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PeoplePoint Time Off: time off requests in your own Microsoft 365

Stop chasing time off by email. Approve it with the balance and the team overlaps already in front of you.

PeoplePoint Time Off is leave management that runs in your own Microsoft 365. Staff request time off in a SharePoint form, balances calculate themselves, and the manager's approval message already shows the balance after the request and who else is off. The record stays in SharePoint lists you own.

One sentence on where it fits: PeoplePoint Time Off (also called PeoplePoint Light) is the standalone first product of PeoplePoint. The full PeoplePoint solution is a SharePoint or Dataverse HRIS, with leave management as a small component of it, built on as much vanilla Microsoft 365 as possible. HRIS means human resources information system.

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Who this is for

The balance spreadsheet, the email thread and the manager who approves blind

Leave is small until it is the thing nobody can find.

Requests arrive by email. Balances live in a spreadsheet one person maintains. A manager approves a week off without knowing two other people are already away. Payroll asks for a number in March and three people reconcile it by hand. PeoplePoint Time Off takes that work off your team, inside the Microsoft 365 you already pay for.

  • The approval message carries the balance after the request and the overlapping team requests, before the manager clicks anything
  • Approving a request creates an event on the manager's calendar and sends the employee one invite to accept. Delete the request and the balance returns, the event clears and the invite cancels
  • Requests, approvals and balances are items in a SharePoint list in your own site. Nobody else holds a copy, and there is no separate login to buy

What you buy

One product, one licence

PeoplePoint Time Off

Contact us for pricing

One-time licence. The price band depends on headcount; we confirm yours in the consultation.

Best for: a business of 10 to 300 people on Microsoft 365 that wants leave requests, approvals and balances out of email and spreadsheets and into lists it owns.

  • Requests: four leave types, one input (dates, hours or days), weekends and holidays handled for you
  • Approvals: routed to the manager or approver, with the balance and overlaps in the message, and an advance-approval step for a request that would go below zero
  • Calendars: the manager's event and the employee's invite, created on approval and cleared on deletion
  • Balances: allotted, requested and remaining per type, with yearly and anniversary rollover
  • Admin: company and manager settings, a built-in time off report, and an admin-only training mode

PeoplePoint Time Off is deployed for you by Bauer Automate today; deploying it yourself through the shared engine is in build.

Coming next. PeoplePoint Time Off is included whole in PeoplePoint Portal, the wider employee portal, and in PeoplePoint Platform, the Dataverse edition. Both are in development. Follow progress on the PeoplePoint roadmap.

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What is included

Everything in PeoplePoint Time Off

Every row below runs in production today.

GroupFeatureWhat it does
RequestsFour leave typesPaid, unpaid, sick and bereavement, each with its own balance. Custom types are not configurable.
RequestsOnly the leave types that applyA type with no time allotted is hidden from that employee.
RequestsOne input, dates, hours or daysA start and end date, a number of hours or a number of days. The app works out the rest.
RequestsWeekends and holidays handledDay counts skip weekends by employee type, with a company-wide override, and leave out company and statutory holidays.
RequestsBalance before and afterThe employee sees the current balance and the balance after the request while the form is open.
RequestsManagers request for their teamA manager can create and manage requests for the people who report to them.
ApprovalsRouted to the right personEach request goes to the manager or approver to approve or deny.
ApprovalsThe full picture in the messageThe manager's email or Teams message shows the balance after the request and who else is off at the same time.
ApprovalsAdvance approval for a negative balanceA request that would take a balance below zero goes through an advance-approval step before the usual approval.
CalendarsTwo-sided calendar updateOn approval the manager gets a calendar event and the employee gets a payroll-calendar invite to accept.
CalendarsClean cancellationDeleting a request restores the balance, removes the manager's event and cancels the employee's invite.
VisibilitySee who else is awayEmployees see when teammates are away, so clashes are caught before they are booked.
VisibilityCompany holidays in viewEmployees see company holidays while they plan a request.
BalancesAllotted, requested, remainingThree numbers per leave type, updated as requests move.
BalancesYearly rolloverSick and bereavement balances roll over once a year.
BalancesAnniversary rolloverPaid leave for salaried employees rolls over on each work anniversary, up to a limit set per person.
AdminCompany and manager settingsAdmins and managers set the rules the app follows.
AdminTime off reportA built-in report summarizes time off for the team.
AdminTraining modeAn admin can step through the app as a manager to learn it and demonstrate it, with every session logged.

Before and after

From inbox to approved

What changes for the office manager, the approving manager and the employee.

BeforeAfter
Requests by email, found by searchingRequests in one list, with a status
A balance spreadsheet one person maintainsBalances that calculate themselves per leave type
A manager approves without knowing who else is offThe overlaps and the new balance are in the approval message
The manager adds the absence to a calendar by handThe calendar event is created on approval, and the employee accepts one invite
Payroll reconciles leave in MarchBalances, rollover and a time off report in the same list, all year

How it works

How buying works

Four steps, and the first one is free.

  1. Book a free consultation. We ask about your leave policy, your headcount and your regions. A leave policy with awkward edge cases is normal; that is the conversation worth having.
  2. We confirm the fit in writing. If your leave accrues by hours worked, or you need different statutory holidays per region, we say so before you spend anything.
  3. You get a quote by name. The licence is one line. Install and configuration, training, bringing across existing balances, and change-management communications are separate lines, so you pay only for the ones you need.
  4. We deploy it in your tenant and hand it over. Your lists, your site, your Microsoft sign-in. We remove our own access when the job is done.

After go-live, an optional maintenance and updates renewal keeps PeoplePoint Time Off current as Microsoft changes Outlook, Teams and SharePoint. A customer who declines keeps a working licence.

Why it is safe to start

  • It runs inside your own Microsoft 365 tenant on native Microsoft tooling. Leave records that would otherwise sit with a per-employee HR platform stay in your own SharePoint instead. Keeping data in your own tenant does not make it sovereign, and we do not claim it does.
  • People sign in with the Microsoft account they already use. There is no separate identity system, so there is no sign-on tier to buy.
  • It is a one-time licence, not a per-person monthly fee.
  • A Bauer Automate consultant reads every line before it ships.

Frequently asked questions

What is PeoplePoint Time Off?

PeoplePoint Time Off is leave management that runs in your own Microsoft 365. Staff request time off in a SharePoint form, balances calculate themselves, and managers approve with the balance and the team overlaps already in the message. It is the standalone first product of PeoplePoint, Bauer Automate's HR portal for Microsoft 365.

What happens to the calendars when a request is approved?

Two things happen. An event is created on the manager's calendar that shows the absence without blocking the manager's own time. The employee gets an invite from the payroll calendar to accept, the same as any other calendar invite. If the request is later deleted, the event clears, the invite cancels and the balance is restored.

Where does our data live?

In your own Microsoft 365 tenant, as SharePoint lists in your own site. Nobody else holds a copy, and access follows the permissions you already run. People sign in with the Microsoft account they already use.

Our hourly staff earn leave as they work. Does it handle that?

Not in PeoplePoint Time Off. Accrual for hourly employees is planned for PeoplePoint Platform, the Dataverse edition, which is in development. If accrual is how your leave works, tell us in the consultation and we will say so plainly rather than sell you the wrong product.

Can we start with Time Off and add the rest later?

Yes. PeoplePoint Time Off is included whole in PeoplePoint Portal and PeoplePoint Platform, so nothing you paid for is replaced. Moving up carries an upgrade credit of 100% of what you paid, one credit per customer, within 90 days of the original purchase, forward only.

Get leave out of the inbox

Tell us how many people you have and how your leave policy works. We will tell you whether PeoplePoint Time Off fits, in writing, before you commit to anything.

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