Leave management for small businesses that do not have HR.
Cala HQ gives small businesses one clear place to handle leave requests, approvals, balances, and holidays without making the owner or ops lead hold the whole process together.
Free for up to 5 users. No credit card required.
The business grows, but the leave process stays scrappy.
It usually starts small enough to manage. Then the team grows, people work in different places, and one person ends up chasing requests, checking balances, and answering the same questions every week.
One person becomes the leave system
The founder, office manager, or ops lead ends up keeping the whole thing together from memory, messages, and a spreadsheet.
Requests come from everywhere
Someone asks in Slack, someone else sends an email, and a week later nobody is fully sure what got approved.
The answer is never obvious
How much leave is left? Who is off next week? Did that request get approved? Small businesses need those answers fast.
One place to run leave without building an HR department.
Employees request time off, managers approve it, balances stay clear, and the team has one place to check instead of asking around or duct-taping generic leave management software.
- Keep requests and approvals in one place
- See balances, holidays, and upcoming leave clearly
- Give managers a cleaner way to approve time off
- Stop relying on one person to remember everything
Try leave management that fits a small business.
Set up a workspace, invite your team, and see if Cala HQ feels better than the spreadsheet-and-Slack setup you have now.
Small business leave management should be boring.
It should be clear, easy to trust, and easy to maintain. That is why a lot of teams start with a free time-off tracker and grow into a proper time-off tracker without changing the whole process.
Less chasing
People stop digging through old messages to confirm what was requested and what was approved.
Cleaner balances
Leave balances are easier to trust when they live in one place instead of being patched together later.
Better team visibility
Managers and teammates can see who is away and plan around it before it becomes a problem.
Less owner overhead
The business gets a real process without the owner becoming the person who has to remember every leave detail.
What a small business actually needs.
No extra HR baggage. Just the parts that make leave easy to run and easy to trust.
Requests and approvals
Send time-off requests to the right person and keep the decision visible.
Shared leave calendar
See approved leave, public holidays, and upcoming absences in one place.
Simple policy setup
Handle fixed, accrued, carry-over, and unlimited leave without overcomplicating it.
Start free, then grow when your team does.
Cala HQ is free for up to 5 users. Paid plans keep the same core leave management features, so you can get organized before this turns into more admin than it should be.
Small business leave management questions
Ready to make leave easier to run?
Set up Cala HQ in minutes and give your small business one clear place to manage time off.
Free for up to 5 users. No credit card required.