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Leave & attendance

Time off without the back-and-forth.

Leave management software for small teams: people ask in seconds, the right person approves, and balances look after themselves. No more leave requests buried in WhatsApp or a shared spreadsheet nobody trusts.

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Balances

Everyone can see what they have left.

Balance cards for each leave type show what is used and what is pending. People request time off from their own screen, and approvers see what is waiting on them right underneath.

  • Annual, Sick, Compassionate and Unpaid leave out of the box
  • Working days worked out as you pick dates
  • Waiting on you, with Approve or Reject and a reason
Checks before sending

Problems caught before the request is sent.

startbuddi checks every request against your leave policy first. If there is not enough leave left, not enough notice or too few people covering the team, the person sees it straight away.

  • Not enough leave left, Not enough notice, Team coverage
  • Restricted period and Policy conflict checks
  • A blocking conflict switches off Send request
Approval chain

Your approval chain, not ours.

Decide who approves leave and in what order. The next person is asked only once the one before approves. Give sick leave a short chain and longer breaks a longer one.

  • Their manager, Department head, People admin, Finance admin or Workspace owner
  • A different chain for each leave type if you want
  • Notice required, Carry over, Self-approval and Team coverage guard
Attendance

Know who's in today, with clock-in if you want it.

See who is present, remote, in the office or away. Switch on simple clock-in and clock-out, or leave it off and still track leave, schedules and public holidays. Wrong times are fixed through a correction request a manager approves.

  • Present, Remote, Office, Absent, Late at a glance
  • Holidays: dates the business is closed are not charged as leave
  • Default schedule with working days, hours and time zone
Works with everything

People talks to the rest of your business.

Everything below shows up on the client's record on its own, so you never piece the story together by hand.

PeopleLeave rules come from your published Leave policy
PeopleEvery request goes through one approvals queue
PeopleTime off shows on profiles and Who's away today
PeopleOne record per client
WorkWeekly hours link to Work timesheets
PeopleLeave days and attendance show in People reports
Chip AIChip HR answers leave questions from your policy
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Ask Chip. It already knows your people.

Chip works from your own records, so the answer comes with names, amounts and dates, and a next step you can take in one click.

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Plans

Which plans include leave and attendance?

Leave and attendance are on every plan, including Free. Your team needs seats to request leave themselves: Starter includes 2 users, Growth 5 and Scale 15, and you can add extra users.

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  • FreeIncluded, free forever
  • StarterIncluded, 30-day trial
  • GrowthIncluded, 30-day trial
  • ScaleIncluded, 30-day trial

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Questions about leave and attendance

How do I track staff leave without spreadsheets?
Publish a leave policy with your leave types and approvers. From then on people request time off in startbuddi, approvers approve in one click, and balances update on their own.
Can I set my own leave types and rules?
Yes. Start with Annual, Sick, Compassionate and Unpaid leave, then edit the policy: notice required, carry over, self-approval, team coverage and who approves, in what order.
Do public holidays count as leave?
No. Add the dates the business is closed under Holidays, and they are never charged as leave.
Is there attendance tracking with clock-in?
Yes, if you want it. Turn on clock-in and people clock in and out once a day; managers approve corrections. Presence is not treated as hours worked, and there is no GPS or fingerprint clock-in.
Can I track overtime?
Overtime isn't its own request type yet. For now, overtime hours are submitted through Requests.

Leave, sorted in one click.

Balances, approvals and who's in today, without a single spreadsheet. Free to start.

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