Shutdown dates are forgotten
A date shared once in an email can be overlooked when staff begin requesting time off.
Company holiday closures
Planning a Christmas shutdown? Keep company closure dates organised.
Set company-wide shutdown dates and manage bank holiday settings alongside employee leave. Awayly helps you plan planned closures without leaving staff guessing.
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Unlimited employees
£20/month per company
AwaylyHow it works · example
Company closure · example
Closure nameChristmas shutdown
From24 DecTo31 Dec
✓ Choose whether these days use annual leave.
Christmas closuresCompany shutdownsBank holidaysHoliday allowance rulesFuture planning
Company-wide dates in one place
Make planned shutdowns part of your holiday management.
Many businesses close for a few days over Christmas, between projects or at other planned times of year. The difficulty is keeping those dates separate from individual employee leave while applying the company’s rules consistently.
Awayly lets admins add named company closures with a start date, end date and optional notes. You can decide whether a closure deducts employees’ holiday allowance, and manage official or custom bank holidays nearby.
Avoid manual adjustments
Company-wide days off need their own rules.
Not every non-working day is an employee holiday request.
Allowance questions
Employees may not know whether a company closure uses part of their holiday entitlement.
Bank holiday confusion
Different locations and working patterns can make holiday planning more complicated than it first appears.
How company closures work
Add the shutdown, choose the rules and plan ahead.
A simple admin process for planned company-wide days off.
Open the closure settings
Go to the company bank holidays and closures section to manage dates for the planning year.
Create your closure
Add a name such as “Christmas shutdown”, the date range and optional notes. Choose whether the closure deducts annual leave.
Review the company calendar
Keep closure dates alongside relevant bank holiday settings and employee absence records, with the selected rules applied to allowances.
Plan the year with confidence
Handle shutdown dates without treating them like individual requests.
Awayly separates company closures from employee-requested leave, giving you flexibility over the rules that apply to those non-working days.
- Add named company shutdowns with date ranges and notes
- Choose whether a closure deducts holiday allowance
- Manage official UK and custom bank holidays
- Review closure days within the employee breakdown
- Plan different holiday years without overwriting other years’ dates
Christmas is only one example
Use closure dates whenever the whole company stops.
Christmas breaks, planned summer shutdowns, company-wide maintenance days or other scheduled closures can be managed together. Each closure can have its own allowance setting.
Named dates · Flexible rules · Central settings
More ways to stay organised
Built around the company’s real calendar.
Christmas closures
Record the dates your business closes during the festive period so they sit alongside team leave planning.
Bank holiday settings
Sync published UK bank holiday dates for the configured region or add custom bank holidays where needed.
Future holiday years
Keep bank holiday and closure planning for different years without changing another year’s configured dates.
Simple, predictable pricing
£20/month for your whole company.
Unlimited employees and managers, with core leave and absence features included. Try Awayly free for 14 days with no payment card required.
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Frequently asked questions
Can I add a Christmas company shutdown?
Yes. Add a named company closure with the start and end dates and any useful notes.
Do company closure days have to use employees’ annual leave?
No. When creating or editing a closure, you can choose whether it deducts holiday allowance. Apply the rules appropriate to your staff and their contracts.
Can we manage bank holidays too?
Yes. Awayly supports published UK bank holidays for the configured region and custom bank holiday dates.
Can I plan next year’s shutdown dates?
Yes. The company closure settings allow planning across different years.
Can employees still request their own leave?
Yes. Company closures are managed separately from employee holiday requests and approvals.
Time off, sorted.
Make company shutdown planning less complicated.
Organise closure dates, bank holidays and staff time off together. Start free for 14 days — no card required.