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title: "Admin Hub"
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published: 2026-06-26T14:31:42Z
canonical: "help.cintra.co.uk/admin-hub"
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# Admin Hub

The Admin Hub includes a calendar where you can record and manage employee holidays, absence and sickness. The Admin Hub is linked to the Employee Hub, so records entered or requested in one are reflected in the other.

You manage this area from three options in the Admin Hub menu: **Calendar**, **Manage holidays** and **Manage absence**.

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### Calendar

The Calendar gives you a month-by-month view of every employee and the time they have booked. Each day is colour coded so you can see at a glance what has been recorded:

- Holiday
- Absence
- Sickness
- Non-working day

You can move between months, jump to the current month with **Today**, filter by payroll, and search for an individual employee. Select **See all keys** to view the full colour key.

#### Record time-off for an employee

1. Select **Add** and choose **Sickness**, **Holiday** or **Absence**.
2. Each option opens a form where you enter the employee, the relevant t**ype**, and the **start** and **end** dates, with an AM or PM marker on each date so you can record half days.
3. The form shows the total duration as you complete it, and you can add a note.

### Manage holidays

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**Manage holidays** is where you view and maintain holiday balances and entitlements. It has two views:

- **Balance** shows each employee's current holiday position.
- **Entitlements** lists employees with their holiday scheme, the entitlement period, and figures such as pro-rata entitlement, bank holiday adjustment, brought-forward and contracted entitlement.

You can filter entitlements by period, payroll and scheme, search for an employee, and download the list to CSV. Select **Add entitlements** to set up new entitlements, or **Settings** to configure how holidays and absence behave.

Selecting an employee opens their holiday entitlement, where you can:

- View and edit each holiday scheme the employee is on, including current and future periods, with the total and available balance for each.
- Add a further entitlement.
- Apply exclusion day sets, such as a factory shutdown or a bank holiday region (such as Scotland).
- Set the employee's holiday approver

An employee can hold more than one entitlement at the same time, for example a days-based scheme and an hours-based scheme running in parallel.

### Manage absence

**Manage absence** is where you control how sickness and absence are recorded across your organisation, including which users (*Employee*, *Approver*, or *Sickness admin*) can input, view and request each type.

#### Sickness settings

- **Sickness input** controls which users can add sickness records: *Employee, Approver* or *Sickness admin*.
- **Sickness visibility** controls which users can view sickness records, across the same three roles.

#### Absence settings

- **Absence types** lists the absence types currently in use, such as appointments, jury service, special leave and TOIL. You must have at least one type enabled to use the Absences feature. You can add existing types or select **Create new** to add your own.
- **Absence request** controls which users can request absence, for example Employee (requires approval), Approver (approve), or Sickness admin (create and approve).