Cycle reviews need time and cost context. Everhour adds reportable hours, rates, and exports to Linear work.
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You need a short report that explains what the team finished, where time went, and which work turned into client billable value. Use the Linear cycle dates as the review window, then tie tracked hours to Linear projects, issues, members, statuses, and tags. The person doing the work logs time inside the issue, and the reporting layer keeps the context attached.
For a cycle review, start with total tracked hours, then add the breakdown that changes the decision. Project totals show the area consuming capacity. Issue rows show why one ticket absorbed extra time. Member totals show workload distribution. Tags separate bug fixes, support work, research, or planned delivery when your team applies tags consistently.
A clean report for Linear work needs a date range, project, issue, member, tag or status, tracked time, billable status, and cost. Keep billable and non-billable time in the same view when the audience needs margin or client update context. Put them in adjacent columns so the reviewer sees total effort and invoiceable effort together.
For issue-level detail, write one row per issue and keep the title, member, tracked hours, billable flag, billable amount, and labor cost adjacent. Add comments only when they explain a variance, approval note, or client-facing detail. Long comment fields turn a report into a diary and slow the review. Use a separate summary tab for totals.
Effort values on Linear issues describe scope. Tracked hours describe clock time. The scope value can explain why a cycle contained more work than expected, but it does not prove hours worked or dollars spent. Use tracked hours for time totals and rates for cost. Keep issue effort in a separate context column when stakeholders need to compare scope with actual work.
The common mistake is averaging effort, hours, and cost into one score. That hides the work pattern a stakeholder needs: a small issue with heavy rework, a large issue completed efficiently, or non-billable support work inside a client cycle. Review the cycle window, then inspect outliers by issue, member, and tag.
A one-off sheet is enough when you need one cycle snapshot for a meeting, a status email, or a client checkpoint. Export the key fields, sort the outliers, and archive the file with the reporting period. That approach works when the team is small, rates stay simple, and nobody needs an approval trail before the numbers go out.
A managed workflow fits when reports repeat every week or month, billable rules differ by task or member, and approved time must feed cost, billing, or leadership review. Everhour keeps tracked time, billable and non-billable status, rates, reports, and exports in one reporting layer over Linear work for later handoff.
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Use the cycle start and end dates as the report date range. Include only work time recorded inside that window, then review open, completed, and moved work separately if status changed near the boundary. Mixing previous-cycle cleanup with current-cycle delivery makes the update harder to interpret.
Start with the breakdown tied to the question. Project totals answer budget and capacity questions. Issue rows explain delivery details. Member totals show workload spread. Tags isolate work types such as support, defects, research, or planned delivery when the team uses tags consistently. A report can include all of them, but the first view should match the decision.
Keep billable and non-billable hours visible together when the report supports client billing, margin review, or staffing decisions. Billable hours show invoiceable work. Non-billable hours explain internal support, rework, research, meetings, or delivery overhead. A cycle that looks efficient by billable time alone can still consume more team capacity than planned.
Use effort values as scope context. Use tracked hours and rates for time and money. Linear issue effort values use team-defined scales such as Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, or T-Shirt. They do not create clock hours by themselves, and they should stay separate from the cost total.
Use PDF for a read-only stakeholder update, CSV for data cleanup, and Excel/XLSX for formulas, pivot tables, or finance review. Export the same saved view after each weekly or monthly review so the archive stays comparable. A new column added midstream should have a clear reason.
Everhour lets admins set billing status at the project level, mark specific tasks non-billable, use custom task rates, or set member-rate exceptions. Admin reports can then show billable time, non-billable time, billable amount, and cost for Linear work in the same view.
Everhour supports saved report downloads as CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF, plus one-time or recurring report delivery by email. That gives finance, clients, or leaders a file they can review during weekly or monthly cycle review without working inside the issue list.
Report Linear work with approved time, billable status, billable amount, and cost in one export-ready view, so each cycle review ends with clearer Everhour reporting.
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