“Manage Time Off With Perq, Manage Staff Leave Online, Affordable Powerful and Easy”

Perq is an online time-off management system designed to help automate the process of managing leave requests in your business. It provides the ability for you to get an automated time-off management system up and running quickly and fuss-free, in this article we will take a look at what it on offer with Perq.

Perq has three main sections:

• Plan – Where you can see and access a shared calendar and make time-off requests
• Manage – Where you manage the Perq administrative area
  • Manage Requests – See who is off over the next week and manage leave requests
  • Manage Employees – Create and manage employees
  • Manage Policy – Customise the leave policy to fit your business
• Modify – Manage your personal account settings and upgrade the service to handle more employees (the basic plan is up to 10 users, then 25, 50, 100, and 100+)

The first thing to do once you have signed up for Perq is to define your leave management policy to allow the application to understand how to deal with issues such as holiday requests, sickness day allowance, and leave for personal reasons. The process for defining a policy typically involves assigning a name, an effective date (and end date for temporary policies), then defining how it should be applied.

Managing something like holidays can become complicated over time. Holiday entitlement in a typical business usually kicks in after a few months service, it then usually gets accrued throughout the year to ensure you have built up entitlement before you use it, and some businesses allow you to roll over some unused holiday into the new year. In addition, length of service can usually add a few days to your holiday entitlement. Fortunately, all of this can be handled by Perq under the Perq benefit section of Policy maintenance.

The next thing to configure in Perq are holidays such as bank holidays, company shutdown holidays, and any other periods of time where the company is closed. Once your holiday calendars are setup you need to move onto defining any additional holiday types such as a bereavement leave, maternity/paternity leave, jury service, and any allowable medical leave.

Once your policy is defined the last step is to create your employees in Perq, which requires a minimum amount of information such as name, email address, user type (staff, approver, administrator). You can create employees up to the number allowed in your chosen package (although this can be upgraded quickly at any time).

New Perq users will receive a confirmation email telling them “Welcome to Perq! Your company is using Perq to manage employee time off. You received this email because the Perq Administrator at your company registered you for a Perq account.”

Other information supplied in the join up email includes an activation link for confirming the account, together with the Perq username for the user, and a link to the Perq help section – to help the user get started quickly.

Perq aims to do one job and do it well. It is is quite intuitive in use and the Web 2.0 features give it a slick, up to date, look and feel. If you need an off the self, online, service based solution Perq is well worth a look.

To learn more visit Perq.