Not an inbox. An approval packet.

Leave tracking software.Not a spreadsheet job.

Leave tracking software accrues by seniority, routes requests, shows balances in the portal, and writes every approved day into payroll and the timesheet. A free spreadsheet does not. Drop the tables. Let the system keep the count.

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One platform

the whole leave flow, request to payroll record

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Art. 53

Turkish Labor Law seniority tiers built in

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hand-kept balance spreadsheets

Short answer

What is leave tracking software, a sheet or a queue?

Otto HR is leave tracking software: it calculates entitlement by seniority, sends the request through an approval chain, shows the balance on the employee's screen, and stores the approved day as the record payroll and the timesheet will read. A free spreadsheet can hold a balance in a cell. It does not turn the request into a packet. How many annual leave days is read from the balance. One week of annual leave counts as 6 working days. Annual leave rights are the seniority tiers.

When do you need it?

You need it when the inbox is a tour of 'how many days do I have left', when balances contradict each other in a dispute, or when approved leave is typed into the month-end sheet by hand. A sheet stores a number. The program empties the inbox.

How does Otto do this differently?

The employee sees the balance in the portal and opens the request there. The manager receives dates, day count, and a clash warning already packed. Otto builds the packet. A person confirms. The approved day flows into timesheet software and bordro software from the same record. There is no second entry.

Why a system?

A free spreadsheet does not empty the inbox.

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The employee asks, the manager gets a packet

How many days do I have left, can I take next month: those questions live in the HR inbox. In leave tracking software the employee sees the balance in the portal and opens the request there. The manager gets dates, day count and an overlap warning already packed.

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One flow from request to approval

Employees request. The request moves through the chain you define: manager then HR, HR only, or custom ordered steps. Overlapping dates are flagged. A person signs off at every step.

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Visible balances, payroll-ready records

Employees see remaining days, pending requests and carried-over days in the portal. Approved leave is stored once, and the pay period reads that record. No second data entry.

Why leave the spreadsheet

A free table keeps a count. A system carries the approval packet.

Inbox

Excel does not deliver the request

A free leave spreadsheet can store a balance in a cell. It does not take the request to the manager as a packet, flag overlaps, or give the employee their own screen. Leave tracking software closes the 'how many days do I have left' tour of the inbox. The employee asks, the system packs, approval stays with you.

Inbox

Requests & approvals

The chain you define

Configure per leave type: auto-approve, HR only, manager → HR, or custom ordered steps. Everyone sees where a request stands, and HR can record leave on an employee's behalf when needed. Otto prepares the action. The confirmation card leaves the final word with you.

Requests & approvals

Employee portal

Balances on the employee's screen

Remaining, pending and carried-over days plus the next accrual date, in each employee's own portal. The request form counts days with your company's working days and holiday calendar, so the number on the form is the number that gets approved.

Employee portal

Payroll link

Leave records flow into the pay period

Every approved leave sits as one record with its dates and day count. When the pay period is prepared, leave days come from those records. No re-entry, no copy-paste, no version confusion.

Payroll link

Frequently asked questions

Otto HR is leave-tracking software: it keeps entitlements, requests, approvals and balances in one place. Leave-tracking software keeps employees' annual-leave entitlements, requests, approvals and remaining balances in one place. Good leave-tracking software computes accrual by the law on its own, routes requests through an approval chain, shows each employee their balance, and stores approved leave as records payroll can read. Otto HR does all four. How many annual leave days and annual leave rights are read from that record by seniority. One week of annual leave is usually 6 working days. The table is not the hero. The inbox closes.

Otto HR treats a free Excel sheet as a store of a number, not an approval packet. For storing a number, yes. For approval, no. Excel keeps a balance in a cell but does not route the request, show overlaps, or give the employee their own screen. In leave tracking software the employee sees the balance in the portal, opens the request there, and the manager approves a ready packet. Migration is one declaration: enter each person's remaining days, and the system keeps the count from then on. Stay on this page. The statute encyclopedia lives in the annual-leave guide.

Otto HR ships the built-in annual leave type with Labor Law Art. 53 tiers for Turkish companies. For Turkish companies, the built-in annual leave type ships with the Labor Law Art. 53 tiers (14, 20, 26 days) and the 20-day floor for employees aged 18 or younger and 50 or older. Entitlement vests on the employment anniversary per Art. 54, and public holidays falling inside a leave don't count against it per Art. 56. To see your own entitlement, try our free annual-leave calculator (/yillik-izin/hesaplama).

Otto HR shows requests and balances in the employee portal. In the employee portal. Each employee sees their remaining balance, pending requests, carried-over days and next accrual date on their own screen. They open new requests there and follow the approval steps as they happen. The company holiday calendar lives in the portal too, so the request form counts days by the same rules HR uses.

Otto HR stores approved leave once so the pay period can read that record. Yes. Every approved leave is stored once with its dates and day count, and leave days are read from those records when the pay period is prepared. No entering leave in one spreadsheet and payroll in another: data goes in once, and both surfaces show the same truth.

Otto HR moves the leave question out of the HR inbox and onto the portal record. The employee's leave question, how many days do I have left and can I take next month, is the classic resident of the HR inbox. In leave tracking software the employee sees their balance in the portal and opens the request there. Otto reads the same record in chat. The manager's packet arrives ready: dates, day count, overlap warning. HR's job is not chasing the chain. It is making the call.

Otto HR answers how many annual leave days by seniority. How many annual leave days depends on seniority: Labor Law Art. 53 sets minimums of 14, 20 and 26 working days. Staff aged 18 or under, or 50 and over, have a 20-day floor. One week of annual leave usually counts as 6 working days because Sunday is not deducted. Annual leave rights are those tiers plus the use rules. Leave tracking software reads the balance from the record. This page closes the inbox. It does not make the statute table the hero. Leave tracking software writes those numbers into the balance and turns the request into a packet. The encyclopedia of the seniority table lives on the annual leave guide.

Otto HR puts remaining days on the employee's screen and the request on the manager's packet. The employee sees remaining days on their own screen. The request lands with the manager as a packet: dates, day count, clash. HR does not answer the same question twenty times. Otto prepares. The last word on the approval card is yours. This is not shrinking HR. It is moving a repeating question onto the record.

Otto HR keeps leave on the same record as the timesheet and payroll. A separate leave sheet is rewritten at month end. Leave tracking software keeps the approved day as one record. Timesheet software writes that day into the ledger. Bordro software reads the same record in the period. Otto prepares. A person closes both handoffs.

Otto HR runs sick leave on the same approval packet. Sick leave is a leave type on the same balance and approval packet. Otto HR records the request, a person stamps it, and the same employee record feeds the timesheet and the payroll draft. This is not a US FMLA product.

Otto HR does not split a leave of absence into a second product. No. Unpaid or extended absence is still a stamped request on the same record. The balance rule differs. The packet does not. Otto HR does not split absence into a second product.

Agentic HR

Close the leave ledger.Let the system keep count.

Try Otto HR: the built-in annual leave type is ready on day one. Add your team along with their remaining leave days, and the first request lands in your approval chain within minutes. The system keeps the books, and the final word stays with you at every step.