> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What is Tivero

> Tivero helps teams plan absences and planned unavailability: requests, approvals, balances and a working-day calendar in one place.

Tivero is an app for managing employee absences and the planned unavailability of B2B contractors. An employee submits a request, the right person approves it, and the balance and the team calendar update on their own.

You open the app at [dash.tivero.app](https://dash.tivero.app).

## Choose your path

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Employee" icon="user" href="/en/roles/employee-guide">
    Balance, absence requests, the calendar and your data.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Manager" icon="user-check" href="/en/roles/manager-guide">
    Approvals, team availability and the team calendar.
  </Card>

  <Card title="HR and admin" icon="users-gear" href="/en/roles/hr-admin-guide">
    People, policies, balances, calendars, reports and the plan.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Microsoft 365 admin" icon="plug" href="/en/roles/microsoft-365-admin-guide">
    Connection, consents, the people directory, Outlook and Teams.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## What you can do in Tivero

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Submit and approve requests" icon="paper-plane" href="/en/time-off/request-absence">
    Employees submit requests, and approvers decide in the app or in Microsoft Teams.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Track balances" icon="scale-balanced" href="/en/time-off/balances">
    Tivero deducts approved days from the balance and shows what is left.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Count working days" icon="calendar-days" href="/en/calendars/how-working-days-are-counted">
    Requests count only working days, based on the work schedule, holidays and company days.
  </Card>

  <Card title="See who is available" icon="calendar" href="/en/calendars/absence-calendar">
    The calendar shows absences for you, your team or the whole organization.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Core concepts

| Concept            | What it means                                                                          |
| ------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Workspace**      | Your organization in Tivero. Data in one workspace is never visible in another.        |
| **Absence type**   | The kind of absence, for example "Vacation leave" or "Planned unavailability".         |
| **Absence policy** | Rules for a group of people: which types it covers, the limit, and how approval works. |
| **Balance**        | The days or hours available to a person under a policy.                                |
| **Approval**       | The approver's decision: the request is approved or declined.                          |

Read more in [Key concepts](/en/time-off/key-concepts).

## Where to start

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create a workspace">
    Sign up and go through the setup wizard. See [Create a workspace](/en/getting-started/create-workspace).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set up your organization">
    If you run Tivero for your company, follow the [Admin quick start](/en/getting-started/admin-quick-start).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Submit your first request">
    If you were invited as an employee, read the [Employee quick start](/en/getting-started/employee-quick-start).
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Languages

Tivero is available in Polish and English. You pick the language when you create the workspace, and you can change the organization's default in **Settings → Organization → Default language**.

## Help

If you can't find an answer in this documentation, write to us at [hello@tivero.app](mailto:hello@tivero.app).