Absence management software
Leave management by your own policies
Set accrual, carryover, and limits once per policy. Requests reach the right approver, employees see live balances, and worked hours sit next to leave.
Leave rules outgrow the spreadsheet fast
Holidays get retyped for every country, tenure bonuses live in a column, and a request waits a week because the approver is on holiday herself.
Set accrual, tenure, and carryover once per policy
Create a leave category for each absence type, in days or hours, with separate policies per department under one leave type. Each policy sets accrual, tenure milestones, carryover, and request limits.
Count working days per country and schedule
Holiday policies apply by location, department, and division. Choose a country and official holidays stay up to date, while your own dates take priority. A day off costs its share of each person's work pattern.
Route each request to the right approver, even when away
Employees see their available and projected balance before they submit, and managers can file for someone. Flows route each request by role, in parallel or in sequence, and keep moving when an approver is away.
See who is away and why each balance changed
The Leave timeline shows approved absences for everyone your role can see. History lists every request, accrual, carryover, expiry, and correction with its author, its date, and the balance after it.
Record worked hours next to leave
Employees clock in and out, with an optional comment. HR adds missing entries or corrects them with a reason. Timesheets compare worked time with planned time, and time off never counts as undertime.
Leave that the rest of Skailer already knows about
Time off reads locations, work patterns, and FTE from the employee record. Time off decides who is away and what it costs; Flows run the work around it.
What is absence management software in Skailer?
Absence management software in Skailer is the Time off & attendance module of the HR platform. HR creates leave categories and adds policies with 11 accrual schedules, tenure milestones, carryover, and limits. Country holidays and work patterns decide what a request costs. Approval flows route requests by role, with substitutes when an approver is away. Employees clock in and out for timesheets. Pay is calculated in your payroll system.
What the model shows for a 500-person company
VACATION MANAGEMENT
ABSENCE TRACKING
HOURS A YEAR
Compare the ways companies track leave
Teams usually track leave in spreadsheets and shared calendars, in an HR suite built around payroll, or in an HR platform with rules per country and team.
| Capability | Spreadsheets & calendars | HR suites with payroll | Skailer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public holidays | Typed in every year | Calendars per location | Country calendars kept up to date |
| Part-time leave | Calculated by hand | Proration by FTE | Day cost by work pattern, FTE accrual |
| Approvals | Email and chat | Manager approval chains | Flows by role, with substitutes |
| Balance changes | Overwritten cells | Balance history | History with author and date |
| Worked hours | A separate tracker | Varies by vendor | Clock in and out, next to leave |
| AI assistant | None | Varies by vendor | SK.AI and MCP, after you confirm |
How absence management works in Skailer
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Time off & attendance: common questions
What does Skailer absence management software include?
Leave categories and policies, holiday calendars by country, requests against a live balance, approval flows, balance history and reports, and clock-in timesheets. It is the Time off & attendance module of Skailer's HR platform.
Does Skailer count working days or calendar days?
How does the absence management system handle public holidays?
Can the leave management system apply policies per department?
Does the leave management software work with Slack and Google Calendar?
Does Skailer include payroll or shift scheduling?
See your own leave rules running in Skailer
Book a demo to see your accrual, carryover, and approval rules run in Skailer.