When you approach the end of a holiday year, it is time to consider the tasks which need to be performed to close out one year and start the next.

Check if you are using a 'Set date' by going to:

Administration -> Company -> Settings -> Time off settings (global)

for Holiday Year. If so then there are two tasks which need to be performed - carryover and setting the new date(s). 

If you use 'Employee start date' then you will need to manage this process manually via:

Administration -> HR -> Time off management -> Manage carryover values 

when the employee's start date anniversary is reached. 

To help with this, we recommend creating a continuous workflow to notify the HR mailbox when an employee reaches their start date. 

Before starting this process, we strongly recommend you ensure that all time off has been processed and approved/declined as appropriate.

Check out our Year end webinar detailing the steps to complete year-end:

Step by step guide to the holiday year-end process:

(If you do not use carryover then go directly to STEP 12)

1. We recommend you use the automated process rather than manually entering values, go to

Administration -> HR -> Time off management -> Process carryover

PLEASE NOTE: You should do one or the other, you should not do both.
 

2. Enter the Start of holiday and End of holiday year dates for your previous holiday year (i.e. the one you have just completed or are about to complete) as you want to process what are, in effect, last year’s values.
 

3. If you have some employees who have time off in days and others in hours then process carryover will only be able to deal with one set of these - it is not possible to days and hours both using the automated process.
 

4. If you would only like to process carryover for individual sites, select the sites you would like to run from the check-boxes.  
 

5. You can also choose how to deal with negative values and how to account for rounding of figures.
 

6. Click on the 'Calculate and check' button and carefully check the values. 
 

7. If they are correct, then you can submit them and they will be entered into the carryover balances.

PLEASE NOTE: This process will overwrite ALL carryover balances currently in the system for ALL employees. 
 

8. You can then check the actual balances via

Reporting -> Report builder -> Carryover report (Standard)

Click here to read about how to access Report builder standard reports.

9. If any values are incorrect or if you need to add additional entries or adjust any existing entries you can do so via

Administration -> HR -> Time off management -> Manage carryover values
 

10. Once you have carryover completed, you now need to change the dates for your holiday year.
 

11. At this point, you can then change the values for the start of the year.  To do this go to

Administration -> Company -> Settings -> Time off settings (global)

and change the date in 'Start of holiday year' to the date of the new holiday year.
 

12. Additionally, if you use carryover, you may need to adjust the value of 'Expiry date for carryover days'.
 

13. If you use site-level time off settings you will need to repeat steps 8 to 11 for each of the sites in question - changing the settings in Time off Settings (global) only applies to those employees who are not located at a site with site-level time of settings.
 

14. To check if any of your sites use site-level time off settings, go to

Administration -> HR -> Data Management -> Sites

and check the column marked Site level time off settings - any which are marked as 'Yes' will need their values updating as well as the Global settings. 

15. If you are using mandatory company holidays, you will need to input the company holidays for the new year. You will need to go to

Time and attendance -> Holidays

from here you will need to delete the previous year's holiday dates using the Actions button followed by Delete and either manually add the new holidays using the 'Add' button at the bottom of the list or automatically populate public holidays using the 'Map public holidays' button below the list. 
 

16. When 'Mapping public holidays', if there are dates missing or incorrect for your chosen year you can either update the dates manually using the 'Pencil' icon or contact Natural HR support.