Everhour puts timers and manual entries inside Linear so developer work stays tied to the issue.
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Use this page to structure time entries for developers working on Linear issues. The practical goal is a record that connects a work session to the issue, project, date, duration, billable flag, and note. A clean entry answers the basic review question quickly: which issue produced the time, who worked on it, and whether the time belongs in billing, cost reporting, or internal analysis.
The issue should stay the anchor. Linear already organizes work around teams, projects, cycles, assignees, priority, labels, status, and estimates. Time records need that same context so a developer's work does not become a disconnected weekly total. A reviewer should be able to move from an issue to its logged time, then from the time record to project totals without rebuilding the story from comments or status changes.
A timer fits active development work where the developer starts the session on the issue, works continuously, and stops the timer when the task changes. It gives the cleanest record for debugging sessions, implementation work, reviews, and focused fixes because the duration follows the actual work session. A short note should explain the work completed or the reason the session belongs to that issue.
Manual entry fits after-the-fact cleanup, meetings tied to a specific issue, paired work, or work captured away from the browser. The entry still needs the same structure: issue, project, date, duration, billable status, and note. Manual logging becomes risky when developers batch a whole week into vague blocks, because the issue-level detail disappears and the report no longer shows where the time went.
Linear estimates use team-level effort or size values such as Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, or T-Shirt scales. Treat those values as planning signals, not as a substitute for clock time. A 5-point issue and 5 hours are different records. The estimate helps compare scope and progress, while the time entry records the actual duration spent by a person on the issue.
The common mistake is converting points into hours after the sprint and treating the result as a time record. That shortcut hides interruptions, rework, review time, and support work that affected the schedule. Log time on the issue as the work happens, then compare estimated effort with actual tracked time later. That keeps planning analysis separate from billing, cost, and utilization records.
A one-off time entry is enough when you need a quick record for a specific issue, a short client note, or a small internal analysis. It works when the volume is low and one person can review the entries manually. The record still needs the issue, project, date, duration, billable flag, and note, because missing fields create cleanup work later.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when several developers log time across projects, rates, and billing rules. Everhour supports billable and non-billable time through project billing status, task-level non-billable controls, custom task rates, member-rate exceptions, and reports for billable time, non-billable time, billable amount, and cost. Add approvals, locked periods, and reporting when the record feeds invoices, payroll review, or cost reports.
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A useful developer time entry includes the Linear issue, project, date, duration, person, billable flag, and a short note. The note should name the work performed, such as implementation, review, testing, investigation, or support. Missing issue context forces reviewers to infer where the time belongs, which weakens billing, cost, and project reporting.
Developers should use a timer for focused work on one issue and manual entry for valid after-the-fact records, meetings, or work done away from the tracking control. The decision is about accuracy. A timer captures the work session as it happens, while manual entry requires the developer to preserve the same issue-level detail.
Issue estimates should not replace tracked hours. Linear estimates represent effort or size values used for planning and progress analysis. Tracked hours record actual time spent by a person on an issue. Keep both records separate so project planning, billing, cost review, and developer workload analysis do not use the same number for different jobs.
Paired development should record each person's time against the issue if both developers actively worked on it. One shared note can identify the paired session, but the duration belongs to each person separately. Recording only one person's time understates effort, while duplicating a single block without naming the participants creates review problems.
The most damaging mistake is logging large weekly blocks without issue detail. A report that says 32 hours on a project tells you less than entries tied to the specific issues that produced those hours. Reviewers need issue-level records to separate feature work, bug fixing, support, reviews, and non-billable internal work.
Everhour supports billable and non-billable time through project billing status, task-level non-billable controls, custom task rates, and member-rate exceptions. Admin reports can show billable time, non-billable time, billable amount, and cost, so developer time on Linear issues can feed client billing and internal cost review.
Everhour timesheets collect project hours and working hours by person, then managers can approve, reject, or partially approve submitted time. Submitted and approved time is protected from edits, which helps keep Linear issue records stable before payroll review, billing, or reporting.
Track approved developer time from Linear issues with billable rules, review controls, and reporting in Everhour, so issue work becomes reliable cost and billing data.
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