In every organization, whether it is a start-up, SME or a large enterprise, it is necessary to have a full proof employee leave management system. It is necessary to have a transparent system, whereby employees know very well that their attendance and leaves of absence are being tracked by the organization. To put it very simply, an organization may have different types of leaves like earned leave, sick leave, maternity leave, privilege leave. There are criteria for taking such leave and there are processes to follow to get these leaves approved with their respective line function managers. In the yesteryears, all of this was done manually by employee leave cards and if an employee had to take leave, they had to get it endorsed on these cards. Nowadays with digitization, it is possible to manage the entire employee leave management system online. There are several firms offering leave management services in India, but companies who can put in a robust employee leave management system will not need the services of such firms. At the start of a FY, a company will credit every employee with different leaves as per the eligibility. While there is a leave balance in the account, an employee cannot start taking all these leaves, as the leaves are credited to the account on a pro-rata basis, based on the term he serves with the organization. If an employee has to take a particular kind of leave, he has to log-in to the system and request for such a leave stating the reason for the same. The request is routed to his manager who needs to approve the leave request or reject it. To help him do that the system has automated reminders, which will send reminder notes for any pending actions. Depending on the workflow and the hierarchy, once the approval process is complete, the leave balance will be debited to the amount of leaves that are requested and a record is maintained. The entire process can be done online with automated reminders being sent on email as well as pop-ups within the login screen. If managers do not approve leaves on time, the same report is sent to their respective managers to push this action forward. In the entire employee leave management system, the entry is done by the employee himself, so the chances of manual errors in making entries gets nullified. Once the approvals are done, the entire trail along with the timeline is maintained so that it is available, should there be any conflict situation with employees.