Everhour ties tracked Linear issue time to budgets, rates, alerts, and approval-ready timesheets.
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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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Shape the budget around the work you need to control in Linear projects and issues. The useful output is a target you can manage against: hours, money, or both, tied to the people doing the work and the issues consuming time. A budget without rates shows effort only. A budget with rates shows labor cost, revenue exposure, and remaining room before the project needs a scope, staffing, or timeline decision.
Start with the scope already tracked in Linear: project, issue, team, cycle, assignee, status, labels, priority, and estimates on Linear issues. Then decide the budget unit. An hour budget fits capacity control for a cycle or a team allocation. A money budget fits client delivery or internal cost control, where each approved hour needs the correct cost or billable rate before the total means anything.
A budget needs four working inputs: scope, time, rate, and review status. Scope comes from the Linear project and the issues included in the budget. Time comes from entries recorded against those issues. Rates turn those entries into cost or billable amounts. Review status tells the budget owner whether the number is still draft work or approved time that can feed billing, payroll review, or a cost report.
A clean setup names the budget period, the budget type, the people included, and the rate basis before time starts. A project can use an hour target for capacity, member cost rates for internal spend, and a separate billable rate for client reporting. Labels and cycles help slice the same budget view without changing the project budget itself.
Treat estimates on Linear issues as effort sizing for planning rather than a budget total. Linear estimate scales can be Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, or T-Shirt, so a 5, an 8, and an L are planning values. Clock hours require a separate time record. Convert estimates into budget inputs only after your team defines a separate policy that maps effort to expected hours or cost.
The most expensive mistake is pricing unreviewed point totals as if they were approved labor. If an unestimated issue receives a default estimate point under the workspace setting, that point can mask missing planning detail. Keep three columns separate in budget review: planned effort from estimates on Linear issues, actual logged hours, and cost from the rate assigned to those approved hours.
A one-off budget check is enough for kickoff planning, a short cycle, or a small internal project with one owner. You need a managed workflow when the budget repeats, more than one person logs time, or the number feeds billing, payroll review, or cost reporting. At that point, the budget needs an approval trail in addition to a spreadsheet total.
Everhour turns Linear issue work into a recurring control loop: people track time on issues through browser-extension controls inside Linear, submit weekly timesheets, managers review the entries, and approved hours feed budget reporting. Admins can set hour-based or money-based budgets, recurring resets, threshold email alerts at configured percentages, and budget protection that stops timers or prevents extra logging after the cap.
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A usable budget needs a defined Linear project scope, the issues included, the period covered, the budget unit, the people assigned, and the rates used for cost or billing. The review should show planned effort, actual logged hours, approved hours, actual cost, remaining budget, and any threshold warning already triggered.
Use hours when team capacity is the constraint, such as a cycle budget or a fixed engineering allocation. Use money when labor cost, client spend, or margin is the control point. A mature review keeps both when labor capacity and spending both matter: hours show delivery pressure, while rates turn approved work into cost.
Estimates on Linear issues belong in the planning column. Cost calculations need logged hours and rates. Their scales represent effort or size values, including Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, or T-Shirt options. A budget owner should compare them with logged hours and remaining work, then keep any hours-per-point rule separate and documented.
A useful threshold fires while the project owner still has choices: reduce scope, move people, pause low-value issues, or approve a budget change. The admin should configure percentages around the review cadence and risk level. A weekly-reviewed project needs earlier warnings than a project reviewed daily.
Mixing planned effort, unapproved time, and approved cost in one total hides overspend. Planned effort shows expected size. Unapproved time still needs review. Approved cost is the amount that should drive billing, payroll review, or internal reporting. Separate those columns before discussing variance with a client or finance team.
Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours from Linear issue work, then let users submit time for review. Managers can approve, reject, or partially approve entries, and submitted or approved time stays locked from regular edits so budget numbers rely on reviewed records.
Everhour Project Budgeting tracks hour-based or money-based budgets as people log time on Linear issues. Admins set threshold email alerts at the percentages they choose, and budget protection can stop running timers or prevent additional time entries after the project exceeds its cap.
Use Everhour Timesheets to turn Linear issue work into submitted weekly hours, manager approvals, locked records, and budget numbers finance can trust before billing or payroll review.
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