Outgrown
Timetastic?
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.
Free 14-day trial. No credit card required.
£8
per user/month
All in
every feature included
2 min
setup time
A great holiday tracker that never evolved
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.
Absence management
No tools for tracking and managing patterns of employee absence beyond simple leave booking.
Sickness tracking
No dedicated sickness absence monitoring. No way to distinguish between types of absence or spot trends.
Bradford Factor
No automatic Bradford Factor calculation. No trigger points. No alerts when scores reach concerning levels.
Employee onboarding
No onboarding checklists, no new starter workflows, no way to get employees set up systematically.
Document management
No document storage. Contracts, policies, and certificates need to live in a separate system.
Shift rotas and clock in
No rota planning, no shift scheduling, no time tracking. You need additional tools for all of these.
Leavely includes all of the above
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.
What you actually pay: Leavely vs Timetastic
Timetastic looks cheap, but once you start adding the tools it does not include, the total cost adds up quickly.
Leavely
£8/user/mo
Everything included. One platform.
- Leave management and absence tracking
- Sickness monitoring with Bradford Factor
- Employee onboarding and document storage
- Shift rotas and clock in/out
- Expense management and performance reviews
- 14-day free trial, no credit card
Timetastic
~£1.50/user/mo
Holiday tracking only. Everything else is extra.
- Leave booking and calendar only
- No absence management
- No sickness tracking or Bradford Factor
- No employee onboarding
- No document management
- Need separate tools for rotas, expenses
Feature comparison: Leavely vs Timetastic
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.
Why businesses switch from Timetastic to Leavely
They outgrew a leave-only tool
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.
They needed Bradford Factor monitoring
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.
They wanted one platform instead of five
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.
They needed proper employee self-service
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.