# How to add a holiday and how to check whether it’s added correctly to the IceHrm?

> This is based on a customer inquiry. To add a holiday to IceHrm, log into the Admin account.

- URL: https://icehrm.com/blog/how-to-add-a-holiday-and-how-to-check-whether-its-added-correctly-to-the-icehrm
- Published: 2020-01-31
- Updated: 2024-03-04
- Author: IceHrm
- Topics: IceHrm Tutorials
- Publisher: IceHrm (https://icehrm.com), HR management software

This is based on a customer inquiry. To add a holiday to IceHrm, **log into the Admin account**.

Go to **Leave** under **Manage Module**, then click on to the **Holidays** tab. Click on to **Add New** in order to add a new holiday.

![](https://icehrm.com/explore/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Capture-12-1024x325.png)

**Give a meaningful name** to the holiday then select the **specific date**. You can select whether it’s a **full day or half-day** and select a **country** and then **Save**.

![](https://icehrm.com/explore/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Capture-13.png)

> To check whether it’s correctly added to the system, log into one of your employees’ accounts. Then go to the Leave module and select Leave management. Go to the All My Leaves tab and click on Apply Leave.

![](https://icehrm.com/explore/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Capture-14-1024x478.png)

Enter the holiday date as the leave date and click on the continue button. If you have selected a holiday, you will receive an error as below.

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*oGeRYNkKjMwGRQ2NLOpmlQ.png)

> When your employees are applying leaves for more than one day, and if there’s a holiday in between, the [IceHrm](https://icehrm.com/) system shows that as well. When they enter the date and continue it, holidays will show highlighted in blue.

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*SRJP0tZyj0GSG_vRWnveXg.png)