Everhour tracks time inside Linear work and turns logged hours into budget, cost, and approval workflows.
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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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You came here to see whether a Linear project is consuming more hours or money than planned. Start by choosing the budget unit. An hour budget fits capacity planning, delivery commitments, and internal engineering limits. A money budget fits client retainers, fixed-fee work, and labor cost control. The budget target needs a clear owner, a date range, and a rule for whether expenses count against the limit.
Linear issues carry the work context: project, cycle, assignee, label, priority, status, and estimates on Linear issues. Budget tracking adds the missing management layer around that work context: logged hours, internal cost rates, billable rates, actual cost, remaining budget, and alerts. Treat effort estimates as planning inputs. Treat tracked time as the actual record used for budget review.
A project budget becomes a cost view only after rates are attached to tracked time. Cost rates represent internal labor expense, while billable rates represent client-facing charges. A team can use project rates, member rates, or custom task rates when the billing model requires different pricing by work type. Dated rate changes protect older reports because past work keeps the rate that applied when the work happened.
A useful budget report separates planned, actual, and remaining values. For example, a project with a 300-hour budget should show hours already logged, hours still available, and any over-budget time. A fee-based budget should show labor cost, billable amount, expenses when included, and remaining money. The report should also keep billable and non-billable time separate because both consume capacity, but only one becomes client revenue.
The common mistake is treating estimates on Linear issues as a cost record. Estimate values describe effort or size, not clock time. Linear estimate scales can be Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, or T-Shirt, with optional extended values. Those scales help teams plan scope, but they do not create a native conversion from points to hours or cost. Budget tracking needs time entries tied to the person, issue, project, and date.
Use estimates to set the starting plan, then compare them with actual tracked hours as work moves. A 5-point issue and an 8-point issue can consume the same number of hours when the work changes, review takes longer, or scope shifts during the cycle. Budget review should flag variance between estimated effort and actual hours instead of forcing a fixed point-to-dollar rule.
A one-off budget check is enough when you need a quick answer before a status meeting: current hours, current spend, and remaining budget. It also works for a small internal project where one manager reviews all time manually. The limit is repeatability. Manual checks miss late entries, changed rates, and overruns that happen between review dates.
A managed workflow adds recurring budgets, reviewed time, budget alerts, and reporting handoff. Everhour can track time on Linear issues through timers or manual entries, feed that time into budgets and reports, support approvals and locked periods, and apply admin rules before billing, invoicing, payroll review, or cost reporting uses the numbers. Budget alerts notify selected admins at configured thresholds while there is still time to adjust scope or staffing.
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Set the target in hours when the main constraint is team capacity or delivery effort. Set it in money when the project must stay within a client fee, retainer, or internal labor cost limit. The budget also needs a period, an owner, and a decision on whether expenses count against the same cap.
Use estimates on Linear issues for planning and tracked time for actual budget consumption. Estimates describe effort size, while logged time records hours worked by person, date, issue, and project. A budget report should compare the two, because the variance shows where scope, review time, or implementation complexity changed the plan.
A cost report needs internal cost rates for labor expense and billable rates when the project also affects client revenue. Member-level rates fit teams with different labor costs, while project or task rates fit work priced by contract terms. Dated rate changes keep older time entries tied to the correct historical rate.
Threshold alerts notify selected admins when a project reaches the percentages they set. A team can create early warnings for review and later warnings for escalation. The useful alert fires before the cap is gone, so the manager can reduce scope, move work, pause nonessential tasks, or approve extra budget.
The biggest gap comes from reviewing budget totals before time entries are complete and approved. Missing hours make the project look healthier than it is, while late edits change cost after the report has already shaped a staffing or billing decision. Close each review period with submitted, approved, and locked time.
Everhour Time Tracking captures time on Linear issues through timers or manual entries, then sends those hours into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoicing, and payroll review. Admins can use approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules so budget numbers rely on reviewed time instead of scattered updates.
Everhour embeds tracking controls through its browser extension and syncs Linear workspace, project, issue, status, and tag data into reports. Teams can review project total hours, issue timers, estimates, reported time, and budget-related summaries while the work remains organized around Linear projects and issues.
Track approved hours on Linear issues, apply cost rates, and review budget alerts in Everhour before overruns reach month end.
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