People · Leave
VanVed vs Zoho People
for Leave
Why businesses choose VanVed over Zoho People
VanVed's balance arithmetic is unusually strict for this price band: a submitted request reserves days, an approval moves the reservation to used, a rejection releases it, and a cancellation restores only the still-future portion — with a ledger row behind every movement, including manual adjustments, which must carry a reason. Both the direct approve path and the approvals-engine path run the same code, so they cannot drift.
Capability by capability
Every row below is what our 2026 research found — including the rows we lose.
| Capability | VanVed | Zoho People |
|---|---|---|
| Configurable leave types | Yes — paid/unpaid, quota, accrual style, carry-forward cap, encashable, half-day allowed, document-after-N-days, gender restriction | Yes |
| Accrual | Yearly upfront or monthly — but monthly accrual credits a twelfth per elapsed calendar month with no pro-rating for a mid-year joiner | Yes, with pro-rating on joining and configurable rounding |
| Carry-forward and year-end close | Yes — one idempotent year-end action capped at each type's carry-forward limit, every move written to a ledger | Yes |
| Compensatory off (comp-off) | None — no comp-off credit from weekend or holiday work anywhere in the code | Yes, with separate weekday and weekend credit rules |
| Leave encashment | Yes — days above the carry-forward cap encash at a frozen rate straight onto a payroll run | Yes |
| Half day / hourly leave | Half day yes, first or second half. Hourly or short leave: none | Half day and hourly permissions |
| Holiday calendar | Yes, per organization and optionally per branch, with optional holidays | Yes, per location and shift |
| Eligibility rules on a leave type | Gender only | Gender, marital status, department, designation, location, role |
| Balance shown while applying | Yes on web and in the mobile app, and the submit itself refuses to over-draw | Yes |
Where Zoho People is ahead of us today
Zoho People wins on policy breadth. Comp-off does not exist in VanVed at all, which is a hard blocker for any business that asks people to work a weekend. Monthly accrual is not pro-rated for someone who joins in March, so their first year is over-credited, and eligibility for a leave type can only be restricted by gender, not by department, location or designation.
We publish this because a comparison that only flatters us is worth nothing to you. If one of these gaps is the thing you actually need, Zoho People may well be the better buy.
What VanVed's Leave module does
- Employee records
One record per employee, shared by attendance and payroll.
- Leave requests
Requested, approved or rejected, feeding into attendance.
- Pay records
Base pay, bonuses and deductions add up to each person’s net pay. Statutory payroll runs (PF, ESI, PT) are the Payroll module.