Built vs Vacation Tracker

Leave Dates

BambooHR

Rippling

Ditch the holiday spreadsheet. Leave Dates is a simple, shared calendar that saves you time and prevents booking clashes. Manage leave on desktop or mobile and give your team peace of mind. Streamline your admin and grow your business.

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BambooHR centralizes employee, payroll, time, and benefits data in one platform, ensuring accurate, secure, and coordinated information for peace of mind.

Rippling is a cloud-based workforce management system that helps businesses manage operations across HR, finance, and IT.

The Built for Teams interactive Org Chart allows you to manage your current workforce and implement succession planning as needed. Using "what if" scenarios you can easily explore hypothetical or future org chart states.

Budgeting/Forecasting

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Android

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Customizable Pricing Plans

Office Manager

The Built for Teams calendar sometimes causes issues when syncing with Microsoft Outlook.

Partner, Director of Strategy

We are easily able to share payroll stubs and track PTO with setup alerts for all applicable managers.

Accountant

We have multiple categories we allow our employees to use, and BFT accommodates all of them, which I haven't found in other software.

Director of Operations

We have carry-over time (from the previous year) that expires in the current year, and then the current year time that will roll over into the carry-over bucket, and should be used first.  

Director, People and Organizational Development

Inability to customize our work weeks to begin on Fridays, which would align with our payroll processing.  

Director of Finance and Administration

From a HR perspective, we can easily track PTO hours used and remaining for each employee.  

AG and Garden Educator

Little glitches like not being able to enter 3 hours but instead having to enter a time-frame such as 8:30am-11:30am.

We love Built For Teams, it helps us track our team's personal information and salaries.

VICE PRESIDENT

The program is very affordable which is the main reason we continue to use the system.

Lead Marketing Assistant

It is user friendly and allows me to view the calendar in a way that makes things simple for our company.

Built for Teams is very user friendly and organized.

We have unlimited PTO but still need people to submit for requests when taking off.

AR Manager

Overall excellent system and we really love the org chart feature.

At any given time, employees can see how many hours they have remaining for PTO.  

So if someone wants to take time off in January of next year, we have to wait until January to request it.  

Manage of Client Services

It does not take an IT degree to add employees, maintain, or approve time off.  

Payroll & HR Mgr

The report creation is a little tricky, and finding what you're looking for sometimes challenging

The dropdowns could use a bit of a rewrite.

Admin

It is super easy to use and has had a high success rate for us.

Even without train is very acessable and very helpfull for HR management.

There are no more lost PTO paper requests.  

Supervisor of Curriculum and Instruction

It is very simple to use and super handy using my smartphone to input PTO.

Assistant Controller

Some reports are not intuitive (most are), and take a moment to learn.  

We have a wide range of technical skill on our team and even the less talented staff find this easy to learn and use.

Owner

Pretty simple process to keep up with PTO

Customer Service Manager

they just log in and put in their request.

Controller

HR Coordinator

Built for Teams has been easy to implement, use and share with team members.

It is easy for employees to request for Paid Time Off.

Overall, we love Built for Teams, it's easy for everyone to use whether they are employees or managers.

It's super easy to use, easy to make corrections or adjustments  to, and we never have complaints from staff on it.

General Manager

It's very intuitive to use and it can be offered to employees without training.

The Built for Teams System is Relatively easy to use and efficient.

Global Client Partner, Automotive

GM Accessories Account Supervisor

Use for keeping track of vacation/sick time, and place requests so times used for the following are approved by my HR director.

Sales

Currently using the solution for out leave management.

I, and my co-workers, are very happy with the Built For Teams platform!

Admin Asst

Easy to use, good reporting, very affordable

Analyst

Like how you can view calendar and click on days off to confirm if it was PTO or sick time.  

Vet Tech

Only use the app for tracking PTO and it is so easy to navigate through the app to see how many hours of PTO I have acquired.

District Manager 

This does give a very nice process for recruiting and marketing

Executive Assistant

The calendar is of little use because 1/2 day holidays are not recognized by the software.

It allows us to analyze and report how timeoff is being used by the teams.   And integrates well with our Google Calendar.

Assistant Product Manager

That it calculates how much time you will accrue and have used so you can plan accordingly

Senior Sourcing Coordinator

I mainly use this software to manage my personal PTO and to manage my direct report's PTO.

Employee Management

Calendar

Tracking

Reporting

Change and Adjustment

Requesting Time Off

Ease of Use

Training and Learning Curve

Process Management

Leave Balance Calculation

Mid-size Business

Large Enterprises

Small Business

Built For Teams

HR platform with tools for collecting and sharing information about people and their work, featuring time off tracking, attendance tracking, and employee data storage. Integrates with Slack, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and JIRA to streamline HR workflows.

Vacation Tracker simplifies leave management by replacing spreadsheets with an automated system, offering real-time visibility, accurate tracking, and self-managed PTO for your team.

Approval Process Control

Leave Policy Management

Employee Scheduling

FMLA Administration

The Vacation Tracker integration most frequently cited by reviewers is Slack, a team communication product rated 5.0 out of 5 for its integration with Vacation Tracker.

Integrations

Reviews for Vacation Tracker come from a wide variety of industries, including computer software (11% of reviewers), information technology and services (11%), and non-profit organization management (8%). The most frequent use case for Vacation Tracker cited by reviewers is leave management system (82% of reviewers).

Vacation Tracker

Timetastic

Day Off

AttendanceBot

Connecteam

BrightHR

Free

Core

Complete

Project Coordinator

The reason we chose this product is because it integrates seamlessly with Microsoft 365 and helps our management team manage employee leaves straight from the software we use everyday.

HR Consultant

Vacation Tracker allows us to manage vacation via Slack and not have to take to our payroll system to manage PTO and other time off.  

Wholesale Account Manager

What I like the most about Vacation Tracker is the ability to see how much leave time (vacation, sick time, bereavement, etc) you have available and what has been used.

IT Director

I love that it reminds people who else is taking time off during that time, and shows them how much time off they have now, and after they take the PTO they are requesting so they always are current on these things.

Manager

Expensive monthly - and also the fact that it does not automatically produce a roster from the unavailabilities of the users - more detail example not just leave but available to work morning or evening

I wish that the Teams app was able to perform more tasks, instead of having to open the browser dashboard anytime I need to carry out bigger things like editing users etc.

HR Lead

I do wish it was a bit more clear on how to set accrual/allotment rules, as well as personal employee settings dependent on role & location versus overarching company rules.

HR Generalist and Recruiter

I like the ability to organize by department and location, prorating leaves for new hires, and the integration with Slack.

Operations and Finance

a little harder to set up than I would have liked, we have so many people and departments it required me to think through all the possibilities, but in the end it worked.

Director

It has served it's initial purpose for leave management in giving my employees visibility to their allocated leave time.

Sales Manager

Vacation Tracker is easy to use and extremely easy to manage all PTO and time off as well as tenured employees with more benefits.

Office Administrator

I like that the calendar is shared, and once the issues are fixed, it's going to solve a lot of our problems.

Operations Coordinator

The app is very helpful as well for sick employees to request leave from home when they don't have access to their emails.

It makes payroll tracking a lot easier when we can easily click on each user.

A few improvements in reporting and mobile functionality would make it even better, but it already does the core job very well.

We used to track and manage PTO with excel and email chains.

There isn't an option to select multiple leave time periods, so we have had to work around that.

We offer sick time on a yearly basis and vacation time based on the anniversary date.

It took the manual process using spreadsheets to automation in a tracking tool.

ADMIN ALLIANCE LIASON

It would have been more useful for our company to have the option of breaking PTO down to the minute, instead of only having the Full Day & Half Day options.

Chief of Staff

Overall it gets the job done (timesheet tracking) but the UX can be improved, and some settings can be more customizable

Not being able to automatically block of calendar days (or the option) for full vacation days or holidays.

Definitely has been a great experience and we plan on using it for years to come. When we've needed help, responses are prompt and thorough.

VP of Marketing

It makes a very mundane task much more streamlined than how we were doing it previously (Jotform with manual management by our Ops team).

Overall, Vacation Tracker has streamlined our time off request, approval and tracking processes very well.

Office Accountant

This software allows staff to submit their requests and be responsible for monitoring their vacation days; we do not need to send out monthly summaries of vacation balances.

Chief Operating Officer

Ability to customize what you are tracking and the segment of time you want (i.e. hourly, 1/2 day, full day).

Head of Business Development

I like that it is easy to use and the quality of the platform, I could figure it out mostly by myself.

Keeps accurate record keeping and takes a burden off of management.

Delivery coordinator

What I liked most about Vacation Tracker is how simple and intuitive it is to request and approve time off.

Operations Manager

Loved the setup and all of the functionalities.

Finance Manager

we wanted hours not days and this required us to go up in price

Would like the dashboard to open up to a visual of the calendar versus the tabs.

Front Office Manager

I like having the oprion of usin different versions of what calender I perfer to use.

Not being able to adjust when or if requests expire

We used to do manually and track in excel and this allows staff to easily go in and request, update and cancel.

Implementations Specialist

I set everything up as I thought it should be, and scheduled a follow up meeting with the software support team to make sure I did everything right and to go over any questions.  

SEO Specialist

Our team uses Vacation Tracker on Slack, and our favorite feature is how requesting and approving leaves only takes a few minutes.

Makes it very easy to manage time off requests and have visibility across departments and teams.

Client Service Assistant

I also really like the fact that emails can be sent to let everyone know who will be out for the week.

The simplicity and the teams integration.

We also love the support team; they have been incredibly helpful in getting us the answers we need in a timely manner.

Head of Operations

Slack integration and ease of use when it comes to the basic functions for teams (time off and toil)

Finance

no phone number to contact customer support or instant chat assistance

Founder

Quite easy to use, for both myself and the team.

Loan servicing

Simple and intuitive to use and responsive customer service.

Some older users have issues with using /vacation on slack, but seem to get use to it over time.

Manager approvals are easy with the reporting function fantastic in providing a snapshot of where leaves are at at any given point in time.

Built vs Vacation Tracker Comparison (2026)

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