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VACATION AND TIME OFF SOFTWARE

Vacations and absences, simplified

Manage your team's vacations, leave, and sick leave with flexible policies, automatic calculations, and full legal compliance in every country where you operate.

  • Flexible policies
  • Automatic balances
  • Legal compliance

CAPTERRA

Average rating 4.9/5

SOFTWARE ADVICE

Average rating 4.9/5

G2

Average rating 4.9/5

+3,500 companies in
Mexico trust Runa

ALL IN ONE PLACE

Everything you need to manage vacations and absences

Set up policies, automate balances and approvals, and keep your team organized from a single platform.

QUICK LOOK

See Time Off in action

Automate requests, policies, balances, and approvals while maintaining team visibility and managing rules for each country from one place.

Everything your employees need to request time off

Centralize requests for vacations, leave, and sick leave in a simple experience for employees, managers, and HR.

  • Web and mobile requests
  • Balance check before requesting
  • Full days, half days, or hours
  • Edit and cancel requests
  • Supporting documents and attachments
ALL FEATURES

36 features for managing vacations and absences

From requests and balances to multi-country policies, centralize all absence management in Runa.

  • 01 Requests and approvals
    • Allow your employees to request vacations, leave, sick leave, and other absences from web or mobile.

    • Automatically send each request to the correct manager according to your company's approval rules.

    • Validate available balance, policy, holidays, and applicable rules before processing each request.

    • Allow medical certificates, justifications, and other documents to be attached directly to each request.

    • Define which documents employees must submit based on the type of absence requested.

    • Allow requests to be modified or canceled based on their status and each user's permissions.

    • Automatically notify about new requests, approvals, rejections, pending items, and upcoming absences.

    • Assign alternate approvers so that requests keep moving when the primary manager is unavailable.

    • Create, upload, or approve requests for multiple employees at the same time.

  • 02 Policies and configuration
    • Configure vacations, sick leave, personal leave, maternity, paternity, and any other type of absence.

    • Create different vacation and absence policies with specific rules for each group of employees.

    • Configure policies by country adapted to the legislation, benefits, and local rules of each operation.

    • Apply the corresponding vacation rules in Mexico based on seniority and LFT provisions.

    • Define minimum notice, maximum consecutive days, request limits, and other conditions.

    • Allow absence requests by full days, half days, or hours according to each policy.

    • Configure different public holidays and work calendars by location, group, or company.

    • Manage specific work calendars and public holidays by country, region, or location.

    • Restrict or prevent vacation requests during specific dates or seasons.

  • 03 Balances and vacations
    • Automatically calculate available, used, pending, and remaining days for each employee.

    • Automatically accrue vacation days based on seniority, policy, and time worked.

    • Define when unused days expire and how many can be carried over to the next period.

    • Automatically calculate the corresponding days for new hires, partial periods, and other scenarios.

    • Manage additional days granted by the company on top of statutory vacations.

    • Separately manage statutory vacations, additional days, personal days, and other benefits.

    • Define which pool of days should be used first when an employee requests an absence.

    • Use the oldest days or those closest to expiring first to reduce balance loss.

    • Automatically renew, create, or update balances at the start of a new period.

    • Allow HR to add or subtract days, recording the reason and maintaining a history of the change.

    • Notify employees and HR when vacation days are close to expiring.

  • 04 Planning and team
    • Visualize who will be out and upcoming team absences from a shared calendar.

    • Identify when multiple employees request time off during the same dates.

    • Help managers evaluate team availability before approving new absences.

    • Automatically assign the corresponding policy based on country, location, group, or employee characteristics.

    • Automatically sync approved absences with work calendars.

  • 05 Control and analytics
    • Check balances, requests, used vacations, upcoming absences, and history from one place.

    • Maintain a complete record of requests, approvals, modifications, and balance adjustments.

TECHNICAL SHEET

Discover everything you can do with Runa Time Off

Check features, automations, configurations, and module capabilities in our technical datasheet.

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RUNA SOFTWARE

Time Off works better connected

Connect absences with other Runa modules and eliminate manual processes between HR and payroll.

SUCCESS STORIES

What our clients say
about Time Off in Runa

Discover how HR teams simplify requests, balances, and approvals with Runa.

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1,550 employeesFinanceBR, CO, MX, US

“From the beginning, we knew we needed a solid foundation to scale our payroll operation in Mexico with security, efficiency, and full compliance.”

Rodrigo Sanchez

Communications Lead

610 employeesFinanceAR, BR, CO, MX

“With Runa, we found a reliable platform that allows us to operate efficiently and provide clarity to the entire team.”

Gerry Giacomán

Co-Founder & CEO

160 employeesFinanceMX

“With Runa’s software, we were able to manage payroll directly and without errors, through a much more efficient process adapted to our needs. We feel much more secure and at ease with every payment and calculation we make.”

Norma Isela

Human Resources Manager

1,200 employeesManufacturingMX

“With Runa, we have successfully simplified and automated key payroll and human resources processes. Today, we have greater visibility over our team and can manage our team members' information much more efficiently.”

Administration Team

Comex

950 employeesManufacturingMexico

“With Runa, we found much more than just a payroll provider. Today, we have a team that understands the complexity of our operations and supports us through every payment cycle, allowing us to work with greater confidence, efficiency, and visibility over our processes.”

Human Resources Team

Cementos Cruz Azul

450 employeesRestaurantsMX

“With Runa, we’ve been able to completely simplify payroll and team management across our operations. Having our employees’ information centralized allows us to focus on what matters most: delivering a great experience for our customers.”

Operations Team

Punto de Cielo

150 employeesRestaurantsMX

“Runa has helped us automate key payroll and HR processes for our teams. Today, we can manage our employees' information much more quickly, efficiently, and in a more organized way.”

Payroll and HR Management

El Pollo Loco

524 employeesRetail and ecommerceMX

“With Runa, we have a stable and committed team, errors have been reduced to a minimum, and everything stays automatically updated, without us having to worry about legal or technical matters.”

Martha Llano

HR Manager

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    Giovana M.

    Restaurants, 2-10 employees

  • 5 / 5
    Excellent service, always! We no longer have to worry about doing the calculations since they take care of everything — we just double-check that the information is in order

    Nitza D.

    Retail, 10-50 employees

  • 5 / 5
    It's a tool where all our employee information is centralized, and I've been able to stop using Excel. With RUNA, we have fully automated control over payroll and HR management.

    Gema E

    Retail, 5001-10000 employees

  • 5 / 5
    Runa is incredible; they have simplified complex payroll calculations and payment execution into a digital experience that is fluid, simple, and excellent for our HR team and employees.

    Maite D

    Finance, 11-50 employees

  • 5 / 5
    Runa has gotten us out of some tight spots; we can't imagine the office without it. The platform allowed us to process payroll in less than an hour in the middle of the pay period, just before closing the office.

    Thu Ha N

    Services, 51-1000 employees

  • 5 / 5
    Onboarding was fast and highly personalized. The Runa team made configuration and implementation easy for us. It has helped us automate many tasks, saving us time, money, and costly errors.

    David V.

    Software, 11-50 employees

  • 5 / 5
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    Cristina W.

    HR, 25-50 employees

  • 5 / 5
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    Sandra F.

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  • 5 / 5
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    Miguel Angel J

    Accounting, 51-1000 employees

  • 5 / 5
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    Arturo S.

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  • 5 / 5
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    Retail, 50-1000 employees

  • 5 / 5
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    Claudia L

    Accounting, >1,000 employees

  • 5 / 5
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    Juan Carlos C.

    Technology, 50–1,000 employees

  • 5 / 5
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    Ileana M.

    Retail, 501-1000 employees

  • 5 / 5
    Good overall for payroll and for viewing the vacation calendar.

    Luis A.

    Finance, 50-1,000 employees

  • 5 / 5
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    Manuel A.

    HR, 2-10 employees

  • 5 / 5
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    Technology, 50-1,000 employees

  • 5 / 5
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    Francisco M.

    Finance, 51-200 employees

  • 5 / 5
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    Adrian D.

    Accounting, 0-50 employees

  • 5 / 5
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    Accounting, 50-100 employees

  • 5 / 5
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    Human Resources, 0-50 employees

  • 5 / 5
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Have questions?
We have answers.

What is vacation and absence management software?

Vacation and absence management software allows you to manage requests, approvals, balances, leave, and sick leave from a single platform. With Runa, employees can check their available days and request time off, while HR and managers handle policies, approvals, and calendars without spreadsheets.

How are employee vacation days calculated automatically?

Runa automatically calculates and updates each employee's vacation balances based on their seniority, assigned policy, and configured rules, including applicable provisions of the Federal Labor Law (LFT). The system can manage accruals, pro-rata calculations, expirations, carry-overs, and balance adjustments to keep information up to date.

How can employees request vacations and leave in Runa?

Employees can check their balance and request vacations, leave, and other absences directly from Runa. The request is sent to the corresponding manager or approver and, once approved, the employee's balance and history are automatically updated.

Can different vacation policies be configured for each company or team?

Yes. Runa allows you to create custom vacation and absence policies by country, company, team, or group of employees. You can configure granted days, accrual rules, expiration and carry-over, blackout periods, additional benefits, and request limits.

Does Runa allow for managing vacations and absences in multiple countries?

Yes. Runa allows you to manage vacations and absences for teams in multiple countries from a single platform. You can configure policies, public holidays, work calendars, and different rules by country to adapt management to each local operation.

How do I control a team's vacations and prevent too many people from being away at the same time?

Runa's vacation and absence calendar allows you to see who will be out and when. Managers and HR can identify simultaneous requests, review team availability, and plan coverage before approving new vacations.

What types of absences and leave can be managed with Runa?

Runa allows you to manage vacations, leave, sick leave, maternity, paternity, personal days, and other custom absence types. Each company can define its own absence types, policies, and approval processes.

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