Dev teams need approved weekly hours on Basecamp to-dos; Everhour keeps billing-ready records tied to the work.
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A dev team timesheet should show each person's work for the week, attached to the Basecamp project and to-do where the work happened. The practical goal is a record a manager can review without asking developers to reconstruct context from memory. Each entry needs a date, hours worked, the person, and enough notes or task detail to explain the work.
Basecamp work usually starts with projects, to-do lists, to-dos, assignees, due dates, and completion status. A useful timesheet keeps that structure visible, so review does not collapse into a pile of unassigned hours. For a dev lead, the key question is whether the hours match the planned work, the finished to-dos, and the billing or payroll period under review.
The cleanest timesheet entry names the person, date, Basecamp project, list, to-do, hours, and a short work note when the task title alone is too thin. Everhour's Basecamp reporting can use project, to-do, list, task ID, and task status fields, which gives managers a task-level view instead of only a person-level total.
Task-level detail matters most when several developers touch the same feature, bug, or support item. A weekly total of 34 hours tells payroll that time was worked. Entries tied to Basecamp to-dos tell the project lead where that time went, whether the work belongs to a billable client project, and which items need review before invoicing.
A weekly review cycle should have a clear close date, one approver, and a rule for late changes. Team members submit time after finishing the week. The manager checks missing days, unusually high daily totals, orphaned entries, and hours placed on the wrong Basecamp to-do. Corrections belong before approval, because late edits weaken billing and payroll confidence.
Approved time should stay locked for regular members. That lock protects the record after payroll review, client billing, or management reporting has started. Admin corrections still need a visible trail, especially when a developer forgot to submit time, selected the wrong task, or logged billable work against a non-billable item.
A simple weekly timesheet is enough when you only need a reviewed list of hours for a small team and a single project. It stops being enough when the same hours must feed client invoices, cost reports, budget checks, approvals, and payroll review without re-entry. That is the point where the timesheet becomes an operating record.
Everhour adds that managed layer to Basecamp work through its browser extension, with embedded tracking controls for Basecamp in the browser. Managers can use approvals, locked periods, admin corrections, exports, budgets, billable settings, and invoice-oriented reporting so collected hours move into reviewed billing or payroll workflows.
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Use the Basecamp project and to-do as the anchor for each time entry, then review the week by person and project. The reviewer should see the date, hours, person, task context, and notes where needed. Entries that only say "development" or "meeting" create extra review work because they hide the deliverable behind the time.
A manager should check missing workdays, duplicate entries, high daily totals, time on closed or unrelated to-dos, and billable work placed on the wrong task. The review should happen before the period closes. After approval, the record should stay stable enough for payroll, billing, and project reporting.
Yes. A weekly review can cover multiple Basecamp projects when each entry keeps its project and to-do context. That structure lets a manager separate internal work, client delivery, maintenance, and support without asking developers to submit separate spreadsheets for each project.
A billing-ready entry needs more than a broad category. "API error handling on checkout to-do, 2.5 hours" gives the reviewer a usable record. "Backend work, 2.5 hours" forces follow-up because it does not identify the Basecamp item, the client workstream, or the reason the time belongs on the invoice.
Late corrections change totals after another workflow has already used the numbers. Payroll review, billing drafts, and cost reporting all need the same approved time record. A correction before approval is normal cleanup. A correction after export or invoicing requires an admin trail so the final record stays explainable.
Everhour Billing & Invoicing converts tracked billable time and expenses into invoices, calculates amounts from rates while excluding non-billable work, and supports invoice customization. Invoices can be exported to QuickBooks Online, Xero, or FreshBooks, with status, number, issue date, and amount visible back in Everhour.
Everhour timesheet approvals let managers approve, reject, or partially approve submitted time before payroll or billing review. Submitted and approved time is locked for regular members unless it is withdrawn or rejected, while admins can still correct team time when cleanup is required.
Track Basecamp project hours, approve the weekly record, then use Everhour Billing & Invoicing to create client invoices from reviewed billable time.
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