Leave types

A leave type is one bookable kind of absence: annual leave, sick leave, study leave, unpaid leave, and any other your company needs. Each type carries its own rules for pay, approval, proof and how it draws down a balance. Editing leave types needs the manage leave types permission, under Settings, Leave Types.

Tenant-wide or per country profile

A type can be shared across the whole workspace, or scoped to a single country profile so only people on that profile see it. Each country profile also carries one protected default type (its annual-leave base): it cannot be deleted, its code is locked, and it is the only type that receives the country-profile bonuses. See Set up country profiles and Quotas and entitlements.

Core settings

When you add or edit a type you set an English and a Hungarian name, a short code, a colour, and these rules:

• Paid: whether the absence is paid or unpaid.
• Requires approval: on means a request waits for an approver; off records it straight away.
• Document policy: whether proof is needed, and when (see below).
• Quota type: how the type draws down a balance (see below).
• Carry-over: allow unused days to roll into next year, with an optional maximum.
• Active: inactive types stop appearing on new requests but keep their history.

Document policy

Set whether a request needs a supporting document, and the deadline to upload it. Leave the deadline blank to use the system default.

Quota types

The quota type decides whether the leave counts against an allowance.

You cannot delete a type while it has active requests (pending, or approved with a future end date). Older, finished requests keep working: their type is detached and shown as a deleted type.