Timetastic

An employee selects dates in Timetastic and sends the request to a manager. The manager can approve or decline from an email; the wallchart shows pending requests beside colleagues’ availability. Try a deliberate overlap to see whether the approval path fits your policy.

Each person gets a calendar and annual summary showing past and upcoming time off and remaining allowance. An administrator sets annual entitlement, and bookings update the record. Before rollout, check part-time patterns and a midyear starter against your written leave policy.

The shared wallchart shows who is away and supports requests from that view. Department filters, designated managers and minimum staffing levels are described on the vendor site. Test whether the chosen plan flags an understaffed date in the way your managers expect.

Timetastic can track more than annual holiday, including sickness, maternity, sabbaticals and custom absence reasons. Custom types appear in employee summaries and can be downloaded or reported. Decide which types affect allowance and who may see sensitive absence labels before importing records.

Public-holiday data covers a wide set of countries and regions. Set a sample employee in each location and inspect observed dates before using balances for a distributed team; regional calendars and company policy can differ.

The vendor describes Outlook/Office 365 and Google personal-booking connections plus subscribable iCal/Webcal feeds for team absence. Verify the direction of updates with a test calendar.

Optional daily and week-ahead absence emails can tell recipients who is away. Check the recipient rules and whether those notices expose more absence detail than each audience needs.

Timetastic also describes a rota workflow that publishes shifts, records clock events and builds timesheets. A frontline team can test that path with one shift and compare the resulting timesheet with its pay process.