Staff flag leave inconsistently
Some use a form, some send a text, some just don't. You find out when someone doesn't turn up.
Staff request leave and share travel plans, out of office notices, WFH and other availability updates. Approved leave syncs back to Xero and appears alongside these updates in Outlook, Google Calendar or Apple Calendar.
Why teams switch
Leave approved in a text message can still be missing from Xero and the team calendar. You end up chasing confirmations, finding cover at short notice and correcting payroll.
Keep leave, travel and out of office plans where the whole team can see them.
Some use a form, some send a text, some just don't. You find out when someone doesn't turn up.
Approved leave gets entered twice, or not at all. The two drift, and payroll pays for it.
Availability lives in your head, a spreadsheet and three chat threads. Nobody can answer who is off next week quickly.
Staff submit once. Approved leave writes back to Xero Payroll and republishes to the calendars your team already opens.
Each calendar app refreshes its subscribed feeds on its own schedule. No re-keying, no separate planner to maintain.
Staff add dates, leave type and notes in one place, whether it is annual leave or just working from home on Thursday. No more texts, forms and missed invites to chase.
Each approval writes to Xero Payroll as a leave application in the right type, synchronously. If a write fails, you see it straight away; it never fails silently and it never corrupts your payroll data.
Approved leave and manual entries publish to one secure feed. Your team subscribes once in the calendar they already use, and never updates it by hand again.
Sage entries arrive from Xero Payroll the moment they are approved. Purple entries are manual: working from home, client site, training. Select any entry for details.
Team Calendar synchronises approved leave from Xero Payroll to Outlook Calendar through a secure calendar subscription. See who’s away alongside your meetings, with support for Google Calendar and Apple Calendar too.
Employees add dates, leave type and notes in one place.
Managers approve requests with team availability in view.
Approved requests write back to Xero Payroll.
Team Calendar republishes approved changes; calendar apps refresh automatically