Everhour connects tracked time, rates, budgets, and invoices to Linear issue work for clearer project cost control.
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One click and you're timing. Start a timer, add an entry, edit the details. This is exactly how it feels in Everhour.
Set a budget, assign rates, and get alerted before you're over.
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Track your budget through time or costs
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A Linear budget integration connects project work with a budget number that updates as people log time. The practical function is a current view of planned, actual, and remaining effort or money for the issues your team is moving through. The issue stays in Linear; the hour entry, rate, budget target, and alert live in Everhour as the cost-control layer.
Linear issues carry the work context: project, cycle, assignee, status, labels, priority, and estimates on Linear issues. Budget math needs a separate set of inputs: hours actually logged, cost rates, billable rates, budget target, and alert thresholds. Keep those inputs separate so effort sizing does not become payroll support or client billing proof without a time record.
Set the budget target in Everhour. Use an hour budget when the control question is capacity, such as whether the team can stay within the hours assigned for a project. Use a money budget when the question is spend, margin, or client cap. Then attach rates: cost rates measure internal labor expense, while billable rates measure what a client is charged.
Each entry from an embedded control or manual log should point back to a Linear issue or project, include the person doing the work, and sit in the correct date range. That structure lets a report show actual hours, labor cost, billable amount, and remaining budget without rebuilding the work history. Dated rate changes matter because older work should keep the rate that applied when the work was recorded.
An Everhour budget works best when the boundary matches the decision you control. Use a project boundary for total delivery cost, a cycle boundary for a time-boxed work period, and a client boundary when one spending limit covers several projects. Mixing those scopes hides the owner of the variance and makes an overrun look like a reporting problem.
Threshold alerts need an action behind them. An admin should set the percentages that give the budget owner time to pause lower-value work, move people, adjust scope, or review non-billable entries before the cap is gone. Budget protection adds a harder stop by ending timers or preventing extra logging after the budget is exceeded.
A free, one-off budget check is enough when one manager needs a snapshot for a small project, a quick client conversation, or a hand-built status note. The snapshot should include the budget target, actual logged hours, cost or billable rate basis, remaining amount, and the date range. It stops being enough once the same check repeats every week.
Managed budgeting needs recurring targets, reviewed time, threshold alerts, and a record that survives billing and accounting handoff. Everhour can keep Linear issue work tied to rates, budget usage, and invoice-ready time records, then carry billable time and expenses into invoices. That gives the budget owner current numbers before month-end cleanup starts.
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A budget system needs each time entry tied to a worker, date, issue or project, and rate. Hour budgets compare logged hours with the hour target. Money budgets convert those hours through cost or billable rates, then show actual, remaining, and over-budget amounts for the selected project, cycle, or client boundary.
Use hours when the budget represents capacity or delivery effort. Use money when the budget represents internal labor cost, client spend, or margin control. The same project can need both views for different readers: delivery leads watch remaining hours, while finance or client owners watch cost, revenue, and billable exposure.
Thresholds should match the time needed to act. A short cycle needs earlier alerts because less calendar time remains to adjust scope or staffing. A long-running project can use staged alerts for review, escalation, and budget protection. Admins set the percentages; treating alert levels as fixed presets weakens the warning system.
Cost reports break when the rate basis is unclear. Cost rates should reflect internal labor expense, and billable rates should reflect the client charge. Project-specific rate overrides need a clear scope, and rate changes need dates so old time keeps the calculation that applied when the work was recorded.
Yes. A cycle budget still needs a budget target, logged hours, rate rules, and a review boundary. The difference is timing: cycles are time-boxed team work periods, so the owner should review remaining budget before the cycle closes and keep unfinished work from masking the next period's spend.
Everhour Billing & Invoicing converts tracked billable time and expenses from Linear-related work into client invoices based on rates, billable status, and client settings. Non-billable tasks stay out of billable totals, and invoices can be exported to QuickBooks Online, Xero, or FreshBooks with status synced back.
Everhour Project Budgeting tracks hour-based and money-based budgets as people record time on Linear issues. Admins can set recurring budget periods, choose email alert thresholds, and use budget protection to stop timers or prevent additional logging after the cap is exceeded.
Connect Linear issue work to tracked billable time, expenses, rates, and client invoice defaults. Everhour Billing & Invoicing carries reviewed budget activity into invoices, exports them to QuickBooks Online, Xero, or FreshBooks, and keeps status visible.
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