It's possible to submit time off requests for future years. However, there are things you need to consider when doing this.

You can request time off in a future holiday year before that year begins. Sage HR supports future-dated requests, but you need to understand how balances, approvals, and reporting work.

You can only view balances for the current holiday year. You won't see the next holiday year's balance until the policy reset date.

For example, if your policy resets on 1 January, Sage HR shows the new balance from that date.

No. Requests in the next holiday year don't reduce the current year's balance.

No. Sage HR can't limit the amount of time off an employee books in a future holiday year.

Employees can request leave before Sage HR calculates their future entitlement. In some cases, employees may book more leave than they'll receive.

If approved leave exceeds the future entitlement, Sage HR may show a negative balance after it calculates the allowance.

Approvers and administrators should review future-dated requests carefully before approval.

Pending requests can prevent additional bookings across holiday years.

For example:

Sage HR applies these controls to help prevent overbooking when outstanding requests still affect available balances.

You may see the following error: 'The number of days you are trying to book exceeds available days on the selected period'.

Sage HR calculates one holiday period at a time and updates balances in real time.

Approve or decline all requests before the holiday period ends to maintain accurate reporting.

Adding historical requests to previous periods doesn't affect reports that display balances.