# Vacation Tracker review (2026): is it worth $2 a month per user? > Leave and PTO tracking inside Slack, Teams or Google Workspace Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Vacation Tracker manages leave requests, approvals, allowances and a who-is-off calendar, and can be used from Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace or its own mobile apps. Two plans are priced per active user with a monthly minimum that covers up to 25 users, and there is a 14-day trial with every feature. - **Category:** HR Software - **Made by:** Vacation Tracker - **Website:** https://vacationtracker.io - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you are a team of one to five, since the minimum is $50 a month. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Vacation Tracker is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $2 per user / month, billed monthly, with a $50 monthly minimum. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of every feature, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Core | $2 per user / month, billed monthly; $50 minimum, up to 25 users | Up to 3 locations and 10 departments, custom leave types, approvals, wallchart and reports, all integrations and the Vee AI assistant. | | Complete | $4 per user / month, billed monthly; $100 minimum, up to 25 users | Everything in Core plus unlimited locations and departments, blackout periods, multi-level approvals, hourly leave, accruals, TOIL and calendar sync. | Read from https://vacationtracker.io/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Vacation Tracker before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **About 10% off with yearly billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page marks yearly billing as saving about 10%, with prices set by user tier. Source: https://vacationtracker.io/pricing/ - **Non-profit discounts on request** (Nonprofit): The pricing FAQ says non-profits can contact support to set up a discount. Source: https://vacationtracker.io/pricing/ ## Key features - **Leave requests and approvals:** Requests are routed to approvers automatically with reminders. Complete adds multi-level approvals and substitute approvers. - **Leave policies:** Custom leave types and allowances, public holidays per location, carryover and negative balances. Accruals, blackout periods and TOIL need Complete. - **Where it runs:** Manage leave inside Slack or Microsoft Teams, in Google Workspace, or on iOS and Android, with daily or weekly who-is-off updates. - **Reports and calendars:** A wallchart, calendar view and reports. Core shares calendars through an iCal link, and Complete adds direct Google and Outlook sync. - **AI and developer access:** The Vee AI assistant, an MCP server, an open API and webhooks are listed, with the integrations included on both plans. ## Good for - Teams that already work in Slack or Microsoft Teams and want leave handled there - Companies that only need leave and PTO, not a full HRIS ## Worth knowing - There is no free plan; the minimum is $50 a month on Core and $100 on Complete, covering up to 25 users each. - Yearly plans are priced in user tiers; the page shows a yearly price only for a team size typed into its calculator, so only the monthly rate is recorded here. - Core caps at 3 locations and 10 departments; blackout periods, accruals and hourly leave need Complete. - You pay only for active users, and there is no cap on admins or approvers. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Vacation Tracker handles leave requests and approvals inside Slack, Teams or Google Workspace, from $2 a user a month. It has a $50 monthly minimum, and accruals and hourly leave need the $4 plan. - **Value for money: C.** $2 a user a month, but a $50 monthly minimum for up to 25 users means a team of five pays $10 each, above the category's middle of $5. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 14-day trial of every feature with no credit card, and no free plan. - **Features: C.** Requests, policies, calendars, reports and an AI assistant. It does the leave job fully, which is smaller than HR software, and Core caps locations and departments. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Policies, locations and approvers have to be set up first. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iOS and Android, working inside Slack, Teams and Google Workspace, with ADP, Zapier and Outlook. No desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Vacation Tracker's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among HR software - Vacation Tracker's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 41 of the 63 other HR software we grade, and level with 8. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 22 of 63) and worst on features (C, above 1). - Its paid plans start at $2 a month for each person, against a middle price of $5.36 for the category: 4 of the 36 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. 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 Vacation Tracker you could make: time off and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It costs $24 a year. - You could make: Time off and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Google Workspace among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, ADP, Zapier, Outlook **Tags:** Time off, Reports, AI features, Public API ## Alternatives - [Timetastic](https://toolgpa.com/tools/timetastic): Staff leave planner, with an added rota and time clock product. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/breathe-vs-vacation-tracker) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://vacationtracker.io/pricing/ - https://vacationtracker.io/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/vacation-tracker Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).