Everhour tracks Linear project spend against budgets, so teams see cost risk before month-end reporting.
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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.
Set a budget, assign rates, and get alerted before you're over.
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Track your budget through time or costs
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A Linear project needs an early warning before tracked work consumes the budget. The practical goal is a readable budget check: which project is being watched, which hours count, which rates convert time into cost, and which threshold should alert an admin while there is still room to adjust scope, staffing, or timing.
Linear remains the place where issues, projects, assignees, labels, status, and cycles organize the work. Everhour adds the budget layer around that structure: logged time, billable and cost rates, hour or fee budgets, recurring resets, and threshold email alerts tied to tracked work on Linear projects and issues.
Start with the budget type. A time budget sets the limit in hours, which fits internal capacity planning or sprint-style control. A fee budget sets the limit in money, which fits client retainers, fixed-fee projects, and delivery budgets where labor cost or billable amount needs a running total.
Set the rates before relying on alerts. Cost rates show internal labor spend, while billable rates show what the client will be charged. Everhour supports project rates, member rates, and custom task rates, so the budget check can reflect how the work is actually priced instead of treating every logged hour as identical.
An over-budget alert is useful only if the threshold gives someone time to act. Admins should set thresholds around the decisions they control, such as reviewing scope before the budget is mostly consumed, warning the project lead before more Linear issues move forward, and applying budget protection after the budget is exceeded.
The common mistake is waiting for the final threshold to send the first warning. A 100% alert signals that spending has reached the configured threshold. Earlier thresholds let the team compare planned work, actual logged hours, and remaining budget before the project crosses the limit.
A one-off budget check is enough when you need a quick read on one project, one client limit, or one cycle of work. It works best when the team already has clean time entries, current rates, and a clear budget owner who can decide what happens after the alert fires.
A managed workflow is better when budget control repeats every week. Everhour can keep Linear issue time, rates, recurring budgets, threshold alerts, and reviewed reports in one budget process, so approved time feeds the same numbers that project leads use for cost, billing, and overrun review.
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Set the budget in Everhour against the connected Linear project, choose whether the limit is hours or money, and configure threshold email alerts for the admins who need to act. The alert should match a decision point, such as scope review, client approval, or budget protection after the budget is exceeded.
Use an hour budget when the constraint is team capacity, such as a fixed number of engineering hours for a cycle. Use a money budget when rates matter, such as client work, fixed-fee delivery, or internal labor-cost tracking. Money budgets need accurate cost or billable rates before the alert is useful.
Cost rates matter when the alert tracks internal labor spend. Billable rates matter when the alert tracks client-facing budget use or revenue exposure. Everhour separates cost and billable rates, and project, member, or custom task rates can change the budget total for the same number of logged hours.
The biggest mistake is mixing tracked work that should count toward the budget with work that should stay outside it. Mark non-billable tasks, rate exceptions, and excluded expenses correctly before judging the alert. Otherwise, the warning can fire from cleanup, support, or admin work that the budget owner never meant to include.
Budget protection can stop running timers and prevent additional time logging after the budget is exceeded when that setting is enabled in Everhour. Use that control for hard caps. Use earlier email thresholds for soft caps where the manager needs a warning before deciding whether work should continue.
Everhour supports billable and non-billable time through project billing status, task-level non-billable controls, custom task rates, member-rate exceptions, and admin reports. That lets a manager review Linear project cost, billable amount, and excluded work without flattening every issue into the same budget total.
Everhour reporting can combine tracked time, budget metrics, labor costs, billable amount, project, task, member, and date range fields. Teams can group and filter reports around Linear project work, then export budget or cost views as CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF for review.
Track billable and non-billable Linear work with rates, budget thresholds, and admin reports. Everhour turns approved issue time into cost visibility before overruns reach billing review.
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