Factorial alternatives when you just need leave management

Which Factorial alternative fits?

It depends on how much of HR you want in one system. Every Factorial plan includes Factorial Core; tools such as Time Off, Time Tracking, Recruitment, Performance and Expenses are chosen on top.¹

• · All of HR in one place, payroll included: compare the full HR suites, the category Factorial competes in.
• · Leave management only: Absenca, with leave types, accruals, carry-over and approvals, and nothing to pay for up to 10 people.
• · A team that lives in Slack: a Slack-first leave tracker, such as Absenca with its Slack bot on Pro.

Factorial vs Absenca

Factorial quotes each company rather than publishing list prices, so this page compares no team totals.

Absenca vs Factorial →

Why teams pick Absenca

How to switch from Factorial

1. 1.

   Pick a cut-over date

   Choose the day Absenca takes over, and on that day note each person's remaining balance in Factorial. Time it to your Factorial billing date. Factorial offers monthly and annual plans, cancellable at any time.¹

2. 2.

   Set up your office

   Add your office with its work week, leave year start and public holidays for its country. Then add your leave types and policies: accrual schedules, carry-over caps and expiry, and seniority tiers.

3. 3.

   Import your people from a CSV

   Fill in Absenca's template with each person's name, email, department, role, office and start date. Absenca checks every row before it imports anyone, then emails each person an invitation. CSV import is on every plan.

4. 4.

   Set opening balances

   Adjust each person's balance to what Factorial showed on the cut-over date. Absenca records each adjustment, with your reason, in the audit log.

5. 5.

   Go live

   Your team signs in with a Google, Microsoft or Slack account. Approved leave syncs to Google or Outlook calendars, on every plan. Turn on the Slack bot, on Pro, to request and approve leave in Slack.

The full walkthrough, with what to check before and after the cut-over: move your leave data.

Where Factorial might be the better fit

• · A full HR suite with payroll and time tracking. Factorial sells payroll management and time tracking.¹
• · A public API with webhooks. Factorial has a public API with webhooks.¹¹
• · Widely used. Factorial says more than 17,000 companies use it.¹²

We'd rather you pick the right tool than the loudest one. If the points above matter more to you than price, Factorial is a perfectly good choice.

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