About edays

edays is an award-winning absence & leave management solution that helps small to large businesses across the globe create a better experience of absence management. With one configurable system, edays reduces admin through automated processes, helps you gain actionable people insights, and empowers you to leave the spreadsheets behind. It provides a cloud-based and self-service solution that lets employees handle processes related to absences, leave entitlement rules, and process automation for HR teams. Over 1,400 companies across 120 countries, in 25 languages, trust edays global absence & leave management software. The system is often integrated with core HR and Payroll software to increase the effectiveness of organisations infrastructure. Unlike an Excel spreadsheet or paper-based systems, edays delivers value to managers and HR leaders by providing instant access to accurate employee absence records. Employees can also quickly access their holiday entitlement and request time off work with ease. Managers are able to book absences themselves or authorise absence requests at the click of a button through email notifications. As a best-of-breed software, edays is highly configurable and offers a range of different customisable options to best suit your organisation and its needs. Whether that's the ability to offer holidays in a mix of hours and days, to have holiday calendar years that start at varying dates, or to offer different accrual entitlements based on a number of factors. edays can be used to manage any type of absence within an organisation including sickness, overtime, time off in lieu and can support any custom absence types that an organisation might have. High-level reporting tools can be used to gain insight of absences across an organisation whether this is a general overview or looking at a specific employee’s absence trend. Compared to a manual absence management process, edays saves business costs and allows organisations to become more productive whilst reducing their unplanned absence levels. The system is designed with ease-of-use and flexibility in mind, and can grow as your organisation does. Templates allow admins to set certain rules for employees on a global, regional or working-pattern basis, to reduce admin and allow entitlements to be automatically calculated. This also helps you to act globally, as you can ensure you are compliant with any local absence and leave laws. Understand how, when, and why your people take absence and leave. With insightful data, edays gives you the visibility you need of your workforce – no matter their location. Through these insights, edays encourages progressive management that can drive employee loyalty whilst reducing sickness and absenteeism. In fact, edays customers have a 50% lower than national (UK) average sickness rate. Not stopping at absence and leave, edays is a world-class attendance management system, enabling you to get to know the who, when & where of your teams in a simple and hassle-free way. edays Time Submission module lets you view all time submission alongside annual leave, sickness l
edays Software - Better manage your absence and leave with intuitive holiday booking, group calendars, quick approval mechanisms and automated leave entitlement calculations
edays Software - Gain actionable insights into your people data with our reporting dashboard. Be empowered to better understand your workforce with clear analytics tools, customisable dashboards, and user-friendly custom reports builder
edays Software - Easily record employee time at the click of a button, with the ability to enforce mandatory breaks, copy in rotas to reduce admin, and gain total visibility of time spent on various projects to better assist payroll
edays Software - Sickness tracking enables you to manage resources and provide better employee support. With return to work forms, trigger alerts for absence patterns and a cloud-based document portal, our software works in tandem with your absence management policy
edays Software - Seamlessly transition to a flexible, hybrid business model with Working Locations. Employees can easily log where they're working from, giving managers complete visibility across multiple sites
edays Software - Improve the visibility of your operations with the group calendar. Storing all your teams absence and leave data in one easily accessible place, the group calendar can have personalised views to enable transparency, while protecting employee privacy
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edays Software - Better manage your absence and leave with intuitive holiday booking, group calendars, quick approval mechanisms and automated leave entitlement calculations - thumbnail
edays Software - Gain actionable insights into your people data with our reporting dashboard. Be empowered to better understand your workforce with clear analytics tools, customisable dashboards, and user-friendly custom reports builder - thumbnail
edays Software - Easily record employee time at the click of a button, with the ability to enforce mandatory breaks, copy in rotas to reduce admin, and gain total visibility of time spent on various projects to better assist payroll - thumbnail
edays Software - Sickness tracking enables you to manage resources and provide better employee support. With return to work forms, trigger alerts for absence patterns and a cloud-based document portal, our software works in tandem with your absence management policy - thumbnail
edays Software - Seamlessly transition to a flexible, hybrid business model with Working Locations. Employees can easily log where they're working from, giving managers complete visibility across multiple sites - thumbnail

edays pricing

edays does not have a free version but does offer a free trial.

Starting Price:
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Free Version:
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Free trial:
Yes

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edays Reviews for UK Users

Feature rating

Value for Money
4.7
Functionality
4.5
Ease of Use
4.6
Customer Support
4.8
5 reviews of 108 View all reviews
Hayley
  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 19/03/2019

All signing, all dancing absence mangement tool

Excellent overall experience. We have been customer for 5+ years and intend to continue using them. They are a little pricey - but you get what you pay for!

Pros

Very easy to use as a Manager and User. Very flexible and can set up as many teams with all sorts of different rules. Great reports.

Cons

Sometimes doesn't automate simple things but this may be more my lack of technological no how!

Jo
  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 14/03/2023

Brilliant holiday and sickness management system

Nowadays we are faced with systems that are difficult to work out and take months to implement. What a refreshing difference you get with eDays - it is easy to set up and implement, easy to use, great view of all absences - individually and for all our employees. And the reporting functionality is superb. And really affordable. This is the second company where I am using eDays and I cannot recommend them highly enough!

Pros

Ease of use, useful app, easy request and approval process, quick view of holiday year and any absences, excellent reports!

Cons

Really tried hard to think about something and I could not find anything. Perhaps it would have to be an app, but as we work in an office environment - we are using the web link and no one has any problem with it.

Response from edays Absence Management

Hi Jo,

Thank you so much for a glowing review! We're so glad you're happy with the system and that all your employees are enjoying using it.

Just a quick note on your feedback about an app, we have actually recently launched a mobile app which is available now on iOS and Android.

Kind regards

edays

Replied 16/03/2023
Tian Tian
  • Industry: Information Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Features
3
Ease of Use
2
Customer Support
4

3
Reviewed on 17/03/2020

E-days review

Complex leave policy for APAC region and need a system to manually increase the leave entitlement. However, not requirement are able to meet.

Pros

E-days suitable for leave policy that doesn't have complicated leave rules.

Cons

Creating a template. The layout, such as entitlement pot.

Michelle
  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 19/09/2023

Our Experience with E-Days

Great experience and customer service has always been good and they offer lots of resources should you need them.

Pros

Easy to use and set up. Has good visuals and you can get an overview of absence and planned absence easily, which helps for staff planning.

Cons

The reports require a bit of user manipulation to get them where you want them to be, that said this isn't difficult to do.

Response from edays Absence Management

Hi Michelle,

Thank you for a great review! We're glad to hear the system is helping you with staff planning and gaining visibility of absences.

Kind regards
edays

Replied 19/10/2023
Lynda
  • Industry: Medical Devices
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 13/04/2023

Excellent Edays

Having the App to use is now a great benefit, and the reports are very easy to use

Pros

We moved to the new platform recently and the transition, implementation and the training was fantastic. It could not have been better. The Customer success Manager [sensitive content hidden] was on hand and so helpful and responsive. Training with Raj was simple and effective.

Cons

Ways around the emailing of self certification, as some users do not have access to Emails or phone during work to enable them to complete the RTW.

Response from edays Absence Management

Hi Lynda,
Thank you for an amazing review! We're so glad to hear that your migration to V5 was smooth and successful, and that you were happy with the service you received.
Kind regards
edays

Replied 26/04/2023

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