This page is the short version: from signing up to your team's first approved time-off request. When you are ready to set things up properly, follow the full Set Up Your Workspace guide.
14-day free trial. No credit card required. Nothing is charged when the trial ends. If you have not subscribed by then, your workspace is paused and your data is kept for at least 30 days; choose a plan from Settings → Billing to reopen it. You can also cancel the trial there.
Sign up and verify your email
Go to timeleaf.io/signup and choose a plan. Then fill in the form:
- Company Name
- Your Workspace URL — the subdomain your team will use, for example
acme.timeleaf.io. TimeLeaf checks that it is free as you type. It can't be changed later. - Your Name
- Work Email — click Send code and type the 6-digit code we email you. The form won't continue until your email is verified.
- Password — at least 8 characters, typed twice.
Click Start Free Trial. No credit card is required.
Wait for your workspace
TimeLeaf sets up your workspace straight after you sign up. You can close the page — we email you when your workspace is ready. Then sign in at your workspace URL with the email and password you chose.
Follow the setup wizard
As the workspace owner, you land on the Onboarding wizard the first time you sign in. It walks you through seven steps: company details, a location, public holidays, time-off policies, a default overtime policy, your team, and a final go-live check. Each step opens the right admin page in a new tab; come back and click I've done this — refresh to move on.
The Set Up Your Workspace guide explains every step in detail.
Add your team and send signup links
Add people in the wizard's Add your team dialog, one by one with Add Employee, or from a spreadsheet with Import employees (on People → Employees & Teams). Put each person in a team with a team manager — that manager approves their time off. Then select everyone and click Send Signup Links. Each person gets an email with a link to set their password.
Give everyone a time-off policy
A policy only gives people a balance once it is assigned to them. On People → Employees & Teams, select your employees, click Assign Policy, and click Assign next to each policy they should have.
Go live and approve the first request
Back in the wizard (or on Settings → Onboarding), the Ready to go live? check lists anything still missing. When it passes, click Go live.
Your employees can now sign in and click Request Time Off on their dashboard. Their manager sees the request in the notification bell and under Team Reports → To decide, and approves it with one click.
That's it. From here you can add approval workflows, blackout periods, calendar sync, and chat notifications whenever you need them.