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No vacation deducted or vacation days calculated incorrectly

If you have recorded vacation for an employee (or another absence entry) and Timebutler has apparently calculated too few vacation/work days, then in most cases this is due to the following causes

A vacation request did not deduct any vacation

You can set the weekly working days for each employee, for example “Monday to Friday” or “Mon+Tue+Thu+Sat”. Sometimes you accidentally set no weekday as a working day for an employee. As a result, every vacation request calculates 0 vacation days, because according to the settings the employee does not have to work on any weekday.

To check whether this problem exists, sign in to Timebutler as an admin and click “Settings > Working days” in the lower left. Check which weekly working days are set for the employee. If no, the wrong, or too few weekly working days are active, click the blue “Edit” button for the employee, then change the weekly working day settings and click the blue “Save” button at the bottom. Timebutler automatically recalculates the employee’s vacation requests, absence entries, and vacation balance.

See also the article on [weekly working days(/time-tracking/working-time-models/weekly-working-days/)).

A vacation request deducted too little vacation

If, for a vacation request over, for example, 2 weeks, Timebutler deducted only, for example, 8 vacation days instead of the expected 10, this usually has the following causes:

1) The employee does not have a 5-day week
The employee might not have a 5-day week, but, for example, works only Monday to Thursday. Check the weekly working days to see how many days the employee works per week. To determine the weekly working days, proceed as described in the section above on this page.

2) Weekly working days are set incorrectly
The employee might have a 5-day week, but you accidentally activated only 4 weekly working days instead of 5. To determine and correct the weekly working days, proceed as described in the section above on this page.

3) Public holidays
There might be public holidays during the chosen vacation period, so the number of vacation days is correspondingly lower. To check which public holidays are set for the employee, proceed as follows:

Sign in to Timebutler as an admin and click “Settings > Working days” in the lower left. Check which public holiday rule is set for the employee. If the wrong public holiday rule is set, click the blue “Edit” button for the employee, then change the setting for the public holiday rule and click the blue “Save” button at the bottom.

To find out which public holidays apply to the public holiday rule, sign in to Timebutler as an admin and click “Settings > More..” in the lower left, then on the right click “Public holiday rule”. For the desired public holiday rule, click the blue “Details” button.