What’s new in Leavly

Two plans to choose from: Essentials for requests, approvals and the team calendar, and Pro for analytics, custom roles, blackout dates and delegation. Both start with a 14-day free trial, and you won’t be charged until it ends. See pricing →

Switch between Essentials and Pro any time from the Billing page.

New companies add a payment method when they sign up. Nothing is charged until the 14-day free trial ends, and you can cancel any time before then.

Time off in lieu (Pro): employees log overtime, a manager approves it, and the hours become time off they can book like any other leave. Admins can turn it on under Policies, set hours to expire after a number of months, and adjust anyone’s balance by hand.

Slack: managers get each leave request as a Slack message and approve or reject it with one click, employees hear back in Slack, and a channel you pick gets a daily “who’s out today” post. Admins and HR admins connect it from Integrations, on every plan. How to connect Slack →

Microsoft Teams: new requests, decisions and the daily “who’s out” summary can be posted to a Teams channel. Paste a Teams workflow link on the Integrations page to connect it.

The Free plan is no longer offered to new companies. Companies already on it keep their current plan.

Emails telling employees their leave was approved or declined now carry your company’s name instead of Leavly’s, and are signed by your HR team, so they read as coming from you.

A setup checklist that takes a new company from an empty workspace to its first approved day off in six steps. It ticks itself off as you go, and a card on your dashboard shows what is still left. Read the setup guide →

Import a whole year of public holidays by picking your country. Ten countries to start with, weekend substitutions handled, and you can untick anything your company does not take before you import.

Company settings now hold your timezone and website, alongside the owner and contact details.

Bulk import counts only the rows that are actually ready. Problems appear on the row that caused them, and Import stays switched off until they are fixed - so a blank row can no longer be reported as a user ready to go.

A new request opens on the next working day rather than today, so it never suggests a Saturday or a public holiday, and it tells you how many working days a range covers before you send it.

The request form now works with a keyboard and a screen reader. Every date and time field has a proper label, and calendar days are announced as “Monday, September 7” instead of just “7”.

Analytics shows a dash and “No requests yet” for a year with nothing in it, instead of an approval rate of 0% that read as though every request had been turned down.

The contact page is for support now, not sales. There is no quote to wait for and no demo to sit through - signing up is still the quickest way in.

The owner name and email you enter when creating a company are saved to Company settings. They used to be left blank, and existing companies have been filled in.

Typing a date straight into a date field now works. The calendar used to open on every click and throw away what you had typed.

A Help Center with quick-start guides for employees and admins, plus answers to the most common questions. You’ll find it under Support in the sidebar. Open the Help Center →

Edit or cancel your own pending request right from the Requests page.

Admins and HR admins can permanently delete finished leave requests (approved, cancelled or rejected), for example one that was entered by mistake.

Managers and admins now see the note someone added to their request on the Requests page, the dashboard and the team calendar. Other employees still only see who is off, not why.

The welcome email now links to the Help Center and reminds you that Leavly will never ask for your password or payment details.

Leavly has a new green design across the website and the app, in both light and dark mode.

When you create a company, a welcome message greets you and points you to the best first step: inviting your team.

A redesigned welcome email for new companies, with a short three-step setup checklist.

A step-by-step guide to setting up Leavly for your company: departments, leave policies, roles and inviting your team. Read the setup guide →

The free leave tracker template now comes with a picture-by-picture guide for opening it in Google Sheets.

In time zones behind UTC (like the Americas), some leave dates showed one day early. Dates now always match the days you picked.

The Pro plan, for teams bigger than 5 people, with custom roles, analytics and reports. Try it free for 30 days, no credit card needed to start. See pricing →

A Billing page where admins can see their plan, change the number of seats and add a payment method.

Choose the Free or Pro plan when you create your company.

When you review a vacation request, Leavly warns you if someone else in the same department already has vacation booked or requested for those dates.

A free leave tracker template for Excel and Google Sheets. Download it without signing up. Get the template →

The contact form now sends your message straight to our team, and we reply to the email address you enter.

Blackout dates: block a date range, like year-end close, so no one can request leave during it.

Choose whether each leave type counts against the yearly allowance. By default sick leave does and remote work doesn’t.

New companies get a welcome email when they sign up.

Each company now has its own list of public holidays.

Leavly 1.0 beta is live: request leave, get approvals by email, and see who is off on the team calendar.

A Free plan for teams of up to 5 people.

Your company’s own leave types now show up when you request leave.

Request leave for past dates, for time off you forgot to log.

Public holidays are skipped when counting days, so they don’t use up your allowance.

The date picker now starts the week on Monday.

Pick department colors from a set of swatches, or enter any hex code.