Alphanomic

Leave management software

Configure leave policies your HR team and managers can trust

When leave rules live in policy PDFs and balances get updated in spreadsheets, approvals slow down and rota coverage suffers. Alphanomic runs accrual rules, eligibility, restrictions, encashment, carry forward, and approval workflows in one leave policy engine for UK teams.

  • Create unlimited leave types and policies for every employee group and location
  • Automate accrual, balance caps, and eligibility rules without manual spreadsheet updates
  • Approve leave with audit trails while protecting rota coverage and team calendars
30-day trialUK shift-based teamsMulti-location readyManager approval workflowsSecure workforce records

Why teams choose Alphanomic

Enterprise leave management without spreadsheet policy chasing

Leave policies, accrual rules, compliance, approvals, and multi-location control in one workforce platform.

Configurable policies

Build leave types, accrual rules, and eligibility criteria for every employee group.

Stronger compliance

Enforce notice periods, consecutive leave limits, and conflict detection automatically.

Better team planning

Team calendars and balance visibility help managers plan around planned absences.

Clear leave liability

Track balances, carry forward, encashment, and leave forecasting for HR and finance.

Proof for busy UK teams

Leave outcomes HR and operations teams can measure

Fewer approval delays, clearer team availability, and stronger policy compliance across every location you operate.

Flexible

Policy control

Unlimited leave types with location, role, and department-specific rules.

Automated

Accrual engine

Monthly, quarterly, and yearly accrual with caps and balance restrictions.

Auditable

Approval clarity

Multi-level workflows with history, comments, and rejection handling.

Outcomes UK operations teams report

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Core leave capabilities

Policy engine, accrual, rules, and approvals configured for your business

Four pillars that separate Alphanomic from basic leave trackers.

01

Leave policy engine

Create annual, sick, maternity, custom, and unpaid policies with effective dates and documentation.

  • Unlimited leave types
  • Default policy setup
  • Policy effective and expiry dates
  • Custom policy documentation
02

Accrual & entitlements

Automatically calculate leave entitlements with accrual limits and balance caps.

  • Monthly and yearly accrual
  • Working-day based accrual
  • Accrual limits and balance caps
  • Automated balance updates
03

Rules & restrictions

Control how employees apply for leave with notice periods and compliance checks.

  • Advance notice requirements
  • Consecutive leave limits
  • Leave conflict detection
  • Policy compliance monitoring
04

Approval workflows

Single or multi-level approvals with notifications, audit trails, and escalation rules.

  • Manager approval workflows
  • Multi-level approval chains
  • Approval history tracking
  • Rejection workflows

How it works

From policy setup to approved absence in one workflow

Alphanomic matches how HR teams actually manage leave: configure rules, validate requests, approve with coverage context, then update records automatically.

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01

Configure

Set leave types, accrual rules, eligibility, and restrictions by group.

02

Request

Employees apply via self-service portal with balance validation.

03

Approve

Managers review conflicts, coverage, and policy compliance.

04

Track

Monitor balances, calendars, liability, and leave reports.

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See it in action

Leave policies, balances, and calendars on every device

Configure leave rules on web while employees request leave, check balances, and follow approval status from mobile.

How leave management works

Policies, accrual, approvals, and team calendars

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Leave management software walkthrough

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Web screenshots

Leave policy setup

Configure types, accrual rules, and eligibility.

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Leave policy configuration on web

Leave management software features

Complete leave policy engine for UK organisations

Nine feature areas covering policies, accrual, restrictions, holidays, encashment, approvals, calendars, multi-location control, and reporting.

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01

Core feature

Leave policy management

Create and manage custom leave policies for different employee groups across your organisation.

Included features

  • Unlimited leave types
  • Annual leave policies
  • Sick leave policies
  • Maternity leave policies
  • Paternity leave policies
  • Compassionate leave policies
  • Unpaid leave policies
  • Custom leave types
  • Default leave policy setup
  • Policy description and documentation
  • Policy effective dates
  • Policy expiry dates
  • Join date based eligibility
  • Service length requirements
  • Department and location specific policies
  • Bulk employee assignment

Leave policy management

Leave policy management settings
02

Core feature

Leave accrual and entitlements

Automatically calculate leave entitlements based on company accrual rules and employment criteria.

Included features

  • Leave accrual rules
  • Monthly accrual
  • Quarterly accrual
  • Yearly accrual
  • Date-based accrual
  • Working-day based accrual
  • Accrual limits
  • Leave balance caps
  • Stop accrual at maximum balance
  • Accrual restrictions on exit
  • Automated leave balance updates
  • Leave entitlement tracking
  • Real-time leave balances
  • Available, used, and pending leave tracking

Leave accrual and entitlements

Leave accrual and entitlement management
03

Core feature

Leave application rules and restrictions

Define how employees apply for leave and enforce compliance with company policy automatically.

Included features

  • Future leave requests
  • Past date leave requests
  • Advance notice requirements
  • Minimum notice period rules
  • Leave request windows
  • Leave duration controls
  • Consecutive leave limits
  • Leave application frequency limits
  • Leave balance validation
  • Fractional leave handling
  • Full day and half day requests
  • Leave consumption rules
  • Minimum gap between requests
  • Leave during notice period controls
  • Duplicate request prevention
  • Leave conflict detection
  • Policy compliance monitoring

Leave application rules and restrictions

Leave application rules and restrictions
04

Holiday and weekend handling

Control how public holidays and weekends impact leave calculations across locations.

Included features

  • Holiday exclusion rules
  • Holiday inclusion rules
  • Weekend exclusion rules
  • Weekend inclusion rules
  • Holiday between leave handling
  • Weekend between leave handling
  • Country specific holiday calendars
  • Location based holiday policies
  • Public holiday management
  • Regional holiday rules
  • Weekly off rules
  • Holiday attendance policies

Holiday and weekend handling

Holiday and weekend leave rules
05

Carry forward and leave encashment

Manage unused leave balances, year-end processing, and encashment rules with full control.

Included features

  • Carry forward rules
  • Leave expiry rules
  • Carry forward limits
  • Leave reset policies
  • Year-end leave processing
  • Leave encashment rules
  • Fixed encashment calculation
  • Formula-based encashment
  • Leave payout management
  • Notice period encashment controls
  • Comp-off management
  • TOIL (time off in lieu)
  • Comp-off expiry rules
  • Leave liability reporting

Carry forward and leave encashment

Carry forward and leave encashment rules
06

Core feature

Approval workflows

Automate leave approvals while maintaining management control and complete audit visibility.

Included features

  • Single-level approval
  • Multi-level approval
  • Manager approval workflow
  • Department approval workflow
  • Escalation rules
  • Approval notifications
  • Rejection workflows
  • Leave audit trail
  • Approval history tracking
  • Approval comments
  • Location based approval chains
  • Waiting period and probation rules

Approval workflows

Leave approval workflow
07

Team leave calendar

Give managers visibility into planned absences, balances, and coverage across teams.

Included features

  • Team leave calendar
  • Department leave calendar
  • Location leave calendar
  • Monthly leave view
  • List and calendar views
  • Employee availability visibility
  • Leave conflict detection
  • Leave coverage planning
  • Leave balance view for employees
  • Leave history and approval status
  • Mobile leave requests
  • Leave notifications
  • Employee self-service portal

Team leave calendar

Team leave calendar and employee self-service
08

Multi-location leave management

Manage leave policies and administration across all business locations from one platform.

Included features

  • Multi-location leave policies
  • Location specific entitlements
  • Regional holiday rules
  • Department specific leave policies
  • Location based approval chains
  • Centralised leave administration
  • Cross-location reporting
  • Role-based assignment
  • Employee group assignment
  • Policy reassignment and bulk updates

Multi-location leave management

Multi-location leave management
09

Leave reporting and analytics

Monitor leave trends, workforce availability, and leave liability with exportable reports.

Included features

  • Leave reports
  • Leave balance reports
  • Leave consumption reports
  • Leave trend analysis
  • Department leave reports
  • Location leave reports
  • Leave liability reports
  • Leave forecast reports
  • Export to Excel
  • Export to PDF
  • Team leave balance visibility
  • Leave forecasting

Leave reporting and analytics

Leave reporting and analytics

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Spreadsheets vs Alphanomic

Why growing teams move leave management into one platform

Manual leave tracking works for small teams. As headcount grows, HR needs connected policies, accrual rules, approval workflows, and team calendars in one place.

Leave policy setup
SpreadsheetsManual spreadsheets
AlphanomicConfigurable policy engine
Accrual calculation
SpreadsheetsManual or basic
AlphanomicAutomated accrual rules
Eligibility rules
SpreadsheetsInformal
AlphanomicJoin date, probation, role-based
Holiday & weekend rules
SpreadsheetsOften ignored
AlphanomicBuilt into calculations
Carry forward & encashment
SpreadsheetsManual year-end
AlphanomicRules-based processing
Multi-location leave
SpreadsheetsSeparate processes
AlphanomicCentralised platform

Move leave policies, approval workflows, and team calendars into one platform your HR team uses every week.

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Built for shift-based UK teams

Staff rota software for industries that run on shifts

Hospitality, retail, healthcare, cleaning, and operations teams use Alphanomic to plan rotas with clearer scheduling workflows across every site they run.

Rotas, attendance, and leave connected for UK shift teams across hospitality, retail, care, and operations.

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Customer proof

Leave approvals used to scatter across email threads. Now managers see team calendars and coverage impact before they approve, which saved us from last-minute rota rebuilds.

Ruben Hudson

Area Manager

Connected workforce platform

Rotas work better with attendance, leave, and employee records

Scheduling is one part of workforce management. Alphanomic connects rotas with attendance, leave, employee records, and reporting in one daily workflow.

One connected platform

5 workforce modules linked to your rota planning workflow.

Explore how rotas connect with attendance tracking, leave management, and employee records across your organisation.

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Frequently asked questions

Leave management software FAQs

Clear answers about leave policies, accrual rules, approvals, team calendars, and multi-location leave control.

Quick answers

10 common questions from UK operations and HR teams evaluating workforce software.

What is leave management software?

Leave management software helps businesses manage leave requests, approvals, balances, and absence records. Alphanomic provides a configurable leave policy engine with accrual rules, eligibility, restrictions, and multi-location control.

Is Alphanomic more than a basic leave request system?

Yes. Alphanomic includes unlimited leave types, accrual management, eligibility rules, holiday handling, carry forward, encashment, approval workflows, and reporting, not just request and approve.

Can I create different leave policies for different teams?

Yes. Configure policies by department, location, role, employee group, gender, marital status, and service length with automatic assignment rules.

Does the software support leave accrual rules?

Yes. Set monthly, quarterly, yearly, date-based, and working-day accrual with balance caps, accrual limits, and restrictions on exit.

Can employees apply for half-day leave?

Yes. Support full-day and half-day requests with fractional leave handling, balance validation, and notice period rules.

How do carry forward and encashment work?

Define carry forward limits, expiry rules, year-end processing, and encashment calculations including formula-based and notice-period controls.

Is multi-location leave management supported?

Yes. Manage location-specific entitlements, regional holidays, approval chains, and cross-location reporting from one account.

Does leave management connect to rotas?

Yes. Leave visibility feeds into rota planning and attendance workflows inside the Alphanomic workforce platform.

Is the software suitable for hotels and restaurants?

Yes. Hospitality, retail, healthcare, and care groups use Alphanomic for shift-based leave across multiple sites.

Can managers see team leave calendars?

Yes. Team, department, and location leave calendars help managers plan coverage with conflict detection and availability views.

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Leave management for UK teams

Move from spreadsheets to a configurable leave policy engine

Manage leave types, accrual, approvals, carry forward, and multi-location policies with Alphanomic. Start with a 30-day free trial.