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title: "Set up and edit teams"
slug: "setting-up-editing-teams"
description: "Learn how to create, edit, and manage teams in Cintra People HR, including roles, approvals, and team structures for effective organisation."
updated: 2026-04-22T06:58:25Z
published: 2026-04-22T08:52:15Z
canonical: "help.cintra.co.uk/setting-up-editing-teams"
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---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.cintra.co.uk/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Set up and edit teams

Who can do this:

**HR Manager**

**Administrator**

> [!WARNING]
> A Team is a collection of employees consisting of members and 1 primary manager. In most cases a Team will have a Parent Team used to form your org chart.

Employees can see who else is in their Team and who their Manager is but they will not have access to other employee details unless they have the Team Manager or HR Manager role. Team Managers can access information about the members of the team they manage. They cannot setup or configure teams themselves as this is restricted to anyone with the HR Manager role.

### **Creating a Team**

There are different ways you can create a team in Cintra People HR, these are:

- Organisation area
- Teams area

#### Organisation

One of the ways you can create a team instantly is by going to **Organisation.**

Go to **Organisation** then click the green + icon.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/204017219729.png)

A dialog box will open, enter the Team name and set a Primary Manager. In the Optional tab, you can choose whether to enable Sickness Reports & TOIL Requests.

When you are happy with the information, click Create Team.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/204017219730.png)

#### Team

Go to **Organization > Teams > + Create Team**

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/204017219731.png)

### **Editing a Team**

You can edit Teams from Organisation or Teams.

- From **Organisation** click the pencil icon next to the team you wish to edit.
- From **Organisation > Teams**, click on the name of the team you wish to edit.

The Team edit page is split into multiple tabs. Work through the tabs consecutively or you can choose a tab to edit.

#### **Main Details**

Edit the main details of the Team here:

1. Name - edit the name of the Team
2. Comments/Notes - optionally share notes here with other users who have access to this page
3. Parent Team - this builds the org chart, if the team has no Parent Team, there is an option for (No Parent Team)
4. HR Manager - The HR Manager controls Notifications & Checklists for the members of this Team

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/204017219732.png)

#### **Leave Options & Approvals**

This tab is split into further tabs for:

Requests Options, Approval Flows, Calendar and Active Leave Years.

#### **Requests Options**

**Leave Requests**

Here you'll be able to configure whether configured Approvers can approve their own Leave Requests, if Managers can make Leave Requests on behalf of Team Members and send Approval/Cancellation notifications to anyone outside of the Approval Flow.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/204017219733.png)

#### **Sickness Reports & TOIL (Comp Time) Allowance Claims**

Within the Sickness Reports and TOIL Allowance Claims sections, you have the same options as the Leave Requests section above. The only difference is that you can choose whether members of this team have the ability to submit these kinds of requests in addition to their Leave Requests, as well as choose who can request Sickness Reports on behalf of members of this Team.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/204017219734.png)

#### **Approval Flows**

This page will allow you to configure the Approval Flows for this Team for Leave, Sick and TOIL (if enabled).

Click "Select Approval Flow" to select from a pre-configured Approval Flow. You can find out how to configure an Approval Flow [here.](/docs/setting-up-approvers)

If you would like to override the Approval Flows for specific members of this team, you can do so by selecting the tick box at the bottom of the Approval Flow selection box.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/204017219735.png)

#### **Calendar**

Choose which day in-app calendars should start on and who has access to these calendars. You can also allow iCal invites to be sent to users when their requests are approved or cancelled.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/204017219736.png)

#### **Active Leave Years**

Configure which years members of the Team are able to submit requests for. This may be set using the System Defaults, more information can be found here: [Active Leave Years](/docs/how-to-prepare-for-a-new-leave-year).

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/204017219737.png)

#### **Managers**

To allocate a Team Manager, enter their email address and select their name, choose their Role (reader or editor) and select whether or not they are the Primary Manager, then press the green + button to confirm the changes.

Each team can only have one Primary Manager, but can have multiple additional Managers. A Team Manager may be assigned a Reader or Editor role.

Managers with Editor roles can edit requests and allowances of users they manage, whereas managers with the Reader role have read-only access to the team profile.

All managers have access to the management section in the Leave module, and reporting for teams they manage. If you are on our HR packages, Managers will also have access to other modules for the teams that they manage (e.g. Employee Profiles, Locations, Clock-in/out, Goals).

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/204017219738.png)

#### **Members**

You can view employees who belong to the team from this tab. To add users to the team, you can search them via their email address or their name and click 'Add Member'.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/204017219739.png)

### **Deleting a Team**

If you wish to delete a team, you must ensure:

- All members of the team have been removed, **including former team members**
- All managers have been removed from the team
- All approval flows have been removed from the **Leave**, **Sickness** & **TOIL** settings
- That the team is not a parent team. Please check the **Org Chart** to see the hierarchical structure of the team.

Once you have done this, you can click on Options > Delete Team

![](https://cdn.document360.io/fc2cda72-4645-4b36-96bf-60439ec11f11/Images/Documentation/204017219740.png)

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