Estate agents are giving a new holiday tracking product five stars, as they ditch the spreadsheets to save time and avoid annual leave mismanagement preventing property sale completions.

With research showing that 94% of spreadsheets used in business contain errors and employees spending nearly 38% of their time updating them, The Holiday Tracker provides a straightforward alternative, acting as a single source of truth for all holiday and absence records.

With multiple branches, high staff turnover, and unpredictable leave, estate agencies are particularly exposed to the risks spreadsheets bring – duplication, versioning, and human error.

For agencies where missing cover can cost a sale, those risks are significant. Hunters Estate Agents said: “After years of faffing with an unreliable Excel spreadsheet, The Holiday Tracker came recommended to me! Staff love it, I love it … a deffo 5-star product!”

Real-time recording keeping

Managers can see agent and staff leave across branches in real time, automatically calculate pro-rata entitlement for part-timers and new starters, and record all types of absence in one place.

Features also include a sickness heatmap visible to both managers and staff, and alerts when an employee calls in sick on a day when a holiday request was previously declined. These tools help agencies spot patterns, maintain fairness, and encourage accountability.

Founder of The Holiday Tracker, Anthony Burns, said: “Estate agents work in a fast-paced environment where tracking holidays using spreadsheets is simply not fit for purpose. Our platform helps agencies reduce admin, avoid staffing clashes, and improve fairness without the need for a complex HR system.”