Simplify leave submissions and approvals in an AI-powered system built with AI you customize to fit your team's unique HR workflow.




Choose the exact steps your approval workflow requires. Customize your setup now, and evolve it later as your team's headcount and needs grow.





Connect spreadsheets and HRIS tools with real-time sync—or manage requests in Softr Databases. Create a single source of truth for your employee leave and balance records.
Give employees and managers the right views and access in a branded portal. Set up secure logins, user groups, and granular permissions in minutes.
Softr apps are mobile-ready. Let employees submit time off requests on the go by turning your portal into a downloadable PWA in just one click.
Softr apps are mobile-ready. Let employees submit time off requests on the go by turning your portal into a downloadable PWA in just one click.
Build native automations to handle manager notifications, approval alerts, and balance updates whenever a new time off request is submitted or changed.
Provide separate logins for employees to see their own balances and managers to see the team calendar, creating personalized dashboards for every role.
Apply rules for different user roles. Customize who can view, edit, or approve requests, ensuring data privacy at the most granular level.
Protect sensitive employee holiday and availability information. Softr is fully compliant with SOC2 and GDPR regulations.
No more one-size-fits-all tools or costly custom builds. Softr is easy to use and fully customizable, so you can launch faster, adapt as you grow, and skip the complexity of traditional software.

Build your time off request manager in minutes with AI—no manual setup or complex configuration needed.

Add features like accrual tracking, holiday calendars, or multi-level approvals as your team's processes evolve.

Start with a leave manager, then add employee portals, directories, or expense forms—all in one place.
Co-build with AI
Simply describe what you need. Let Softr handle everything - Interface, database, workflows.
Iterate with AI or visually
Control most critical parts of your app yourself - roles, permissions, security.
Ship the same day
Invite team members or external clients and partners right away. No developer handover.
Use drag-and-drop blocks to build a portal that looks sleek and modern out of the box. Add only the features you need, and iterate as your workflows evolve.




A time off request manager is a secure employee portal where your team can log in to submit leave requests, view their remaining balance, and track approval statuses. It keeps all attendance data in one place, so HR and managers don't have to rely on back-and-forth emails or messy spreadsheets. This makes it easier to stay organized and provide a transparent, efficient experience for both employees and management.
Softr is the first AI-native platform for building business software. It makes it easy to build a time off request manager that fits the way your HR department works. You can describe your specific leave policies to the AI Co-Builder to instantly generate your database, request pages, and approval logic—already connected and secure.
You don't need to code anything. You can start by generating with AI, using a template, or building from scratch. Everything runs on Softr Databases, the native, relational database built into the platform, or you can connect external tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, or your existing HRIS. You have full control to adjust the layout visually, decide who can approve requests, and brand it to match your company's internal portal. It's quick to get up and running, simple to update, and flexible enough to grow with your workforce.
You can include a wide range of features in your time off request manager, depending on what your HR workflow looks like. A great HR portal usually mixes classic functional blocks with AI-powered intelligence:
- AI-Powered Intelligence – Use Ask AI to let employees query their remaining vacation days conversationally, or set up Database AI Agents to automatically summarize monthly department leave trends.
- Vibe Coding Blocks – Build custom UI elements—like a dynamic holiday calendar—using the AI Code block to "vibe code" exactly what your team needs.
- Softr Workflows – Build native automations (like an instant Slack notification to a manager when a new request is submitted) that trigger whenever a record is updated.
- User Portals & Logins – Securely manage access so each employee only sees their own leave history while managers see their direct reports.
- Forms & Data Collection – Capture request dates, leave types, and doctor's notes with custom forms and file uploads.
- Dashboards & Charts – Visualize team availability and annual leave consumption with real-time charts.
- Lists & Advanced Filtering – Display and manage requests with searchable tables, status boards, and detailed record views.
Everything is built using Softr's drag-and-drop blocks, so you can create these features without writing code. If your HR policies change, it's easy to update the portal later.
Vibe coding is all about moving fast and using AI to build exactly what you need. You can "vibe code" a time off request manager in Softr by simply describing your leave approval layers and accrual rules to the AI Co-Builder. Softr then generates a production-ready app on top of a stable, secure foundation.
Unlike other tools that just generate raw, fragile code, Softr handles the "boring 80%"—like employee authentication, database relational logic, and role-based security—natively. This means you get the speed of vibe coding without the "Day Two" headaches of managing raw code for critical HR processes. You describe it, Softr builds it, and it’s ready for your employees instantly.
Yes. You can manage multiple departments or regional teams in a single portal. Each employee only sees the leave data and personal balances assigned to them, while department heads only see requests from their specific teams. This is useful for large organizations or global companies with different holiday schedules and managers.
Yes, you can. You don't need to bring your employee roster from elsewhere to start building with Softr. If you're starting from scratch, you can use Softr Databases, which is built into the platform and integrates perfectly with your leave tracking application.
But if you already have headcount and payroll data in tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, HubSpot, or SQL, you can connect those too. You can also use the REST API connector to bring in team info from other HR systems. Either way, you have full control over how your leave types and employee records are structured.
Softr Databases is the recommended native, relational data source for Softr. It is built explicitly for business apps like employee portals, offering high performance for tracking accruals and a lightning-fast experience because the leave records stay native to the platform.
If you already have your HR data elsewhere, Softr also connects to 17+ external data sources. You can connect to Airtable, Google Sheets, HubSpot, SmartSuite, and BigQuery. You can even integrate multiple data sources—so your portal could pull employee profiles from HubSpot while tracking holiday requests in Softr Databases. Most sources support real-time, two-way sync, so approvals in your app stay in sync with your source data.
Yes, Softr gives you full control over how employees experience your time off manager. You can customize the layout and navigation to match your internal HR branding. Each page or block can be shown or hidden based on user roles, so every employee sees only their personal leave dashboard while HR sees an admin overview.
You can set up different user roles—such as Employee, Manager, or HR Admin—and define exactly what each role can view or edit. For example, employees can only edit 'Pending' requests, while managers can toggle the status to 'Approved.' You can also create personalized views by filtering records based on the logged-in email.
This level of customization is essential when managing sensitive attendance data across different levels of the company, keeping the experience clean and secure for everyone.
Yes, you can fully white-label your employee portal in Softr. You can use your company logo, brand colors, fonts, and a custom subdomain (like leave.yourcompany.com) to make the tool feel like a native part of your internal tech stack. You can also remove all Softr branding, ensuring your employees see only your company's identity when they book their time off.
Yes, you can. Softr gives you significant flexibility to control both the design and layout of your HR portal. You can adjust colors, fonts, and page hierarchy to match your team's needs. You can also choose how requests are displayed, decide where the submission buttons go, and set specific views for managers vs. employees.
To display your leave data, you can add different types of blocks:
- Table blocks – to show structured lists of all previous leave requests.
- List or Card blocks – to highlight upcoming company holidays or team absences.
- Detail View – to show specific request details, like the reason for leave.
- Forms – for employees to submit new time off requests.
- Charts – to show leave balance trackers or department utilization.
- Calendar blocks – to display a shared team calendar showing who is out.
If your policies change, it's easy to go back and make updates right in the visual builder.
Softr is built with security as a priority for sensitive HR data. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and your employee portal is hosted on secure infrastructure. Softr apps give you full control over who can access personnel files. You can set up role-based permissions, manage employee access within your data source, and apply global visibility rules to protect PII (Personally Identifiable Information).
For apps using Softr Databases, your data is stored in a secure environment with SOC 2 Type II compliance and hosting in Germany. For apps connected to external data like Airtable or SQL, Softr doesn't store your HR data—it simply displays it in real time based on your configuration. You are always in control of who can edit or view sensitive employee records.
It is fully production-ready. Unlike many AI tools that just "vibe code"—generating brittle code that is hard for HR to maintain—Softr builds your time off manager on top of a stable, business-grade foundation.
We handle the "boring 80%" (like employee SSO, secure hosting, and granular leave permissions) natively, so you don't have to. This solves the "Day Two" problem of AI: you get the speed of instant generation without the risk of managing raw, unreliable code for your company's attendance tracking. Your app is secure, scalable, and ready for your team to use on day one.
Softr is the first AI-native platform for building business software. Unlike pure "vibe coding" tools that generate hard-to-maintain code, or traditional no-code tools that require complex manual configuration for leave logic, Softr's AI Co-Builder creates apps on top of a secure, production-ready foundation.
What sets it apart is the hybrid advantage: you can use AI to generate your leave database and request portal in minutes, then use visual controls for precise HR policy adjustments. You get the speed of AI with the reliability of business-grade infrastructure (secure logins, manager roles, and permissions) already built-in. It's designed for HR teams who want to move from prototype to production immediately.
Yes. Softr supports powerful native workflows and a wide range of integrations so you can connect your employee portal to your favorite productivity tools. You can automate tasks using Softr Workflows—like automatically adding an entry to a Google Calendar when a request is approved—or sync with Slack to notify teams of upcoming absences. Softr also supports REST API and webhooks for advanced HRIS integrations.
Whether you need to send absence data to a payroll system, trigger approval reminders, or display info from your existing team directory, you can build it into your portal without writing code.
Describe what you need. Softr's AI builds your custom employee leave portal in minutes.