LeaveWizard
LeaveWizard is a small business with mighty reach, it has been running since 2010 and currently supply leave management system to over 29 countries.[1]
Contents
Background and History
Leave Wizard is a United Kingdom based company in Bournemouth that is constantly evolving and innovating in the fight to be the best annual leave planner. Leave Wizard was founded due to the fact that it's hard to believe that spreadsheets are still the number one tool used to manage staff annual leave and absence. Some businesses even still use paper forms to request and approve leave. The world around us has evolved dramatically, but not leave management tools. So Leave Wizard was developed as an online employee leave planner that allows anyone to track and manage employee's holiday and absence at just the click of a button.[2]
Overview
Leave Wizard solved the problem of spreadsheets still being the number one tool used to manage leave and absence by developing an easy to use, yet comprehensive online leave planner, which can completely replace Excel trackers and paper forms. [1] Their approach is to keep on learning so that they can build a product loved by all customers, and presently the approach is working.[2] So far they haven’t brought in outside financing and have no intention of doing so. This is important in providing the freedom to shape the company and its business practices. [2]
Services
Leave management
LeaveWizard offers many advanced functions, out of the box, to help automate processes and reduce stress, and anxiety. The leave management features include multiple event types, track in days and hours, two levels of approval, and carryovers to mention a few. [2] Absence management If absence management is an issue for you LeaveWizard have got absence management covered with their absenteeism tracking features that allow one to set up sickness allowances, categorise sickness events, upload of sick notes, Bradford factor tracking and simple absence reports. [2]
Overtime and TOIL
They also offer a flexible overtime solution, integrated with the main system and allows one to track overtime and convert to TOIL against any allowance. [2] It comes with separate approvals at up to two levels, tracking in days or hours and separate reporting.
Employee management
Their system has also evolved to manage employee information beyond leave management. Some of the features include individual allowances, automated entitlement calculation, extended employee information, family and emergency contacts and more. [1]
Advanced features
We have developed a range of advanced features that can't be found in other online systems in the same class. [2] These include flexible work patterns, custom rules and restrictions, time worked report, easy carry over processing and more. [2]
Team
Plamen Balkanski
Operations Lead, Founder He is the organiser, driving the company towards building software systems that make people’s lives better. He oversees all aspects of LeaveWizard’s business processes.
Richard Allen
Technology Lead, Founder He is the passionate one. An active community organiser with unreal knowledge and skills. With this passion, he leads both the product development and IT teams at LeaveWizard.
Atanas Himchev
Lead Developer, Partner He is the cool head of the company, always coming up with the most pragmatic solutions without compromise, even in the most difficult situations. [1]
Paul Hayward
Support Analyst He is the customer champion. Nice to everyone else and unbelievably persistent with all to try and get customers to a happier place, sooner.
