Everything you need to run Cabana

What Cabana does

A tour of the product — what it tracks, who uses it, and where the work happens.

Set up your organization

Company name, timezone, fiscal year, and the work week that drives every day calculation.

Add your team

Invite people one at a time or bring the whole directory in with a CSV.

Request time off

Submit a request from the web app or from Slack, and what happens after you do.

Half days and partial days

Book a morning or an afternoon instead of a whole day.

Cancel a request

Withdraw a pending request, or cancel one that's already approved.

Check your balance

See what you have left — in the app, or with a single Slack command.

Connect Cabana to Slack

Install the app, sync your people, and pick an announcement channel.

Slack command reference

Every command Cabana responds to in Slack, and what each one returns.

Channel announcements and digests

Keep the team aware of who's out without anyone having to ask.

Approve or deny a request

For managers — where requests land and how to action them.

One-click approvals from email

Approve or deny straight from the notification — no sign-in required.

Set up approval cover

Route approvals to a substitute while a manager is away.

Create a leave policy

A policy bundles accrual, carryover, and waiting-period rules, then applies to a group of people.

Accrual methods explained

Front-loaded, monthly, biweekly, semi-monthly, weekly, or none — and when to use each.

Carryover rules

Decide what happens to unused days when the leave year rolls over.

How balances are calculated

The exact arithmetic behind the number on your dashboard.

Leave types

The categories people choose from when they book time off.

The team calendar

See who's out, when — filtered by department or location.

Subscribe from Google Calendar or Outlook

Add the team's time off to the calendar you already live in.

Holiday calendars

Public holidays per location, so a request never burns a day nobody was working.

Blocked dates

Close off date ranges where time off can't be booked.

Reports

Leave taken, balances outstanding, and who hasn't booked anything.