If employees in your company have the option of taking half of their day off, here’s how you can handle this entire process in Productive.
Note that setting time-off categories is only available for the admins or users with custom time-off permissions in Productive.
👉 For more information on creating absence categories, check out this article.
Productive is rolling out an updated booking form. If your booking form looks different from the screenshots in this article, your organization hasn't been switched over yet: the rollout is gradual. Learn more here.
1) Create a Half-Day Time-Off Category
Step One
Head over to Settings > Absence add a new time-off category by selecting Add Absence Category > Time Off .
Step Two
Choose days as the allowance period and enable the Allow half-day bookings option. This option allows Productive to calculate 50% of a person's working hours defined in their cost rates and book their time off accordingly.
Then you can proceed and add a description for the category and decide if you want to sync your time-off status with Slack and your external calendars.
After you set everything up, select Save Category and you'll be good to go.
2) Important: Add Time-Off Allowance to your Employees
After you set up your time-off category, assign it to the teammates who need to use it.
📌 You can set allowances in 0.5 days if needed. For example, assigning 4.5 days is possible for time-off categories that are limited by days.
Important to note: Without assigning the allowances to your teammates, they won't be able to see them when requesting time off, nor can they be booked for half-days off in the Resource Planner.
👉 Here is how to add absence allowance to your teammates
3) Requesting Time-Off
This is what half-days off looks like in the Resource Planner once booked.
This is what it looks like for the user requesting the half-day off through Time > Book Absence.
You can also book half-days off if you create time-off categories with hours as the time allowance metric.
