Yasumi: the application that simplifies managing leave, time-off and attendance for small and medium-sized enterprises

In almost every Italian small and medium-sized enterprise, managing leave still works like this: an employee sends a WhatsApp message or an email, the owner replies when they can, someone jots something down on an Excel sheet that no one else knows where to find, and at the end of the month the accountant calls asking for the attendance data — and it all starts again with phone calls, screenshots and handwritten summaries. It is a process that works, more or less, until it stops working.

Yasumi was created to close this chapter. It is the micro-application from A126 Corporate Advisors designed to manage leave, time-off and attendance requests in a simple, tracked way, directly connected to whoever processes the payroll.

The problem Yasumi solves

Managing absences is one of those processes that companies underestimate until they grow. With two employees you handle it verbally. With ten it becomes a problem. With twenty it becomes a risk, because errors on pay slips cost money, disputes over approved days cost money, and the time lost reconstructing who was present on a given day costs even more.

The problem is not only organisational. Every month the employer must report the actual attendance of each employee to the accountant or payroll office to allow pay slips to be processed. This step, when it happens by email or phone, is a systematic source of errors, delays and duplicated work. A missing or incorrect figure turns into a pay slip that needs correcting, into an adjustment, into an awkward conversation with the employee.

How Yasumi works

The employee logs into Yasumi and submits a leave or time-off request directly from the platform. The manager receives the notification, approves or rejects it with a click, and the system automatically updates the attendance record. No lost messages, no ambiguity about what was approved and when.

At the end of the month Yasumi automatically generates the attendance summary and sends it directly to the accountant or payroll office responsible for processing the pay slips. The loop is closed: from the employee's request to the pay slip processing, everything runs through a single tracked and verifiable system.

The platform handles ordinary leave, paid and unpaid time-off, sick leave and any other type of absence the company wants to monitor. Everything is configurable according to specific needs, without having to adapt your own processes to those of the software.

Why it is designed for smaller businesses too

Most HR management tools on the market are built for structured companies, with dedicated departments and significant budgets. They are powerful but complex platforms, costly to implement and hard to use without specific training. For a craftsman with five employees, for a manufacturing SME with twenty people, or for an accounting firm following dozens of small companies, these tools are oversized and often out of reach.

Yasumi was designed with a different principle: simplicity is not a limitation, it is a choice. The interface is intuitive, activation is quick, and it requires no complex infrastructure or dedicated IT staff. Anyone in the company can use it from day one, including employees less accustomed to digital tools.

For accounting firms it is a particularly useful tool: instead of receiving dozens of emails with different attachments from every client each month, they receive a single structured and uniform flow for all the companies using Yasumi. Less time spent gathering data, more time spent advising.

The real value of having your data in order

Keeping accurate track of attendance is not just a matter of pay slips. It is a matter of business management. Knowing in real time how many days of leave an employee still has available, which periods are understaffed due to overlapping absences, what the absenteeism rate is by department: this is information small businesses rarely have under control, yet it can make the difference in operational decisions.

Yasumi makes this data available without anyone having to go looking for it. It is right there — up to date, exportable and shareable with whoever needs it.

How to get started

Yasumi is already available and can be purchased directly from A126. If you want to find out whether it is right for you, the quickest way is a free 15-minute exploratory consultation: together we assess your current situation and show you how Yasumi fits with your existing processes.

Write to us at a126.it/contatti or book directly from the vertical micro-applications page.