Everhour embeds time tracking in Linear and keeps expense reports available for project cost review.
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You came here to turn Linear issue work into a cost view that separates billable and non-billable effort. Start with the work's purpose: client-funded delivery, internal product work, support, research, bug triage, or administration. The label matters because billable status changes revenue reporting, while all tracked hours still affect engineering cost when a person has a cost rate.
A useful review keeps three dimensions together: the Linear issue or project, the person who did the work, and the billing setup attached to the project. That structure lets a lead see the cost of a feature, support burst, or project without treating unbilled work as invisible. Non-billable time still consumes capacity and payroll budget, so it belongs in the same review artifact.
The record needs task context, date, person, tracked time, billing status, and rate context. Linear acts as the system of record for issues, projects, assignees, status, labels, priority, and estimates on issues. The time layer supplies timer or manual entries, comments, cost rates, billable settings, and report fields that connect hours actually spent to labor cost.
For estimate feedback, keep estimates on Linear issues in their own column and tracked hours in another. Effort or size estimates help compare planned scope with actual work, but they do not price the work by themselves. Everhour reporting uses tracked time, cost rates, and billable rates to calculate labor cost, revenue, and profit without treating estimate points as money.
Billable status breaks down when every task in a billable project receives the same treatment by habit. A customer implementation can include funded delivery, onboarding support, defect fixes, sales engineering, and internal cleanup. Set billing status at the project level, then mark specific tasks non-billable inside a billable project when the work should stay out of billable totals.
A clean policy says which task types count as billable delivery, which count as non-billable warranty or internal maintenance, and who can change project or task billing settings. The common mistake is hiding non-billable time outside the cost report. That makes margin look better and removes the evidence needed to fix scope, staffing, or estimate quality in the next review.
A one-off classification pass is enough when you need a quick read on a narrow date range or a small project with stable staffing. Export the rows, apply each person's cost context, and review the split between billable and non-billable hours. That approach answers a local question, but it breaks once the team needs recurring reviews, approvals, protected periods, or budget thresholds.
Everhour turns the review into a managed Linear workflow: embedded timers and manual entries capture issue time, cost and billable rates support labor cost reporting, and reports group results by project, task, and member. Budget alerts, protected time entries, and approvals give the team a maintained cost record for each project review.
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Set the project billing status first. A project can be non-billable, fixed fee, or time and materials with project or member rates. Inside a billable project, mark specific tasks non-billable when warranty work, internal cleanup, or unsupported requests should remain visible in reports but excluded from billable totals.
Yes. Support work can stay non-billable when the project is billable and the specific task is marked non-billable. This setup fits implementation projects that include client-funded delivery plus internal troubleshooting, warranty fixes, or administrative cleanup. The time remains available for reporting, while the task setting keeps it out of billable totals.
Keep unestimated issues visible instead of letting them blend into the project average. Linear defaults unestimated issues to 1 estimate point unless that setting is changed, and estimate points do not create a native hour or cost conversion. Review those issues separately when comparing planned effort with tracked work.
Admins should review money-related fields when cost, billable amount, and profitability appear in the report. Everhour support states that financial data is admin-only, and report permissions can restrict money columns by role. Team members can still track task time without seeing internal rates or project financial totals.
Removing non-billable entries from the project report hides real labor consumption. Keep non-billable work in the same cost review as billable work, then separate Billable Time, Non-Billable Time, Billable Amount, and Cost into distinct fields. That structure shows margin pressure without erasing the work.
Everhour Expenses tracks project costs alongside time, with receipt images or PDFs and unit-based expense categories for items such as mileage or printing. Expense reports can be grouped by project, client, member, category, date range, and billable status, so cost reviews include non-labor costs in profitability analysis.
Everhour billable and non-billable time uses project billing status, task-level non-billable controls, and report columns for Billable Time, Non-Billable Time, Billable Amount, and Cost. Admins can review money-related fields while time stays tied to the synced Linear project and issue context.
Track Linear issue time with Everhour, then use Everhour Expenses for receipts, unit-based categories, and expense reports that support project profitability analysis.
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