platform, from holidays to maternity to bereavement leave.
Here’s some of our customer’s favourite features:
- Create custom absence types and entitlement pots
- Book leave in days or hours
- Build workflows to automatically respond to leave requests
- View shared team calendars to avoid absence clashes
- Automate carryover and accruals
Designed for global leave complexities
Whether your organisation operates from one location or several, our staff holiday planner enables easy management and a seamless solution to leave complexities.
Here’s how we help large and growing organisations:
- Configure country, group and user-specific templates
- Import public holidays from different countries
- Use precise rounding for international accrual systems
- Integrate with other global HR systems
- Report on leave across users, teams and locations
Designed for accuracy and simplicity
Make for a seamless holiday booking and approval experience, with plenty of features to help you automate processes, produce reports and export key data.
Here’s just some of the key features:
- Approve leave in seconds via desktop or mobile app
- View remaining leave entitlements
- Receive alerts when leave is requested
- Create and automate custom reports on leave usage
- Export data to feed into payroll and other HR systems
TESTIMONIALS
A staff holiday booking system our customers love
FAQs
Find out more about our staff holiday planner
edays absence management software is different to other absence monitoring software providers because our system is purpose built to be as customisable as possible, allowing HR and people managers to use it in ways that suit their organisation’s unique requirements.
Our absence system supports part-time and full-time employees, and leave and absence can be recorded in either days or hours. We can handle leave carryover, overtime tracking, clocking in and out, and we enable organisations adhere to the EU Working Time Directive, among many other features.
We also cater to large and global organisations with several locations – be it in one country or multiple. edays absence management software users can be separated into groups, with different leave entitlements and rules set for each one, meaning you can manage employees in one country differently to another. This way, you can ensure you remain globally compliant according to varying regulations around the world.
This flexibility and configurability makes edays absence management software the leading choice for absence, leave and time management software.
Yes. With edays absence management software you can track sickness absence – both long and short-term – as well as any other type of unplanned absence, such as lateness or emergency time off.
Our system lets people managers provide a reason for each absence occurrence, and you can create as many different types of absence as you like.
Absence triggers can be set to alert managers when certain criteria has been met, so you can intervene early before absenteeism becomes more of a significant issue.
Our absence reporting tools let you analyse all of this absence data, including the reasons, helping you to identify any patterns or trends amongst individuals, teams or locations across your organisation.
Our system lets people managers provide a reason for each absence occurrence, and you can create as many different types of absence as you like.
Absence triggers can be set to alert managers when certain criteria has been met, so you can intervene early before absenteeism becomes more of a significant issue.
Our absence reporting tools let you analyse all of this absence data, including the reasons, helping you to identify any patterns or trends amongst individuals, teams or locations across your organisation.
Yes, edays offer clocking in functionality. Employees can clock in and clock out of work via desktop or mobile app in just a few taps. Our refreshable, printable QR codes can be placed in different locations so that employees can ‘clock in’ to a certain area, task or activity. Visit our time tracking software page to learn more.
Yes, with edays time tracking software, employees are able to create online timesheets on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
These can then be sent for approval to managers, who can also run reports on working hours in their teams.
Overtime can also be tracked, and mandatory breaks can be enforced.
edays timesheet software also provides the ability to assign working hours to different projects and activities, for a clear picture on how time is spent in your organisation.
These can then be sent for approval to managers, who can also run reports on working hours in their teams.
Overtime can also be tracked, and mandatory breaks can be enforced.
edays timesheet software also provides the ability to assign working hours to different projects and activities, for a clear picture on how time is spent in your organisation.
edays time tracking software is a module that enables organisations to record employee working hours. The software consists of various elements – including the ability to clock in and out, either via desktop or mobile app. Refreshable, printable QR codes can also be placed in different locations and by scanning them, employees can clock in to a certain area or task.
Our time tracking software also includes the ability to create and submit online timesheets on a weekly or monthly basis. Timesheets can be submitted to line managers for approval, and reported on on a weekly or monthly basis. Projects, activities or tasks can be assigned to timesheets, so managers can see how much time has been spent on different work throughout a day, week or month.
The software also allows managers to enforce mandatory breaks, and overtime can be logged within the system too.
Find out more about our time tracking software here.
Our time tracking software also includes the ability to create and submit online timesheets on a weekly or monthly basis. Timesheets can be submitted to line managers for approval, and reported on on a weekly or monthly basis. Projects, activities or tasks can be assigned to timesheets, so managers can see how much time has been spent on different work throughout a day, week or month.
The software also allows managers to enforce mandatory breaks, and overtime can be logged within the system too.
Find out more about our time tracking software here.
Yes. If enabled, edays automatically calculates an ongoing Bradford Factor score for every employee, and if turned on, can display live scores on individual profiles. If you do not use the Bradford Factor, this feature can be turned off at the click of a button.
Try our Bradford Factor Calculator here.
Yes. edays allows you to track any type of planned (e.g. holidays, maternity leave, medical appointments, business trips, time off in lieu (TOIL), etc.) or unplanned absence (e.g. sickness, compassionate leave, unpaid leave, etc.) in a single system. You can also create custom absence types specific to your organisation, such as wellbeing leave, and define rules for how these are to be used and recorded.
Learn more about our holiday booking system and sickness tracker.
The return to work process is made faster and more efficient with edays. A reason can be logged alongside an individual’s sickness absence, and for UK employees, relevant NHS guidance can be forwarded on to them to aid in their recovery (see more on our NHS Portal here).
You can automatically send a return to work form to an employee who is returning from sickness absence. This is then stored in the employee’s details in edays, alongside any doctor’s fit notes or medical certificates that may be required.
Before conducting return to work interviews, managers and HR can review the employee’s records and view any previous absences to be fully equipped ahead of the individual’s return.
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.
For a full list of leave management features, click here.
Yes. You can configure system alerts to trigger if specific absence conditions are exceeded and automatically notify specified individuals via email immediately.
Find out more about the edays sickness tracker.
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 allows you to configure all absence types to be recorded in hours, days or half-days, with customisable settings for different working patterns (i.e. shift work, part-time employees, etc.)
Find out more about our staff holiday management features.
Yes. edays has the unique ability to manage and track employee long service awards.
We have many optional features which are frequently being added to, for example:
Employee Directory
Document Portal
Time Tracking
Mobile App
People Insights
Workflow Builder
Explore our features pages or chat to our sales team to see which may be right for you.
Yes! Our absence management mobile app lets you access edays from your phone or tablet anywhere, any time. Employees can request leave on the go with our app. Managers will receive a notification and they can log in and approve the request in just a few taps. Sickness absences can also be logged quickly, without the need to log in to your desktop.
The security of our customer’s data is our top priority. We are ISO 27001 certified and data is stored on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. All data is encrypted at all times, both at rest and in transit using the most modern encryption standard and algorithms. For more information, click here to head over to our Security Section.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For a full list of leave management features, click here.
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.
edays absence management software is different to other absence monitoring software providers because our system is purpose built to be as customisable as possible, allowing HR and people managers to use it in ways that suit their organisation’s unique requirements.
Our absence system supports part-time and full-time employees, and leave and absence can be recorded in either days or hours. We can handle leave carryover, overtime tracking, clocking in and out, and we enable organisations adhere to the EU Working Time Directive, among many other features.
We also cater to large and global organisations with several locations – be it in one country or multiple. edays absence management software users can be separated into groups, with different leave entitlements and rules set for each one, meaning you can manage employees in one country differently to another. This way, you can ensure you remain globally compliant according to varying regulations around the world.
This flexibility and configurability makes edays absence management software the leading choice for absence, leave and time management software.
Yes. edays is built from the ground up to be globally capable for organisations that operate in different territories and countries. Our country templates and language packs mean that you can tailor your edays system to work in specific ways in different locations.
Learn more about our global capability here.
Yes. All annual public holidays for specific countries can be imported in to the edays system, as well as any additional company grace days, volunteering days or other events. These can be applied to specific locations, departments or user groups within the system.
The security of our customer’s data is our top priority. We are ISO 27001 certified and data is stored on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. All data is encrypted at all times, both at rest and in transit using the most modern encryption standard and algorithms. For more information, head over to our Security Section.
Yes. In essence the app is designed with the end user in mind, whether they are an employee or a manager, for submitting and actioning leave requests. For all other functionality, which is typically used by HR professionals, such as reporting and policy updates, the browser based UI is still required.
You can find by your unique business URL by logging into your edays account on a computer and looking at the URL bar at the top of the screen. Your URL will consist of https://uniquecompanyurl.e-days.com. Take note of what this section is between ‘https://’ and ‘.e-days.com’. This is the text you need to enter in the login screen of the edays app.
The mobile app is designed for end users (employees) and managers. It is not designed for carrying out specific administrator tasks, such as creating or updating leave policies.
If your business is not already an edays customer, then you won’t be able to use the features of the app. You will be able to download the edays app from the app store, but in order to use it you must have access to an active account and an active edays URL.
Yes, every edays subscription will automatically include access for all their employees to download and use the mobile app at no additional cost.
edays mobile app is available to download on iOS via the Apple store, and is available to download on Android via the Google Play Store. It’s completely free to download and easy to set up with your unique edays URL.
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Take a look at our other software features
Sickness tracking
Understand when and why employees take sickness absence.
Overtime and TOIL
Make tracking, submitting and managing employee time easy.
Time tracking
Effortlessly manage working hours with time tracking software.
Absence reporting
Create the reports you need, and drill down into your attendance data.
Workflow builder
Take your absence management to the next level with fully customisable workflows.
Mobile app
An app to manage leave anywhere, any time.