I found it very easy to set up Vacation Tracker for our remote team! Since we work from three different locations, this tool has been of great help. It allowed us to completely eliminate spreadsheets and automate our time off management. Highly recommend!

I have no complaints, the support team has been incredibly helpful whenever we had any questions.

Very easy to use, notificaitons in slack help our workflow. Easy to request and easy to approve!

not found any cons to vacation tracker yet!

Even though I am relatively new user/admin, so far the experience has been a positive one and I believe it fits our organization's needs nicely!

I love that it integrates directly with Microsoft Teams and Outlook so that employees can see everything in one application.

It is a bit confusing to navigate as there are multiple ways in Teams to request leave, see your profile, cancel leaves, etc.

It's been okay so far but still working with it. It may not be a good fit for us but we are learning it and making it work.

It seems relatively easy thus far but we are working with it and learning it.

Trying to figure out how to add current vacation hours and also start the accrual hours

I like the fact that you can go to "Teams" and request and approve time off, working from home, and sick days all from one place

I don't like how it takes a few hours to update on your office calendar. On the website it updates immediately but not for the office calendar when you connect it unless you connect another vacation tracker then it does update automatically

Excellent experience and very satisfied with the roll out to all our employees

Easy to use for administrator and also users

I am struggling to think of any cons. The implementation went very well and was explained in great detail from Vacation Tracker support team

My overall experience is really great with them, they are a friendly and helpful staff with a great product.

It changes fast, new features are coming in and the team is really helpful about any of our question.

I'm not always receiving notification when a new, probably really useful features appears.

Our overall experience with Vacation Tracker is great. The team is daily informed about each others absence.

It's synchronized with Slack and keeps our team organized and up to date on upcoming leaves. It's simple and easy to use, it enable us to successfully manage our time off.

There are no significant cons, except the functionalities which could be improved. We're missing basic features , like editing previously accpeted or made absences. Also, it would be good to have role like manager, that would manage people, instead of giving admin access to enable specific managing permissions. Competitive companies created much more functional softwares in this department.

Great customer service!

It doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles like other vacation tracking/HR software so you pay for what you really need. Love the customer service!

Initial set up is easy but it would be even better if there was an automated flow to the set up instead of me picking and choosing the areas to set up. It would be great to customize even further - being able to upload our company policy on the platform would be great. The ability to pick different times and not be restricted to a full or half day would be good too. Sometimes people want to sign off a couple of hours early but you can't indicate that on here.

I've been very happy with Vacation Tracker. IT beats using a spreadsheet for PTO and the CS team has always been supe responsive and super helpful!

I like the ease of use, and how easy it is to get help when something is going wrong!

No Cons so far. It wasn't syncing with my connected product Slack, but that's been fixed

Vacation Tracker makes my life as a manager so much easier. I don't need to worry about tracking everyone in different places, knowing what tier they are a part of, etc.

There is nothing I dislike. I just wish I could add a few features.

That all users can see when someone is out i think is pretty cool, and the message for them to set up their out of office

wish my package came with leave of absence tracking like FMLA,

Very easy to set up, import users, add in vacation allowances. I was set up within a few days.

Teams integration was key for us, quick and easy to download for all staff and support answer very quickly with whatever I need.

That some of the key features like calendar integration is part of the more expensive package, that seems like a basic need. I asked support prior to purchasing and they said it was possible but didn't mention the highest subscription.

Vacation Tracker has been very helpful in keeping track of the time off ....and supervisors knowing who had requested time off and who is off this week.

The vacation tracker is easy for the people to input their vacation days.

Not able to automatically add sick days and have them counted.

I like that it's way more convenient than using spreadsheets to keep track of people's days off.

Creating teams/departments is a bit complicated. Also, it lacks flexibility - it doesn't matter when an employee has started, the app doesn't calculate the actual vacation days. E.g. if someone starts in September, they shouldn't have the same amount of paid days off as employees who've started in January.

Nothing for now. Highly recommend it!

We've been using VacationTracker for a couple of months now and we're really happy with it!

Honestly, tracking vacations, sick leaves and remote days for 200 people became a pretty bothersome process at one point, and all of the other HR tools looked super unorganized and had features we saw no use for. But once we integrated VacationTracker, the whole hassle of requesting and approving days off became a streamlined process that ran on autopilot. That is such a relief!

Its a great low cost tool to have for company

The simlicity and the customer support were great.

Lack of some features. More features would be a nice to have

We’re super happy with the app, as it has made leave monitoring super easy, and everyone is aware of planned vacations on time which makes things a lot easier.

It really helps monitor absences across multiple locations + really easy to use! Slack bot is by far our most used feature, as it makes booking leaves super fast.

No complaints! Their customer support is great, and they respond quickly to any inquiries we have.

So much easier than previous system, which had everyone place their holidays in a spreadsheet and then update a shared calendar with who was taking time off.

It's so much easier to book holidays. I can see how much time I have left available, and when booking can also see who else from my team has booked that time off.

Nothing - I've not seen any issues yet.

We are saving so much time and employee confusion about time off! Our previous system (from our payroll provider) was inflexible and often wrong. Leave time is too valuable to employees to have any mistakes.

The ability to reset time off on individual anniversary dates vs. end of year. Also the ease of use for end users, combined with the accurate tracking of time off.

It would be nice if I could auto-generate a custom report with a certain timeframe, but the reporting function is easy enough to quickly run a report for payroll.

Overall, we are happy with the product for the cost, the UI, and the ease of use. The VT team is nice and pretty easy to work with but the actual process of merging our data was a nightmare. I wish there was an easier way - honestly we were ready to pay VT for this service because our tiny team didn't have enough hours in the day to do it ourselves. We ended up outsourcing this task to another team with more bandwidth. I'd just suggest that VT include this as part of the pricing to onboard with the platform.

The simplicity of the platform and the ease of setting it up was great. We also love the Slack integration - this was huge for our global company.

The merging of data was excruciating. It was NOT an easy process and required many hours to get the data exactly perfect for VT to be able to merge. This was really really difficult for our small HR team as we were in the midst of a hiring surge and nobody had the capacity to do this incredibly time consuming data gathering. The report from our old PTO tracker did not work for the needs of VT so someone had to go through a years worth of PTO/Sick Time, etc. for 50+ employees one by one.

We love using Vacation Tracker because it was super easy to deploy across our full team, and the best part is that it integrates right into Slack. This is a big deal since we all spend most of our day with Slack open, so not having to worry about another app or website is nice. We also love the ability to create custom types of time off, since our company has many different categories of time off that all have different allotments.

My only complaint would be that I wish the Vacation Tracker website was a little bit more robust. Sometimes I find it a little TOO simple. However, I think it's a double edged sword because I really do love the simplicity of its layout.

I've been very happy with it and the wider team has had no issues adapting it. It offers great visibility and accountability for leave taken. They are always updating it and the support has been very responsive.

Vacation Tracker has excellent integration with Slack and Google Calendar, with most leave requests and approvals done through Slack. The support team is extremely responsive and has been able to quickly solve any questions or issues we had with the app. The app itself is very easy to navigate and mostly self-explanatory. The leave policies, locations and approval flow are quite customisable and extremely user friendly. The leave accrual functionality has been a fantastic addition, and allowances can be adjusted by individual.

Could us more flexibility in leave policies, for example ability to submit requests retroactively

Our overall experience with Vacation Tracker has been great. It’s easy to use and our entire team loves it. I would definitely recommend Vacation Tracker to all teams out there, especially startups and small businesses looking for a simple tool without a bunch of unnecessary bells and whistles.

It’s really easy to use, it took our team a week to get used to it. We love the Slack integration and the notifications, they keep our whole team up to date on upcoming leaves. We also really like how you can organize your company into teams with their own notifications and calendar feeds since our team has multiple offices across the world.

The only thing we’d like to see added to Vacation Tracker is the ability to block our team from being able to request leaves on certain dates. We sometimes have critical deadlines and we don’t allow people to take time off right before the deadlines. It takes us some time to manage this manually so it would be neat to have a feature allowing us to do this automatically.