Why switch from spreadsheets to PTO tracking tools?
It's 2025. Stop searching for "how to track leaves in google sheet or excel" and switch to PTO tracking tools.
Why?
1) Save time by reducing admin headache,
2) Ensure fairness within the team, and
3) There are many tool in the market that fit your budget
Ofc, also with increasing remote work, the new labour laws, you have to stay compliant with state and country laws.
Here are top 4 reasons why you need to ditch these spreadsheets right away!
1) Manual tracking = Errors in payroll processing
Employees are forgetful at times in entering their PTO information and tracking that becomes difficult. It's more error-prone and you can end up processing wrong payroll and at times can be super expensive for your company. A PTO tracker platform like TimeDiver can automate the entire PTO tracking process, from assigning leave quotas, accruals to request and approving leaves.
2) Lacks team collaboration.
With PTO tracker, everyone has complete visibility on who's on vacation, or any other leave type and can manage their workload and projects well in advance to avoid last time burnout and missed deadlines.
TimeDive has a shared team calendar wherein everyone can view team availability.
3) No integration with other tools.
Excel isn't compatible with other productivity softwares to track projects, track attendance, automate payrolls, etc. PTO trackers has these features or can integrate well with them and save admin headache.
4) Difficult to manage with scaling teams and remote teams
It's challenging to managing leave request, approvals and leave balances with excel. If you are managing a remote team, different timezones can create issues with time card and dates adding more confusion. You might need advance skills and customised formulas to track every aspect correctly.
With TimeDive's PTO tracker, you can create specific office, departments and setup policies customised to each factor and track everything using one single dashboard.
Most importantly, TimeDive has a dedicated customer support team to help you setup these policies and you can roll out to your team in under a day.
To start using it, just visit TimeDive.io