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Leave management software from Sage

Leave management systems can help you keep accurate records and empower employees to self-manage their time-off requests and attendance.

Why use leave management software?

Leave management software helps to streamline the tracking and management of employee absences, reducing the potential for errors and disputes. It helps ensure compliance with legal and company-specific leave policies, and cuts down admin time, allowing a more focused and efficient approach to workforce management.

Track and report attendance and leave online

Access our cloud-based leave and absence management system from any location, and on any device. With attendance and holiday tracking features, your team can update records on the go. 

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Identify and troubleshoot absences

With the right absence management software in place, you can spot challenges with attendance to help identify colleagues or teams that need more support or resources.

Pay accurately and on time

Attendance tracker and leave management systems ensure that everyone gets paid accurately, and for hours worked. Boost morale, increase productivity, and make payments run smoothly.

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Manage absences anytime, anywhere

Our mobile apps allow employees to request and approve absences and leave on the go. This ensures faster processing, reduces delays, and makes it ideal for remote workers, field employees, and on-site staff. For HR managers and payroll professionals, it streamlines absence tracking, improves accuracy, and enhances workforce management without being tied to a desk.

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Absence management software features

Our absence, leave, and attendance tracking software tools include a range of features that can help you manage your team more effectively.

Real-time reporting

Get real-time leave insights with tracking software for accurate attendance data.

Shared leave calendar

Annual leave software with shared calendars ensures transparency and fairness in holiday requests.

Employee self-service

Intuitive, easy-to-use self-serve solutions make for a better employee experience. Give your staff more flexibility and autonomy.

Holiday and time off approval from anywhere

Easily manage absence requests and approvals with leave software—at your desk or on the go.

Our leave management software solutions

Discover the best attendance tracking and leave management tool for your business.

Sage Payroll

Sage Business Cloud

Our effortless cloud-based payroll solution for small businesses with up to 100 employees.

  • Get accurate, compliant payslips each pay period in just a few clicks
  • Whatever the latest changes, we’ve got your legislative reporting covered
  • Access reports and analyse your payroll to make informed decisions 
  • Make automated payroll calculations and submissions
  • Get expert support anytime, anywhere, all year round
  • Share access with your accountant

Payroll Professional

Sage Business Cloud

Powerful payroll software with simple statutory HR functionality for employee management:

  • Cloud-based solution that can be accessed from anywhere, anytime through a link
  • Easy to use software
  • This solution allows you to add integrated modules and combine functions to expand its capabilities - adapting to fit your requirements no matter how fast your business grows
  • Country specific statutory reports for over 13 African countries including: Angola, Botswana, DRC, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe
  • Automatic legislative software updates
  • Intuitive real-time reporting
  • Three distinct modules can be integrated into a single package: Payroll, Personnel Management and Sage Self-Service

Sage HR

Sage Business Cloud

Solve your HR challenges. Onboard your employees, automate your HR process and get meaningful insights:

  • Achieve full visibility of your remote workforce, with an online employee database that’s your single source of truth
  • Give your employees instant and remote self-service access to everything they need, such as payslips, company policies, updates, absence requests, schedules, and more
  • Enable your people to request leave, check holiday balance and see who’s away, any time, anywhere
  • Share goals and priorities to unite team efforts while you can’t be in the office. Align with your company vision, and keep track of progress
  • No risking infection by multiple handling of receipts or unnecessary journeys to the office - employees submit expenses simply by photographing the receipt directly from the mobile app

Sage 300 People

On-premise

Advanced all-in-one payroll, HR and Self-Service software with strong HR functionality.

  • Local desktop solution that can be hosted through a Managed Cloud Service
  • Intuitive software
  • Reliable solution for scalable growing businesses that are more complex. This solution is ideal for multiple companies with multiple legislations to consider
  • Legislation available for 28 African countries, including Saudi Arabia and UAE
  • Automatic legislative software updates
  • Advanced reporting embedded within the system that supports API integrations with analytical tools
  • End-to-end HCM solution for medium businesses with key modules that include: Expense Management, Job Costing, Advanced batch processing, Job Management, Performance Management, Budgeting and Core ISV integrations via API's

“They can now update all this information directly themselves, and they can also see if their colleague is on vacation or not using the shared calendar. It is so easy to request time off or to request to work from home using Sage HR.”

Laura Di Prisco
Global Culture & People Lead

Absence and leave management system FAQs

Cloud-based attendance tracking and leave management software are online solutions that help businesses monitor staff absence and working patterns. A good attendance and absence management software tool can also offer managers an easy and effective way to review and approve holiday requests online, giving the whole team an instant overview of who's off at any given time.

When it comes to cutting down on sick leave, it’s important to understand the reasons behind above-average absenteeism. While most people take time off for legitimate health reasons, it’s also important to rule out the possibility of sick leave abuse, or time theft. Attendance and absence management software can eliminate the guesswork from this process, as it helps managers track sickness absence and find any worrying patterns. 

For employees suffering with different medical ailments, some ways a business can help to reduce sick leave include:

  • Creating a culture that encourages a healthy work-life balance.
  • Having a clear policy for absences.
  • Implementing wellness programmes: these support employees’ well-being with things like voluntary health assessments, occupational health facilities, and opportunities for flexible work.

As for annual leave, it’s important to encourage employees to spread out their holidays across the year rather than saving them up. Taking regular breaks from work will keep their well-being and motivation levels high throughout the year. You should also be mindful of how many people are taking annual leave at the same time, to support business continuity.

Turning down holiday requests can be badly received, so it’s helpful to have a clear practice in place for accepting requests, such as ‘first come, first served’. Effective annual leave management software can help keep with transparency in relation to holiday requests and approvals.

With Sage, what you pay will depend on which attendance tracking and leave management software solution you opt for, as well as your number of employees and specific business needs. 

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