Your team's vacation calendar,
minus the chaos
We built this because we got tired of managing time off in spreadsheets and Slack DMs. It handles requests, approvals, team coverage checks, and holiday calendars across countries, so you can stop being the bottleneck.
Free to start. No credit card needed. Takes about 10 minutes to set up.
We know the drill
Someone wants two weeks off. They message their manager on Slack. The manager checks a shared Google Sheet, tries to figure out if anyone else is off that week, realizes the sheet hasn't been updated since February, forwards the request to HR...
And somehow it still takes three days to approve a vacation.
If your company has more than 10 people, this breaks down fast. Different countries have different holidays. Teams need minimum coverage. Balances need tracking. And nobody wants to be the person chasing approvals.
What you get
Leave management stays at the core. For agencies and delivery teams, BreezeLeave also connects absences to project plans, capacity, logged hours, documents, and budget health.
Auto-approval engine
Set your rules once: balance thresholds, team limits, blackout dates. Requests that pass get approved instantly. The ones that don't go to a manager.
Team conflict prevention
"Can I take next Friday off?" depends on who else is out. Set max concurrent absences per team and the system handles the math.
Multi-country holidays
240+ countries supported. Each person gets assigned their country and holidays are loaded automatically. Working days are calculated correctly, every time.
Slack & Teams integration
Get notified about requests and approvals right in Slack or Microsoft Teams. Use /whoisoff to check who's out. Approve or reject with a button click.
Sick & emergency days
Separate from annual leave. When someone calls in sick, the team gets notified immediately. Emergency days have their own balance and tracking.
Multi-company support
Run an agency or holding company? Each entity gets its own settings, holidays, Slack workspace, and complete data isolation. One login for admins.
Balance tracking & bookkeeping
Accrual calculated from employment start date. See used, remaining, and pending days at a glance. Export bookkeeping data to CSV for payroll.
Email notifications
Use your own SMTP, Gmail, or SendGrid. Branded emails for every stage: request submitted, approved, rejected, upcoming reminder.
Reports & analytics
Track vacation utilization, spot trends, monitor team coverage, and review approval patterns. Filter by team, country, or time period. Export to CSV or PDF.
Custom roles & permissions
Start with built-in roles (Employee, Manager, HR, Admin) or create custom roles with granular read/write permissions per feature. Control exactly who sees what.
Project tracker
Track clients, projects, retainers, phases, milestones, resources, and delivery status next to the leave calendar that already affects availability.
Workload and capacity
Compare planned work, PTO, logged hours, and utilization so managers can see bottlenecks before client delivery starts slipping.
Documents and project files
Keep client and project documents organized with download links, thumbnails, milestone attachments, public shares, and view/download tracking.
Built for teams that outgrew spreadsheets
If you have 10 employees, vacation tracking in a spreadsheet is already painful. By 50, it's a full-time job. BreezeLeave sits right in that sweet spot.
Tech companies
Distributed teams across Europe. Different holidays in different countries. Developers who live in Slack. Sound familiar?
Agencies
Multiple clients, multiple teams, sometimes multiple legal entities. You need each company to have its own vacation setup, not share one.
Growing companies
You hit 15-20 people and suddenly the informal "message me" approach doesn't work anymore. That's exactly when you need this.
How it works
Three steps. No training needed.
Pick your dates
Select start and end dates, pick the leave type, add a note if you want. The system calculates working days automatically based on your country's holidays.
Instant decision
If the rules pass (you have enough days, the team isn't already short-staffed), it's approved on the spot. Otherwise, your manager gets a Slack or Teams ping.
Everyone stays in the loop
The team calendar updates, Slack gets a notification, and two days before your vacation starts you get a reminder. That's it.
Why teams switch to BreezeLeave
| Spreadsheet | Full HR Suite | BreezeLeave | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup time | 5 minutes | 2-4 weeks | 10 minutes |
| Auto-approval | No | Limited | Full rules engine |
| Slack & Teams integration | No | Basic | Deep (commands, buttons, DMs) |
| Multi-country holidays | Manual | Yes | Yes, per employee |
| Team conflict check | No | Sometimes | Automatic |
| Complexity | Low (but messy) | High | Low |
| Best for team size | 1-10 | 200+ | 10-500 |
Full HR suites are great if you need an all-in-one platform for payroll, recruiting, performance reviews, the works. But if you need vacation management that works well, you don't need to pay for all that. BreezeLeave does one thing and does it properly.
Your team already lives in Slack or Teams. Meet them there.
Nobody wants to open another app to check who's off. With BreezeLeave, your Slack workspace or Microsoft Teams channel becomes the primary interface for everyday leave management.
- /whoisoff: check who's away today, tomorrow, this week, next week, or this month
- Instant notifications when someone requests time off or calls in sick
- Approve or reject requests with interactive buttons, no login needed
- Automatic reminders 2 working days before a vacation starts
- Microsoft Teams: same notifications and approval flow for Teams-first organizations
Your data, your control
Data isolation
Each company's data is completely separate. No cross-tenant access.
Audit logging
Every action is logged: who did what, when, and why. Full compliance trail.
GDPR-compliant
Built for European companies. Data isolation per company, encrypted in transit, no third-party tracking.
Self-hosted option
Enterprise plan includes self-hosted deployment on your own infrastructure.
Frequently asked questions
Teams that made the switch
From spreadsheets and Slack DMs to actual leave management.
"We ditched our old spreadsheet system in about 15 minutes. BreezeLeave just works, and the Slack integration means nobody has to leave their workflow to request time off."
Sarah Chen
HR Manager
"For a 12-person studio, paying for bloated HR software never made sense. The free tier covers everything we need. Honestly surprised how polished it is at zero cost."
Marcus Rivera
CEO
"Managing leave across Sweden, Germany, and the US used to be a nightmare. Multi-country holiday support saved us hours every month. Super grateful for this tool."
Ingrid Holmberg
People Ops Lead
"Auto-approvals for our senior consultants was a game changer. Less back-and-forth, fewer bottlenecks. The team actually enjoys requesting leave now, which says a lot."
David Okonkwo
COO
"The /whoisoff Slack command is something my team uses daily. Quick glance, no context switching. It has basically eliminated those awkward scheduling overlaps."
Priya Sharma
Team Lead
"We ditched our old spreadsheet system in about 15 minutes. BreezeLeave just works, and the Slack integration means nobody has to leave their workflow to request time off."
Sarah Chen
HR Manager
"For a 12-person studio, paying for bloated HR software never made sense. The free tier covers everything we need. Honestly surprised how polished it is at zero cost."
Marcus Rivera
CEO
"Managing leave across Sweden, Germany, and the US used to be a nightmare. Multi-country holiday support saved us hours every month. Super grateful for this tool."
Ingrid Holmberg
People Ops Lead
"Auto-approvals for our senior consultants was a game changer. Less back-and-forth, fewer bottlenecks. The team actually enjoys requesting leave now, which says a lot."
David Okonkwo
COO
"The /whoisoff Slack command is something my team uses daily. Quick glance, no context switching. It has basically eliminated those awkward scheduling overlaps."
Priya Sharma
Team Lead
"Setting up BreezeLeave took less time than making coffee. Connected Slack, invited the team, done. We were fully running by lunch on day one."
Tom Whitfield
Office Manager
"The conflict prevention feature alone is worth it. Before BreezeLeave, we had two senior devs accidentally off the same week twice in one quarter. Never again."
Elena Vasquez
HR Director
"Reports give me a clear picture of leave trends across the engineering org. Helped us identify burnout patterns early. Really solid for a lightweight tool."
Raj Patel
VP of Engineering
"We tried three other leave tools before landing on BreezeLeave. The Microsoft Teams integration is smooth, the UI is clean, and our team actually adopted it without complaints."
Lena Gruber
People Ops
"I wanted something simple for our 30-person agency. No complex onboarding, no per-seat pricing headaches. BreezeLeave nailed it. We got set up in one afternoon."
Chris Nakamura
CEO
"Setting up BreezeLeave took less time than making coffee. Connected Slack, invited the team, done. We were fully running by lunch on day one."
Tom Whitfield
Office Manager
"The conflict prevention feature alone is worth it. Before BreezeLeave, we had two senior devs accidentally off the same week twice in one quarter. Never again."
Elena Vasquez
HR Director
"Reports give me a clear picture of leave trends across the engineering org. Helped us identify burnout patterns early. Really solid for a lightweight tool."
Raj Patel
VP of Engineering
"We tried three other leave tools before landing on BreezeLeave. The Microsoft Teams integration is smooth, the UI is clean, and our team actually adopted it without complaints."
Lena Gruber
People Ops
"I wanted something simple for our 30-person agency. No complex onboarding, no per-seat pricing headaches. BreezeLeave nailed it. We got set up in one afternoon."
Chris Nakamura
CEO