Everhour tracks time and budget usage on Linear projects, so issue work can feed cost checks, alerts, and 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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You came to set a budget around a Linear project, then see whether the work is staying inside that plan. The practical target is either time, such as 400 reviewed hours for the project, or money, such as a $48,000 fee budget. The target needs a scope, an owner, and a review period so the number has operational meaning.
Linear provides the project's work structure: issues, assignees, status, labels, priority, cycles, and project grouping. The budget layer sits on top of that structure. Logged time attaches to the issue work, rates can turn that time into labor cost or billable amount, and alerts show budget pressure while the project is still active.
A working budget needs four inputs: the project scope, the hour or money target, the pricing method, and the entries counted against the budget. A time budget measures consumed hours. A fee-based budget measures money and can include labor only or labor plus approved expenses when the workflow uses expense tracking.
Rates require the same care as the budget target. Cost rates show internal labor cost. Billable rates show client-facing revenue when the project is billed externally. Fixed-fee projects are also supported, so a money budget does not always start with hourly pricing. Per-person rates, project overrides, and dated rate changes keep long projects priced consistently across rate changes.
Estimates on Linear issues are effort or size values, not clock time. They help teams size work and understand issue-flow progress, but they do not create a defensible labor budget by themselves. A 5-point issue is not automatically 5 hours or $500.
Use estimates on Linear issues for planning shape, then use logged hours for actual budget consumption. The common mistake is multiplying points by a blended rate and treating the result as real cost. Actual cost needs time entries, the person who did the work, the applicable cost rate, and the project budget rule that decides whether the entry counts.
A one-off budget check works when you need a quick read on a single project: current hours, current cost, remaining budget, and the issues consuming the most time. That snapshot is enough for a founder, lead, or operations manager who needs to decide whether to pause low-priority work, adjust scope, or approve more time.
A managed workflow takes over when the same budget needs weekly control. Everhour Time Tracking captures issue and project hours through timers or manual entries inside Linear, then feeds timesheets, reports, budgets, invoicing, and payroll review. Admins can use approvals, locked periods, reminders, timer rules, configurable budget thresholds, and budget protection that stops timers or prevents extra logging after the budget is exceeded.
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Start with the project scope, then choose an hour-based or fee-based budget. Hour budgets measure the time the team spends. Fee budgets measure money, and rates are used when logged time needs to convert into labor cost or billable amount. The budget becomes useful once issue time is reviewed regularly.
Use estimates on Linear issues for planning effort, then use logged hours for budget consumption. Estimate values measure size or effort, not clock time. A project budget needs actual time, rates when cost or billable amount is required, and a rule for which entries count against the budget.
Cost rates matter when the budget measures internal labor spend. Billable rates matter when the project budget also needs revenue, margin, or client billing context. A team can use person-level rates, project-specific overrides, and dated rate changes so work logged before and after a rate change stays priced correctly.
Set alert thresholds at the points where someone can still act, such as before hiring approval, scope review, or client escalation. Everhour supports configurable email alert percentages, so an admin chooses the thresholds. Fixed examples should not drive the policy unless they match the team's actual decision points.
Delayed time entry creates the worst overrun risk because the budget looks healthy while unlogged work is still missing. A second common mistake is mixing planning estimates with actual hours. The budget review should separate planned effort, tracked time, approved time, cost, and remaining budget.
Everhour Time Tracking lets people track time on Linear issues with timers or manual entries, then sends that time into budgets, timesheets, reports, invoicing, and payroll review. Admin controls cover approvals, locked periods, reminders, timer behavior, and automatic stop rules that protect the budget workflow.
Everhour Reporting can group logged time, costs, budget metrics, project details, and member details into custom reports. Managers can review hours, labor cost, budget metrics, billable status, and profitability by project, then export reports in CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF for review.
Track issue time inside Linear, review approved hours, and let Everhour turn that work into budget reports, configurable alerts, and cost visibility before overruns grow.
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