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Leave management without the paperwork (or the guilt)

PayrollOctober 5, 2026·2 min read·by the Teamdott team

In companies under fifty people, leave is usually managed by vibes: a message to the boss, a thumbs-up, and three weeks later nobody remembers whether that Friday was paid. Then payroll month-end becomes archaeology.

The whole loop in one place

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The leave queue: pending requests with hours and reasons, and the monthly paid-leave balance doing the arithmetic for you.
The leave queue: pending requests with hours and reasons, and the monthly paid-leave balance doing the arithmetic for you.

Approved means handled everywhere

The moment a request is approved, it stops being a note and becomes data: the day shows as On leave on the Today screen, fills the right cell in the timesheet, and is paid (or not) correctly in payroll — paid-leave hours up to your monthly cap at the hourly rate, unpaid hours simply unpaid. No one transcribes anything.

Fairness by default

A monthly paid-leave allowance (say, 16 hours) is set once in Rates & rules and enforced by arithmetic, not awkward conversations. Half-day requests exist because dentists exist. And because approvals carry names and timestamps, "you never approved it" arguments simply end.

Delegation tip: leave approvals are a single permission in HR team & access — you can hand them to a team lead without also exposing payroll.

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