Everhour captures developer hours inside Linear issues, so approved weekly records support payroll, billing, and cost review.
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Use this page when you need a clean weekly record of engineering time tied to Linear work. Each entry should name the person, date, Linear issue or project, hours worked, and any comment that explains the work. The goal is a reviewable record, so payroll and cost reporting do not rely on reconstructed notes.
Linear issues give the work context: team, status, assignee, priority, labels, cycle, project, and estimate. A timesheet adds the time dimension to that same structure. Keep the issue reference specific enough that a reviewer can see whether the entry belongs to feature work, bug work, support, planning, or another project category.
A developer week should be readable by person, day, Linear project, issue, and total hours. The record also needs the entry method, timer-based or manual, because a reviewer treats real-time capture and backfilled time differently. Comments belong on entries that explain unusual totals, nonstandard work, or corrections.
Use one row or cell per work item instead of burying a day in a single total. A useful line carries the issue key, work date, recorded hours, and a short note for review, support, or context-switching work. Daily and weekly totals then summarize the week without hiding the source entries.
Linear estimates are effort values rather than clock time. Teams can use Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, or T-Shirt scales, including base values such as 1-2-4-8-16 or labels such as XS-S-M-L-XL. Those values help size work. They do not replace payroll or cost records.
Do not convert points into hours after the fact and call the result a timesheet. A completed issue with a 5-point estimate still needs hours actually worked from the developer who did the work. Keep estimate data for planning comparisons, then review the time record on its own evidence: who worked, on which issue, on which date, and for how long.
A one-off weekly sheet is enough when one person needs to total recent Linear issue work and share a simple record. It breaks down when several developers submit late changes, managers approve only part of a week, or accounting needs the same approved hours for payroll, billing, and project cost reporting.
Everhour turns the same Linear work into a managed review cycle: timers or manual entries feed timesheets, managers approve, reject, or partially approve submitted time, and approved periods stay locked for regular members. Admin corrections keep the record usable after mistakes while reports and exports carry reviewed hours into the next handoff.
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Organize the week around the work record a reviewer can verify: person, date, Linear issue, project or cycle, hours worked, and comments for nonroutine work. Grouping only by developer hides which issue consumed time. Grouping only by issue hides whether one person overreported or missed entries across the week.
Estimate points should stay separate from hours worked. Linear estimate values measure effort or size using team-level scales such as Fibonacci, Linear, Exponential, or T-Shirt. A timesheet needs clock time from the person who did the work. Use points for planning comparison, then use recorded hours for payroll, billing, and cost review.
Review entries with missing issue references, manual time added after the workday, large daily totals, comments that do not match the issue, and corrections submitted after the cutoff. Those entries are not automatically wrong. They need a reviewer decision before the week becomes a payroll or cost-reporting source.
Lock a period after the manager has approved the submitted week and before payroll, billing, or project cost reports use the data. The lock prevents regular members from changing approved time later. Admin corrections should remain possible for documented mistakes, because payroll and accounting still need a clean final record.
Handle late corrections with a visible approval path. A useful correction identifies the person, original entry, revised hours, reason, and approving manager. The final record should show that the change happened after submission, especially when the hours feed payroll, client billing, or project cost reports.
Everhour Time Tracking uses embedded Linear controls through the browser extension so developers can log timers or manual entries against task and project work. Those hours feed timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review without rebuilding the week from separate notes.
Everhour Timesheets let managers approve, reject, or partially approve submitted weekly time. Submitted time stays locked unless withdrawn or rejected, and approved time stays locked for regular members, while admins can correct records when a documented payroll or billing mistake needs cleanup.
Use Everhour Time Tracking to capture Linear issue hours through timers or manual entries, route weekly time through approvals, lock approved periods, and carry reviewed records into payroll, billing, and reporting.
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