Simple, Fair, and Transparent Leave Management
No more messy spreadsheets or endless email threads. Growee's smart leave management software automates every step, from requests and hierarchical approvals to real-time balance tracking, capacity planning, and reporting.
Employees get clarity, managers stay in control, and HR gains reliable, audit-ready data. Focus on what really matters: growing your team and business.
- Companies
- 200+
- Hours tracked
- 50M+
- Holidays taken
- 50,000+
Leave Management Made Effortless
Growee makes leave tracking simple and intuitive. Configure flexible leave policies, automate approvals, and access complete leave histories - all in one place. National holidays and attendance data are fully integrated, removing the need for spreadsheets or manual work. HR teams save hours while staying accurate and compliant with labor laws.
Fast & Transparent Leave Approvals
Approving time off is quick, clear, and completely automated with Growee:
- Employees submit leave requests directly in the platform.
- The right manager or team leader is automatically notified through hierarchical approvals - direct managers approve holidays for their own team members.
- Approvals or rejections take just one click.
- Balances, attendance records, and calendars update instantly.
- Automatic notifications keep everyone informed in real time.
- Teams avoid scheduling conflicts, understaffing, and overlapping vacations - keeping operations smooth and predictable.
Hierarchical Approvals
Empower your leadership structure with granular approval control:
- Direct managers can approve holidays for team members they are responsible for.
- Each team lead manages their own team's time off independently.
- Maintain clear accountability and faster approval cycles.
- Ensure the right person makes decisions based on team needs and workload.
Real-Time Leave Balances & History Tracking
Manual updates and tracking errors are a thing of the past. The system automatically manages leave accumulation, carry-overs, and adjustments in real time, even when time off spans across calendar years - ensuring every record stays precise. Employees and HR can easily view current balances and history, keeping everything transparent and dispute-free.
- Set initial balances, earning rules, or bonuses with just a few clicks.
- Grant compensatory days or make custom adjustments whenever needed.
- Maintain total visibility so everyone knows exactly where they stand.
Centralized Holiday Balance Management
Get complete oversight of your team's time off in one comprehensive view:
- See all employee holiday balances organized by years and holiday types.
- Filter by specific employees, teams, or departments for targeted insights.
- Make quick adjustments with Excel-style inline editing directly in the table.
- Maintain accurate, up-to-date records without switching between multiple screens.
Visual Holiday Planner
Plan and visualize team absences effortlessly with an intuitive calendar interface:
- View upcoming leave across 4, 6, or 12-month periods at a glance.
- See national holidays, weekends, and personal holidays all in one place.
- Automatically calculate start dates, end dates, and total holiday days for selected intervals.
- Prevent scheduling conflicts and maintain optimal team coverage year-round.
Team Capacity Reports
Manage team availability proactively with comprehensive capacity planning:
- View team capacity for any selected period, factoring in approved holidays.
- See weekly allocation, national holidays, days off, and working days for each team member.
- Calculate total available hours across your entire team instantly.
- Plan projects and resources with confidence, avoiding under-staffing surprises.
Fully Configurable Leave Policies
Every company has unique time-off rules and Growee adapts effortlessly to all of them:
- Create policies for paid, sick, parental, unpaid leave or any custom leave type.
- Choose between Given (upfront allocation) or Accrual policies (accumulation per working day) to match how leave is legally earned in your region.
- Set earning rules, carry-over limits, and expiration dates.
- Adjust policies for departments, roles, or specific employees.
- Customize national holiday calendars to fit your organization's locations, regions, or contract types.
- Stay compliant with local labor laws while keeping policies fair and transparent.
Export Leave Data Anytime
Need a quick overview of your team's absences?
- Export detailed leave data in CSV format anytime.
- Generate accurate reports for payroll, compliance, or audits in seconds.
- Keep all records organized, accessible, and up to date.
Customizable Leave Cancellation Rules
You have full control over how leave cancellations are managed:
- Set clear rules for when and how employees can cancel time off.
- Allow or restrict cancellations before a chosen start date.
- Maintain fairness and consistency across all departments.
- Keep HR workflows smooth while giving employees flexibility when plans change.
Smart Presence & Attendance Sheets
Manual attendance tracking is a thing of the past. The system automatically syncs all approved leave data with attendance sheets, keeping records accurate and current without extra effort. Managers and HR always have a clear picture of who's present and who's on leave.
- Attendance records update automatically with every approved leave.
- No more chasing signatures, emails, or manual corrections.
- Gain instant visibility into team availability at any time.
Leave Policies Tailored to Contract Types
Different employees have different rules - and that's exactly how it should be. Leave entitlements and policies can be customized for each contract type, department, or role, ensuring fairness and flexibility across your organization.
- Manage time off for full-time, part-time, or freelance staff with consistent accuracy.
- Keep every policy aligned with individual agreements and company standards.
Auto-Generated Holiday Documents
Streamline documentation with automated template-based generation:
- Define custom document templates for different leave types.
- Generate required documents automatically upon holiday approval.
- Ensure compliance and consistency across all leave documentation.
- Save time and eliminate manual paperwork for HR and employees alike.
Digital leave tracking with a full leave history
Going digital is not just moving the request form off paper. The value is the record it leaves behind: every request, approval, cancellation, carry-over and adjustment stays attached to the employee, so "how many days do I have left?" is answered by the system instead of by someone's memory of a spreadsheet.
- Balances update the moment a request is approved - no end-of-month reconciliation.
- Accumulation and carry-overs are handled automatically, including leave that spans two calendar years.
- Compensatory days, bonuses and custom adjustments are applied in a few clicks and show up in the balance immediately.
- Approved leave flows straight into the attendance sheet and the capacity report.
- Employees read their own history; HR filters and exports it to CSV for payroll, compliance or an audit.
Leave management software for small teams
Small teams rarely have a dedicated HR person, and they should not have to buy a dedicated HR suite to know who is off next Tuesday. Growee is free for up to 3 people and €2 per person per month after that, with leave included rather than sold as an add-on.
Free for your first 3 people
Leave management is included from the first plan - €0 for up to 3 people, then €2 per person per month. No separate HR tier for approvals or balances.
One record per person
Time off sits on the same employee record as their profile, documents, contract type, and logged hours. Nobody reconciles a leave app against a spreadsheet at month end.
Approvals follow your structure
Direct managers approve for their own team through hierarchical approvals, so a five-person company and a fifty-person company both work without an HR coordinator in the middle.
Your data leaves when you want
Any slice of leave history exports to CSV - by employee, team, department, leave type, or period - for payroll, compliance, or an accountant who wants a spreadsheet.
Growee pricing reflects our live plans; it is also available annually at €20/person/year.
Growee vs Timetastic
Timetastic is a good dedicated time-off tool. The honest difference is not who tracks leave better - it is what sits around the leave.
Timetastic describes itself as "staff leave planning software loved by thousands of small businesses across the UK", and it does that job properly: requests from the web or its mobile app, one-click approvals that show who else is already off that week, an interactive wallchart, allowances that update with every booking, a Burnout Board that surfaces who has not taken time off in a while, public holidays for over 3,000 regions, and a Slack integration that can move the whole approval flow out of email (as of August 2026). If leave is the only thing you need to track, that is a fair choice and we would not argue with it.
The difference is scope. Timetastic's two leave plans - Business and Pro - are grouped on its own pricing page under "Leave & Absence". Timesheets, clock-in/out and storing "all of your HR data in one place" belong to a separate product, Rota & Time Clock, which its pricing page labels a new product with an early-access sign-up rather than a self-serve purchase (as of August 2026). Growee starts from the employee record instead: leave, timesheets, documents, evaluations and invoicing are the same system, which is why an approved day off already shows up on the attendance sheet and in the capacity report without anyone copying it across.
Timetastic figures and quotes as of August 2026, from timetastic.co.uk/pricing, timetastic.co.uk/how-it-works and timetastic.co.uk/leave-management-system. £1.20 (Business) and £2.00 (Pro) per user per month are taken from the vendor's own structured pricing data for GB; the same page renders other currency figures elsewhere, so check timetastic.co.uk for pricing in your region. "Separate early-access product" means those capabilities are listed under Timetastic's Rota & Time Clock plan, which its pricing page presents as a new product with an early-access sign-up, not under the Business or Pro leave plans. Invoicing is marked absent because it does not appear anywhere in the feature set published on timetastic.co.uk - Timetastic does not state that it is missing. Growee figures reflect our live plans.
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Frequently asked questions
Who can approve leave requests?
Leave requests are approved through hierarchical approvals, direct managers can approve holidays for team members they are responsible for. Users with HR, Manager, or Admin roles have approval permissions. When a leave request is created, the system automatically notifies the appropriate approver, who will receive an email notification.
Can I export approved leaves?
Yes, leaves can be viewed, filtered, and exported in CSV format for a specific period, employee, leave type, team, or department at any time.
Can I export a list of leave days for all employees?
Yes, you can generate and export a complete list of all employee leave days at any time in CSV format for payroll, compliance, or audit purposes.
How can I customize holiday policies for different contract types?
You can easily tailor holiday policies to align with specific contract types, departments, or roles. Set different earning rules, carry-over limits, and expiration dates for full-time, part-time, or freelance staff to ensure fairness and compliance.
Does Growee automatically update leave dates on the presence sheet?
Yes, Growee's synced attendance sheet updates automatically with every approved leave, eliminating the need for manual entries or signatures. Managers and HR always have an accurate, real-time view of team availability.
Can I customize national holidays for different locations or teams?
Yes, you can add, remove, or adjust national holidays to fit your organization's specific locations, regions, or contract types. Holiday calendars update automatically to ensure accurate leave balances and approvals.
How does the Visual Holiday Planner help with team scheduling?
The Visual Holiday Planner displays upcoming leave across 4, 6, or 12-month periods in an intuitive calendar view. You can see national holidays, weekends, and personal holidays all in one place, helping you prevent scheduling conflicts and maintain optimal team coverage.
What are capacity reports and how do they work?
Capacity reports help you manage team availability by showing team capacity for any selected period, factoring in approved holidays, weekly allocation, national holidays, and working days. You can see total available hours across your entire team, making it easy to plan projects and avoid under-staffing.
Can HR automate leave approval workflows, track balances, and give employees self-service access to their leave history?
Yes, and those three things are one flow in Growee rather than three tools. Employees submit their own requests and see their own balance and leave history without asking HR. Each request routes automatically to the right approver through hierarchical approvals, so a team lead decides for their own team in one click and everyone involved is notified.
On approval, the balance, the attendance sheet, and the shared calendar update on their own, and any required leave document can be generated from a template. HR can then filter the resulting history by employee, team, department, leave type, or period and export it to CSV for payroll or an audit.
Can employees see their own leave history and balance?
Yes. Every employee can see their current balance and the full history behind it - requests, approvals, carry-overs, and adjustments - so time-off questions do not have to go through HR at all. Managers see the same records for the people they approve for.
HR and admins get the centralized view: all balances organized by year and leave type, filterable by employee, team, or department, editable inline, and exportable to CSV whenever a record is needed outside the platform.