Includes planned leave
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YOUR WORKSPACE—
YOUR TIME OFF TODAY
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Syncing balances…
PLAN TIME OFF
Make the break fit your balance.
Plan a trip or add a single day. GooseLeave handles working days, holidays and available leave.
PLAN A BREAK
Can I take this?
Choose dates and your leave mix.
QUICK LOG
Add a single day
UPCOMING
Your plans
PAST TIME OFF
History
Completed and cancelled time off appears here.
UPDATE BALANCE
Match your official balance
HELP CENTRE
What does this thing do?
Plain-English GooseLeave help. No HR jargon degree required.
🚀Getting your company startedThe three things to do before employees trust the numbers.
1. Review leave rules. Check Vacation, Sick, Flex and any custom leave against your real company policy. GooseLeave’s starter rules are examples, not legal defaults.
2. Invite your team. People join the private workspace from an organization invitation. After they join, you can set their role, manager and individual leave package.
3. Match official balances. Enter the balance confirmed by payroll, HR or another company record. GooseLeave uses that confirmed balance as the anchor for future calculations.
🏠HomeYour “what do I have right now?” screen.
The big balance cards show what GooseLeave calculates is available today. Tap a balance card to jump straight to that leave type in Balance.
The forecast looks ahead using your leave rules, upcoming accruals and already-planned time off. It is a planning tool, not a payroll statement.
🗓️Plan time offSee whether the dates work before you commit them.
Pick dates and the leave type(s) you want to use. GooseLeave counts working days, skips applicable holidays and checks whether the plan would leave enough balance.
Check plan is a preview. Save is what actually records the trip. If your company uses approvals, eligible leave can become a request instead.
✈️TripsYour upcoming and saved time off in one place.
Trips combines future single days and multi-day plans. Open a trip to see the dates, leave used and status. Cancelled time stays in History so the audit trail does not disappear.
📊Balance & official recordsWhy your payroll number and GooseLeave number might differ.
Your official balance is the known-good balance from payroll, HR or another company record on a specific date. GooseLeave builds forward from that anchor using the configured policy.
If a number looks wrong, do not “fix” it by inventing leave entries. First check the leave rule and the latest official balance. Owners/admins can record a corrected balance when the authoritative record changes.
👥Team CalendarWho is away — without broadcasting private details.
Team Calendar shows availability according to the visibility scope your organization chose. Ordinary coworkers see “Away” rather than private leave reasons. Owners/admins control whether people see their team, the whole organization or only themselves.
✅Requests & approvalsOnly appears when your organization turns approval workflows on.
When approvals are enabled and a leave type requires approval, the request stays pending until an authorized manager/admin acts on it. Pending requests do not pretend to be approved leave.
Tracking-only companies can leave approvals off completely.
🧑💼Owners, admins & managersWhat the different roles actually mean.
Owner: highest organization access, including company configuration. Admin: helps manage the organization. Manager: can receive manager tools for assigned reports when enabled. Member: normal employee access.
Being someone’s manager and having the Manager Workspace feature enabled are separate things. That keeps your reporting structure intact even if you are not using approvals yet.
🛠️Admin workspaceWhere company-wide setup lives.
People handles invites, roles, managers and employee packages. Reports explains how a balance moved. Leave rules controls leave types and company defaults. Approvals controls which leave needs approval. Calendar controls visibility and company days off.
The Admin area is intentionally separate from everyday employee screens so normal users do not have to wade through company configuration.
🏢Your organization name & logoMake the GooseLeave workspace feel like your company owns it.
GooseLeave stays the product brand, while your company name and logo identify the workspace. Owners/admins can update them under Admin → Overview → Workspace identity.
💳Trial, billing & cancellationWhat happens after the free trial.
The public beta starts with a 60-day trial and no card is required to start. If an owner sets up billing, the paid plan begins automatically when the trial ends unless it is cancelled first.
The current Founding Plan is CA$20/month for up to 20 active employees, plus CA$1 per additional active employee/month, plus applicable taxes. Billing and payment details are managed through Stripe.
Open Settings → Plan & billing to see the exact current status for your workspace.
🔒Privacy & securityWho can see what.
Each organization has its own private workspace. Employees join by invitation. Role and team-calendar permissions limit workplace visibility. Avoid putting diagnoses or unnecessary medical detail in leave notes.
🛟Still stuck?Tell us what you were trying to do.
Email [email protected]. Include what you expected to happen and what you saw instead. Do not email passwords, payment-card numbers or unnecessary medical information.