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Absence management

Reliable vacation planner for your employees with a simple request process, overview of their remaining vacation days & custom leave types.

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Time tracking

Keep track of work hours and overtime with our digital time tracking, web and mobile. Create reports & manage individual start and end times.

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Digital personnel file

Manage all employee information in one place with a simple document upload function and a smart questionnaire.

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Expense management

Simple and secure submission, approval, and reimbursement of expenses and travel costs.

More than 2,500 happy midsize and large companies work with absence.io every day

Strengthens our transparency, ownership & agility.

Strengthens our transparency, ownership & agility.

"We have been using absence.io since 2017 and can't imagine it any other way. "
Anja Weidner
People Managerin
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The best tool we could use for leave and staff management!

The best tool we could use for leave and staff management!

"Managing leave, attendances, absences and documents has never been so easy - even on the go via the app. "
Lisa Schmidt
Team Assistant
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Christoph Hauser

We appreciate the intuitive and user-friendly operation of the software

"We particularly like the very simple, user-friendly operation of the software. We are also pleased that the filter function also gives us a quick and…"
Christoph Hauser
HR Generalist
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Marius Laza

The calendar is very easy to use

"With absence.io we can see exactly who is out of the office, who is taking over their responsibilities, and we even get a friendly reminder on Slack…"
Marius Laza
Director of Customer Success
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Jan Claeys

It’s hard to imagine work life without absence.io

"I really like how everyone has access to the status of their vacation days 24/7. If anyone is sick, they don’t even have to pick up the phone!"
Jan Claeys
Senior HR Consultant
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Bianca Barbirato

Every employee gets their own login

"What we like most about absence.io is that every employee gets their own login, leading to more transparency for everyone and higher employee…"
Bianca Barbirato
HR & Finance
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Daniela Forster

A better overview of all vacation and sick days

"Our time-off management got a lot easier. Both the HR department and the team leads now have a better overview of all the vacation and sick days of…"
Daniela Forest
Senior HR
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absence.io in numbers

2581

Companies

work with absence.io every day
104706

Users

manage their working hours and absences with absence.io
7222183

Absences

have been entered in absence.io

Well integrated

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Learn more about our integrations

Direct software connections.
The integration with our open API is simple and customizable to your needs. In addition, we offer direct connections to Google, Microsoft or Slack as a standard.

Interface to Google, Outlook and Co.
In addition to the sign-up via email, we also offer you and your employees the uncomplicated and fast way via Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. With the connection to Microsoft, you can create users directly via Microsoft Azure in absence.io using our SCIM integration.

Slack integration
You can use our Slack integration to receive notifications or import users from Slack into absence.io.

Our Features

  • 14 days free trial for the full version
  • No minimum contract period
  • Credit card or SEPA direct debit
  • Monthly billing and monthly cancellation
  • Server hosting in Germany
  • 7 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish
  • Microsoft 365, Google und Slack Integration → coming soon: Teams
  • Free set up service
  • Free customer service by email and phone
  • 24 hour HelpCenter
  • Open API interface
  • CO2 compensation via Climate Partner
  • Climate neutral company
  • Vacation and absence management
  • Simple approval process
  • Organisation of employees into teams and departments
  • Employee profile for individual settings for user role, access, authorizations, teams, departments, allowances, absences, integrations, recent activities and personnel documents
  • Individual work schedules to map part-time, non-working days, rolling up to 4 weeks
  • Management of different locations
  • Substitutes per absence
  • Worldwide holidays
  • Custom holidays and mandatory leave management
  • Team calendar: view of all employees in the same team and department, clear display of all absences
  • Team calendar with sorting function (by department/team/employee)
  • Personal calendar: annual overview of own absences, incl. view of all available allowances
  • Synchronization of absences with personal calendars
  • No duplicate calendar management due to integrations
  • Monthly and annual allowances individually adjustable per employee
  • Remaining vacation expiration/carryover individually adjustable
  • E-mail notifications for all important processes
  • Various reports with Excel exports about:
    • Vacation & Accruals
    • Absences
    • Capacity
    • Absence changes
    • Evidence overview
    • Personnel file
    • Time recording
    • Time recording entries
  • Labelling and management of absences & time entries
  • Dashboard overview: today's and upcoming absences, illnesses, open inquiries, upcoming birthdays, remaining vacation days, outstanding personnel questionnaires, missing verifications
  • Easy handling
  • Super easy & accurate 
  • Consideration of individual working hours
  • Easy entry of working hours, breaks and clocking out
  • Automatic comparison with stored working hours
  • Manageable via browser, mobile app and mobile terminal
  • Connection to mobile terminals via app on tablet
  • Mapping of days off, absences, holidays, company vacations and mandatory leave
  • Simple display of planned, worked and remaining working time
  • Individual hour compensation via payment or transfer to allowances
  • Labels for time recording entries for project work or traceability
  • Personnel file in user profile
  • Document upload for all important documents
  • Individual personnel questionnaire
  • Personnel questionnaire is filled out by employee and edited and filed by admin
  • Personal information:
    • Name
    • Address
    • Contact
    • Miscellaneous (gender, date of birth, place of birth, nationality, marital status, church tax payer, highest school degree)
  • Employment information:
    • Company
    • Position
    • Personnel number
    • Contract / Status
    • Contract start / end
    • Probationary period
    • Cost center
    • Supervisor
    • Hours per week
    • Salary
    • Payroll
    • Health insurance / number
    • Secondary insurance
    • Disability status
    • Social security number
    • Tax ID
    • Tax bracket
    • Child allowance
    • Company pension plan
    • Main employment
    • Allowances
    • Company car
    • Bank account
    • Salary & Benefits
    • Salary/wages: gross salary with salary type, weekly hours, notes
    • Bonus
    • Additional benefits/variable remuneration
  • Expense Management on-the-go
  • Automatically calculated accounting of all expenses
  • Send digital receipts or upload a photo of paper receipts
  • Seamless integration into existing processes
  • Compatible with all payment cards, accounting, and payroll systems (ISO 20022)
  • Available and optimized for tax regulations in Germany, United Kingdom, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Norway & Sweden

 

Your data is safe with us

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SSL encryption

SSL encryption and the highest security standards reliably protect all your data against unauthorised access.

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ISO-certified servers

All our servers and databases are ISO-certified and located exclusively in Germany.

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Daily data backups

All absence.io data is backed up daily and stored on multiple servers to ensure maximum security.

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