Who's off & conflict warnings
See overlapping leave and team cover before you approve a request.
Leave management without the spreadsheet
Request, approve and plan time off in one place. Always-accurate balances, clear team calendars and conflict warnings before anyone is left short-staffed.
- 30-day free trial
- No card required
- From £2 per person
Everything UK teams need, in every plan.
- Bank holidays for every UK region
- UK GDPR & audit logs
- Half-day precision
- Real-time updates
- CSV export for payroll
Requests, approvals and reporting in one place
Every feature is in every plan, from your first five people to your five hundredth.
Always-accurate balances
Pro-rated entitlements, part-time schedules, custom leave years and automatic carry-over.
Requests & approvals
Book full or half days in seconds. Managers approve or decline in one click, with reasons.
Live updates
Calendars, balances and approvals update in real time, with in-app and email notifications.
Teams & reporting lines
Model teams and managers. Each manager sees exactly the people they look after.
UK bank holidays built in
England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, as extra to or included in the allowance.
Reports & exports
Absence by month, team and leave type, upcoming leave, Bradford Factor and CSV exports for payroll.
Why teams leave the spreadsheet behind
Built around how UK employers actually manage holiday, so the numbers are right the first time.
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½ day
Half-day bookings
Half-day requests, pro-rating and carry-over, rounded the way UK teams expect.
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3
UK regions covered
England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland bank holidays, kept up to date.
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30 days
Free trial
Every feature from day one. No card required to get started.
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£2
Per person a month
One plan with everything included, for teams of any size.
Up and running in an afternoon
No implementation project, no consultants. Set up your organisation, invite people and you're done.
Create your organisation
Pick your leave year, working week and bank holiday region. Sensible UK defaults are ready to go.
Invite your team
Send invites, set managers and teams. Allowances are pro-rated for starters and part-timers.
Request, approve, plan
People book time off in seconds and managers approve with conflicts and cover in view.
The right view for every role
Employees, managers and admins each get the screens their job calls for.
For employees
Book time off without chasing anyone.
- See your remaining allowance at a glance
- Book full or half days, with a live preview of the days used
- Know where every request stands
For managers
Approve with the full picture.
- One queue for every request from your reports
- Conflict warnings and a who's off view before you approve
- Team calendar that only shows your people
For admins & owners
Set the rules once and let them run.
- Leave types, policies, schedules and bank holidays in one place
- Invite people, set managers and adjust allowances
- Audit log of every sensitive change
Made for the way UK leave works
No spreadsheets or workarounds for statutory leave, bank holidays and part-time staff.
Role-based access, audit logs and strict organisation isolation.
- Bank holidays for England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
- Bank holidays as extra to, or included in, the allowance
- Pro-rating for starters, leavers and part-timers, rounded to half days
- Capped automatic carry-over at the start of each leave year
- Opt-in Bradford Factor scores
- Configurable data retention, 6 years by default
Simple, per-person pricing
One plan with every feature. Pay only for the people in your organisation.
All features
Folkdesk
Everything included, for any team size.
£1.67 per person / month
Billed annually at £20 per person, minimum £200 a year. Excl. VAT.
Start 30-day free trialNo card required. Cancel any time.
- Unlimited leave types, policies and working schedules
- Full and half-day requests with approvals
- Who's off planner and conflict warnings
- Personal, team and organisation calendars
- UK bank holidays for every region
- Pro-rating, carry-over and allowance adjustments
- Reports and CSV export
- In-app and email notifications
- Audit log and configurable data retention
- Email support
Work out your price
- 25 people × £20
- £500
- Per year
- £500
£41.67 a month · you save £100 a year
More than 250 people? Talk to us about volume pricing.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about pricing, trials and your data.
Every active person in your organisation, including managers, admins and the owner. Deactivated people don't count. Teams of up to 10 pay the £20 monthly minimum.
You get the full product free for 30 days, with no card needed. Invite your team, set up your policies and decide afterwards.
Your seat count follows the people who are active in Folkdesk. Add someone mid-month and they are included on your next bill. Deactivate a leaver and they stop counting.
Yes. Annual billing is £20 per seat a year, so you get two months free (minimum £200 a year).
No. All prices are in pounds sterling and exclude VAT, which is added at the prevailing UK rate.
Yes. Monthly plans can be cancelled at any time and stop at the end of the current month. Annual plans run to the end of the year you have paid for.
Yes. Email hello@folkdesk.app and we'll put together a quote, including invoicing by bank transfer.
Access is role based and every organisation is strictly isolated. Sensitive changes are audit logged, and you choose how long leave records are kept. See our privacy policy for details.
Ready to sort out your team's leave?
Set up your organisation in minutes. Free for 30 days, no card required.