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View and Add leave balances to employees | WorkPay Help Center

Updated over 2 months ago

Add leave balances to employees

Written by Paul Kimani

Leave balances are the remaining days for each leave category for a given employee.

To view leave submitted:

  • Click on ‘Leave’ on the MAIN Menu.

  • Select ‘Leave Requests'

  • Click on the option of leaves you wish to view(Submitted, approved, active, disapproved,attended,all)

To view Leave Balances.

  • Click on ‘Leaves’ on the MAIN Menu.

  • Select ‘Leave Balances’

  • Search employee (To view the leave policies the employee is assigned and the balance.

  • Filter by country and policy(To view how many employees are assigned the policy and their balance)

How to add a leave balance to an employee

An employee can only apply for leave already granted to him/her in terms of a leave policy and balance. A leave balance constitutes a leave category with a defined number of days an employee is entitled to.


To add a leave balance:

  • Click on ‘Leaves’ on the MAIN Menu.

  • Select ‘Balance’

  • Search employee

  • Filter by leave policy

  • Click on the three dots at the far right and select edit

  • Enter the balance days

  • Update balance

You can assign leave balances in bulk

  • Go to leave>>leave balance

  • Click Bulk Import

  • Click on Download data template here.

  • Fill the excel template(Leave category codes in sheet 2 of the Excel).

  • Browse the file to upload.

  • Click "Import".

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