Review holiday requests from your team, check remaining balances, and approve or decline them from one place.

## Steps

1. Go to Rota, then "Holiday & Leave" in the sidebar.

2. The "Requests" tab lists every holiday request, showing the dates, number of days, reason and status.

3. 
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4. Tap a Pending request to open it.

5. Add an optional note to the staff member, then tap "Approve" or "Decline".

6. 
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7. Switch to the "Balances" tab to see each team member's holiday allowance, days used, pending and remaining.


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## Tips

Approving a request automatically updates the staff member's rota and reduces their remaining balance, so check the rota for that period isn't left short-staffed.

Use the note field when declining a request to let the staff member know why.