100% BCEA compliant
Leave management, built for South Africa.
Paper leave forms take fifteen minutes and three people to approve. Digital takes fifteen seconds. Automatic BCEA calculations (21/30/3 days), instant manager approvals and real-time balance tracking — no more spreadsheets or lost forms.
Annual leave per year
BCEA statutory minimum
Sick leave per 3 years
Full BCEA cycle tracked
Family responsibility
Calculated automatically
BCEA compliant
Every leave type, every formula
The problem
A leave request should not take fifteen minutes and three emails.
You calculate leave days by hand
Someone asks "how many days do I have left?" You open a spreadsheet, count days, check sick-leave cycles — ten minutes later you have an answer. With Synthro they see their balance instantly.
Requests get lost in email
John emails his manager, who forgets to reply. He follows up, the manager CCs HR, HR updates a spreadsheet — three days and five emails later it is approved. With Synthro: tap "Request", tap "Approve", fifteen seconds.
You are never sure the balance is right
Did Sarah use her 30 sick days? Is this year one or year two of her cycle? Checking Excel takes time and creates risk. Synthro tracks BCEA cycles automatically — accurate balances, zero errors.
Everyone keeps asking "how many days?"
Every week someone asks HR for their balance, and HR stops to check the spreadsheet and reply. With Synthro, employees see their balances 24/7 on their phone — HR gets its time back.
No documentation for CCMA disputes
An employee claims you denied leave unfairly and the CCMA asks for proof. Searching emails for the approval chain is slow and unreliable. With Synthro, every request, approval and rejection is timestamped and logged.
After-hours requests are impossible
John needs leave for tomorrow but it is 8pm and the office is closed, so he waits until morning and risks a delayed approval. With Synthro he requests from his phone anytime — the manager approves before the next day starts.
What you get
Everything in leave management, BCEA-accurate.
BCEA-accurate calculations
21 days annual, 30 days sick per 3-year cycle and 3 days family responsibility — all worked out for you. No manual counting.
Approve from your phone
Requests route to managers automatically. Approve or reject with one tap — even at 8pm — and staff see balances update instantly.
Google Calendar sync
Approved leave populates your Google Calendar automatically, showing who is off and when. No manual invites, no scheduling clashes.
Google Calendar sync
Your calendar shows who is on leave and when.
Approved leave instantly populates Google Calendar — no manual invites, no chasing for updates. Open your calendar and see exactly who is in the office.
Approved → calendar, instantly
The moment a manager approves, a Google Calendar event is created automatically — the employee's name, leave type and exact dates appear in your shared team calendar. Nobody has to lift a finger.
See who is out before you schedule
Planning a team meeting or client presentation? Open your calendar and every approved leave block is there. You will never schedule a critical meeting when half the team is away.
Managers always know coverage
Your calendar shows overlapping leave, peak periods and who is in the office on any given day. Managers can check before approving — preventing coverage gaps without extra admin.
How it works
From tap to approval to calendar, in fifteen seconds.
Employee submits a request
They open Synthro on any device, tap "Request Leave", pick the type from all 16 BCEA types and the dates, and submit. The system checks their balance, flags public holidays in the range, and routes it to their manager — all before they put the phone down.
Manager reviews and approves
The manager gets a push notification with full context — name, leave type, dates, remaining balance, and who else on the team is off that period. One tap to approve or decline, with an optional note. No emails, no back-and-forth.
Google Calendar auto-populates
The moment it is approved, a calendar event appears in the shared team calendar for every manager and teammate — no manual invites. Cancellations and rejections update the calendar too.
Balance updated and audit logged
Synthro deducts the leave from the BCEA balance, timestamps the full approval chain, emails both parties, and stores a CCMA-ready audit record. Every field is immutable — the trail cannot be edited after the fact.
15 seconds — approved, synced, audited.
That is 60× faster than paper forms. For a 20-person team processing 240 leave requests a year, you recover 58 hours of admin annually — and your calendar always shows who is in.
Ready to automate leave management?
Fifteen seconds, start to finish.
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