# Add a leave policy for your organization

Establishing a well-defined leave policy is essential for consistent and transparent time-off management across any organization. With step-by-step instructions, you'll learn how to configure leave types, define employee entitlements, and customize accrual settings to match your company processes for time off management.

1. Log in to Multiplier using your credentials.&#x20;
2. From the left sidebar, select **Settings** > **Company settings**.&#x20;

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3. In the Company settings screen, scroll down and select **Company policies**.

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4. In the Company policies page, select **Time off policies**.

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5. In the Time off policies screen, select **Create new** > **New Leave policy**.

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6. In the Create leave policy screen, use the Entity dropdown to select the entity for which you want to create a new leave policy.&#x20;

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7. Use the Leave type drop-down to select the leave type.&#x20;

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8. Enter the Policy name.

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9. Select the Leave unit. The leave unit options are:&#x20;

* Days
* Months
* Weeks
* Years

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10. Select Annual allowance. This is the number of leaves as per the Leave unit you selected.&#x20;
11. (Optional) You can also select Unlimited leaves allocated.

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12. If you want the leaves to be carried forward to the next year, select the toggle next to Carry-forward policy.

* Enter the Maximum carryover leaves.&#x20;
* Enter the expiry of those carry-over leaves. If you don’t want the leave to expire, select Carry over leaves never expire.&#x20;

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13. Also, if you want your employees to be enabled for leaves in a future calendar year, select the toggle next to Allow applying for future leave.

Also, if you want the balance of the current leave cycle to be used for applying to future leaves, select the toggle next to First in first out.&#x20;

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14. Select Confirm. The leave policy is created.

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