The Leave Management System for Growing Teams
Growee is a leave management system: employees request time off in the platform, the right manager approves in one click, and balances, the presence sheet, and the team calendar update on their own. Policies are configurable per leave type and contract type, and every record exports to CSV. Free for up to 3 people.
Leave Management Made Effortless
Configure leave policies, route approvals to the right manager, and keep a complete leave history in one place. National holidays and attendance data are part of the same system, so nothing has to be copied into a spreadsheet.
Fast & Transparent Leave Approvals
Approving time off is quick and clear with Growee:
- Employees submit leave requests directly in the platform.
- Each request can name an approver, and the form suggests the employee's direct manager when one is set in their profile. That approver gets an email about the new request. With hierarchical approvals, anyone whose role includes the Manage holidays for subordinates permission can approve requests from the people who report to them, directly or further down the chain, and the Manager, HR, and Admin roles can approve any request.
- Approvals or rejections take just one click.
- For paid leave types with a yearly allowance, the approval itself deducts the days from the employee's balance. Growee then adds the leave to the employee's timeline and, if your company has connected a Google Calendar for leave, to that calendar.
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Hierarchical Approvals
Empower your leadership structure with granular approval control:
- People with the Manage holidays for subordinates permission can approve leave for everyone who reports to them.
- With the right permission, each team lead handles their own team's time off.
- Maintain clear accountability and faster approval cycles.
Leave Balances & History Tracking
The system manages leave accrual, carry-overs, and adjustments, including requests booked ahead for next year. Accrued days are added by a daily calculation, and approvals and manual adjustments change the balance when they are saved. Employees and HR see current balances and the full history behind them.
- Set starting balances and adjust current balances with just a few clicks.
- Grant extra days or make custom adjustments whenever needed.

Centralized Holiday Balance Management
Get complete oversight of your team's time off in one comprehensive view:
- See all employee holiday balances organized by years and holiday types.
- Filter by specific employees, teams, or departments for targeted insights.
- Make quick adjustments with Excel-style inline editing directly in the table.
Visual Holiday Planner
Plan time off around weekends and national holidays with an intuitive calendar interface:
- View the next 4, 6, or 12 months at a glance.
- See national holidays, weekends, and personal holidays all in one place.
- Automatically calculate start dates, end dates, and total holiday days for selected intervals.
Team Capacity Reports
Manage team availability proactively with comprehensive capacity planning:
- View team capacity for any selected period, factoring in approved holidays.
- See weekly allocation, national holidays, days off, and working days for each team member.
- Calculate total available hours across your entire team.
Fully Configurable Leave Policies
Configure time off the way your company actually runs it:
- Create policies for paid, sick, parental, unpaid leave or any custom leave type.
- Choose between Given (a fixed number of days per year) or Accrual policies (days accrue every day) to match how leave is legally earned in your region.
- Add seniority milestones (more days after a number of years in the company), a waiting period, and carry-over of unused days.
- Adjust your company's national holiday calendar - add, remove, or edit days to match how your organization observes them.
Export Leave Data Anytime
Need a quick overview of your team's absences?
- Export detailed leave data to CSV or Excel anytime - filtered by employee, department, period, status, or paid leave.
- Generate accurate reports for payroll, compliance, or audits in seconds.
Customizable Leave Cancellation Rules
You have full control over how leave cancellations are managed:
- Set clear rules, per policy, for whether employees can cancel their own time off.
- Allow or restrict cancellations before the leave starts.
- Keep HR workflows smooth while giving employees flexibility when plans change.
Smart Presence & Attendance Sheets
The system syncs approved leave with attendance sheets automatically, so managers and HR always have a clear picture of who's present and who's on leave.
- Attendance records update automatically with every approved leave.
- No more chasing signatures, emails, or manual corrections.
Leave Policies Tailored to Contract Types
Leave entitlements and policies can be customized for each leave type and limited to the contract types they apply to.
- Manage time off for people on employment contracts, internships, and B2B contracts, with each leave policy applied to the contract types you choose.
- Keep every policy aligned with individual agreements and company standards.
Auto-Generated Holiday Documents
Streamline documentation with automated template-based generation:
- Define document templates for leave requests, with variables like start date, end date, and approver.
- Generate required documents automatically upon holiday approval, with the approver signature applied.
- Ensure compliance and consistency across all leave documentation.
Digital leave tracking with a full leave history
Going digital is not just moving the request form off paper. The value is the record it leaves behind: every request, approval, cancellation, carry-over and adjustment stays attached to the employee, so "how many days do I have left?" is answered by the system instead of by someone's memory of a spreadsheet.
- Balances update the moment a request is approved - no end-of-month reconciliation.
- Accumulation and carry-overs are handled automatically, including leave that spans two calendar years.
- Extra days and custom adjustments are applied in a few clicks and show up in the balance immediately.
- Approved leave flows straight into the attendance sheet and the capacity report.
- Employees read their own history; HR filters and exports it to CSV for payroll, compliance or an audit.

Leave management software for small teams
Small teams rarely have a dedicated HR person, and they should not have to buy an HR suite to know who is off next Tuesday. Leave is included, not sold as an add-on.
Free for your first 3 people
Leave management is included from the first plan. No separate HR tier for approvals or balances.
Start for freeAlso available annually at €20/person/year.
One record per person
Time off lives on the same employee record as everything else.
- Leave
- Profile
- Documents
- Contract type
- Logged hours
Approvals follow your structure
Team leads approve their own team. No HR coordinator in the middle.
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Monika WagnerTeam LeadApproved
Your data leaves when you want
Export any slice of leave history to CSV for payroll, compliance, or your accountant.
Growee vs Timetastic
Timetastic is a good dedicated time-off tool. The honest difference is not who tracks leave better - it is what sits around the leave.
Timetastic does the leave job properly: requests from the web or its mobile app, one-click approvals that show who else is already off, an interactive wallchart, allowances that update with every booking, and a Slack integration for approvals (as of August 2026). If leave is the only thing you need to track, it is a fair choice.
The difference is scope. Timetastic's Business and Pro plans cover leave and absence; timesheets, clock-in/out and HR records belong to a separate early-access product, Rota & Time Clock (as of August 2026). Growee starts from the employee record, so an approved day off already shows up on the attendance sheet and in the capacity report.
| Feature | Timetastic (Business / Pro) | |
|---|---|---|
| Leave requests and approvals | Timetastic (Business / Pro)Included | |
| Leave balances and allowances | Timetastic (Business / Pro)Included | |
| Shared view of who is off | Timetastic (Business / Pro)Included(Wallchart) | |
| Employee records and documents | Timetastic (Business / Pro)Not included(Separate early-access product) | |
| Timesheets and time tracking | Timetastic (Business / Pro)Not included(Separate early-access product) | |
| Client invoicing | Timetastic (Business / Pro)Not included(Not listed on their site) | |
| Price per person | Timetastic (Business / Pro)£1.20 (Business) - £2.00 (Pro) per user/month | |
| Getting started | Timetastic (Business / Pro)30-day free trial, no card |
Timetastic figures as of August 2026, from timetastic.co.uk (pricing, how-it-works and leave-management-system pages). Prices are its GB per-user monthly rates; check timetastic.co.uk for your region. "Separate early-access product" means the capability sits under Timetastic's Rota & Time Clock plan, not Business or Pro. Invoicing is marked absent because it is not in Timetastic's published feature set. Growee figures reflect our live plans.
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FAQ
Questions & Answers
What is a leave management system?
A leave management system replaces spreadsheets and email threads for time off: employees request leave, managers approve against live balances, and the calendar, presence sheet, and leave history update automatically. In Growee, leave lives on the same employee record as timesheets and documents, and it is free for up to 3 people.
Who can approve leave requests?
Users with the HR, Manager, or Admin role can approve or reject any leave request. Through hierarchical approvals, anyone whose role includes the Manage holidays for subordinates permission can also approve requests from the people who report to them, directly or further down the chain. When a leave request is created, the employee can name an approver (the form suggests their direct manager when one is set), and that approver receives an email. The email only goes out when an approver is named.
Can I export approved leaves?
Yes, leaves can be viewed, filtered, and exported to CSV or Excel at any time, by employee, department, period, status, or paid leave.
Can I export a list of leave days for all employees?
Yes, you can generate and export a complete list of all employee leave days at any time in CSV or Excel format for payroll, compliance, or audit purposes.
How can I customize holiday policies for different contract types?
You can limit each holiday policy to the contract types it applies to, such as employment contracts, internships, or B2B contracts. Give each policy its own yearly allowance, carry-over, and waiting period, so each group follows the rules that fit it.
Does Growee automatically update leave dates on the presence sheet?
Yes, Growee's synced attendance sheet updates automatically with every approved leave, eliminating the need for manual entries or signatures. Managers and HR always have an accurate, real-time view of team availability.
Can I customize the national holiday calendar?
Yes. You can add, remove, or adjust days on your company's national holiday calendar. The calendar is set at company level and applies across your organization, so national holidays are not counted as days off.
How does the Visual Holiday Planner help with planning time off?
The Visual Holiday Planner shows the next 4, 6, or 12 months in an intuitive calendar view, with national holidays, weekends, and your own approved holidays in one place. Pick an interval and it calculates the start date, end date, and number of days before you request it.
What are capacity reports and how do they work?
Capacity reports help you manage team availability by showing team capacity for any selected period, factoring in approved holidays, weekly allocation, national holidays, and working days. You can see total available hours across your entire team, making it easy to plan projects and avoid under-staffing.
Can HR automate leave approval workflows, track balances, and give employees self-service access to their leave history?
Yes, and those three things are one flow in Growee rather than three tools. Employees submit their own requests and see their own balance and leave history without asking HR. Each request can name an approver, who gets an email, and through hierarchical approvals a team lead with the right permission decides for their own team in one click.
On approval, the balance, the attendance sheet, and the shared calendar update on their own, and any required leave document can be generated from a template. HR can then filter the resulting history by employee, department, period, or status and export it to CSV for payroll or an audit.
Can employees see their own leave history and balance?
Yes. Every employee can see their current balance and the full history behind it - requests, approvals, carry-overs, and adjustments - so time-off questions do not have to go through HR at all. Managers see the same records for the people they approve for.
HR and admins get the centralized view: all balances organized by year and leave type, filterable by employee, team, or department, editable inline, and exportable to CSV whenever a record is needed outside the platform.