Add holiday lists
Make a holiday list for each year, add national, state and festival holidays, copy it to the next year, and assign it to the business or a branch.
Create a list
- Go to Attendance → Holidays.
- Under New holiday list, enter the List name and the Year.
- Optionally enter Optional holidays each staff member may take.
- Select Add.
Add holidays
- Open the list.
- Pick the Date, type the Holiday name and choose its Kind: National, State, Festival, Optional or Restricted.
- Select Add holiday.
X suggests the fixed national days that are not on the list yet, such as Republic Day, Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti. Select a suggestion to add it.
To remove a holiday, select Delete in its row.
Next year
Select Copy to and the next year to start next year's list from this one. Then change the dates of festivals that move.
Assign a list
- Under Assign a holiday list, choose Whole business or a Branch.
- Choose the Holiday list and the date it applies Starting.
- Select Assign.
Each list shows how many holidays it has and how many staff it is assigned to.
On the day
Holidays show as Holiday (H) in attendance and are paid days. What happens when someone works on a holiday is set in the rule set. See Overtime and off-day rules.
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Set weekly offs
Create weekly-off templates such as every Sunday plus the 2nd and 4th Saturday, decide whether they are paid, and assign them.
Overtime and off-day rules
Turn on overtime with a minimum, approval and a rate for each band, and choose what happens when staff work on a weekly off or a holiday.
Attendance statuses and codes
What Present, Half day, Absent, Paid leave, Weekly off, Holiday, On duty, Comp off and Not marked mean, and the short codes in registers.
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