Vacation Tracker

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Leave policies are configured per location with quotas in days or hours, half-day and hourly requests, up to nine custom leave types, seniority- and role-based entitlements, and carry-over that can be capped, given an expiry date, reset or carried in full — a real rules engine, not numbers typed in by hand. But the German and Austrian specifics are absent everywhere I looked: I found no public information on public holidays per German federal state or Austrian region, no proration for joiners, leavers or part-time working days, no special or parental leave types, and the expiry setting comes with no evidenced notice to employees before rolled-over leave lapses. 3 6 7 10

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Two sequential approval levels where any one approver per level moves the request on, substitutes an admin can even appoint on an absent approver's behalf, blackout periods, a maximum-users-away limit, and requests handled from Slack, Teams, email or the dashboard — the everyday flow is taken seriously, and the leave request report logs who requested what and who approved. What I could not find: any statement on whether colleagues see the reason behind an absence or calendar visibility configurable per role, any check against shift or staffing plans before approval, or any evidence on how cancellations are recorded. 3 6 8 9 11 13

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Sickness is one more leave type — "sick leaves, vacations, or days off" — with notifications about prolonged sick days, and the two sick-leave pages say nothing else. I found no public information on the eAU, on who retrieves an electronic certificate from a health insurer, on certificate uploads of any kind, on counting sick days towards the six-week continued-pay limit, or on child sick days. 10 11

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Three report exports in CSV or Excel with fields pitched for cross-referencing in payroll, an ADP Workforce Now sync of approved leave, and a genuinely documented API — permission templates, 30,000 requests per month, webhooks, key rotation with a 14-day expiry notice. For a German payroll run, though, nothing is named: I found no public information on DATEV or any other German payroll system, on mapping leave types to payroll codes, on a monthly closing or period lock, or on any interaction with time tracking. 3 5 12 13 12

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A DPA is available and users can request deletion of their personal data from their account settings; the only visibility control I found is a "Hide Leave Type" setting whose effect is never explained. The core questions go unanswered: I found no public information on who may see a sickness reason or certificate, on access logging, on retention beyond "handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy", or on anything aimed at a works council or works agreement. 4 5 6 11

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The contracting entity is Vacation Tracker Technologies Inc. of Westmount (Montreal), Canada, with servers in Frankfurt and North Virginia and a promise that European accounts' data "resides and remains in Europe at all times". That promise covers only the vendor's own servers: I found no public information on the subprocessors — email, push notifications, analytics or support — on their locations, or on any certification. 4 5

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The captured pricing pages name two tiers, Core and Complete, and list which features sit where, down to the Open API being "included at no extra cost" — but they give no price figure of any kind. I found no public information on a price per user or per employee, minimum users, minimum term or VAT treatment, and the path offered instead is booking a demo, so the annual invoice cannot be computed from public pages. 1 2 3

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