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.

Head over to Settings > Absence add a new time-off category by selecting Add Absence Category > Time Off .

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.
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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.
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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.
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​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.
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👉 Here is how to add absence allowance to your teammates

This is what half-days off looks like in the Resource Planner once booked.
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This is what it looks like for the user requesting the half-day off through Time > Book Absence.
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