Remaining vacation and March 31

If you end the year with 5 remaining days, you don't lose them right away: Gantway automatically carries them over into the following year — with expiration on March 31. For context: by law, vacation generally expires at the end of the year; a carryover into the following year is the exception and is then limited until March 31 (§ 7 Abs. 3 BUrlG). Gantway reflects the carryover that is common in practice.

How Gantway calculates

• The "Vacation Balance" card in the sidebar under Absences → "My Absences" tab shows the carryover separately: "of which carried over from previous year …" including the expiration date (allowance). The entitlement thus consists of new annual vacation plus a time-limited old balance.
• Vacation before the deadline uses up the carryover first — automatically. If you take 3 days in February, you first draw down the old days; the new annual entitlement stays untouched.
• After March 31, unused carryover days disappear from the balance.

The recalculation of the balances — that is, the automatic computation of how much carryover results from the previous years — goes back at most 3 years, starting at the earliest from the person's joining date or the start of the business in Gantway. Years before that are not included.