Absence Management Software
Reduce sickness, get visibility, become compliant.
edays is a purpose-built specialist in global absence, leave & time worked. Become multi-location labour compliant and reduce absence rates by as much as 25%.
Don’t just take our word for it…
Thanks to customers reviews, we’re consistently voted as the absence management software market leader.
FEATURES
More than absence management software, streamline HR operations with multi-module addons.
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Designed with efficiency and visibility in mind, edays’ absence management software module allows you to easily manage all kinds of leave, absence & sickness. From holiday to maternity to bereavement.
What our customers love:
- Create custom absence types and entitlement pots
- Book leave in days or hours
- Automate carryover and accruals to facilitate different rotas
- View shared team calendars to avoid absence clashes
- Report on leave & absence across users, teams and locations
- Sickness reasons with corresponding health advice
Unify HR documents & get control over people data
Manage all your important documents in one secure location, with Core HR features to keep things organised, compliant, and up-to-date.
What our customers love:
- Upload HR policies and other documents
- Set expiry dates for things like training accreditations or right to work documents
- Organise into folders and set access controls
- Attach employee-specific documents to their profile for better visibility
- Manage employee data, entitlements, and documents in one handy place
Easily track employee working hours and activities
Transform how you manage working hours with our Time & Attendance module. From scheduling to time tracking, to project allocation.
What our customers love:
- Manage overtime and TOIL
- Complete timesheets and assign activities
- Clock in and out with the mobile app
- Plan rotas with employee scheduling software
- Fatigue management and capped hours
A workforce management system for your global requirements
In one system, easily manage the absence, rotas, clock ins, documents and leave for employees all over the world. With configurable templates and imported entitlements, we take away the hard work.
What our customers love:
- Templates for different countries and user groups
- Automatic public holiday imports
- Precise rounding rules for countries that use accruals systems
- Language packs for 25 different countries
- Integrations with other global HR systems
Why do organisations choose edays absence management software?
Automate processes
Say goodbye to the headaches of manual systems and hello to automated features, that enable you to reduce admin time by 86%.
Reduce absence rates
By enabling a proactive approach to sickness management, customers typically reduce their absence rates by 25%.
Increase visibility
Gain insight into when, where and how your team work. Track leave on shared calendars, be alerted to sickness, and audit working hours.
Multi-location compliance
Build the system around you wherever you are in the world. With custom absence types, global templates & workflows purpose built around the latest labour compliance laws.
Trusted by over 1,400 companies across 120 countries, in 25 languages.
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TESTIMONIALS
Here’s what our customers have to say about edays absence management software
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Find out more about edays best-in-class absence management software
Having workforce management software in place can help with certain aspects of compliance, including employee record-keeping, leave entitlements, internal HR policies, employment contracts, payroll accuracy, and maximum working hours limits.
Yes. edays exports leave, absence and time data directly to payroll, removing manual reconciliation and reducing errors at month end.
Yes. edays is used by 1,400+ organisations across 120 countries and supports 25 languages, with localised leave rules, statutory entitlements, public holidays and EU Working Time Directive compliance built in.
Yes, and this is the core advantage of the edays workforce management software over single-purpose tools. Leave, absence, time and scheduling all sit in the same platform, so managers get one view of who’s working, who’s off and why – with no manual cross-referencing between systems.
edays workforce management software includes leave management, absence tracking with Bradford Factor and return to work workflows, time and attendance (clocking in/out, timesheets, project time tracking), workforce scheduling with skills-based shift assignment, core HR tools and reporting, all connected in one platform.
Workforce management software is a cloud-based platform that helps organisations manage the full range of employee time, including leave, sickness absence, time and attendance, and shift scheduling. It replaces spreadsheets and disconnected tools with a single system of record, giving HR teams, managers and employees real-time visibility across the entire workforce.
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 clock in app page to learn more.
Yes, with edays time & attendance 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 & attendance 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 & attendance 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 absence management software.
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.
Visit our leave management system page to find out more.
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.
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.
We have a number of integration options. We have some out-of-the-box solutions with our partners, or you can use an SFTP or our API for more bespoke options. An SFTP (secure file transfer protocol) is an easy way to feed data from one system to another, while our API unlocks plenty of options for how two systems talk to each other.
Yes, the edays time tracking module can integrate with clocking devices. The API endpoints have been created to work with physical hardware, so that you can still use these for access and entry, while feeding the data into edays. We can either connect with your existing hardware, or you can purchase the hardware through one of our partners.
Yes, edays has an API that can be used to connect with many of your other platforms or software solutions. This makes the edays solution even more flexible and helps it to work more seamlessly in your tech stack.
Yes! iCal feeds allow you to sync edays calendars with any web-based calendars such as Outlook, Gmail, and more. This means that when leave is approved in edays, it will automatically pull through to your calendar to help your employees better manage their time.
Yes. The unique flexibility of our system means we’ve helped complement and improve existing systems for our customers, including ERP systems, Payroll, and core HR systems.
Learn more about our integrations here.
edays supports more than 25 languages, including English (UK/US), Français, Español, Nederlands, Deutsch, Italiano, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Greek, Thai, Arabic, Serbian and more.
Please get in touch to discuss which languages you need.
As well as absence management edays offers a complete workforce management software platform; absence management is the foundation, but the platform extends well beyond it. Alongside absence tracking, Bradford Factor management and return to work workflows, edays includes time and attendance management (clocking in and out, online timesheets, project time tracking and EU Working Time Directive compliance), workforce scheduling (drag-and-drop rota management, skills-based shift assignment and fatigue management rules), leave management, core HR tools (employee directory, document management and workflow automation), a mobile app and People Insights analytics. Everything connects in one platform so absence, leave and time data are always in sync, and payroll always receives accurate, reconciled figures without manual intervention.
We focus on providing the best absence management, leave management and time and attendance solutions for your organisation. We’ll listen to your requirements and offer a best-in-class solution with more functionality compared to any other HR system providers. Our system is packed with features you won’t find anywhere else – helping you to manage absence, leave and time in more detailed, customisable ways that suit your organisation.
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