The Bank holiday calendar function lets you manage your Payroll supplements for upcoming bank holidays, cater for national holidays when employees request leave, and lets you anticipate scheduling needs.

You can also have your Bank holiday calendar visible on your schedule to make it easy for Schedule managers to anticipate demands.

To add a holiday calendar to Planday, go to Settings > General > Bank holiday calendar > Add Bank holiday calendar.

Depending on your Planday account's country settings, you may have access to a default holiday calendar for your region. You can select and modify this as a basis for creating your calendar or build a custom calendar with your company's holidays.
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Please note that a default system Bank holiday calendar will not be displayed directly on the Schedule should you enable this setting; only a custom holiday calendar will be displayed.

Once your Bank holiday calendar has been created, you can use the Edit holiday function to add or customise its holidays. For example, you could add company days, add days you wish to give off to your employees, change the starting hour for events or remove an existing holiday from the list.

Once you've set up a new Bank holiday calendar (excluding system default calendars), enable it on the Schedule by going to Schedule > View settings > and turning on Bank holidays / Leave.

Your chosen bank holiday calendar will show up in your schedule and any custom holidays you have created.

Changes to the public holiday calendar are not automatically transferred to your Planday calendar. This lets you decide when to fetch the updates or when to extend the calendar.
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The following dates to the 2022 System Bank Holiday Calendars were added due to last-minute changes to the official public holidays.

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