"There was always something - a department left short-staffed which affected operations and customer service."
Roei spent years as a salon manager overseeing more than 40 employees across multiple departments and locations. Managing time-off requests meant fielding texts, fielding verbal requests, and somehow keeping track of who was off when across every team. The result was predictable: departments regularly ended up understaffed, operations suffered, and customers felt it.
He looked for a tool to solve it and came up empty. So he built Vacay.
One Calendar, Every Department
The core idea is simple: instead of employees texting or verbally asking for time off, they submit a request through the app, get approved, and receive an email notification. Managers see the full calendar and every department in one view. No installs, no training required, accessible from anywhere.
Vacay is designed for any business that runs on departments - salons, spas, gyms, coffee shops, boutique stores, schools, and small offices. Anywhere that a shift in one team's availability ripples into the rest of the operation. The visibility problem Roei was solving as a salon manager turns out to be universal for team-based businesses of any kind.
The appeal is that it stays out of the way. Employees submit requests from their phones, managers approve them, and the calendar stays current without anyone having to chase anyone down.
Vacay is available now at vacay.work.
