Absence management software
Efficiently manage absences throughout your business
Empower your team with our Swiss absence solution to manage all their own leave requests, monitor balances, and more. Gain an overview of your absence team, plan effectively, and generate advanced reports.
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SMEs / VSEs Friendly Leave Software
In SMEs, the primary goal is business growth, yet handling leave and absence can be time-consuming. That's where Novawage – hr absence software- steps in, simplifying the challenges and ensuring a smoother flow for absence and leave processes.
Automation of employee leave requests is in place.
Information on leave and the type of absence (annual leave, parental leave, etc.) is always updated and available.
Employees can easily find their leave balance, submit requests, and more.
Streamlined employee self-service vacation and leave scheduling
Employees submit leave requests, managers validate them, and balances update instantly. No more templates or emails.
Employees can request, edit, and revoke absences and PTO.
Empower your employees to check their remaining leaves.
Receive automatic notifications for managers upon receiving absence requests and for employees upon request acceptance.


A user-friendly dashboard organizes absences, improving managerial efficiency
Managers can bid farewell to chasing your team's leave and absence requests through the dashboard feature, saving them precious time.
Receive all pending leave and absence requests on a dashboard and bulk accept them.
Get a quick overview of who is absent this week to efficiently distribute tasks on your team.
Absence Overview via Shared Calendar
With the shared calendar, all absences and leaves are in a bird's-eye view. Managers, the team, and HR can easily check who is out sick and whose holiday is coming up in one simple calendar overview for seamless planning.
Promote transparency in the shared vacation calendar.
Control permissions to manage who sees absences.
Spot overlapping holidays easily and prevent bottlenecks.


Tailored efficiency: streamlining canton-specific leave policies with our Swiss absence solution
Establish intricate leave policies according to Swiss law and effortlessly allocate them to your staff through our leave tracking tool.
Create as many special policies as you want.
Specify the maximum number of vacation days employees can transfer from one year to the next.
Ensure compliance with Swiss law and regulations, allowing you to create rules specific to each canton's laws and requirements.
Manage leaves and absences with personalized HR reports.
Generate customised business reports for payroll, leave trends analysis, and maintain absence records for audit and compliance purposes.
Easily monitor your employees' balances to ensure they utilise their entitled holidays effectively.
Gain insights into carryover days effortlessly.
Efficiently prepare payroll by monitoring different paid leave types, facilitating smooth payment runs.
Generate reports in CSV, Excel, or PDF format.


Manage absences and leaves via the Novawage mobile application
Allow your employees to easily manage their leave and absences on the go, anytime, anywhere, through our Absence app.
Employees can submit all types of leave requests via mobile.
Managers receive instant notifications and can easily accept or reject them.
Easily attach your sick note uploads; just snap and submit.
Get access to a shared calendar to review all your employees' leaves.
Complete features, you would love
Employee & manager self-management (ESS / MSS)
Enable employees to self-serve absences, reducing administrative tasks and providing more control over their time off.
Performance Reviews
Get automatic notifications for request approvals and instant alerts when a collaborator is absent
Leave counters
View the leave taken days and the remaining leave balance for each employee.
Team Calendar
A calendar with the absences of all your employees
Personalised absence & leaves
Configure the different types of absence based on your SME / VSE.
Import & export
Generate diverse formats for all your absence reports in different formats, including CSV, XLSX, PDF, and more.
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Swissdec-certified absence software
Adhere to Swiss legal standards, ensuring accurate documentation of absences, and be ready to provide required information to authorised government agencies.

ISO-Certified servers
Adhere to Swiss legal standards, ensuring accurate documentation of absences, and be ready to provide required information to authorised government agencies.

Daily data backups
Adhere to Swiss legal standards, ensuring accurate documentation of absences, and be ready to provide required information to authorised government agencies.
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We delve into common inquiries we often get when choosing a vendor for human resources software.
Absence management or Leave management software is a tool designed to manage, approve, and track time-off requests. It centralises all data related to employee leave, facilitating the generation of reports to streamline your payroll process. Novawage is a user-friendly web platform where employees can effortlessly submit absence requests for various options, including paid leave, sick leave, and maternity leave. Additionally, they can review their remaining balance.
Save HR Time Through ESS/MSS
Empower Your Team for Efficient Absence Management
Save time for the HR Department by empowering your team to manage their own time off and absence requests through employee self-service.
Streamline Request Approval Process
Assign approval or rejection of requests as needed, distributing responsibility and workload across multiple employees.
Centralised Process for Efficient Management
Simultaneously, centralise the entire process on one screen with a clear structure of absences, leaves, and vacation dates to ensure no request is overlooked.
Supportive Reports and Analysis
Support reports and reviews of absences with just a few clicks, enabling HR to conduct a more in-depth analysis of your company’s leave trends.
Compliance and Peace of Mind
SwissDec-Certified Absence Management Software
Dedicate SwissDec-certified absence management software to align with Swiss payroll and tax regulations.
Automated and Well-Documented Management
Investing in Novawage Absence Management software means no more missing important leave of absence dates. Automate and well-document leave and absence management; submit everything to legal authorities whenever asked, eliminating manual processes.
Enhanced Expertise for Leave Management
Bid farewell to juggling Excel sheets and emails, reducing payroll errors. Moreover, we equip our software with leave law expertise for actively managing all leave types across all Swiss cantons, including Bern, Geneva, Zurich, etc.
Integration with Payroll
Seamless Integration with Payroll Systems
The Novawage Absence Management module can seamlessly integrate with our payroll systems.
Automated Absence Processing
Additionally, synchronise absence data with the payroll module to automatically process absences for accurate payroll calculations.
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Novawage operates using role-based access control. As a result, there is:
- Account administrators have access to all employees’ absence records.
- Managers can view the records of their employees.
- An individual employee who can access their own records.
Yes, employees responsible for managing these records, often managers and HR administrators, can easily export records on a monthly or annual basis in different formats. Moreover, they have the option to refine and export specific information according to the type of absence they are looking for.
Absolutely! Employees can quickly request leave using their Novawage absence management mobile app, and managers can easily approve or decline these requests.
Certainly! Employees can easily attach documents in various formats (PDF, PNG, and JPEG). Moreover, whether it’s a sick note or a training schedule, they can include it in their absence request and also leave a comment for better communication.
Of course! Novawage’s leave and absence management software seamlessly integrates all Swiss public holidays into employees’ policies, marking them as non-working days by default.
Novawage utilises its own infrastructure situated in Switzerland. We store data exclusively with meticulously chosen and reliable partners. Within Novawage, you have the ability to assign user roles, expand or limit access to sensitive information, and ensure confidentiality. For additional details on security and GDPR compliance, refer to this link.