# AbsenceSoft review (2026): is it worth it? > Leave and accommodation management for HR teams Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. AbsenceSoft is leave and accommodation management software for US employers. Its compliance engine tracks 200+ federal and state leave and accommodation laws, and the platform covers case management, payroll calculations and an employee portal. It can be run in-house or through an outsourced TPA. - **Category:** HR Software - **Made by:** AbsenceSoft - **Website:** https://absencesoft.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if your staff are outside the US, as the compliance content is US federal and state law. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing AbsenceSoft's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Compliance engine:** Tracks 200+ federal and state leave and accommodation laws, with audit trails, according to the vendor. - **Leave of absence:** Manages leave cases such as paid family and medical leave across states. - **Accommodations:** Handles accommodation requests alongside leave for the same employee. - **Payroll calculations:** The platform lists a payroll calculations module for leave pay. - **MyAbsence:** An employee experience portal, labeled Beta on the site. - **Integrations:** Connects to HRIS, payroll and time systems through flat files and a REST API. ## Good for - HR teams managing leave across several US states - TPAs, PEOs and brokers that administer leave for clients ## Worth knowing - No pricing page exists; the site asks buyers to get a demo. - The compliance content is US federal and state law. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. AbsenceSoft manages leave and accommodations for HR teams. There is no pricing page, only a demo request, and its compliance content is US federal and state law. That rules it out for anywhere else. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published, so there's nothing to set against the $2 to $9 a seat a month this category charges. That leaves it at C. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No pricing page, no free plan and no trial, only a demo request. - **Features: C.** Leave and accommodations tracking, built for US law. A focused job it does fully, and smaller than a whole HR suite, so C. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and you'd set it up with your own people data first, so it's an ordinary C. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with six listed integrations. No phone or desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from AbsenceSoft's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among HR software - AbsenceSoft's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 22 of the 101 other HR software we grade, and level with 33. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 34 of 101) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/hr-software ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of AbsenceSoft you could make: time off, case management and employee records. What surrounds it you could not. The 1 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 46 of the 101 other HR software grade higher. - You could make: Time off, case management and employee records: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Workday, UKG and ADP among them. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Workday, UKG, ADP, SAP, Oracle, Dayforce **Tags:** Time off, Case management, Employee records ## Alternatives - [LeaveBoard](https://toolgpa.com/tools/leaveboard): Leave tracking and employee records for small companies. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/absencesoft-vs-leaveboard) - [absence.io](https://toolgpa.com/tools/absence-io): Time off, time tracking and employee files for small teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/absence-io-vs-absencesoft) - [Timetastic](https://toolgpa.com/tools/timetastic): Staff leave planner, with an added rota and time clock product. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/absencesoft-vs-timetastic) - [Calamari](https://toolgpa.com/tools/calamari): Modular HR system for time off, attendance, core HR and reviews. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/absencesoft-vs-calamari) - [Vacation Tracker](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vacation-tracker): Leave and PTO tracking inside Slack, Teams or Google Workspace. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/absencesoft-vs-vacation-tracker) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://absencesoft.com - https://absencesoft.com/integrations/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/absencesoft Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).