Manage your team’s time off from Team → Time off (Owners and Contractor Managers). Employees request time off from their own portal; you review, approve, and export from here.
For configuring policies — leave categories, accrual methods, carry-over, waiting periods — see Time Off & Timesheets.
Requesting time off (employee side)
Employees pick a category and policy, choose their dates, and submit. Bolto computes the total from business days and their standard day length, with optional per-day hour customization (e.g., a half day). Employees see their balance as they request and are warned if a request exceeds it.
Leave categories: PTO / vacation · Sick leave · Mental health · Jury duty · Military leave · Parental leave · Bereavement · Floating holiday / personal day · Sabbatical · Other · Unpaid leave.
Reviewing requests
The Time off page has three tabs — To approve, Upcoming, and History — with search and per-category filters. Each request shows the team member, leave type and policy, dates, a business-day and hours breakdown, their balance, and any note.
- Approve — deducts the hours from the employee’s balance and writes the time into the affected pay periods, so payroll and balances always match
- Reject — requires a reason, which the employee sees
- Approve all — bulk-approves the currently filtered pending requests
- Cancellations — when an employee asks to cancel approved time off, you can approve the cancellation (time off reversed, hours restored) or reject it (time off stands)
Time off can’t be approved or cancelled for dates inside a payroll that has already been submitted — process a payroll adjustment instead.
Exports
From the History tab, Export time off downloads a date-ranged export (optionally scoped to one employee) containing two CSVs: one of leave requests (dates, days, hours, status, reviewer, notes) and one of leave transactions (accruals, deductions, adjustments, and running balances) — ready for audits or accounting. 
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