# Monthly Absence Limit In ActiveNow you can manage absence reporting and makeup classes for your clients in a straightforward way, saving time and reducing the need to handle everything manually by phone or email. A client can report an absence in advance, and the system will grant them an *impulse* based on the rules you've configured — which lets them sign up for a makeup class at another time. You can find a full description of the absence reporting and makeup feature, including step-by-step configuration, in the [Reporting Absences and Making Up Lessons](/en/absences-and-makeup-classes/reporting-and-making-up-absences.md) article. By default, the absence limit applies across the **entire course** (for example, 8 absences that can be reported and made up over the September–June period). If your school uses a **monthly absence limit** instead, we can enable that option on your account — just let us know via chat or by emailing ****. ## How the monthly limit works The limit applies per calendar month. This means that if a participant reports absences for lessons taking place in January, the system uses the January limit — even if the report is submitted in December. If a participant wants to report absences in advance **for future months (for example, because of planned holidays)**, they can absolutely do so — the system will simply draw from the absence limit for the month in which those lessons are scheduled. That same participant will still be able to correctly report absences for lessons in the current month and receive impulses, as long as they are within the limit. ## Setting the limit Once the feature is enabled on your account, you can configure the absence limit in **Settings → Making up for absences**. The limit is **defined globally across all courses** — it is not possible to set a different limit for individual courses. {% embed url="" %} ## Activating the feature mid-year If you haven't used the monthly limit before and want to enable it on your account, but are worried that absences already reported won't count towards the monthly limit — don't worry. When we activate the feature on your account, the system will count all absences the participant reported before the feature was enabled and apply them to the configured limit. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://help.activenow.io/en/absences-and-makeup-classes/monthly-absence-limit.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.