Plan your team's annual leave on one wall chart: add your staff and their allowance, click the days they're off, and see how many days each person has left. Bank holidays are already marked.
A staff holiday planner, or leave wall chart, puts everyone on one page: a row per person and a column per day, so you can see who is off before you agree to the next request. A good one also shows each person's allowance and how much of it is left, marks the bank holidays, and counts how many people are away on each day.
The allowance is where most charts go wrong. Almost all UK workers are entitled to 5.6 weeks' paid holiday a year, which is 28 days for someone working five days a week, and employers can count bank holidays as part of it. Part-time staff get the same 5.6 weeks of their own working week. The pro rata holiday calculator works out a part-timer's, a starter's or a leaver's figure, and the GOV.UK guide to holiday entitlement has the rules.
Then the notice. Unless a contract says otherwise, a worker should give notice of at least twice the length of the holiday they want, and an employer who refuses has to say so with as much notice as the holiday is long. Setting a limit on how many people can be off at once, and agreeing who gets the busy weeks, is covered in our guide to writing a holiday rota, which also has a 2027 staff holiday planner to download for Excel.
A planner on paper or in a spreadsheet only shows what you write on it. In TimeTally the same chart is the staff holiday tracker your team uses: staff ask for time off from their phones, you approve it in one tap, balances update on their own, and approved leave appears on the rota before you put someone on a shift. Sickness and other absence go in the same place, see leave tracking software.
Then £3 per employee per month. No card needed to start.
Yes. Adding your team and planning their leave is free and needs no account. Downloading it as a spreadsheet asks you to create a TimeTally account first: a 14-day free trial with no card, then £3 per employee per month if you carry on. Your team, their allowances and every day off come with you, booked as approved leave.
Yes, for England and Wales. They are marked on the chart and can't be booked, because nobody needs to book a day the business is already closed. They are not taken from anyone's allowance, so set the allowance to the days a person books themselves: a full-time worker on the statutory minimum has 28 days including bank holidays, which is 20 to book plus the 8 bank holidays. Scotland and Northern Ireland have different bank holidays; GOV.UK lists them.
In this browser, on this device. Come back on the same browser and it's still there. Clearing your browsing data deletes it, and it isn't shared with anyone.
Yes. Click a day once for a day off, again for a half day, and a third time to clear it. A half day counts as half a day against the allowance, and the person still shows as off in the People off row.
Almost all workers are entitled to 5.6 weeks' paid holiday a year. For someone working five days a week that is 28 days, and employers can include bank holidays in it. Part-time workers get 5.6 times the days they work each week, so three days a week is 16.8 days. Use the pro rata holiday calculator for part-timers, starters and leavers.
Not on this page: it is a planner for the person who keeps the holiday chart. In TimeTally, staff ask for time off from their phones, you approve or decline it, and their balance updates on its own, with approved leave showing on the rota.
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