Everhour adds team time, approvals, and budget tracking to Linear workflows, so hours worked become reviewed operating records.
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One click and you're timing. Start a timer, add an entry, edit the details. This is exactly how it feels in Everhour.
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You need a team-level record of hours worked on Linear issues, not a personal note about where the day went. The practical job is to collect each contributor's time against the work they touched, then review the week before payroll, project costing, or client reporting uses the numbers. Linear stays the place where issues, projects, assignees, status, and labels organize the work.
Everhour sits on top of that structure through embedded controls and synced Linear work data. Team members can use timers or manual entries on issues, then managers can review day and week totals in a timesheet view. The result should show who worked, which issue carried the time, the date of the work, and whether the entry was submitted, approved, rejected, corrected, or locked.
A usable team timesheet needs more than total hours. It needs person, date, project, issue, task context, comments when the entry needs explanation, and a separation between project hours and working hours if your team tracks both. A clean weekly grid lets a manager compare Monday through Friday totals, identify missing days, and spot entries that landed on the wrong issue before approval.
Hour estimates can guide review, but they should not replace logged time. Estimates on Linear issues describe effort or size, while hours worked record clock time spent by a person on a date. A developer who spends 6 hours on an issue should log 6 hours, even if the issue estimate uses points or size labels. Cost reports, payroll review, and budget checks need the time record, not only the planning estimate.
Team time becomes unreliable when people add broad end-of-week blocks, reuse one issue for unrelated work, or edit approved periods after managers already exported the record. The review cycle should catch those mistakes while the work is still fresh. Managers should check unusual daily totals, missing hours, time added after the fact, and entries without enough issue context to support billing or internal cost reporting.
A defensible record also needs a rule for corrections. The clean pattern is submit, review, reject or partially approve when a fix is needed, then lock approved time for regular members. Admin corrections should leave a trail, especially when the change affects payroll, budget usage, or client reporting. Late edits are not a formatting problem; they change the operating record after downstream teams have already used it.
A one-off hours worksheet is enough for a small review when you only need to total a short period and no one needs approval history. It breaks down when multiple contributors update Linear issues across a full week, managers need to approve time, and finance needs consistent exports. Re-keyed totals also lose the link between issue context, working date, person, and budget impact.
Everhour turns collected hours into a managed workflow by connecting Linear issue time to project budgets, billing rates, budget alerts, and budget protection. Managers can review submitted timesheets, lock approved periods, correct entries as admins, and export time records for payroll or cost reporting. That gives the team one reviewed record instead of separate issue activity, spreadsheets, and after-the-fact budget checks.
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Record time against the specific issue where the work happened, using a timer during the task or a manual entry after the work is done. Each entry should carry the person, date, issue, project context, and any note needed for review. Managers should review the weekly grid before using the hours for payroll, budgets, or cost reporting.
Review cycle work and project work separately when they answer different management questions. Cycle review shows whether the week's planned issue work received enough attention. Project review shows where labor cost belongs. A single time entry can still carry the same person, date, and issue context, but the manager should group the record by the decision it supports.
Status, assignee, project, label, and cycle changes can make a time review harder when they happen after hours are logged. The hours still belong to the person and date of work, but the manager needs current issue context for reporting. Teams should correct issue placement before approval when time sits on the wrong project or no longer matches the reviewed work.
Unassigned issue time should be reviewed before approval because it can hide who owned the work, which project carried the cost, or which manager should approve the entry. The fix should add the missing assignment or move the time to the correct issue. Payroll and cost reporting need a person, date, and work context that a reviewer can defend.
Weekly timesheets connect issue work to the people and dates that created the cost. Project cost reports need worked hours, rates, and issue context in one reviewed record. A weekly review also catches missing time before budget reports understate labor, and it prevents late changes from distorting the period after managers have approved it.
Everhour Project Budgeting turns tracked Linear issue time into hour or money budget usage, with recurring budget periods, threshold email alerts, and budget protection that can stop timers or prevent extra logging at the cap. Managers can monitor budget movement while the team keeps logging time against Linear work.
Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person, then let managers approve, reject, or partially approve submitted time. Submitted and approved time is protected from regular edits, while admins can handle corrections when payroll, billing, or reporting needs a clean final record.
Track approved Linear hours against live project budgets, alerts, and locked timesheets. Everhour gives managers a reviewed record for payroll, cost reporting, and budget control.
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