# e-days — Absence Management

e-days by e-days International Ltd holds a panel rating of 2/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 1.5/5), as of 2026-10-27. Provenance: provenance unknown; sovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven.

- Vendor: e-days International Ltd (https://www.e-days.com)
- Category: [Absence Management](https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): provenance unknown
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management/e-days
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management/e-days/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management/e-days/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-27 · evaluated 2026-10-27 · oldest source captured 2026-10-27

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: e-days International Ltd
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 27 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 27 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 27 Oct 2026

## The panel's verdict

e-days is an absence management platform whose strongest area in this review is requests and approvals, scoring 6 to 6: leave approved straight from email, a mobile app, alternative authorisers, group calendars and minimum-staffing alerts are all documented. Leave policies (4 to 5) and absence data protection (4 to 5) follow, built on FTE-based proration that awards and deducts public holidays automatically, and on visibility permissions per absence type that keep sickness reasons off shared calendars. The weaknesses are concentrated: sick leave and eAU (the electronic certificate of incapacity) score 1 to 2, with no public information on eAU retrieval, the six-week continued-pay count, BEM or child-sick days — sickness appears only as a configurable absence type. Sovereignty scores run 0 to 2, the widest range among the criteria, on a Nottingham contracting entity and Microsoft hosting with no stated region or subprocessor list. Payroll handover scores 4 to 4: a documented RESTful API, but no named German payroll system. No prices are published; quotes come via a free personalised demo or callback.

**Speaks for it:**
- Requests and approvals score 6 to 6, with approval straight from email, a mobile app, alternative authorisers, group calendars and minimum-staffing alerts all documented
- Leave policies score 4 to 5 on automated FTE-based proration — public holidays awarded and deducted from entitlements per working pattern, with automated carry-over and accruals
- Absence visibility is configurable per absence type at global, template and user level, with My Own / My Reportees / Others tiers, so sickness reasons stay off shared calendars
- Payroll handover scores cluster at 4 on a documented RESTful API with developer pages, client ID authentication and full create, read, update and delete operations
- ISO 27001 certification (issued 5th November 2019), encryption at rest and in transit, and annual third-party penetration testing are stated

**Held against it:**
- Sick leave and eAU scores run 1 to 2, with no public information on eAU retrieval, certificates, the six-week continued-pay count, BEM or child-sick days
- Sovereignty scores run 0 to 2 on a Nottingham contracting entity, Microsoft hosting with no region stated, and US Cloud Act exposure flagged in the chain
- Entitlement changes affect future calculations only and do not backdate, so corrections after a closed month are not recalculated
- No German federal-state holiday calendars found — public holiday dates arrive via CSV or import feed — and no carry-over expiry with advance notice is documented
- No prices are published; the public route to a quote is a free personalised demo or a callback request

**Best for:**
- You run a mixed full-time and part-time workforce and need FTE-based proration with public holidays awarded and deducted automatically, supplying holiday dates yourself by CSV or import feed
- Your team wants self-service absence handling — approvals from email, a mobile app, group calendars and minimum-staffing alerts — while keeping sickness reasons hidden from colleagues
- You have developers to build payroll handover over the documented RESTful API rather than relying on a prebuilt connector

**Avoid if:**
- You need the regulated German sick-leave process — eAU retrieval, six-week continued-pay counting, BEM, child-sick days — handled by the tool; the captured pages show sickness only as a configurable absence type with reasons and health advice
- You depend on retroactive recalculation after entitlement changes; the help centre states changes affect future calculations only and do not backdate
- You expect a named German payroll connection such as DATEV out of the box; payroll appears publicly only as a FAQ question, with the documented API as the handover route

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price.

| Criterion | The Team Lead | The Managing Director | The Payroll Accountant | The Data Protection Officer | The HR IT Integrator | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Entitlements & German leave rules | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Requests, approvals & team calendar | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Sick leave, eAU & continued pay | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 1/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 |
| Payroll handover, time tracking & API | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Health data, access & works council | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 |
| European sovereignty | 0.5/5 | 1/5 | 0.5/5 | 0/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **1.5/5** | **1.5/5** | **2/5** | **1.5/5** |

### The judges

- **The Team Lead** (v1.0): Approves leave for twelve people across two shifts and finds out about clashes too late. Wants requests and approvals on the phone, a named substitute on every request, minimum-staffing warnings before approval, and a team calendar that shows who is away without showing why.
- **The Managing Director** (v1.0): Runs a forty-person company in two federal states without an HR department and is liable when leave is calculated wrong. Wants part-time entitlements prorated correctly, the right public holidays per site, carry-over that lapses only after employees were told, and the eAU handled without a phone call to every health insurer.
- **The Payroll Accountant** (v1.0): Closes payroll in DATEV every month and corrects whatever arrived late. Wants absences exported with the right payroll codes, the eAU result attached to the sick day, the six-week continued-pay limit counted per illness, and past months locked once they are paid.
- **The Data Protection Officer** (v1.0): Treats every sick day as special-category data, because the law does. Asks who can see a reason or a certificate, how long absence records are kept and deleted, whether access is logged, where the data is hosted, and which subprocessors send the push notification that says someone is ill.
- **The HR IT Integrator** (v1.0): Wires the absence tool to payroll, time tracking, the identity provider and the calendar. Wants a documented API and webhooks, maintained connectors for the named German payroll systems rather than a CSV, SSO, and balances that agree with the time-tracking system on both sides.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Knows "eAU supported" can mean a photo upload, "DATEV integration" can mean a CSV, and "GDPR-compliant" can mean every manager sees every diagnosis-adjacent note. Reads for who actually retrieves the certificate, which leave rules are computed rather than typed in, and whether the carry-over expiry notice exists at all.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: 1 of 4 dimensions proven.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Ownership | Not determined | — | — |
| Data residency | Not determined | — | — |
| Subprocessors | US CLOUD Act reach | 0/2 | [S3] |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Advertising cookies: yes · yes · yes [S2]
- Analytics cookies: yes · yes [S2]
- Encryption: Encryption at rest and in transit [S3]
- ISO 27001: yes · 2019-11-05 [S3]
- Pentesting: annual third-party · weekly [S3]

**Hosting**
- Provider: Microsoft [S3]

**Integrations**
- API authentication: Client ID and Secret [S9]
- API crud operations: GET · POST · PUT · DELETE [S9]
- API developer docs: https://developer.e-days.com/ · yes [S9]
- API rest: RESTful API · yes [S9]
- Calendar import: yes [S6]
- Existence: yes [S2]
- Payroll connection: payroll connection [S1]

**Legal**
- Company: E-days Absence Management Ltd · 234194613 · 09458918 [S1]
- Company: E-days Absence Management Ltd · 234194613 · 09458918 [S3]
- Company number: 09458918 [S6]
- Company registration: 2026 · 234194613 · E-days Absence Management Ltd [S6]
- Company registration number: 09458918 [S2]
- Entity name: E-days Absence Management Ltd · 6 Canal Street, Canalside House, Nottingham, NG1 7EH [S2]
- Indemnification: yes [S2]
- Liability disclaimer: yes [S2]
- Non commercial use: yes [S2]
- Termination right: yes [S2]
- Trademark: Great Britain and Northern Ireland · yes [S2]
- Unilateral modification: yes [S2]
- User content license: non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, fully sublicensable [S2]
- VAT number: 234194613 [S2]
- Warranty disclaimer: yes [S2]

**Product**
- Absence reduction claim: typically cutting absence rates by up to 25% · 25 [S1]
- Absence type setup path: admin tools > admin panel > global > absence type setup [S8]
- Absence visibility permissions: Granular visibility permissions for absence records by absence type and organisational level [S12]
- Access control: Roles-based access control using Active Directory and Azure Active Directory [S3]
- Admin time reduction claim: 86 [S1]
- Admin user view: Determines user profiles accessible in the admin panel for administrator roles [S7]
- Advanced entitlement mode required: yes · advanced entitlement mode [S5]
- Affected entitlements setting: Absence types have an 'Affected Entitlements' setting that selects which entitlement deductions apply to [S8]
- Alternative authoriser support: yes [S7]
- API client role: API Client is a service account role for integrations; not for human users [S9]
- API user visibility: API Client account requires all User Views (Admin, Staff Records, Calendar, Reporting) set to Everyone [S9]
- API user warning: Converting an existing live user to API Client revokes their normal access; use a new account [S9]
- Calendar access: yes · yes [S6]
- Calendar user view: Determines which users appear on Group Calendar or Manager Dashboard pages [S7]
- Carryover accruals: yes [S1]
- Custom absence types: yes [S1]
- Custom leave types: yes · yes [S6]
- Customer footprint: 1400 · 120 · 25 [S1]
- Deduction applies to future absences: 1 [S8]
- Demo available: free personalised demo [S1]
- Development methodology: Agile development with 2-week sprints, testing within sprint [S3]
- Edays education series: edays education webinar series with on-demand viewing [S4]
- Employee app: yes [S1]
- Employee screening: Credit and criminal records check for employees with access to sensitive data [S3]
- Entitlement element config: Public holiday entitlement is enabled via an entitlement element with the setting 'Restrict element to award entitlement for public holidays' set to Yes, Sort Index 0 [S5]
- Export field delimiter: yes [S10]
- Export field groups: Personal · System · Organisation [S10]
- Export format: csv [S10]
- Export identifier constraint: yes · yes [S10]
- Export leavers flag: yes [S10]
- Export payroll id: prevent Excel truncating values with leading zeroes · yes [S10]
- Export user selection: groups · user_templates · reportees_leavers · individuals [S10]
- Faq bradford factor: yes [S6]
- Faq clock in out: yes [S6]
- Faq hours based leave: yes [S6]
- Faq mobile app: yes [S6]
- Faq timesheets: yes [S6]
- Feature list: Timesheet Management · HR Document Management · Employee Directory · Workflow Builder · Absence Reporting · Overtime & TOIL [S2]
- Feature requires support ticket: yes [S5]
- Fte annual audit recommendation: Best practice: audit FTE values annually [S5]
- Global compliance: global templates & workflows for labour compliance [S1]
- Group calendar: Accessible group calendar for teams & departments to plan resources and increase visibility of who's on leave [S6]
- Group calendars scope: yes · yes [S6]
- HR document management: yes [S1]
- Import tool exists: yes [S10]
- Industries: Financial Services · Public Sector · IT & Tech · Media & Telecoms [S2]
- Leave booking units: days · hours [S1]
- Medical appointment entitlement deduction: Medical Appointment absences can be configured to deduct from a related entitlement type [S8]
- Minimum staffing alerts: yes [S6]
- No backdating: no [S5]
- Overtime toil: yes [S1]
- Part time adjustment: yes · Entitlement impact adjusts for part-time staff via FTE settings and working patterns [S5]
- Permission columns: My Own · My Reportees · Others [S12]
- Permission levels: Global · Template · User [S12]
- Permission precedence: yes [S12]
- Permissions required: Global Rota Setup · Entitlement Setup [S5]
- Public holiday fte auto calculation: yes · Automatic award and deduction of public holidays from staff entitlements based on FTE and working patterns [S5]
- Public holiday group required: yes · existing public holiday group with entitlement deduction enabled [S5]
- Public holiday import CSV: yes · Public holiday dates can be imported via CSV [S5]
- Public holiday import feed: yes · Public holiday dates can be added via import feed [S5]
- Reimport after export: yes [S10]
- Related features: yes · yes · yes · yes · yes · yes [S6]
- Reportee definition: Reportees are users in one's management chain [S12]
- Reporting: yes [S1]
- Reporting user view: Applies a master level user filter to reports in Edays [S7]
- Roles stated: Standard Administrator · Standard Authoriser [S7]
- Segments: Small & Mid-Market · Large & Enterprise · Global Organisations [S2]
- Shared team calendars: yes [S1]
- Sickness health advice: yes [S1]
- Staff records user view: Determines staff records accessible in admin panel or front-end dashboards for admin/authoriser roles [S7]
- Standard administrator role: Standard Administrator role needed for initial user creation [S9]
- Superuser required: yes [S9]
- Timesheet management: yes [S1]
- User export tool: User Import/Export Tool · Admins can export selected user data fields into a CSV file via the User Import/Export Tool [S10]
- User view dropdown options: Everyone · Reportees · Direct Reportees · My Record · Custom [S7]
- User view settings purpose: User View settings control which users are visible to other users in the system [S7]
- User view settings scope: global · template · user [S7]
- User view update path: Per-user update path: search user > edit > System tab > User View settings [S7]
- Webinar absence types permissions: edays education webinar covering absence types, permissions and views, and top tips; available on-demand [S11]
- Webinar parttimers topics: Part time and FTE calculations · Public holidays and pro-rating · Manual and automatic awards [S4]
- Workflow builder email reminders: yes [S6]
- Working locations: yes [S6]

**Subprocessors**
- Analytics provider: analytics and remarketing · Google Analytics [S2]

**Support**
- Callback: callback request [S1]
- Guide role requirements: Setup requires System Admin role, Users permission and Superuser access [S9]
- Requires role: System Admin · Users [S10]

## Questions

### Is e-days European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where e-days is based.

### Where does e-days store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 27 Oct 2026.

### Does e-days have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 27 Oct 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to e-days?

As of 15 Oct 2026, the panel rates [Kenjo (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management/kenjo), [flair (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management/flair-hr) and [HRlab (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management/hrlab) highest among the other 17 Absence Management products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Kenjo](https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management/kenjo) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [e-days alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management/e-days/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- We found no public information on pricing on the pages we read (e-days.com, e-days.com/terms-and-conditions, e-days.com/security, support.e-days.com/support/solutions/articles/77000553437-part-timers-and-public-holidays, support.e-days.com/support/solutions/articles/77000508844-public-holiday-setup-public-holiday-entitlement-auto-calculated-based-on-fte, e-days.com/all-features/group-calendar and 6 more). If the vendor publishes it somewhere else, send us the page.
- 11 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor page: https://www.e-days.com (checked 2026-10-27)
- [S2] Terms of service — found from the homepage: https://www.e-days.com/terms-and-conditions (checked 2026-10-27)
- [S3] Security / trust page — found from the homepage: https://www.e-days.com/security (checked 2026-10-27)
- [S4] Entitlements & German leave rules — found from sitemap: https://support.e-days.com/support/solutions/articles/77000553437-part-timers-and-public-holidays (checked 2026-10-27)
- [S5] Entitlements & German leave rules — found from sitemap: https://support.e-days.com/support/solutions/articles/77000508844-public-holiday-setup-public-holiday-entitlement-auto-calculated-based-on-fte (checked 2026-10-27)
- [S6] Requests, approvals & team calendar — found from sitemap: https://www.e-days.com/all-features/group-calendar (checked 2026-10-27)
- [S7] Requests, approvals & team calendar — found from sitemap: https://support.e-days.com/support/solutions/articles/77000551116-how-do-i-give-my-manager-access-to-see-everyone-in-the-group-calendar- (checked 2026-10-27)
- [S8] Sick leave, eAU & continued pay — found from sitemap: https://support.e-days.com/support/solutions/articles/77000511657-how-do-i-make-it-so-medical-appointments-deduct-from-sick-days- (checked 2026-10-27)
- [S9] Payroll handover, time tracking & API — found from sitemap: https://support.e-days.com/support/solutions/articles/77000500522-how-do-i-create-an-api-account- (checked 2026-10-27)
- [S10] Payroll handover, time tracking & API — found from sitemap: https://support.e-days.com/support/solutions/articles/77000230597-user-import-export-exporting-data (checked 2026-10-27)
- [S11] Health data, access & works council — found from sitemap: https://support.e-days.com/support/solutions/articles/77000541135-absence-types-permissions (checked 2026-10-27)
- [S12] Health data, access & works council — found from sitemap: https://support.e-days.com/support/solutions/articles/77000585327-absence-permissions-how-they-work (checked 2026-10-27)

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Cite as: whats-best.ai, "e-days — Absence Management", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-10-27. https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management/e-days

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