Free PTO tracking

PTO tracking software like Homebase lets employees and managers submit and respond to time off requests from one central place. All approved PTO then automatically appears in the schedule builder and timesheets so nothing falls through the cracks.

Homebase offers free PTO tracking for teams with fewer than 10 employees. With Homebase, your team can request time off from their phones, managers approve in seconds, and approved requests sync straight to your schedule—eliminating the manual work and scheduling conflicts that plague spreadsheets. Everything lives in the same app as scheduling and time clocks, so you're not switching between tools.

Yes! Homebase offers a free plan that includes PTO tracking for teams of up to 10 employees at one location. You get employee requests, manager approvals, schedule syncing, and mobile access—no credit card required. For advanced features like automatic accrual calculations, find a paid plan that fits your needs.

Spreadsheets require you to remember each PTO request and manually enter it into schedules and timesheets. This can lead to missed PTO and timesheet calculation errors. Homebase puts all requests in one app, notifies managers instantly when employees submit, and syncs approved time off to your schedule and timesheets automatically. With Homebase, you’re managing requests in real time and your team gets instant responses, avoiding needless follow-ups.

Yes. With our free plan, employees can submit time-off requests from the Homebase mobile app and get notified when managers approve or deny them. If you want them to be able to check their accruals and balances, see our pricing page to find a plan that does more.

Managers get notified instantly when employees submit requests through the mobile app or web dashboard. They can see the dates requested, any scheduling conflicts, and approve or deny with one tap. Approved requests automatically update the schedule so you never accidentally overschedule someone who's supposed to be out.

Our free plan covers one location with up to 10 employees. If you grow beyond that or need multiple locations, see our paid plans that support unlimited locations with centralized PTO management—so you can see time-off requests across your entire business in one dashboard and enforce consistent policies everywhere.

When you approve a time-off request in Homebase, it syncs automatically to your schedule and appears on the schedule instantly. The PTO hours then flow into timesheets so you don’t have to manually factor it into payroll.

You can track all types of time off—vacation, sick leave, personal days, bereavement, and any custom categories you create. The free plan lets you set up multiple leave types and manage requests for all of them in one place. You define what counts as what, and everything syncs to your schedule and timesheets consistently.