Engineering issues need clock-time records for billing and cost review. Everhour adds tracked hours to Linear workflows.
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Engineering teams usually organize work around issues, projects, assignees, labels, priority, status, estimates, and cycles. A useful hour record keeps that structure intact. The entry should point to the Linear issue that produced the work, the project it belongs to, the date, the duration, the person, and a short note when the entry needs context.
This page is for teams that need engineering hours tied to Linear work, not just effort points or completed issue counts. The practical outcome is a time record you can review by issue, project, person, date range, and billing status. That matters for client work, internal cost review, project forecasting, and weekly approval.
Linear estimates use effort or size values, such as Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, or T-Shirt scales. Those estimates help teams discuss scope and completion, but they are not clock time. An issue estimated at 5 points does not create 5 hours of work unless your team separately defines and records that conversion.
Treat estimates as planning input and hours as execution evidence. A clean workflow compares planned effort with tracked time without mixing the two fields. For example, an issue can carry a Fibonacci estimate for sprint planning and still have 3.25 tracked hours from a developer on March 5, 2026.
A complete engineering time entry needs enough detail to survive review. At minimum, record the Linear issue, project, date, duration, person, billable flag, and work note. Notes do not need a diary entry. A short phrase like API pagination fix or regression test cleanup gives the reviewer enough context.
Timers fit active work because they capture duration while the developer stays in the issue. Manual entries fit cleanup work, meetings tied to an issue, or corrections after work ends. The common mistake is adding bulk time at the project level, which hides which issue consumed the hours and weakens cost reporting.
A one-off time entry works when you need a quick record for a single issue, a small internal review, or a short client question. It stops being enough when multiple engineers log time across projects, managers approve weekly hours, or finance needs rates applied consistently before billing or cost reporting.
Everhour turns those entries into a managed record by keeping hours connected to Linear issues while applying cost and billable rates. Per-person defaults, per-project overrides, dated rate history, and project, member, or task-based billing help turn engineering hours into usable cost and billing data.
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Log each entry against the specific issue that produced the work, then include the project, date, duration, person, billable flag, and a short note when the entry needs context. Issue-level logging keeps review precise because totals can roll up by project without hiding the source of the hours.
Use points for effort planning and tracked hours for actual time. Linear estimate values measure size or effort, and Linear's docs do not define a native point-to-hour or point-to-cost conversion. A team can compare points with hours later, but the hour record should come from a timer or manual entry.
Use a timer for focused implementation, debugging, review, and testing while the issue is open in front of the engineer. Use manual entry for corrections, follow-up notes, or work recorded after the fact. The reviewer should be able to tell which entries came from timers and which were added manually.
Project-level bulk entries make reports unreliable because they separate hours from the issue that caused the work. A project total still looks complete, but managers cannot see whether the time went to development, QA, rework, or support. Log against the issue first, then roll the data up.
Review engineering hours weekly when they feed billing, payroll review, budgets, or cost reports. A weekly review catches missing entries while the work is still fresh, confirms billable flags before invoicing, and gives managers a cleaner view of project cost before the next cycle or reporting period.
Everhour separates cost and billable rates so engineering hours can support internal cost review and client billing from the same time record. Teams can use per-person defaults, project-specific overrides, dated rate changes, and project, member, or task-based pricing.
Everhour supports timesheet approvals, locked periods, and reporting for tracked time connected to tasks and projects. Managers can review submitted hours before billing or payroll review, then protect approved time from regular member edits.
Track approved engineering time on Linear issues, apply the right rates, and hand clean records to billing or cost reporting with Everhour.
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