Auto-approve Bizneo absence requests

1. An employee opens My Calendar, clicks +Request absence, picks the absence type and the dates and can write a comment the manager will see.
2. Until the manager decides, Bizneo draws the request on the calendar with diagonal lines, and it turns fully colored once it is approved.
3. The manager opens each pending request, reads the comment and checks colleagues' absences, in Absences > My Team when the company turned that section on.
4. Bizneo can run approval chains that depend on the absence type and lets a company assign substitute approvers, so who decides varies by type.
5. A manager who denies a request can add a comment for the employee.
6. Every request needs its own look at balance and overlap, and a request sent on Friday afternoon waits until Monday.

Go through pending absence requests in Bizneo. Approve vacation of up to 5 days when the balance is enough and at most one teammate is off. Reject requests over the balance with a comment, and leave the rest for me with a one-line reason.

1. 01

   Read the whole queue

   Your agent calls list_absence_requests with state pending and follows next_cursor until it comes back empty, so a weekend backlog is judged as one batch. Each request arrives with the employee, absence type, dates and the comment they wrote.

2. 02

   Check the balance

   For every request, get_absence_balance reads what the employee still has for that absence type. A request longer than the available balance goes to the reject pile, because Bizneo shows the employee the balance that would remain before they send it.

3. 03

   Check the cover

   list_team_absences runs for the requested dates, and the agent counts how many other people are off on each day. If your company has no My Team section, the call fails with a message saying so, and the agent leaves every request pending instead of guessing.

4. 04

   Decide, then act

   Requests that pass both checks go to approve_absence_request, with a short comment if you asked for one. Requests over the balance go to reject_absence_request with the number in the comment. Anything with a long comment or two teammates off stays pending with a reason.

5. 05

   Skip what changed

   Right before acting, the agent reads the request again. If another approver decided it in the meantime, or the employee changed the dates, it logs the request as handled and leaves it alone.

Pending absence requests: 9
Approved 6, e.g. Marta Ruiz, Vacation Nov 9 to 13 (5 days, balance after: 9)
Rejected 1: Nora Keller, 10 days asked, 6 available
Left for you 2:
- Diego Ramos: two teammates off on Oct 30
- Sara Molina: comment says "will explain by phone"

curl -X POST https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/bizneo/requests/abs_16094565/absence-request/approve \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"comment":"Covered by Pablo. Enjoy."}'

{
  "request_id": "abs_16094565",
  "employee": "Marta Ruiz",
  "absence_type": "Vacation",
  "start_date": "2026-11-09",
  "end_date": "2026-11-13",
  "days": 5,
  "state": "approved",
  "decided_by": "Carlos Vega",
  "comment": "Covered by Pablo. Enjoy."
}

MCP: add https://cotlet.dev/mcp/v1 with the same key; the call is bizneo_write → approve_absence_request. Example data.

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