Leave management for shops, factories and small teams in India.
Your staff requests leaves from their phone. You approve from yours. Balance updates automatically. Salary stays correct. No more month-end fights.
- Free for small teams
- Push + WhatsApp alerts
- Linked to salary
- Owner audit trail
✦ The problem
Leave balance arguments are 80% of HR fights in small businesses.
‘Sir, I had 2 leaves left.’ ‘No, you had 1.’ ‘But last month…’ — sound familiar? Most leave fights in Indian SMBs come from one cause: nobody has a clear, shared record of leaves taken vs leaves allowed.
Big-company HRMS tools solve this, but they’re built for 500-person teams with an HR manager. They’re overkill for a salon, a kirana shop, or a 12-person warehouse.
Arth Saathi’s leave system is the small-business version: simple policy (X paid leaves per month), employees request from their phone, owners approve in one tap, balance recalculates automatically, and salary deducts unpaid leaves correctly.
✦ What you get
Everything you need. Nothing you don’t.
Employee leave requests
Staff opens their app, picks dates, types a reason. Done. The request lands in your owner app instantly.
One-tap approval
Approve, reject, or ask a question. Decision goes back to the employee’s phone. Everyone has a written trail.
Auto balance update
Approved leaves come out of balance. Rejected ones don’t. Unused balance behaves per your policy (carryover, reset).
Set your own policy
Pick paid leaves per month per employee (default 1.5 / month — adjust freely). Reset on payday or month start. Per-business setting.
Tied to salary, automatically
Paid leaves don’t cut salary. Unpaid leaves are deducted automatically at per-day rate. Salary sheet shows both clearly.
Multi-day, half-day, single
Single-day leaves, half-day requests, and multi-day stretches — all handled. Each becomes a line item in attendance.
Push + WhatsApp alerts
Owner gets notified the moment a request comes in. Employees get notified when you approve or reject. No one chases anyone.
Manual reconciliation
Need to grant a one-off leave or correct a balance? Admin reconciliation gives you a single-line override with an audit note.
Approve via AI chat
Type ‘approve Ramesh leave for Friday’ in the chat. The AI finds the request and gets your one-tap confirmation.
✦ How it works
Three taps from request to record.
- 01
Set your leave policy
Open Settings → Leave Policy. Pick paid leaves per month per employee. Save.
- 02
Employee requests on their phone
They pick dates, type a reason, submit. You get a push notification.
- 03
Approve and move on
Tap approve. Their balance updates, salary calculation accounts for it, and the leave shows up in attendance.
✦ Pricing
Cheaper than a notebook.
All features on every paid tier. Free for small teams up to 10 people.
Starter
Up to 10 employees
- All features included
- Unlimited data & free updates
Growth
10–25 employees
- All features included
- Unlimited data & free updates
Scale
25+ employees
- All features included
- Unlimited data & free updates
✦ FAQ
Leave management system — common questions
Is the leave management free?
How do paid leaves work?
Can I carry forward unused leaves?
What if I want to approve via WhatsApp?
Can employees see their own balance?
What about sick leaves and casual leaves?
Can I edit or revoke a past leave?
Explore the rest of Arth Saathi
Employee management
Manage staff, contacts and roles in one place.
Attendance
Mark attendance for the whole team in under 30 seconds.
Payroll
Auto-calculate monthly salary from attendance.
Salary slip generator
Generate PDF slips with deductions, advances, and bonuses.
GPS attendance
Lock attendance to your shop or site with GPS and selfie.
WhatsApp HR
Send slips and approvals on the chat app your team already uses.
Approve a leave in five seconds, not five minutes.
Free for up to 10 employees. No credit card. Set up in 2 minutes.