Leave management that keeps its own balances
Requests, approvals and balances in one place — with your country’s accrual rules already applied.
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Leave accrues per net workday from each person’s joining date, continuously.
Annual, sick and unpaid, plus hourly permission and business meetings.
Every add and deduct keeps its reason, its author and its date. Nothing overwrites.
Not a trial. The free plan has no expiry and asks for no card.
Leave goes wrong quietly. A balance kept in a file drifts from the one in someone’s head, and nobody notices until an employee leaves and the settlement is disputed.
DawamHR keeps one balance per person and derives it rather than storing it. Annual leave accrues from the workdays actually served since the joining date, at the rate set on that employee’s office — so a Kuwait branch and a branch elsewhere can accrue differently under one account.
Staff request leave from their phone, admins approve or decline in a click, and both sides see the same number. Every manual adjustment HR makes is a dated, reasoned entry in a ledger that can be exported — not an overwrite of a figure nobody can audit.
Almost every leave dispute is really a disagreement about a number only one side could see. The design principle here is that both sides read the same figure, derived the same way, with the working shown — which removes the argument rather than adjudicating it.
What you get
- Annual, sick, unpaid, business-meeting and permission types
- Annual leave accrues automatically from workdays served
- Per-office accrual rates for multi-country teams
- Friday — or any rest day you choose — excluded from counts
- Append-only adjustment ledger with reasons and dates
- Full leave history per employee, exportable to Excel
Request, approve, done
Staff request from their phone; an admin approves or declines in a click. Both sides see the balance before and after, so nobody is agreeing to something they cannot check, and the record of who approved what is kept without anyone maintaining it.
Leave requests
Balances that compute rather than drift
The balance is derived from workdays served, not stored as a number someone edits. That is the difference between a figure that is always current and one that was right in March. Unpaid days correctly earn no leave, and the full calculation is visible on demand.
Your country’s accrual, per office
The accrual rate is set on the office, not the company, so branches in different countries accrue at their own statutory rate under one account. Getting this wrong is not a rounding error — entitlement varies by nearly a third across the Gulf.
Rest days that do not come off the balance
Weekly rest days inside a leave period are not counted, and you choose which days those are. A Sunday-to-Sunday request costs seven days rather than eight — and costs a different number in an office with a different weekend, automatically.
Every leave type, including the hourly ones
Annual, sick and unpaid carry day balances. Business meetings and short permission absences are requested in hours on a single day and never touch the day balance, with a monthly budget you set for permission.
Corrections that leave a trail
When HR adds or deducts days it becomes a dated, reasoned entry in an append-only ledger — never a silent edit to a total. A correction is a new offsetting entry, so the history always explains the current number, and the whole ledger exports to Excel.
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What changes in your first week
Tracking leave manually
- A balance worked out in a calculator every time somebody asks for one.
- Requests approved over chat, with no record of who approved what, or when.
- Rest days counted as leave, because the range was counted end to end.
- An adjustment overwrites the old number, and the reason for it is lost.
Tracking leave in DawamHR
- Balances accrue continuously and are on screen for the employee and for HR.
- Requests, approvals and refusals are recorded against a name and a date.
- Your rest days are excluded from every day count, on every screen, the same way.
- Add and deduct is an append-only ledger — reason, author and date all kept.
Free for up to 5 employees — forever
No credit card, no hardware, no setup call. You can have your team clocking in this afternoon.
Common questions
How is annual leave calculated?
It accrues per net workday served since the joining date, at the rate set on that employee’s office — so offices in different countries can accrue differently under one account. Unpaid days taken do not earn leave, and you can see the full working on any employee’s balance.
Are Fridays counted against a leave balance?
No. The weekly rest day is excluded from leave day-counts, so a Sunday-to-Sunday request costs seven days rather than eight. Friday is the default, and you can change which days count.
Can HR correct a balance?
Yes, by adding or deducting days with a required reason and an effective date range. Entries are append-only: a correction is a new offsetting entry, never a silent edit, so the history always explains the current number.
Do employees see their own balance?
Yes — the same number HR sees, with the accrual working shown. Most leave disputes are really disagreements about a number only one side could see.
Can we set our own leave allowance instead of the statutory one?
Yes. The statutory figure is the default, not a ceiling — set a more generous allowance per office and balances follow it. Many employers improve on the minimum, and the product should not argue with that.
What happens to unused leave at year end?
Annual leave accrues across the whole tenure rather than resetting, so an unused balance simply carries. Sick and unpaid allowances reset each calendar year, which is why they are tracked separately.
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