Everhour connects Linear issue work to approved hours and cost records, so engineering capacity reflects reviewed time.
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Use this page to organize team time for engineering work that lives in Linear issues, projects, cycles, assignees, labels, and status. The goal is a weekly record that shows who worked, where the hours landed, and whether the week has been reviewed. Capacity tracking starts with hours actually worked, tied to the issue context your team already uses for planning and delivery.
For an engineering lead or operations owner, the useful output is one reviewed week across many contributors. Keep the review centered on person, week, project hours or working hours, approval status, and enough Linear issue context to explain the work. Approved time becomes the capacity record used for payroll review, staffing discussions, budget checks, and cost reporting.
A useful weekly grid shows project hours and working hours by person, then drills down to the issue entries behind the totals. Group entries by project or team for manager review, and keep the original issue title, status, tag, and assignee visible. This prevents a summary number from hiding abandoned work, duplicate entries, or hours logged against the wrong project.
The review cycle moves in order: contributor enters time, contributor submits the week, manager approves or rejects entries, then the approved period locks for regular members. Rejected or withdrawn time goes back for correction before it feeds reports. After approval, an admin correction can fix a payroll or billing issue, and the change needs a visible history so the final record stays defensible.
Engineering capacity is the time people actually spend, compared with their working capacity and approved time off. Issue points, priority, cycle placement, and status organize delivery. They do not prove that a person worked a certain number of hours. Capacity planning needs the weekly hours record, the contributor's availability, and any approved absence that changes gross timesheet totals.
The common mistake is treating a high-volume cycle as a full-capacity week. A developer can close several small issues and still log fewer hours than capacity, or spend a full day on one blocker. The weekly record shows actual time by person and issue, then rolls up to team capacity without turning delivery movement into a time substitute.
A one-off timesheet template is enough for a small retrospective, a short contractor review, or a single staffing check. It captures names, dates, issue references, and totals for a specific week. The setup stops being enough once late edits, approvals, repeated exports, payroll handoff, budget review, or cost reporting must survive beyond one spreadsheet.
Everhour adds embedded timer and manual-entry controls to Linear issues through its browser extension, then routes hours into timesheets, approvals, locks, reports, budgets, and exports. Managers get a reviewed operating record for each week, with corrections handled by admins and retained for payroll, billing, and cost review across the same project structure.
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Read capacity as approved hours by person for the week, compared with the person's expected working time and approved absence. A full week needs daily entries tied to work context, not only a total. Issue status and delivery movement explain where effort went, while the timesheet shows the time record used for staffing, payroll review, and cost reporting.
Include the issue title or identifier, project, team, assignee, date, tracked hours, and a short comment for ambiguous work. The assignee links the work to capacity, the project links it to budget or cost review, and the date keeps the weekly approval period clear. Missing context turns manager review into guesswork.
No. Issue points are sizing or effort signals for planning, while capacity hours are records of time actually spent. Treating a point value as a fixed hour value creates false precision and weak payroll support. Use points to discuss scope, then use approved hours to discuss workload, cost, and staffing.
Late submissions, uncategorized entries, missing issue references, and edits after review break the cycle. Set a weekly cutoff, require issue-level time, reject incomplete entries before approval, and lock the period once the manager approves it. That sequence keeps the final record stable for payroll, billing, and cost reporting.
Use an admin correction path, not a private spreadsheet or side message. Keep the original entry, the corrected value, the reason, the person making the change, and the date of the change visible in history. A correction trail lets the payroll or finance reviewer see why approved time changed.
Everhour Expenses lets teams log project costs beside tracked work, attach receipt images or PDFs, use unit-based categories, and decide whether expenses count toward project budgets. Expense reports can then group costs by project, client, member, category, date range, and billable status for profitability or reimbursement review.
Everhour Timesheets gives managers a submission and approval workflow for weekly project hours or working hours on Linear work. Submitted time locks unless it is withdrawn or rejected, and approved time stays locked for regular members so payroll or billing reports use reviewed entries.
Track the operating cost beside the work. Everhour Expenses connects Linear project work to receipts, unit-based costs, budget inclusion controls, and expense reports for cleaner profitability and reimbursement review.
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