Linear project hours tracking

Everhour gives teams reviewed timesheets for Linear work, with approvals, locks, and clean project-hour 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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Everhour — Time Tracking
Time Entries
01:24:00
00:31:00
01:07:00

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Set a budget, assign rates, and get alerted before you're over.

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Everhour — Budgeting
Acme Web Project
1
50% of budget used
$2,500.00of $5,000.00
$2,500.00 remaining
75%
Actual costRemaining cost

Measurement

Track your budget through time or costs

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Everhour — Reports

Your invoice is ready!

Tracked hours flow straight into a polished invoice — no copy-paste, no manual math.

  • Billable hours straight into the invoice
  • Configure invoice templates
  • Copy invoices to QuickBooks or Xero
  • Invoicing dashboard with status
Everhour — Invoices
Your Company LLChello@yourcompany.com
INVOICE
Invoice #1042
Group by:
DescriptionHoursRateAmount
Website Redesign14h$150/h$2,100.00
Brand Guidelines7h$150/h$1,050.00
Marketing Strategy3.5h$150/h$525.00
Total Due$3,675.00
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Weekly review for project work in Linear

Build one weekly source of truth

You came here to turn Linear issue work into a weekly record of project hours that a manager can review. The useful record identifies the person, date, project, issue, hours actually worked, and entry source. It should separate submitted time from approved time, because payroll, billing, and cost reporting need a reviewed period rather than a loose set of running notes.

For team leads, the job is broader than personal logging. Contributors need consistent issue-level entries, reviewers need a week view that exposes gaps, and admins need a way to correct mistakes without losing the history. A clean week also shows time off or working-hour context separately from task time when the team uses both records.

Define fields before collecting hours

A usable project-hour workflow starts with stable work structure. Linear issues give each entry the project, issue title, status, assignee, labels, priority, cycle, and team context when those fields are used. The time record then adds the worker, date, duration, comment, and whether the entry came from a timer, manual entry, or a past-date correction.

A reviewer should see a filled-in week before approval: Monday has 6.5 hours on API cleanup, 1.5 hours on release notes, and no orphaned entries without a project or issue. Estimates on Linear issues are planning values. Keep approved project-hour totals based on hours actually worked, entered by person and date.

Review many contributors at once

Team hour tracking fails when entries are reviewed only at the project total level. Review by person and week first, then by project and issue. That order catches blank days, duplicate manual entries, unusually long daily totals, and work logged to the wrong issue before the numbers become payroll support or a cost report.

Submission and approval give the record a clear status. A contributor submits the week, the manager approves, rejects, or partially approves it, and corrections happen before the period closes. Approved time should stay locked for regular members. Admin corrections after approval need a traceable reason, because late edits change payroll inputs, client invoices, and project-cost history.

Move from entries to records

A free one-off tracker is enough when you need a single weekly export for a small group, a short project, or a cleanup pass before a client update. It stops being enough when the same hour data feeds payroll review, budget checks, utilization reporting, and recurring project-cost analysis for multiple stakeholders.

Everhour turns the Linear issue workflow into a managed time record: browser-extension controls collect project and issue hours, approvals lock reviewed periods, admins can correct entries with history, and reports or team timesheets can be exported. That gives managers one reviewed operating record instead of scattered entries across people, weeks, and projects.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do project hours connect to Linear issues?

Each hour entry should connect to a person, date, Linear project, Linear issue, and duration. A clean mapping also keeps comments near the work that produced the time, so reviewers can check the entry against status, assignee, cycle, or label context. That structure lets project totals roll up without losing the issue detail behind them.

Who submits the weekly project-hour timesheet?

Each contributor should submit the hours they worked on assigned issues for the review period. Managers should review the week after submissions close, because partial review leaves open gaps that change totals later. The approver needs enough context to accept correct issue-level time, reject wrong entries, or request a correction before lock.

Which project-hour entries need approval attention?

Check gaps between workdays and logged days, duplicate manual entries, unusually long daily totals that need explanation, and entries without a project or issue. Entries that move time between people, projects, or weeks need comments before approval because they affect payroll review, client billing, and cost reporting differently.

Why do estimates on Linear issues fail as payroll support?

Estimates on Linear issues represent effort or size values, with scales such as Fibonacci, Exponential, Linear, or T-Shirt. Payroll support needs recorded hours actually worked by person and date. Planning values can explain scope, while approved time entries show the worked-hour record.

What happens to project hours after approval?

The approved week becomes the record used for the next handoff, such as payroll review, billing support, or project-cost reporting. Regular contributors should stop changing approved time. Admin changes need a dated trail and a clear reason, because a late edit changes totals that another team may have already used.

How does Everhour Team Management control Linear project hours?

Everhour Team Management lets managers approve or reject submitted weekly time, lock approved periods for regular members, and make admin corrections when records need cleanup. For Linear projects, that keeps issue-level hours in a reviewed state before payroll or cost reporting uses them.

How does Everhour reporting use approved Linear hours?

Everhour Reporting turns approved time into reports grouped by project, member, Linear issue, status, tag, and date range, then exports CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF. Managers can keep issue-level hours tied to Linear context while preparing spreadsheet, client, or archive records.

Approve Linear hours with confidence

Use Everhour Team Management to collect Linear project hours, approve weekly timesheets, lock reviewed periods, and correct records with admin history, producing clean, approved team records.

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