Leave management system software that handles every type of leave, for every workforce

From annual leave & parental leave to custom types like wellbeing days and volunteering, edays manages it all in one configurable system.

leave management software

Finally, a leave management system that works how your company operates

Manage every leave type in one place

Book, approve and track annual leave, sickness, parental leave, TOIL and custom leave types – all from a single system, in days or hours.

Stay compliant across every location

Country-specific templates, automatic public holiday imports and 25 language packs keep global teams compliant without manual configuration.

Connect to payroll and your existing HR stack

Export leave data directly to payroll, or integrate with HRIS, SSO and daily tools via pre-built connectors or the edays API.

FEATURES

The UK’s leading leave management system for global organisations

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Approve, track and report on all types of leave

Whatever the makeup of your workforce, HR policies and leave entitlements look like, edays’ unrivalled configurability means our leave management system can meet your organisation’s unique requirements.

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

  • Approve leave requests via desktop or mobile app, and view group calendars to avoid absence crossover
  • Global templates for different countries and user groups
  • Functionality for full-time and part-time employees
  • Language packs for 25 different countries
  • Integrations with other global HR systems
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Built for the complexity of global and multi-site workforces

Most leave management systems work for simple, single-country teams. edays is built for organisations where leave is genuinely complex – multiple countries, mixed contracts, varying entitlements and compliance requirements across different regions.

Here’s what our global customers love:

  • Automatic public holiday imports
  • Precise rounding rules for countries that use accruals systems
  • Automate carryover and accruals to facilitate different rotas
  • Book leave in days or hours
  • Create custom leave types
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Leave reporting that provides real insight

Drill down into your leave data with edays in-depth reporting features. Understand leave usage, keep track of remaining entitlements, identify patterns, and make key business decisions.

  • Create and automate custom reports for leave
  • Monitor remaining leave entitlements
  • Receive alerts when leave is requested
  • Customise dashbaords to keep track of used and upcoming leave
  • Export data to feed into payroll and other HR systems

TESTIMONIALS

Unbeatable functionality in one leave management system

“I have used edays in my previous HR role, when I introduced it to our team, and found that the system was very easy to use and the support team super responsive. This meant that when I moved to my new role and realised we needed a system to manage annual leave and absence – selecting edays was a no-brainer. I wholeheartedly recommend it to any business or HR professional when in need of a straightforward and easy to use system that looks and feels great.”

Jo Rychlik

Head of HR

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“edays has up-skilled members of staff by giving them an increased ability to manage their workforce through a system at their fingertips, and has been a fantastic support to our organisational priorities of colleague wellbeing and health in the workplace. The insights we’ve secured from the data edays generates has been transformational in how we as a company view the role of HR as well.”

Kiran Sahota

Finance Business Partner

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“The original process was manual and paper-based, and led to inaccurate recordings, especially when it came to sickness which was often recorded after an employee returned to work and was therefore easier to miss or forget. The edays system has saved us a huge amount of time when it comes to logging and inputting holiday and sickness data.”

Wendy Godsman

Payroll Team Lead

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“The feedback from the team has been excellent. The edays employee directory has totally changed how we work. We were totally paper-based before and we can rest assured that employee documentation is secure and easy to find.”

Tarek El-Semman

Director

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Find out more about our leave management system

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 system, 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.