How to add a new holiday on the portal?

Learn how to add a new holiday on the Keka HRMS portal. Customize holiday schedules and ensure accurate leave management for your organization.

An organization may need to add a holiday date in its system due to changes in the official holiday calendar or in the internal policies.

To add a holiday in the next calendar year in a holiday list, you can go to Time Attend (1) and select Shift/Weekly Offs & Holidays (2) and select Holidays (3). Here you will see the different holiday lists added. Select the Holiday list you want and click +Add holiday (4). 

In the new field, enter the Name for the holiday you want to add and select the date and year in which you want to add this from calendar. You also have an option to make the holiday by toggling the switch under Optional. Finally click on the green Tick to save it to the list.



You can also use the bulk import option to import the holidays. To bulk import, click the 3 dot menu adjacent to +add holiday and select Import from excel.

In the window click Excel Template to download the Excel Template.

In the template, enter the Name and Description of the Holiday and in the date, enter the date with the month and year of the leave. You can choose any year in the date. Once done save the file.

Now in the Keka page, click Upload Excel File to upload the file. 

Once the file is uploaded, you will be on the Match Columns page. Check the column mapping and click Data.

In the Preview Data page, if there are no errors click Complete and the holiday will be added to the holiday list.

Hope the process to upload the holidays for next calendar year in the same holiday list is now clear. Need more help? You can refer to the other articles available.