Time off, booked without the email chain

Your team picks a kind of leave and two dates, at a desk or on a phone. They can see what it costs them and what it leaves them before they send it, so what reaches you is a request you can simply say yes to.

Booking time off in Shoreleave: the kind of leave, the dates and a note down the left, and on the right the number of days it costs, what that leaves, and the colleagues already away on those days.

The end of "how many days do I have left?": Everyone can see their own balance whenever they want, so nobody has to come and ask you for it.
The counting is done for them: Weekends, public holidays and the days someone doesn't work are left out, and each one is named on the request so nobody thinks the total is wrong.
Half days without the arithmetic: A morning or an afternoon at either end of a trip, and every balance keeps up by itself.
They can see who else is off first: Whoever is already booked on those days is on the screen while they choose, so most clashes never reach you at all.
Sickness logged in ten seconds: Record it the morning someone calls in, with no end date to guess at. Close it off when they're back and the days count themselves.
Hours, if that's how you count: Book leave in whole hours instead of days, with each person's working day set to its own length.

Approve a week of requests in a couple of minutes

Everything waiting on you is in one list, the longest wait first, with the dates, the days and what saying yes would leave that person. Nothing to look up, and nothing going stale at the bottom of your inbox.

Everything you need is on the request: The dates, the days, what it leaves them and whatever they wrote. You're never deciding half blind.
Answer wherever you are: At your desk, on your phone, or from a message in Slack or Teams. Every email about a request has a button that opens it.
Cover for each other: Give a team as many approvers as you like, or none and its requests come to you. Nobody approves their own time off.
Sickness never slips past you: An absence nobody had to approve still waits on your list until one of you has seen it.
Plans change: Your people can cancel before it starts, and you can cancel leave that's already booked, even once it has started. The days go straight back to the year they came from.
The right people get told: Asked, approved, declined, cancelled. Everyone who needs to know gets an email, and nobody gets one about something they just did themselves.

The requests waiting for an answer in Shoreleave, shown as cards: each with the person, when they asked, the dates, their note, what it costs, what it would leave them, and a Decline and an Approve button.

Know who is off next week without asking anyone

A row for each person and five weeks across the top. Narrow it to one team, step through the months, and plan the work around what you can see instead of around what you can remember.

Plan cover at a glance: One team or the whole company, with the weekends, the public holidays and the days you're closed already shaded in behind.
Part-timers come out right: Someone who never works Wednesdays isn't shown as away on one, and their allowance isn't charged for it.
The detail behind every day: Who it is, what the day is called, which country's holiday it is, and the dates they asked for.
Fewer interruptions for you: Everyone in the company can open it, so "is Sofia in on Thursday?" isn't a message anyone has to send.

The Shoreleave chart on a tablet: people grouped by team down the side, five weeks of days across the top, coral bars on the days each person is away, and a pale column on the day the whole company is closed.

Everyone can see who is away. You decide whether they also see what kind of leave it is, and whether a request nobody has answered yet shows on the chart.

Put it on the screen in the corridor

The same chart on a television, at whatever size the screen is. It refreshes itself all day and moves on to the new week overnight, so nobody has to touch it again.

The Shoreleave chart on a television: the whole company over five weeks, grouped by team, with the colour key along the bottom and the time it last refreshed.

Nobody has to run it: No buttons and no menus, and nothing to set up again on Monday morning.
Safe to leave on a wall: It shows exactly what your chart shows everyone else. Lock it and that screen stops being signed in, so nobody walking past can use your account.
It answers the question before it's asked: Who is in today, who is back tomorrow, and which weeks the team has already picked.

Never work out an allowance by hand again

Joiners, leavers, part-timers, half days, carry-over and the days you were closed. Every balance is right the moment anyone looks at it, and everyone can see their own, which is the end of the December spreadsheet.

Pro rata without the calculator: Someone who starts in March gets their share of the year, to the nearest half day, and it's right again the moment you change their allowance.
Carry-over on your terms: Move nothing, a few days or everything into the next year, with a date to use it by. You see every person's figures before you run it, and you can change a line.
Lieu days, bought days and corrections: Put days on or take them off one year, with a note on each that the person can read.
Reward service and attendance: Extra days for years worked, or for a year with little sickness. Set the numbers once and they're handed out for you.
Leave that builds up through the year: Turn it on where your people earn their days a little every day instead of getting the whole year in January.
A leave year that starts when yours does: Start it in January, April or whatever month you use. A holiday that runs across the turn is split between the two years for you.
Nobody is caught out in December: Everyone can see what they have left and by when, all year round.

One person's leave in Shoreleave: their allowance, the days the company was closed, what they have taken and booked and what's left, with the year's leave listed underneath.

Holiday, sickness, and whatever else you call a day off

Annual leave, sickness, unpaid, parental and other are there on the first day. Rename them to the words your handbook uses, and add the ones your line of work has.

Choosing the kind of leave in Shoreleave: Annual, Sickness, Unpaid, Parental and Other, each one a button with its own icon.

Your company's own words: Call it what your company calls it, and that's what everyone sees and books.
You decide what counts: Whether it comes out of the yearly allowance, has an allowance of its own like three volunteering days, or comes out of nothing. Whether it needs approving, and who can book it.
Easy to read at a glance: Each kind has its own icon and its own color, so a busy chart still tells you what you're looking at.
Your history stays intact: Stop using a kind of leave and last year's records still say exactly what they said. Bring it back whenever you like.

Set up in an afternoon, not a quarter

Tell it your company, where you are, whether you count in days or hours, when your leave year starts and what a new starter gets. Your public holidays are on the chart straight away, and everything else already has a sensible answer in it.

Public holidays you never type in: Your country's days, for your region where that matters, on everyone's chart and in everyone's balance.
Your own closures too: The days you shut between Christmas and New Year, added once and counted for everyone.
Everyone's working week: Five days, four days, or whatever someone actually works. Every count in the product follows it.
A few questions, then a short list: Answer what it needs to count a day off and you're in. What's left is a list of next steps that ticks itself off as you go.

The company settings in Shoreleave: the name, the language and the time zone on one side, the countries people work in on the other, and the leave policy starting underneath.

Your whole team in, in one go

Bring in the spreadsheet you already keep, or add people one at a time. They set their own password from the invitation, so you're never holding anyone's.

The staff list in Shoreleave: each person with their team, their allowance, what they have left, the day they started and what they're allowed to do.

Import the spreadsheet you already have: Names, email addresses, start dates and teams. It's the four columns you're already keeping.
Teams, and who answers for them: Put people in teams and name the managers who approve for each one.
Everyone sees what they should: Owners and admins manage the company, managers their own team, and everyone sees their own leave and the chart.
Someone on a different deal: Give one person their own allowance and leave everyone else on the company's.
When someone leaves: Archive them. They're off your bill from the next month, and their records stay on your reports.

The numbers payroll keeps asking you for

Three reports, each one a spreadsheet at the press of a button.

What everyone has left: Allowance, carried days, booked, taken and left, for any leave year, and each kind of leave that has its own allowance.
Absence for payroll: Days by person and by kind of leave between two dates. Send it on as it is.
Sickness that tells you something: Days off sick and how many separate spells, per person, over any period you pick.
Leavers are counted too: Anyone who was with you during the period is on the report.
Numbers you can stand behind: The file is the report on your screen, to the half day. There's no second version to reconcile.

The balances report in Shoreleave: a row for each person with their allowance, adjustments, the days the company was closed, what they have booked and taken, and what's left.

It fits the sign-in, chat and calendar you already have

Sign in with the accounts you already manage, answer requests in the chat app your team already has open, and see who is off in the calendar you already live in.

Have it post who is off today into a channel every weekday morning, or leave that switched off. Either way, what goes into a channel says who is away and never why.

The integrations page in Shoreleave: a card for Slack and a card for Microsoft Teams, each saying what connecting does, with the button that connects it.

Google Your people sign in with their Google Workspace account. Require it, and suspending someone there locks them out here within the hour.
Microsoft Your people can sign in with their Microsoft 365 work or school account, so nobody gets in on a personal address.
Slack Approve or decline from a message, ask who is off without leaving the app, and show Away on your own account while you're out.
Microsoft Teams A card you can answer a request from, a bot that says who is off, and Away beside someone's name while they're off.
Your calendar Subscribe once and your team's time off turns up in Outlook, Google Calendar or Apple Calendar, your closures with it.

People in more than one country

German public holidays for Berlin and Dutch ones for Amsterdam, every person counted on their own country's days, and the whole product in the language each of them reads.

What a booking costs, in Dutch: three days, why the weekend is free, and what's left of the year. — Nederlands

A holiday calendar for each country: Add one for every country you employ people in, down to the region where that matters, and the right days count for the right people.
See when another office is shut: You can see that Berlin is shut on a day you're open, without anyone having to tell you.
Seven languages, nothing to set up: English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Polish. Each person picks their own, and their screens follow it, as do the emails and chat messages sent to them.
Your words stay your words: A team you name and a kind of leave you name read the same in every one of them.

Your people's details stay in Europe

Shoreleave runs in Amsterdam, and everything you put in it is kept inside the European Union. It's built for the GDPR from the ground up, with no tracking and no advertising anywhere in it.

Hosted in the EU: The app and the database run on servers in Amsterdam, and that's where your records are kept.
You stay in control: Your company decides what's recorded and why, and we only process it on your behalf. Every report saves as a spreadsheet whenever you want your data out.
Encrypted: Everything travels over an encrypted connection, and names and email addresses are encrypted before they're stored, so a copy of the database on its own names nobody.
No tracking, no cookies: No tracking pixels, no advertising and no third-party scripts, on this site or in the app.
You decide who sees why: Health is sensitive data, so you choose whether colleagues see why someone is off or only that they're away.
Never sold: Your data is used to run your account and for nothing else. It's never sold and never used to advertise to anyone.

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