Timetastic was one of the first online leave trackers in the UK. It does holiday booking well, but that is all it does. No absence management. No sickness tracking. No Bradford Factor. No employee onboarding. No document management. Businesses outgrow it fast.
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Timetastic launched as a simple leave tracker and it remains exactly that. There is nothing wrong with doing one thing well, but modern UK businesses need more from their HR software.
No tools for tracking and managing patterns of employee absence beyond simple leave booking.
No dedicated sickness absence monitoring. No way to distinguish between types of absence or spot trends.
No automatic Bradford Factor calculation. No trigger points. No alerts when scores reach concerning levels.
No onboarding checklists, no new starter workflows, no way to get employees set up systematically.
No document storage. Contracts, policies, and certificates need to live in a separate system.
No rota planning, no shift scheduling, no time tracking. You need additional tools for all of these.
Every feature listed above is included in the standard Leavely plan at £8 per user per month. No add-ons, no upgrades, no extra cost.
Timetastic looks cheap, but once you start adding the tools it does not include, the total cost adds up quickly.
£8/user/mo
Everything included. One platform.
~£1.50/user/mo
Holiday tracking only. Everything else is extra.
Leavely matches Timetastic on leave management and adds everything else a growing business needs.
Based on publicly available information from Timetastic's website as of April 2026. Features and pricing may have changed.
Timetastic handles holiday booking well, but as your team grows you need absence management, sickness monitoring, onboarding, and reporting. Timetastic has not added these features. Leavely has them all built in.
Frequent short-term absence is expensive for UK businesses. Leavely automatically calculates Bradford Factor scores, sets trigger points, and alerts managers when scores reach concerning levels. Timetastic does not offer this at all.
Using Timetastic for leave, a spreadsheet for rotas, an email folder for documents, and a separate tool for expenses creates friction and costs more in total. Leavely replaces all of them with a single login and a single monthly invoice.
Beyond requesting leave, employees need access to their documents, onboarding checklists, expense submissions, and performance reviews. Leavely gives every employee a self-service portal where they can manage everything themselves.