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The easy to use staff holiday planner
Spend less time planning staff leave and get more time for your business
- Save time with automatic annual leave calculations
- Instantly flag staff holiday request clashes
- Get peace of mind on holiday entitlement laws
- Stay updated with our innovative BrightHR app
Join 100,000+ global businesses that trust BrightHR
Join 100,000+ global businesses that trust BrightHR
Make your staff holiday management a breeze
Paper request forms and holiday spreadsheets are a thing of the past! Leave debates over who called first to book their holiday behind you. Our award-winning staff holiday planner makes leave management simple for ANY business.
- Enjoy a single view of your entire team’s schedule
- Remove conflict with holiday clash alerts
- Approve or deny leave requests in a click
- Remove the need for dated Excel spreadsheets and paperwork with a digital calendar
Get accurate holiday calculations at the click of a button
Did you know almost all workers are legally entitled to have 5.6 weeks of paid holiday a year? And it’s down to you to make sure they take them?!
- Enjoy peace of mind with software that does the maths for you
- Keep up to date on all staff allowances whether full-time, part-time, or variable
- Save time at the start of the year with a system that auto-refreshes
Your staff holiday booking system in four simple steps:
Using our employee holiday tracker is easy. Here’s how it works:
- Your employee adds a new holiday request at the click of a button
- You’re notified of the new holiday request instantly
- BrightHR flags any holiday clashes, to help you avoid being understaffed
- You approve or decline the holiday request on the go
Stay on track with our annual leave balance tool
- See your entire team’s remaining annual leave balance at a glance
- Make sure staff switch off regularly throughout the year to reduce burnout
- Avoid the end-of-leave-year holiday 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 holidays.
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 holidays and clocking in using Blip. Customer service is amazing...
Steven Greenall @ Cornerstone Children’s Home
Approve holiday requests wherever you are using the BrightHR app
Never miss a holiday request thanks to a system that notifies you.
- Save time by accepting or declining holiday requests on the go
- Say goodbye to long-winded approval processes
- Get instant alerts to approve or deny holiday requests in seconds
- Boost employee happiness with a system that’s as easy for them as it is for you
See BrightHR’s holiday management software in action
Can’t believe how easy we make holiday planning sound?
See our holiday planner in action with our quick video demo. Or enjoy a tour by our friendly software specialists today!
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FAQs
Our holiday 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 holiday management then looking at standalone features. It’ll save you time and money in the long run.
Q. QuestionWhat reporting capabilities does a holiday management software have?
A great holiday management software enables custom reporting helping you manage payroll to other reporting requirements to the HRMC. With BrightHR’s holiday 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 holiday management software so pertinent?
The Working Time Regulations 1998 stipulate the annual leave, rest periods and weekly hours workers are entitled to. Therefore, having a system that records annual leave allowances, leave taken and leave owed will support you in being compliant with the legislation and give you an audit trail on annual leave records at a press of a button.
Maintaining transparency is essential when it comes to holiday management at work. But this transparency can’t simply begin and end with your holiday policy. Maintaining your accessible, centralised 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 holidays better.
BrightHR holiday management software can give you all this and more in the form of automatic staff holiday calculations, easy ways to accept or decline holiday requests, and faster decision-making thanks to a system that flags holiday 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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