Case study · Custom build

Summer leave across every office, on one screen.

Over summer, leave requests arrive from every office at once. This planner turns the payroll export into one clear view, so managers can see where cover is thin before leave is approved.

The problem

Before summer leave is approved, management has to answer one question for every office and every key day: do we still have enough people? The information sat in payroll, in a form nobody could read at a glance.

What we built

A web app that imports the payroll workbook and shows how many people are working at each office on each day. Each office's manager opens their own office, leaves comments and signs it off.

The result

Each manager works through their own office in their own time. Sign-off happens in the app, and payroll stays the system of record: the planner never changes anyone's leave.

Everything at a glance

One grid answers the question

Every office down the side, the key days across the top, and in each cell how many people are working out of how many.

Northlight Group (demo)
Grid of six offices by five days showing how many staff are working each day, with a sign-off column
For each office's manager

Their office, their people

A manager sees only their own office. Hatched days are days a person is away. They click a name or a date to leave a comment, then mark the office ready for sign-off or say what needs to change.

  • Built so a non-technical manager can use it cold, without training
  • Comments stay attached to the person or the day they are about
  • Re-importing from payroll keeps every comment and sign-off
Northlight Group (demo)
One office's review screen listing staff by department with hatched cells for days away and a sign-off panel

Built by our founder. Demo data shown, and the organisation's name is removed.

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