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TimeTally comes with Annual Leave, Sick Leave, TOIL (Time Off in Lieu), Unpaid Leave, Maternity Leave, and Paternity Leave built in. These cover the most common UK leave requirements out of the box and can be used immediately without any configuration.

Yes. You can create unlimited custom leave types with any name you choose (e.g. Study Leave, Compassionate Leave, Volunteering). For each custom type you can set: whether it is paid or unpaid; whether it deducts from the employee's annual leave balance; or whether it has its own separate balance (e.g. Study Leave — 5 days per year). You can also choose a colour and icon so they're easy to identify in the calendar.

• Upfront — the full year's entitlement is available from day one of the leave year.
• Monthly — leave accrues proportionally each month as the year progresses.
• Daily — leave accrues each day, calculated as days elapsed ÷ days in year × total entitlement.
• Hours worked — leave accrues based on approved hours submitted in timesheets, ideal for variable-hours workers.

Yes. As an admin you can set exactly how many days (or hours) employees are allowed to carry over into the next leave year. You can also set an expiry date for carryover — for example, any carried-over leave must be used by 31 March. If the expiry date passes, unspent carryover is automatically forfeited. You can also set carryover to zero if you do not allow it at all.

When you mark an employee as part-time, you select which days of the week they work. TimeTally automatically calculates their pro-rata annual leave entitlement based on those working days as a proportion of a full-time week. Bank holidays are booked only on the days each person normally works, from their working pattern, so a bank holiday on a day they don't work isn't booked for them. For example, an employee working 4 days a week receives 80% of the full-time entitlement.

Yes. Managers and admins can submit leave requests on behalf of any employee — useful if an employee calls in sick and can't log in themselves. Managers are also responsible for approving or rejecting leave requests submitted by their team.