These guides take a brand-new Book Time Off account from empty to a working setup you can run your team on. Work through them roughly in order: add your people, set the working week and each person's allowance, turn on UK bank holidays, then create your leave types, departments and approvers.
Most of it is a one-time setup that takes well under an hour. If you are moving across from Timetastic, start with the import guide and it will bring your people and this year's leave in one upload.
10 guides in this section
A quick walkthrough from a new account to approving your first leave request.
Add people one at a time, with an optional invite to set up their own login.
Upload your Timetastic organisation export to bring across people, departments and this year's leave.
Choose which days count as working days. This applies to your whole company.
Set how many days each person gets. You set the number; the app tracks what is used.
Choose your region so the right UK bank holidays show. They are never deducted from leave.
Rename the default leave types or add your own, each under one shared approval workflow.
Group people, set a manager as default approver, and cap how many can be off at once.
Choose who reviews each person's requests: all admins, a manager, or a named approver.
Add leave that already happened so balances are right from day one.