Leave Management

Approve, decline or partially approve leave

Review pending requests day by day, approve some days and decline others, and change or cancel decisions afterwards.

  • Manager
  • HR Admin
2 min read
On this page (5 sections)
  1. Who sees which requests
  2. Decide a request
  3. Change or cancel a decision
  4. Apply for your own leave
  5. Messages employees may see when applying

Who sees which requests

Go to
  1. Leaves
  2. Leave Request

The list shows pending requests. Reporting managers see their own requests and their team’s; Super Admins and users with organisation-wide approval rights see everyone’s. The Approve / Reject button appears for reporting managers (not on their own leave) and Super Admins.

Decide a request

  1. Click the Approve / Reject icon on the request.

  2. Check the request details and the employee’s Current Balance.

  3. For each day, click Approve or Decline — or use Approve all / Decline all.

  4. If you decline any day, enter a Reason for declining. It applies to all declined days.

  5. Click Save Decision, then Yes, submit.

Your decisionsResult
Every day approvedApproved — the days are deducted.
Every day declinedRejected — nothing is deducted.
A mixPartially Approved — only approved days are deducted.

The day list shows every date in the request, including week offs and holidays. Deciding a non-working day has no effect on the balance.

Change or cancel a decision

Decided requests are listed in Approved Leaves (approved and partially approved) and Rejected Leaves (rejected, partially approved and cancelled).

  • The Approve Or Reject icon reopens the request so you can change the decision for each day.
  • The Delete Request icon cancels the leave and returns any approved days to the balance.

Apply for your own leave

  1. In Leave Request, click Apply Leave.

  2. Choose the Type, your Report Manager and enter a Reason for Leave.

  3. Pick the dates in Select Leave Date. For a single date you can tick Half Day.

  4. Click Submit.

Leave is always applied for the signed-in user — there’s no option to apply on someone else’s behalf. Edit or delete your own request while it’s still pending.

Messages employees may see when applying

MessageMeaning
“Available balance (X) is less than the Y day(s) applied for”Not enough balance, counting days already pending.
“Leave already applied for selected dates”Another pending or approved request covers one of the dates.
“The selected dates are all week-offs or holidays”There’s nothing to charge in the range.
“This leave type needs N day(s) notice”The policy requires applying further ahead.
“Maximum N day(s) per request for this leave type”Split the leave into smaller requests.
“Half day leave not allowed”The policy doesn’t allow half days.
“You have already punched in”A full day can’t be applied for today after punching in — apply for a half day.
“Leave locked. This leave can no longer be edited.”The leave is from a previous month and older than 45 days.
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