Introducing Workflow Builder to automate your processes

Take your absence management to the next level with fully customisable workflows.

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Add automation in to your HR processes with Workflow Builder

Remove manual approvals

Take away the need for people managers to review requests with auto approvals and rejections.

Set reminders and alerts

Improve the employee experience by setting up reminders for outstanding requests.

Improve processes

Transform your workflows and alleviate the burden on people managers with automation tools.

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FEATURES

Transform the way you work with Workflow Builder

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Invite automation in to your HR practices

edays Workflow Builder allows you to entirely automate your processes, and free up your HR function for other tasks and priorities. Removing the need for manual work or reminders, setting up workflows adds automation in at every step of the way. Saving time for your employees, your people managers, and especially your HR team.

Here’s some of our customer’s favourite features:

  • Absence, leave and time workflows
  • Custom triggers
  • Custom conditions
  • Custom actions
  • Pre-built templates
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Complete customisation and flexibility

Workflow Builder is designed to be built exactly as you need it. With a library of different triggers, conditions and actions, you can create custom workflows for every area of the business. Whether that’s automatically approving leave within certain teams, or setting actions at a country template level, the possibilities really are endless.

Here’s some of our customer’s favourite workflows:

  • Auto approvals of leave
  • Reminders for pending requests
  • Introductory welcome emails
  • Reminders to complete timesheets
  • Alerts to use remaining entitlements

TESTIMONIALS

An automation tool that removes the manual burden

“edays is a great system that is easy to use and understand when it comes to logging sickness and booking holiday. It provides us with all the absence information we need through one screen and the system can offer expert medical advice to ill employees at the click of a button.”

Mathias Grosse

HR Officer

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“edays has enabled us to follow processes more rigorously and a big benefit is the visibility of absence throughout the organisation. The reporting functionality is used to show clearly which departments need to focus on employee engagement and wellbeing when it comes to sickness absence. It has also allowed us to keep on top of the holiday bottleneck and ensure that we have a smoother flow of absence throughout the year which is much easier to manage.”

Rachel Painter

HR & Payroll Manager

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“We were using an online system, but it wasn’t easy and intuitive for our employees and managers because it wasn’t an absence management tool – it’s mainly known on the market as a ticketing tool. Some of our locations weren’t using it at all. That’s why it was a lengthy challenge when it came to data and reporting!”

Liia Rikson

HR Technology Manager

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“edays has made our lives easier when it comes to tracking and managing absence internationally. We were extremely impressed with its capability to keep in line with the local holiday rules and regulations of our EMEA branches and how easy the platform was to use.”

Susanne Geertsema-Trijbels

HR Partner EMEA

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Find out more about our Workflow Builder

Generally speaking, system admins will gain access to Workflow Builder. However, we have added an additional setting for Workflow Builder so that you can restrict or allow access as necessary. This also means that only those who you give permission to, will be able to upgrade to Workflow Builder Pro.

Workflow Builder Pro is for organisations who require even more automation. This module allows you to create and enable an unlimited number of workflows, promoting automation within every area of your business.

edays Workflow Builder allows you to create up to 5 enabled workflows at any one time. This doesn’t limit the number you can build, and you can switch your workflows on and off as needed.

edays Workflow Builder is designed to automate your processes, reduce admin and save time. By building and creating custom workflows, you can set a variety of triggers, conditions and actions to remove the need for manual work around your absence management practices.

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.

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.

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.

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.