Absence management software

It’s official. Paper forms and spreadsheets aren’t up to the task, you need absence management software that works for your team and their managers. That’s where Timetastic comes in.

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Paper forms had a good run

The record went to personal calendars

Upgrade to leave management software and your whole team gets their own personal calendar and annual summary. They can see and track their absences and plan their year ahead. Finally, they get a clear picture of when and why they are absent from work.



Using Timetastic's calendar integrations, staff can feed all absences instantly into their regular work calendar, a big step up from those holiday forms and outdated spreadsheets.

App & email notifications

Rather than messing with bits of paper and spreadsheets, Timetastic is a leave management system that gives you a single place to record and track absences within your business.

Users can request absences from either the desktop or mobile app. Managers can directly approve or decline these via email, and all actions are instantly tracked and summarised on the calendars.

See clearly, who’s off and when

Unlock the power of effective absence management with your new interactive wallchart. It gives you instant access to up-to-date absence information, offering a new at-a-glance view of who's absent and when. Use it to plan better, make sure busy periods are covered and avoid awkward clashes.

Absence at a glance

The interactive wallchart shows you staff absences and availability in one simple calendar-like view.

Only The Essentials

Get every detail you need, and nothing you don't. Simply scan in seconds to get the full picture with leave type icons, approval status, and more.

Book Absence

Need to make or manage an absence request? Do it right from the wallchart screen. It is a visual gateway for all your absence management needs.

Pending Requests

Manage absence requests that are yet to be approved and assess overlaps with other team members availability in one view. This greatly simplifies approvals for managers.

What makes Timetastic so special?

It’s everything you need, and nothing you don’t. For over 10 years, we’ve been building the best absence management software for small businesses. If you want absence management software that’s simple and easy to use, you have to double down on making sure each and every feature fights for its place. We all know software apps that are so jam-packed with features they are almost unusable — that’s not Timetastic.

Why does Timetastic work?

Timetastic works because it’s a single place for all your absence management-related tasks. It’s where you make your holiday requests, where you record sickness absence or any other staff absence. You can identify absence trends, update your calendars and keep track of annual allowances.

All those employee absence-related tasks that you currently use spreadsheets and calendars for, that’s what Timetastic replaces.

And it’s all wrapped up into one simple piece of software - on your desktop and a native mobile app, where everyone has access to the information they need.

Who uses Timetastic for absence management?

Legal companies, accountants, marketing agencies, software developers, hairdressers, health centres and doctors surgeries, charities, manufacturers, retailers, transport and delivery companies, IT firms, builders and churches.

Tiny micro-enterprises with two entrepreneurs, startups, small to medium businesses and teams at some large multinationals and household names. Every country, every continent.

So do it, have a go, and see what all the hype is about for yourself. It’s time to upgrade to a decent absence management system and save yourself from the pain of spreadsheets and constant interruptions.

It's time to get organised, streamline your processes, and gain some visibility in your absence management system, saving yourself a whole heap of time.

A full set of features, so you can manage time off properly

Track, record and report every kind of staff absence: holidays, sickness, maternity, and the ones with no tidy name. Below, the features that replace the spreadsheet columns you built to cope.

You’d like a day off?

You’d like a day off?

To manage absence better, you can group your staff into departments, set minimum staffing levels and highlight clashes before approving requests for time off.

For what reason?

For what reason?

Handle all types of absence - holidays, sickness, maternity, paternity, unpaid leave, compassionate. Create your own custom leave types here!

It’s a bank holiday

It’s a bank holiday

Timetastic comes pre-loaded with public holidays from over 250 countries and 3,000 regions. All you need do is assign the relevant country to a staff member and their calendar is sorted.

Who’s working?

Who’s working?

Create a work schedule for each of your team. You’ll be able to see who’s working and when. No more, "Who’s in next Tuesday?", you’ve got a schedule everyone can see and plan from. Want to go further and track time and attendance, with clock-ins and timesheets? Rota & Time Clock picks up where this leaves off.

Leave management software FAQs

What is a leave management system?

A leave management system, or absence management system, is an easy-to-use platform that allows employees to view their holiday allowance and request time off – all in one place! It also helps managers approve requests and see who is taking time off, making it easier than ever before to assign resources and staff, especially during busier times of the year.

How does absence management software work?

What absence management software does is take all those different pieces of the jigsaw puzzle to arrange time off work — spreadsheets, paper forms, a shared calendar, and maybe back-and-forth on email. And puts it all into one single system that’s always up to date. A single source of truth, full visibility.

So when your employees request a day off, all your calendars are instantly updated, and the reasons for employee absences are tracked, you can then identify patterns, report on them and spot absence trends if you need to. Holiday allowance is tracked and reconciled, so all your employees can see how much time off they have left and when they’ve taken time off. A whole lot of visibility that you can’t get from spreadsheets!

Will absence management software save me time?

Certainly will. In fact, saving time is the number one main benefit that our customers get from using Timetastic.

The first big saving is that your employees request time off in the desktop or mobile app. So they don’t have to pester you with questions or start a back-and-forth on email.

Next, you’ll have all those employee holiday requests and bookings instantly show on your calendar, so you can see which employees are off and when. You don’t need to update a spreadsheet or record of how much sickness they have taken or how much holiday allowance someone has left. All that is done for you, instantly. Just think about how much time that saves, and how many interruptions it’ll spare you?

What type of absences does it cover?

Absence management software helps keep a record of any type of employee leave you can think of. Holiday entitlement, sick pay, sickness tracking. You can record maternity, paternity, compassionate and bereavement leave, anything you want. You can create as many different types of employee leave as you like in Timetastic.

Happier with Timetastic

Timetastic makes it easy for you to manage staff absence, rotas, attendance, HR documents and more. Whatever the size of your business, whichever industry you are in, Timetastic simply works.

Read how people like you use Timetastic

Read how people like you use Timetastic

Their stories tell us how they took control of absence management and became healthier, happier places to work

Watch how Timetastic works in just 10 minutes

Watch how Timetastic works in just 10 minutes

Take a quick tour of the platform at your own pace and discover how easy it is to manage time off, schedules, and team visibility.

Book a live demo with the Timetastic team

Book a live demo with the Timetastic team

Have questions or want a closer look? Book a live demo and we’ll show you how Timetastic can fit your team.

Mobile apps too

Your team can make use of the leave management software apps for Android and Apple to book an absence. No need to be in the office, everything is instantly tracked!