This article explains how to set up company-specific public holiday calendars. You can use these calendars to create and manage public holidays applicable to your company and/or different offices.

Learn how such public holiday calendars can be assigned to the entire company or to individual offices only in our article Assigning Public Holiday Calendars.

Create Custom Holiday Calendars

If your preferred public holiday calendar is not shown in the selection of system holiday calendars provided, you can create custom holiday calendars. To do so, go to Settings > Work Hours and Absences > Public Holidays. Create a new public holiday calendar by either duplicating and editing an existing public holiday calendar or by creating your custom holiday calendar in line with your company's internal requirements. 

Note Custom holiday calendars need to be set up correctly and maintained by an administrator of the respective account.

Option A: Edit an existing public holiday calendar

If you wish to add specific public holidays to one of the existing system holiday calendars, the easiest option is to duplicate an existing calendar and add the new holiday(s) to it.

This involves the following steps:

1. Go to Settings > Work Hours and Absences > Public Holidays.
2. Select the required public holiday calendar from the list of system holiday calendars shown.
3. Click on the Duplicate calendar button on the top right, then click on Edit to name the copy you have just created.
4. Add or remove specific public holidays. Select the type Once on a fixed date for new public holidays, and create the holidays for individual years.

Note If you remove recurring public holidays, this step is also applied to past and future years, and will affect past and future presence and absence calculations. We therefore suggest that you select the type Once on a fixed date and create public holidays individually for every year. This can also be done retroactively for past years.

Option B: Create a new public holiday calendar

If you wish to create custom holiday calendars from scratch, this option provides you with maximal flexibility. To create a new public holiday calendar, go to Settings > Work Hours and Absences > Public Holidays, name your new public holiday calendar and click plus . You can then add individual public holidays in the next step. 

Tip For maximal flexibility in creating recurring public holidays, we recommend that you select the type Once on a fixed date and create public holidays individually for every year. This can also be done retroactively for past years.

Add Custom Public Holidays 

You can add custom public holidays to both duplicated and newly created public holiday calendars. To do this, select the required public holiday calendar and click on Add holiday to open a dialog box for this task.

You can choose from the following public holiday types:

Then click on Add to create and save the new public holiday.