timetastic.io

What It Is

Timetastic is a SaaS product focused on employee leave and absence management, designed to replace inefficient workflows such as spreadsheets, paper forms, phone calls, and shared calendars. Employees can submit leave requests from mobile or desktop, managers approve them, and teams can see “who’s off today” through shared calendars and email updates.

Core Features and Integrations

Core capabilities include unlimited users and departments, holiday allowance tracking, leave approvals, shared calendars, daily/weekly email reports, and custom leave types such as annual leave, sick leave, maternity/paternity leave, training, and medical appointments. The Pro plan adds absence trends, burnout risk alerts, company-wide absence reporting, enhanced user profiles, accrued leave, and capped leave types. For integrations, the materials explicitly mention Outlook, Google Calendar, and Slack, while the Pro plan supports multi-platform integrations including Teams.

Pricing and Trial

Pricing is very straightforward: Timetastic costs £1.20/user/month, while Pro costs £2/user/month. Both are billed monthly, with no minimum term, and can be cancelled or switched at any time. Both plans offer a 30-day free trial with no credit card required, and users can contact support to extend the trial. Charities, B Corps, Fair Tax Mark organizations, 1% for the Planet members, and NHS Trusts are eligible for a 50% discount.

Permissions, Security, and Developer Capabilities

The product supports organizational roles and structures such as admins, departments, department managers, and approvers. The Pro plan includes single sign-on. The API documentation is relatively comprehensive, covering leave, users, departments, leave types, public holidays, and webhooks. It uses Bearer Token authentication and has rate limits of 5 requests per second, or 2 requests per second for user management. However, the materials do not disclose data hosting regions or compliance certifications such as ISO or SOC.

Pros, Cons, and Who It’s For

Its strengths are low pricing, a low-friction trial, focused functionality, easy migration from spreadsheet-based processes, and practical integrations plus an API. The limitations are that advanced insights and SSO are only available on the Pro plan, security and compliance disclosures are limited, and there does not appear to be a self-hosted option. It is a good fit for SMBs, remote or hybrid teams, and organizations that need lightweight HR leave management rather than a full HRIS.

Access from China

Access from mainland China is not covered in the materials. Payments are handled via Stripe debit/credit card and priced in GBP, which may be less convenient than local products. If a China-based team needs local network access, invoicing, and payment support, it may be worth comparing built-in attendance and leave features in DingTalk, Feishu, and WeCom.