Can I Turn Off Leave Reminders?

Short answer: no. Vacation Tracker's reminders for unanswered leave requests are part of the core approval flow and can't be disabled. The longer answer: you can snooze them on a per-request, per-Approver basis from the reminder message itself, which stops the rest of the reminder cycle for that one request.

Why Reminders Aren't Switchable

Approval reminders are baked into how Vacation Tracker keeps requests moving. Without them, requests would silently sit in inboxes until they expired, leaving Users in the dark about whether their leave is approved. So reminders are automated, mandatory, and run on a fixed cadence: a 1st reminder the next business day, a 2nd after 3 business days, a 3rd after 5 business days, and then automatic expiration on day 7. The full timing is in What is the schedule / flow of leave reminders?

The trade-off is intentional. Disabling reminders globally would create a much worse problem: leave requests stuck in an Approver's queue with no nudges, eventually expiring and forcing the User to re-submit. The snooze option below is the escape hatch when a particular reminder is genuinely unwelcome.

Snoozing a Reminder Instead

When a reminder lands in Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email, the message includes a Snooze action alongside Approve and Deny. Tapping Snooze stops Vacation Tracker from sending any further reminders for that specific request to that specific Approver.

What snooze does and doesn't do:

• Stops the rest of the reminder cycle for the request that was reminded about. If you snooze the 1st reminder, you won't see a 2nd or 3rd for that same request.
• Per-Approver, not workspace-wide. If a Department has three Approvers and only one of them snoozes, the other two keep getting reminders on their own schedule.
• Doesn't approve or deny the request. The leave is still pending and still needs an explicit Approve or Deny. Snoozing only mutes the nag.
• Doesn't change the 7-business-day expiration. If no Approver acts, the request still auto-expires at the end of the cycle and the User is notified.
• Doesn't apply to future requests. The next leave request that comes in within the same 24-hour window starts its own reminder cycle for that Approver — snooze is per-leave, not "mute this Approver for the day."

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