Can managers approve leave in DAXTOP?

Yes. Leave management follows the workflow you would expect: an employee requests leave, their manager sees the request with the team's schedule context, and approves or declines it. Approved leave flows into scheduling, so shift planning always reflects who is actually available.

Leave history is kept with the employee's other HR data as a private record in EmployDB — visible to the employee and authorized HR staff, and never exposed through the verification network, which has no sharing scope for private HR records.

Roles keep it orderly

Who can approve what is controlled by HR roles — owner, HR admin, HR staff — resolved server-side on every request. Every approval is written to the audit trail: who approved, when, and what changed.

Leave without the spreadsheet

Most small businesses track leave in a spreadsheet that is right until it matters — two people approved for the same week, balances nobody trusts, and an argument every December about carried-over days. Moving requests and approvals into the system fixes the workflow; keeping balances and history against the employee's record fixes the arguments.

The schedule integration is the part managers feel daily: an approval immediately blocks those days in shift planning, so the conflict is caught at approval time — when it is a conversation — rather than on the morning it becomes a staffing hole.