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Who's in. Who's out. What it cost.

Leave, attendance, shifts and billable time in one place. Employees request leave and log hours in seconds, managers approve in one click, and the calendar shows who is available before anyone books a meeting.

Team calendarPeople team · this week3 away · required cover met every day
Cover OK
TeamMonTueWedThuFriNMNaledi Mokoena
Annual leave
TKThabo Khumalo
Sick
PSPriya Singh
Training
AOAmara Okafor
JLJordan Lee
Half day
LKLena Kim
Conference
3requests waiting · one-click approve
$41kleave liability · People team
100%required cover met this week
Balances, accruals and public holidays applied per countryUpdated just now
Leave requestAmara O. · Annual leave
12 – 14 Mar · 3 daysNo overlap with the team · cover confirmedPending · Thabo K. Approved
Balance 14.5 days remaining · calendar updated
Log time · AI Quick AddSay it, it's logged
2.5 hours on the Acme onboarding workshop this morning, billable
October AILogged.
  • ClientAcme Holdings
  • ProjectOnboarding rollout
  • Time2.5 h · billable · $425
Sent to Thabo K. for approval
1 click
to approve leave, shifts or billable time
14 days
of upcoming team absence on every manager's dashboard
Any
leave type, cycle and accrual rule
Live
staffing gaps against required cover
Why it mattersIndustry research
40%of HR admin time is wasted on data management

Leave in one system, time in another and billing in a spreadsheet means constant reconciliation. October keeps all three on the record so nothing has to be re-keyed.

Automated timeRequest → approve → bill

Say what you worked on.
It's logged, approved and invoiced.

Leave, shifts and billable time live on the same record as the person, so nothing is re-keyed. Employees describe their work in a sentence, managers approve in one click, and finance sees liability, utilisation and unbilled hours without a spreadsheet.

Say itVoice or text, in the app“3h on the Acme discovery call, billable”
ParsedClient, project, hours and rateAcme · Discovery · 3.0 h · $170/h
ApprovedManager queue, one clickApproved by Thabo K. · 09:14
InvoicedYour numbering, your termsINV-2026-0142 · net 30
ReportedUtilisation and profitabilityAcme · 78% utilisation · 31% margin
Leave

Leave that manages itself.

  • Any leave type and ruleCycles, accruals and public holidays per country.
  • Planner and calendarWho is out before anyone books a meeting.
  • Liability reportingOutstanding leave cost by department and type.
  • Manager dashboard14 days of upcoming absence, always visible.
Shifts and attendance

Rosters without the whiteboard.

A schedule builder for managers, a shift-swap marketplace for employees, digital clock in and out, and a live view of required versus actual cover. Attendance, overtime and coverage analytics come from the same data.

  • Schedule builder
  • Clock in/out
  • Shift swaps
  • Staffing gaps
Billing

Straight to the invoice.

Clients, projects, budgets and rates sit next to the people who do the work. Approved time becomes an invoice with your numbering and terms, and reports cover revenue, utilisation and profitability by client and project.

  • AI Quick Add
  • Approval queue
  • Invoices
  • Utilisation
Inside Time, Leave & Billing4 capabilities

Time, Leave & Billing.
Piece by piece.

Every capability below reads from and writes to the same employee record, so nothing has to be reconciled afterwards.

01 · Time off & leave liability

Leave that manages itself.

Balance cards per leave type show what's remaining, the cycle end and status. Employees request in seconds, managers approve inline, and planner and calendar views show who is out before it becomes a problem. Finance sees outstanding leave liability by department and leave type.

  • Balances per leave type
  • Request, approve and cancel inline
  • Leave planner and calendar
  • Leave cost liability reporting
Leave cost liability by department and leave type
Everything inside17 sub-features

Time & attendance

  • Time off
  • Leave planner
  • Leave calendar
  • Team calendar

Shifts

  • My shifts
  • Clock in/out
  • Shift swaps
  • Schedule builder
  • Staffing
  • Shift analytics

Billing

  • Log time
  • My billables
  • Approvals
  • Clients
  • Projects
  • Invoices
  • Reports
AI in this moduleGoverned · named purpose · human oversight

Built into everything.
Not bolted on.

AI Powered Insights helps teams review data, answer questions and follow up across October People. Here is what it does inside Time, Leave & Billing.

See AI Powered Insights

Meeting load insights

Meeting hours and cost per person with recommendations to protect focus time.

Stand-alone or enhancedWorks alone · better together

Stand-alone.
Or connected.

Time, Leave & Billing works powerfully on its own. Connect it with the modules below and every workflow starts with the same people, roles, history and evidence.

Time, Leave & Billing · FAQ2 answers

Questions,
answered.

Can we configure leave policies per country?

Yes. Leave types, accrual rules, cycles and public holidays are configured per location, and balances are calculated automatically.

Is billing suitable for professional services firms?

Yes. Clients, projects, budgets, approvals, invoices and utilisation reporting are built in for firms that bill time.

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