What’s new in Leavly

New features, improvements and fixes, newest first.

Help Center, and more control over requests

  • New

    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 →

  • New

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

  • New

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

  • Improved

    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.

  • Improved

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

A fresh new look

  • New

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

  • New

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

  • Improved

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

Setup guide and a date fix

  • New

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

  • Improved

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

  • Fixed

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

Pro plan and billing

  • New

    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 →

  • New

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

  • New

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

Overlap warnings

  • New

    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.

Contact form

  • Fixed

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

Blackout dates and leave policies

  • New

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

  • New

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

  • New

    New companies get a welcome email when they sign up.

  • Improved

    Each company now has its own list of public holidays.

v1.0 beta

Leavly 1.0 beta

  • New

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

  • New

    A Free plan for teams of up to 5 people.

  • New

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

  • New

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

  • Improved

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

  • Improved

    The date picker now starts the week on Monday.

  • Improved

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

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