absence.io 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

absence.io

4.7

(38)

Pricing

Starting at €2.00 per month

About absence.io

absence.io is a cloud-based workforce management solution, which helps organizations manage employee details, monitor leaves and track work hours. Features include team calendar, email notifications, overtime calculation, productivity tracking and secure data storage.

The application enables employees to monitor the number of pending leaves, submit requests, select substitutes and receive approvals. Businesses can create various absence types and define accruals or vacation carryover policies. absence.io helps human resource managers prepare or edit employee records, upload supporting documents via the drag-and-drop functionality and request missing information from the required employee via questionnaire. Team members can also use the solution to clock-in/out, letting managers generate reports for payroll accounting.

absence.io offers integration with third-party applications such as Slack, Jira, SharePoint, Redmine, Office 365 and Google Calendar. It comes with mobile applications for Android and iOS. The solution is available on monthly subscriptions and support is provided via email, phone and documentation.

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absence.io Pricing and Plans

Starting price: €2.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

€2.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

Absence Reports
Custom Holidays and Mandatory Leave
Google and Slack Integrations
Group Users in Teams and Departments
Office 365
Personal and Team Absence Calendars
Simple Absence Approval Process
Synchronize Absences to Your Calendars
Vacation and Absence Management

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absence.io Features

Popular features found in Leave Management System
Approval Process Control
Employee Scheduling
FMLA Administration
Leave Policy Management
Self Service Portal
More features of absence.io
Absence Management
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
Attendance Management
Attendance Tracking
Billable & Non-Billable Hours
Calendar Management
Clock In/Out
Customizable Reports
Data Import/Export
Document Management
Document Storage
Employee Database
Employee Management
Employee Profiles
Employee Time Tracking
Leave Tracking
Mobile Access
Mobile App
Online Time Clock
Online Time Tracking
Overtime Calculation
Payroll Management
Payroll Reporting
Punch card
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Notifications
Reminders
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Role-Based Permissions
Sick Leave Tracking
Summary Reports
Team Calendars
Third-Party Integrations
Time & Attendance
Time & Expense Tracking
Time Off Management
Time Off Requests
Timer
Timesheet Management
Time Tracking
Vacation/Leave Tracking

absence.io Integrations

Google Calendar

Jira

Microsoft Outlook

Slack

absence.io User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

79%

13%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.5

Functionality

4.4

Have you used absence.io and would like to share your experience with others?

Roxy K.

Verified reviewer

Internet

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2017

Good software :)

Lots of data, easy to use

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Price is right, I like the slack integration and my team finds it useful too, has a great support team that is always friendly and very responsive.

Cons:

I'm still waiting for a google cal integration, I have encountered a few annoying bugs but team has always been proactive to fix and that's to be expected from a budding company. Worth the tradeoff

Homayoun M.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed June 2025

Quietly Helpful for Team Coordination

At Wipro we used Absence while managing multiple delivery teams across regions. Keeping track of who was on leave used to be inconsistent and occasionally caused overlaps in project planning. After using this tool, the amount of back-and-forth reduced and managers started referencing it before assigning deadlines. It did not fix every issue, but it definitely helped reduce friction in planning and improved overall visibility.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It made leave tracking feel less like a chore. People stopped asking around about who was off and started checking the system instead. The interface was simple and didn’t interrupt our regular process. For a large team setup like ours, it kept everyone aligned without needing to talk about it constantly.

Cons:

The preset leave types didn’t match our internal HR categories so we had to customize them. The reporting feature felt a bit rigid when we tried pulling data across multiple departments. It works, but you have to dig around a bit to get what you want.

Madison L.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Services

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2024

It met our needs

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It was a pretty easy system to use, we liked it.

Cons:

The cost ended up becoming a factor. We actually left A.io to pursue a more cost-effective option that met our needs.

Vendor Response

Hello Madis, thank you for your honest feedback! We are very sorry to hear that you thought our offering was pricy. May I ask what specific featurs you used, or discovered a better price with the competition for?

Replied March 2024

Anastasia B.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2023

Absence is a simple and minimalistic tool for time tracking

We have used Absence for many years, and it satisfies the needs of our small company. Perhaps a bigger company would prefer a more complex tool, but it works great for a startup. All you need to do is punch in your hours and select vacation/WFH days in the calendar when needed.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like that Absence is very minimalistic and it's easy to navigate around the platform. There's no unnecessary features. You get emails when someone selects you as a substitute or when you need to approve someones vacation. You also get notified when your leave was approved. You can also easily see how many vacation days you have left and check the calendar of other employees.

Cons:

Sometimes it can be not very straightforward when it comes to the approval process and selecting substitutes. At least in our case, I wasn't able to select someone who was working from home as my substitute. Also we're for some reason getting the German calendar instead of the Austrian one, but that might be our fault.

Flóra F.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

Great tool for smaller companies with a lot of features

I would absolutely recommend this tool to other smaller businesses - really easy to use from admin point of view and many useful reports can be created. The customer support team is also quick and professional.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This is a great software for time tracking, vacation requests and reports. You can easily overview the whole company thanks to the very clever platform. Employees like it a lot - easy to use. Your Manager just need to have one click and your request is approved. You can include comments/easily overview your whole absence availability. Customer support is also great and quick.

Cons:

Sometimes it is quite complex to modify a request - you need to completely delete the previous one or you need to re-book the existing one. This can be a bit uncomfortable as sometimes only the admin can help. When the year starts, absences can mix up a bit so you need to take care of cross-checking the numbers.

Pat A.

Verified reviewer

Pharmaceuticals

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed April 2023

Great System

I have absolutely no hesitance in fully recommending absence io to other business

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ease of the implementation and daily use is exceptional the after service from the team is outstanding and queries are answered promptly and with expertise

Cons:

some of the configuration when a colleague changes shift working is rime consuming to implement

Reasons for choosing absence.io

it met our needs

Vendor Response

Hello Pat, thank you so much for the amazing feedback! We are honored to hear that you like our software so much! best wishes, your absence.io team

Replied April 2023

Greg E.

Verified reviewer

Internet

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2020

Fraudulent interactions when trying to cancel

OK until we moved to a new platform and tried to cancel. Always some new thing I had to do including signing up differently (we were using SSO via GSuite accounts) in order to be ALLOWED to cancel. Totally unacceptable and, in my opinion, fraudulent behavior.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Adequate and cheap if you are European based. Does not accommodate US or multinational policy norms for many leave types or support accruals.

Cons:

Interacting with the company. Rigidity in features

Reasons for choosing absence.io

pricing mostly

Reasons for switching to absence.io

Features

Jan C.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2017

absence.io made our business life much easier

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Super easy to understand; perfect tool even as a company with ~200 employees and more; slack integration; no more need for an oldschool excel sheet; individual rights management; neat design; customizable settings; web + app usage; google calender integration

Cons:

No digital personnel data management. Apparently they're working on additional features so maybe that'll improve.

Stephen F.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

11-50 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

Better Than Keeping Track Yourself

It was a fine stop-gap software when we were growing as an agency. We eventually had to evolve into a PTO request system that integrated with our payroll system better, but no real complaints about Absence.io. It served us easily and well for about 2 years.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

It was free for I think up to 10 users and it let us go from nothing to a new PTO request system very quickly as our agency grew.

Cons:

It's a German software, so some of the calendars and date styles aren't what our team was familiar with, but it's a minor inconvenience for a free solution to what we needed.

João Victor G.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2018

Good tool for having visibility of day-offs and vacations across teams

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The consolidated calendar view shows very easily how my team is planning to take their vacations and helps me decide quick the best dates to either take my own or also to anticipate times with lower resources to plan how to handle them.

Cons:

The interface is not so easy to use and it can take a little bit of tweaks to get it up and running for your needs. Also, it lacks integrations with other HR tools that can complement the app.

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