Time off that works for engineering teams
Request, approve, and track time off in one focused workflow. No payroll module, no performance reviews, no HR suite wrapped around it.
2 min
Setup time
100%
Bloat-free
Free
Up to 5 engineers
0
Spreadsheets
What's inside
Time off, and nothing else
Calendar
Who's out when, at a glance
Color-coded by engineer. Overlaps highlighted. Filter by team. No digging through Slack or spreadsheets.
Approvals
One-click approve or deny
Pending requests land in your inbox. Works async.
Pending approvals
Alex Kim
Mar 18–21 · 3 days
Jordan Lee
Mar 25–27 · 2 days
Balances
Plan coverage, encourage time off
See who has days to burn. Avoid last-minute scrambles.
Grace Hopper
Off this week
Vacation
Thu – Fri
See your whole organization on one screen
The Office lays out your organization by team and shows a live status for every person: in today, out today, or away later this week or this month. Hover over anyone to see their upcoming time off. No calendar digging, no asking around.
- Today at a glance: who is in and who is out, from approved requests
- Upcoming absences: color-coded for this week and this month
- Schedules on hover: each person's next time off, right in the view
Plan sprints and releases around who's actually in
See who is out, by week or by month, before you commit a sprint. One source of truth for staffing projects and catching understaffed weeks while there is still time to replan.
- Team presence view: who's in or out, week by week
- Coverage by month: spot thin weeks before they happen
- Holidays included: capacity reflects real working days
| Team | W1 | W2 | W3 | W4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex | ||||
| Jordan | ||||
| Sam | ||||
| Casey |
Protect your release windows
Code freezes, launch weeks, on-call rotations, quarter-end deploys. Lock PTO during the windows where you need full coverage. Requests that overlap a freeze are blocked at submission, not caught in review. No Slack threads, no rollbacks because your release lead was out.
- Scope to a team: freeze platform during a migration while product ships on
- Blocked at request time: engineers see the freeze before they submit, not after you decline
- Set recurring freezes: quarter-end, peak traffic weeks, annual launches
PTO requests in these ranges are blocked automatically.
The right tool for the job
Pay for what you need, not the whole suite
Other HR software
Buy 100% to use 10%
PTO is one small feature. Engineering teams pay for everything else.
Paying for five tools to use one
Pausr
One tool. One job.
Every feature serves the same workflow: requesting, approving, and planning around time off.
Why engineering teams switch
What teams use before Pausr
Spreadsheets do not scale
Version drift and manual updates mean someone will always have an outdated view. A single, shared calendar is more reliable than a collection of documents.
Slack is not a system of record
Requests are easy to lose in conversation threads, and chat offers no calendar, balances, or history. Pausr gives you a dedicated system of record instead.
HR tools are overkill
To get PTO management today, you buy software that does payroll, benefits, performance reviews. Engineering teams need one thing, not the whole suite.
Pricing
One price per team. Not per seat.
Flat monthly pricing. No per-seat math, no annual lock-in, no sales call.
Free
Enough to evaluate Pausr with your core team.
Up to 5 engineers
- ✓Unlimited PTO requests
- ✓Team calendar & overlap visibility
- ✓Approval inbox & one-click approve/deny
- ✓PTO balances & accrual
- ✓Holiday calendars
- ✓Analytics & team capacity
- ✓Freeze periods
- ✓Email notifications
Team
Early-stage startups, Series A, product teams.
Up to 25 engineers
Hire freely. Price stays flat.
- ✓Unlimited PTO requests
- ✓Team calendar & overlap visibility
- ✓Approval inbox & one-click approve/deny
- ✓PTO balances & accrual
- ✓Holiday calendars
- ✓Analytics & team capacity
- ✓Freeze periods
- ✓Email notifications
Studio
Larger engineering orgs that outgrew Team.
Unlimited engineers
- ✓Unlimited PTO requests
- ✓Team calendar & overlap visibility
- ✓Approval inbox & one-click approve/deny
- ✓PTO balances & accrual
- ✓Holiday calendars
- ✓Analytics & team capacity
- ✓Freeze periods
- ✓Email notifications
- ✓Priority support
Every tier includes every feature. No credit card to start free.
Set up your team's time off in 2 minutes
Free up to 5 engineers. $49/month flat up to 25. $99/month for unlimited. No credit card, no sales call, no spreadsheet migration.
2 min setup · 0 spreadsheets · Free up to 5 engineers