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Leave management software with policies, balances, and approvals
Configure leave types and policies, accept applications with deduction previews, approve or cancel requests, and keep balances accurate — including sandwich leave rules and related comp-off workflows.
Dayzen · HRMS
What is leave management software?
Leave management software lets employees request time off, routes approvals, updates balances, and keeps an auditable record of leave types and policies. Dayzen leave management runs that apply → approve → balance cycle inside HRMS, with holiday calendars, sandwich leave rules, and related comp-off workflows.
Who this helps
- Employees who need clear leave balances and requests
- Managers approving leave without inbox ping-pong
- HR teams configuring policies, holidays, and credits
Leave without inbox ping-pong
Dayzen leave management replaces spreadsheet balances and email chains with a structured apply → approve → balance cycle, plus holiday calendars and policy-driven credit rules.
Dayzen · Apply leave
Approve
Managers and HR work approvals and cancellation requests in dual-tab queues with pending counts.
Balance
Balances update from policy credits, grants, and approved usage — visible on employee leave views.
Dayzen leave capabilities
- Leave application with half-day and deduction preview
- Personal leave balances and request history
- Approvals and cancellation request queues
- Leave policies with quotas and allocation method overrides
- Leave type templates and custom types
- Sandwich leave policy engine with weekend/holiday rules
- Granted (ad-hoc) leave credits and history
- Company holiday list with CSV import support
Dayzen · Balances
Dayzen · Sandwich rules
Policy engine
Sandwich leave and policy depth
Dayzen can apply sandwich rules per leave type or across leave types, include weekends and holidays, detect single multi-day sandwiches, and evaluate adjacent leave applications. Special leave kinds such as birthday, granted, and time-based flexi leave can be exempted. Rejected or cancelled sandwich requests restore sandwich metadata credits correctly. For a policy-first explainer, read sandwich leave explained.Comp-off (related). Comp-off can be earned for holiday, weekend, or overtime work and redeemed as leave credit or handled as encashment where configured, with expiry processing. A dedicated comp-off feature page may follow; today these workflows sit alongside leave management.
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Explore HRMS overviewFAQ
What is leave management software?
Leave management software lets employees request time off, routes approvals, updates balances, and keeps an auditable record of leave types and policies.
Which leave types can Dayzen support?
Dayzen includes leave type templates such as Casual, Sick, Earned, and Emergency, plus custom templates managed through leave type configuration and policy assignments.
What is sandwich leave?
Sandwich leave rules can treat intervening weekends and/or holidays between leave days as deductible leave, based on policy settings. Dayzen supports per-leave-type or all-leave-type trigger modes, multi-day detection, adjacent-leave detection, and exemptions for special leave kinds such as birthday, granted, and time-based flexi leave.
Can employees cancel approved leave?
Yes. Employees can submit cancellation requests for pending or upcoming approved leave. Cancellation requests appear in a dedicated approvals tab alongside leave approvals.
How do leave balances update?
Balances reflect applications, approvals, grants, and policy credits. Dayzen also runs leave credit reset and accrual jobs for annual and monthly allocation methods, including carry-forward limits where configured.
How does leave relate to payroll LOP?
Attendance and leave outcomes feed payroll processing. Loss-of-pay adjustments are part of Dayzen payroll workflows when unpaid absence needs to be reflected in pay.
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Bring leave types, sandwich rules, and approval chains — we will show how Dayzen models them.