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October 24, 2025
Managers can now submit leave requests to specific approvers instead of having everything route to admin accounts. This creates clearer approval chains and keeps manager leave requests private.
Previously, when managers needed time off, their requests would automatically route to the admin account, often someone in payroll or accounting who shouldn't be approving leadership-level leave. This broke real organisational hierarchies and forced teams to handle manager approvals outside of Timble.
Now managers can choose the right person to approve their leave — whether that's their GM, another department lead, or whoever makes sense for their team structure.
Before managers can use this feature, you'll need to assign the right permissions:
Only managers with this permission will appear as approver options when other managers request leave. Your admin account is always included as a fallback option.
When you submit a leave request, you'll now see an Approver field. The list shows managers in your departments who have approval permissions — so you'll only see people who actually make sense for your team structure.
Select your approver and submit. They'll get notified right away, and your request stays private between you, the approver, and admin.
If you've been given the "Can approve/decline manager leave requests" permission, you'll see pending manager requests in your approval queue on the web dashboard. They appear alongside member requests, one unified place to review everything that needs your attention.
Approve or decline just like you would for any other request. The manager gets notified immediately via email and push notification.
Manager leave requests are only visible to:
This keeps personal leave reasons private from peer managers and the broader team.
