How Do I Set Holidays?

The time has come for you to set up Holidays for your organization! Luckily, you can do this in a few easy steps! Within Vacation Tracker. you will have two options to set your Bank/State/Federal holidays. You can either:

• Import holidays according to your region
• Manually create your own holidays.

Let’s get started!

Go to Vacation Tracker Dashboard - https://app.vacationtracker.io/signin

On the left-hand side, under Settings, click on Locations

*Please note: to set holidays, you must first set or edit a location. For more information on creating locations see the following article: How Do I Create a Location?

3. Click View on the selected location

Once you are on the new page, click on the Holidays tab

You will have two options: to import the holidays or the create your own by adding a holiday

Import Holidays

To Import Holidays, simply click on this option and the Import Holidays page will appear.

Enter the year, country and state/province (if applicable) and select Next Vacation Tracker will give you a list of all the holidays for that country, with some days automatically selected for you:

The Holiday Type (Observance/ Public) will also appear on this page. You can also use the Filter By Holiday Type option on this page to search for the holidays you'd like to import

Once you select the days that your organization will observe, click on Next at the bottom of the page. You will then see the list of holidays that you will be importing, as well as the option to automatically import these holidays for future years.

When you're ready, simply select the Import button and your holidays will be added to that location.

If you selected the Automatic Import option for future years, you will see this enabled, as well as the holidays listed for the next year:

You can use the Edit or Delete options for the imported holidays on the right-hand side of the page.

| For Imported Holidays, you can only edit the name of the holiday, as shown below. 

Custom Holidays

To create a custom holiday, select the option on the right-hand side of the page Add a Holiday, enter the name of your holiday, set if it will be recurring holiday or not. You can also set the holiday to last for more than one day and choose between: single-day, multi-day or even half-day holiday. When you are done, click Save.

If you chose for your Custom Holiday to be a Recurring holiday, you would have two additional options for customization: 

• Recurring type to - Every year on the exact date 
• Recurring type to - Every year on a specific date 

If you chose the recurrence type to be Every year on a specific date, there are additional customization option, where you can select the recurring date to: 

• First – Fourth week of the month 
• Monday – Friday  
• Month of the year 
• Duration of the holiday 
• Transfer this holiday to the next working day if it falls on a weekend 

The holidays will now be imported for that location and all users within that location will be affected :) The holidays will be listed in the calendar view, and will be included in the set notifications!

| If you ever need to edit your list of holidays, you can do so by following the steps outlined in our ⁠How Do I Edit Holidays? article!

||| Please note that the auto-import option for future years isn't available for some countries. We will be updating the list of countries periodically though! For the time being, the holidays for these countries will have to be manually updated for future years.