Managing holidays
Build your holiday calendar, import federal holidays, and plan the next year early.
Your holiday calendar tells BadgeOut which days your organization observes, and plenty follows from it: capacity and accrual math, the Holiday Work Detection flag, and the hours a banked-holiday bank credits. This page is where you keep that calendar right.
Find your holidays
- Open Settings, then select PTO & Holidays under Time-Related.
- Select the Holidays tab.
The page manages one year at a time and lists every holiday in it, each with controls to edit or delete it.
Work a year at a time
The year stepper in the header (Previous year / Next year) moves the
whole page between calendar years, and there's no limit in either direction, so
you can build next year's calendar before January arrives. The year rides in
the URL (?year=2027), so a link to a specific year keeps working.
A holiday always files under the year its date falls in, even when that's not the year on screen. Save one dated elsewhere and the page follows it to the year it filed under, so you're never left looking at an unchanged list.
Import federal holidays
- Select Add Federal Holidays.
- Tick the holidays you want for the year on screen. Holidays your organization already has come pre-checked, dimmed, and marked (Already added).
- Confirm with the add button, which counts your selection ("Add 6 holidays").
The import never duplicates: a holiday you already hold for that year is skipped, so re-running the dialog is always safe. The skip is scoped to the year, so the same holiday is still importable for next year.
Add a custom holiday
- Select Add Holiday.
- Enter a Holiday Name and choose the Date.
- Choose a Holiday Type: Organization Holiday, Federal Holiday, or Floating Holiday. Add a Description if the name needs context.
- Set its behavior under Holiday Settings: Recurring auto-adds it in future years, Mandatory makes it required time off, Allow Billing permits billing hours on the day, Requires Approval needs supervisor sign-off for time logged on it, and Banks Hours accrues the day into a per-holiday leave bank.
- Select Create Holiday.
To change a holiday later, open it with its edit control; the same form appears as Edit Holiday, ending in Update Holiday. Moving a holiday's date across a year boundary refiles it under the new year automatically. Deleting a holiday asks you to confirm and takes effect right away.
Tip
Leave Allow Billing off for observed holidays. That's what lets Holiday Work Detection flag direct hours charged on a day your team should be off, while hours charged to the Holiday leave bank stay unflagged, because that's the correct entry.