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The easy to use employee vacation planner
Spend less time planning employee time off and get more time for your business
- Save time with automatic vacation calculations
- Instantly flag vacation request clashes
- Get peace of mind on vacation laws
- Stay updated with our vacation tracker app

Join 9,000+ Canadian businesses that trust BrightHR
Join 9,000+ Canadian businesses that trust BrightHR






Make your employee vacation management a breeze
Paper request forms and vacation spreadsheets are a thing of the past! Leave debates over who called first to book their PTO behind you. Our award-winning team vacation tracker makes leave management simple for ANY business.
- Enjoy a single view of your entire team’s time off
- Remove conflict with vacation clash alerts
- Approve or deny vacation requests in a click
- Save time with a centralized digital employee vacation calendar

Get accurate vacation calculations at the click of a button
Did you know that almost all workers are legally entitled at least 2 weeks paid vacation a year? And it’s down to you to make sure they take them?!
- Stay updated on vacation allowances for all employees
- Enjoy peace of mind with software that does the maths for you
- Save time at the start of the year with a system that auto-refreshes

Your staff vacation planner in four simple steps:
Using our employee vacation tracker is easy. Here’s how it works:
- Your employee easily creates a vacation request from anywhere
- You’re instantly notified of the new vacation request
- Our system flags vacation clashes to prevent understaffing
- You approve or decline the vacation request on the go

Stay on track with our vacation balance tool
- See your entire team’s remaining vacation balance at a glance
- Make sure staff switch off regularly over the year to reduce burnout
- Avoid the end-of-leave-year vacation clashes and understaffing
- Improve your team’s wellbeing and work-life balance

What our customers say about BrightHR
Using BrightHR makes us much more organised and centralises our processes, making it quicker for us to manage sickness and vacations.
Nottingham Credit Union
BrightHR is a user-friendly system and the team are on hand to answer any questions we ever have. I would highly recommend BrightHR.
Deborah Gillespie @ Change, Recruitment Group
Our staff absolutely love using the system and the ease of booking vacations and clocking in using Blip. Customer service is amazing...
Steven Greenall @ Cornerstone Children’s Home
Approve vacation requests anywhere with the BrightHR app
Never miss a vacation request again, thanks to vacation tracker app that notifies you when employees book time off.
- Save time by accepting or declining vacation requests on the go
- Say goodbye to long-winded approval processes for employee leave
- Get instant alerts to approve or deny vacation requests in seconds
- Boost staff happiness with an app that’s as easy for them as it is for you

See BrightHR’s vacation management software in action
Can’t believe how easy we make vacation planning sound?
See our vacation planner in action with our quick video demo. Or enjoy a tour by our friendly software specialists today!
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Read moreFAQs
Our vacation planner and booking system is part of our HR Software BrightHR. This is important so that you have all of your employee records, payroll reporting and HR needs all in one place. It’s more cost effective and time saving to subscribe to an HR software that has vacation management then looking at standalone features. It’ll save you time and money in the long run.
Q. QuestionWhat reporting capabilities does a vacation management software have?
A great vacation management software enables custom reporting helping you manage payroll to other reporting requirements to the CRA. With BrightHR’s vacation management planner and booking system, it integrates into other core products like absence management and sick leave, overtime to expenses and more. This helps you not only stay legally compliant but also more easily manage things like payroll! One of the key benefits of an all-in-one software is the reporting headaches that go away.
Q. QuestionWhat are the legal requirements that makes having a vacation management software so pertinent?
Hours of Work Regulations and workplace standards stipulate the vacation entitlement, rest periods and weekly hours workers are entitled to. Therefore, having a system that records annual vacation entitlements, vacation taken and vacation owed will support you in being compliant with the legislation and give you an audit trail on vacation records at a press of a button.
Maintaining transparency is essential when it comes to vacation management at work. But this transparency can’t simply begin and end with your vacation policy. Maintaining your accessible, centralized staff calendar on BrightHR lets you know who’s on or off, helps you stick to policies, and give your workers opportunities to plan their vacations better.
BrightHR vacation management software can give you all this and more in the form of automatic staff vacation calculations, easy ways to accept or decline vacation requests, and faster decision-making thanks to a system that flags vacation clashes for you.
Not at all. Book a demo with one of our friendly experts to discuss your business needs and get a people management solution that ticks all your boxes.
Our packages span everything from HR software including a staff time-tracker app and shift management to a health & safety package including expert health & safety advice and a learning management system that helps you manage risks. You can see more about our software packages through our pricing journey.
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