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title: "Bulk adjust allowances"
slug: "bulk-adjust-allowances"
description: "Update employee allowances efficiently with the Bulk Adjust Allowances tool. Export, edit, and re-upload CSVs for seamless HR management."
updated: 2026-10-30T09:11:12Z
published: 2026-10-30T09:11:12Z
canonical: "help.cintra.co.uk/bulk-adjust-allowances"
---

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# Bulk adjust allowances

Who can do this:

**HR Manager**

### **What is the Bulk Adjust Allowances tool?**

You can use the Bulk Adjust Allowances tool to update multiple employees' allowances in one go.

The tool will produce a CSV export of employees' current allowance which can then be updated and re-uploaded into the system.

This tool gives HR Managers the ability to update the total allowance for employees, whether updating the Leave, Sickness, Custom 1 and Custom 2 allowances.

The CSV can consist of all employees on the system, all employees in a specified division (if applicable), or all employees in a specified team in order to bulk adjust their allowances.

### **Using the Bulk Adjust Allowances tool**

1. Go to **Leave > Admin & Config > Bulk Adjust Allowances.**
2. You may have the option to select which **Division** you want to adjust.
3. Select the team or **All Teams** and choose whether to export the allowances in Hours or Days and whether you'd like to update the allowances as a Manual Adjust or whether you're adding carry over.
  - The carry over adjust option is useful if the automatic Carry Over was not set, but employees are still entitled to it. For more information about carry over, see [Create and edit leave profiles](/docs/work-profiles-allowances-working-hours).

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/image-HHWXDMB7.png)

1. Click **Export**.
  1. The CSV consists of the employee name, employee email address, the employee's current allowances and empty fields for updated allowances to be input.

> **Note:** This CSV will expire in 7 days and will expire if there is an allowance change after being downloaded.

1. Open up the downloaded CSV and edit the 'New Allowance' fields to your chosen updated allowance.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/204017220543.png)

> **Note:** Negative numbers cannot be added to the CSV and all blank columns will be skipped.

1. Save the file as CSV and re-upload it into the system.
2. Click **Browse** to select the updated CSV for import, input an audit comment, then click **Import**.
3. A confirmation message will be displayed when the adjustment is successful.

The employee allowance will now be updated and the audit will be shown in the user profile.