Last updated on August 8, 2025
LeaveDates Alternative | Vacation Tracker
Discover Why 2,500+ Teams Trust Vacation Tracker for Smarter Leave Management
Managing time off shouldn’t be complicated or scattered across tabs, spreadsheets, and outdated processes. If you’re using LeaveDates and still finding yourself chasing approvals, managing exceptions manually, or struggling to maintain visibility across teams, it may be time to rethink your leave tracking solution.
Vacation Tracker is the modern LeaveDates alternative that helps teams stay organized, informed, and in sync without the friction.
When Your Team Grows Your Tools Should Keep Up
LeaveDates works well for simple setups, but as your team scales or your operations expand across locations, its limitations start to show. Whether it’s supporting different time-off rules for international teams, keeping managers in the loop, or ensuring approvals don’t get buried in inboxes, you need a system that evolves with you.
Vacation Tracker was built for that growth
It offers the flexibility, clarity, and seamless integration teams need to manage time off effectively no matter how complex your organization becomes.
A Better Experience for Everyone Not Just HR
A leave tracking system isn’t just for HR or admins. It’s for every employee who needs time off and every manager who needs to plan ahead. While LeaveDates often lives in a separate system, detached from daily workflows, Vacation Tracker is different.
It is:
- Embedded in the tools your team already uses
- Easy for anyone to pick up and use without training
- Built to reduce back and forth, delays, and guesswork
- No more checking three different places just to see who’s off this Friday
Designed for the Way Modern Teams Work
Today’s teams are hybrid, global, and fast moving. They need tools that reduce overhead, not add to it. If LeaveDates feels too static or slow to adapt, you’re not alone.
Vacation Tracker supports:
- Distributed teams across time zones and regions
- Custom policies that match real world rules
- Instant visibility into team availability
- Approvals and requests that fit into your daily flow
It’s time off tracking that actually works for how your team operates today.
From Frustration to Flow
- You shouldn’t have to build workarounds just to track who’s out
- You shouldn’t need to explain to new hires how to use the system
- And you shouldn’t be stitching together spreadsheets to calculate time off balances
Vacation Tracker removes all of that
It’s simple, flexible, and powerful. It gives you the clarity to plan ahead and the control to manage time off with confidence.
Teams Who Made the Switch Haven’t Looked Back
From startups to global teams, thousands of companies have traded in outdated systems for a tool that just works.
With Vacation Tracker, they have:
- Saved hours per week in admin time
- Reduced confusion around leave policies
- Improved transparency and team coordination
- Boosted employee satisfaction with a smoother experience
Whether you’re managing 10 people or 1,000, the impact is the same. Better planning. Less stress. More time for what matters.
Compare Features
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Ready for a Smoother Way to Manage Time Off?
If you’ve outgrown LeaveDates or you’re tired of working around its limitations, Vacation Tracker is ready for you.
- Built for growing teams
- Trusted by 2,500+ companies
- Loved by HR, managers, and employees alike
Start your free trial today and see why Vacation Tracker is the LeaveDates alternative teams actually enjoy using.


Overall Features

Team leave calendar


External calendar integration


Customize workweeks for users


Assign multiple approvers


Auto-generate and schedule leave reports


Import regional holidays


Individual employee user profiles


Give multiple permission levels


Sort users by custom labels


Individually customized PTO accruals


Add initial brought forward days


Slack Integration

Request leaves in Slack


View your leave history


Get notifications


Approve leaves


Review future absences


Check your leave quota


Set Slack status


Teams Integration

Request Leave in Teams


Access MS Teams Tabs


Get notifications


Approve leave in Teams


Review future absences


Check your leave quota

