Everhour tracks actual task and project hours inside Linear, turning estimated work into reviewable timesheets for teams.
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Create a clean comparison between planned effort and time actually worked on Linear issues. The practical job is a weekly record by person, issue, project, and date, with actual hours separated from estimates on Linear issues. That distinction matters for payroll review, cost reporting, and billing because an estimate describes expected effort, while a time entry records work performed.
A useful week shows each contributor's submitted hours, the Linear issue context, comments for unusual entries, and any missing days that need follow-up. Managers should review the whole week before approval, not just totals by project. A full record answers three questions: who worked, which issue received the time, and whether the submitted hours match the team's working pattern closely enough to approve.
Treat estimates on Linear issues as planning signals, then compare them with tracked hours after work starts. A small issue estimated at 2 points can still require 6 actual hours if investigation, review, or rework expands the task. Focus the review on whether actual time exposes scope growth, unclear requirements, or repeated underestimation.
A manager should review estimate variance at the issue and project level. One overrun may only need a comment. Repeated overruns in the same project, status, or issue type point to a planning habit that needs correction. Actual hours also make cost reporting clearer because rates, budgets, and invoices need worked time, not planning values.
The most common mistake is approving a week with clean totals and messy detail. A 40-hour total can still hide missing issue links, duplicate entries, vague comments, or time placed on the wrong project. Review daily distribution, issue assignment, late manual entries, and unusually large blocks before the period closes.
Corrections should happen before approval whenever possible. Submitted time needs a visible review path, and approved time should stop regular members from editing the record later. Admin corrections still need to preserve the reason for the change, especially when the record supports payroll, billing, or project cost analysis. Late edits break confidence because reports no longer match the approved week.
A free comparison is enough when you need one quick check: planned effort beside actual time for a small set of Linear issues. It works for a freelancer, a short internal project, or a manager preparing a single meeting. The limit appears when several people submit time, corrections arrive after review, or accounting needs a stable export.
A managed workflow turns collected hours into an operating record. Everhour adds timers and manual entries inside Linear, then routes hours through timesheet submission, approval, locked periods, admin corrections, exports, and reports. That workflow gives managers a reviewed source for payroll, billing, project cost, and budget conversations instead of a spreadsheet that changes after decisions are made.
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No. Estimates on Linear issues are planning inputs, while actual hours are records of time worked. Keep them separate in review. Use estimates to spot variance and improve planning, then use submitted time entries for payroll review, cost reporting, billing, and budget analysis.
Start with large actual-hour overruns on active or recently completed issues, then check entries with missing comments, late manual additions, or time logged to the wrong project. A small variance with a clear reason needs less attention than a repeated pattern across the same project, contributor, or issue type.
Review the week by person, project, issue, and day before approval. Confirm that each entry has the right Linear issue context and that unusual totals have comments. Approve the week only after missing entries, duplicate time, and wrong-project logs are corrected.
Locked periods protect the reviewed record. After approval, regular members should not be able to change entries that already fed payroll, billing, or cost reports. Admin corrections can still happen when needed, but the correction should leave enough context to explain why the approved record changed.
The biggest mistake is comparing totals without checking the underlying entries. A project can look close to plan while individual issues contain missing time, duplicated time, or work logged under the wrong person. Issue-level review catches those problems before the numbers feed reports.
Everhour Time Tracking lets contributors use timers or manual entries on Linear tasks and projects, then sends those hours into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review. Admins can use approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules to control the review cycle.
Everhour syncs Linear workspace, project, issue, status, and tag data into reports, so managers can group actual hours by the same work context the team uses. Reports can then support project cost review, billing checks, and team time analysis.
Track actual hours on Linear work, approve weekly timesheets, lock reviewed periods, and export clean records with Everhour Time Tracking.
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