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A few setup details. For a quick look at the product, explore the Features.

Set up your team

Create your workspace

Complete Company and Your profile to open your Free workspace. No payment card is required. Holiday settings come afterwards.

Add team records

Use Add a team member in People for names, roles and work email addresses. You can return to saved records later.

Time-off setup

Confirm working patterns and policies in Workspace settings, then check each person’s working pattern, allowance and reporting line before they request time off.

Invite your team

Invite people from their setup or return later. Invitations go to their saved work email; holiday setup needs to be complete before they request time off.

Check your starting records

Check people, reporting lines, holiday settings and bookings against your existing records before relying on HappieMe.

Moving from another system

Keep your original records and reconcile opening allowances with bookings so leave is not deducted twice. A general file importer and assisted migration service are not available yet.

Using time off

Request time off

Requests live in My holidays. Ask HR if setup is incomplete; workspace owners use Book time off for their own bookings. See holiday request features.

Check your balance

Check the policy and units shown in My holidays. Day and hour balances differ, and pending leave may reserve allowance. See holiday balance features.

Change or cancel time off

Available actions appear under Your requests. A change or cancellation may need approval; the existing booking stays in place while a change request is reviewed. Ask HR if an action is unavailable.

Review requests

Approvals shows requests you can decide. Declining needs a reason, and nobody can approve their own request. Approving a change to a still-Requested holiday does not approve the holiday itself. See approval features.

Leave coverage and setup limits

Businesses in any country can use HappieMe. Leave setup depends on each employee’s work location, working pattern and agreed policy.

Supported leave arrangements

Automatic public-holiday calendars are available for UK and US workspaces. Workspaces based in other countries have no public-holiday exclusions, including for employees working in the UK or US. Dates that fall on an employee’s working days count towards requested time off, even when they are public holidays.

Employer-configured vacation supports policies with a finite allowance kept separate from sick leave, for regular, equal-length working days and full or half-day bookings. No fixed limit supports custom leave tracking; unlimited-vacation entitlement and payouts, and combined PTO, are not automated.

Your organisation remains responsible for administering applicable statutory leave, pay and payroll requirements that HappieMe does not automate.

For US employees, your organisation administers statutory vacation, sick leave, paid leave usable for any reason, family and other protected leave externally. HappieMe records reports and confirmed vacation funding; your organisation remains responsible for payroll and payments.

Confirm each employee’s policy, opening balance, holiday calendar and external leave arrangements during setup before using their leave records.

Working patterns

Use regular working weekdays with the same number of hours each day. Variable schedules are not supported. Employer-configured vacation is accounted for in hours, with full or half-day bookings.