Leave Management now in iZepto
Although the functionality has been there for a while now, we thought it was worth blogging about some new functionality in iZepto - Leave Management.
At Shine Technologies, we found that the process of leave requests and time management were pretty closely linked. So, we updated iZepto to handle it. Now, you can mark a task a ‘leave’ task. For instance, you probably have a task for ‘Annual Leave’ or ‘Maternity Leave’. You can now mark that as a leave task and your users can request to take ‘Annual Leave’. They pick one of the Admins as an approver.
The system emails Admins daily if they have any requests that need approval. You can easily see a Gantt chart of all leave requests, and even filter them by status or date range or group.
Once approved, the requesting user gets an email and their time for that period is automatically filled out. Neat!
A final feature added today is Leave Reconciliation. Now your accountant or book keeper can do a check between what was requested and what was actually taken. At Shine we use this as the last step prior to updating our payroll system with leave actually taken.
As a nice extra, check out the iCal feed beneath the Gantt chart. I have a subscription in iCal on my Mac (but any iCal conforming application will work) that shows all leave requests for people in my group. They show up as an all-day event at the top of my calendar and is a nice reminder not to expect a certain team member in that day!