Add public/ bank holidays
When approaching New Year’s Day (in the Gregorian calendar), you will need to instruct Kompass on which days it should treat as vacation/bank holiday. This can be done through the API Admin, and Kompass will grey out any days added to the schedule.
Steps
- Go to your API admin page and click the "Holidays" option under the "Calendar" group:
Note: you can add holidays by directly clicking the "+ Add" button above but it is generally a good practise to go into the list of holidays to ensure you are not duplicating records.
- This will list all existing public/bank holidays already added in your Kompass instance. If your organization has more than one office, make sure you work under the relevant office by using the "Filter" section at the right-hand side. Click the "Add Holiday" button at the top right corner.
- Pick the appropriate calendar from the drop down menu (1), set the date of the public/ bank holiday (2), add a description (3), and either click "Save" or "Save and add another" to add more days.
Creating different holiday calendars
Occasionally, you might have employees who are normally working during bank/public holidays. Or you might have employees in different states/ countries that follow a different bank holiday schedule. In cases like these, you'll have to create a separate Calendar.
Go to your API admin page and click the "Calendars" option under the "Calendar" group:
- Create as many new calendars you like. You will only have to provide their name.
- When creating the new holidays, make sure you'll allocate them to the correct calendar.
Then, define which is the default calendar for your organization. You can do that in the Orgs page.
Finally, for any employees that they should not follow the default calendar, change it on their account in the API Admin.
