Linear team time tracking

Team hours on Linear issues need weekly review. Everhour adds timesheets, approvals, and locked periods.

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Everhour — Time Tracking
Time Entries
01:24:00
00:31:00
01:07:00

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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

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

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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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Managing weekly hours on Linear projects

Build one weekly team record

Use team time tracking to collect a reviewed week of work tied to Linear issues. Developers, designers, and support contributors keep their work organized around Linear projects and issues, while Everhour records the hours that managers review before timesheets, billing, payroll review, and cost reporting.

The useful outcome is a reviewed week, not a pile of individual timers. A manager checks each person's weekly project hours and working hours, then looks for missing days, unusually high totals, manual edits, and entries that no longer match the expected review pattern.

Structure entries around Linear issues

Linear issues carry the work context: team, project, cycle, assignee, labels, priority, status, and estimates. Everhour syncs Linear workspace, project, issue, status, and tag data into reports, then adds issue timers, manual logging, reported time, and day or week timesheet access through its browser-extension integration.

A practical weekly record separates task time from working hours when the team uses both. Task time explains which Linear issues consumed the week. Working hours support attendance-style review, payroll context, and capacity checks. Managers should compare both before approval, especially when a person has project work, sick leave, or non-project time in the same week.

Review before the period closes

The strongest team time workflow has a clear cutoff. Contributors submit the week after entries are complete. Managers approve clean entries, reject entries that need changes, or partially approve a week when only some items are ready. Submitted time stays protected unless withdrawn or rejected.

Late changes create reporting problems because payroll, billing, and cost reports may already use the approved totals. Admin corrections still have a place, but they need a visible reason and a controlled process. A corrected record is more useful than an unlocked week where old entries keep changing without review.

Move from hours to approvals

A free one-off tool is enough when you only need to total a few hours or prepare a temporary worksheet. It stops being enough when several contributors log time against Linear issues and a manager must defend which hours were reviewed, approved, rejected, corrected, or locked.

Everhour turns collected hours into an operating record. Team timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person, managers approve or reject submissions, approved time stays locked for regular members, and exports support the handoff to payroll, billing, or cost reporting.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How should a manager review weekly time on Linear issues?

Start with the week, then review each person's Linear issue entries by date range, project, and total hours. Check missing days, unusually high daily totals, manual entries added after the work happened, and later changes to time entries. Approve only the hours that match the team's time policy and review cycle.

Should teams track issue time and working hours separately?

Yes, when payroll, attendance, or capacity review matters. Issue time explains where project work went. Working hours show the person's broader workday record, including non-project time and time off when the team tracks it. Keeping both views separate prevents project reports from becoming the only source for payroll review.

Which team time mistakes affect payroll or cost reporting?

Missing entries, late manual edits, duplicate time, and unreviewed corrections affect payroll or cost reporting. A manager also needs to watch unusual daily totals and later changes to time entries, because approved records should stay stable after payroll, billing, or cost reports use them.

When should submitted time be locked?

Submitted time should lock during review, and approved time should stay locked for regular members after approval. This keeps payroll, billing, and cost reports tied to a stable record. Admins can still correct entries when the business needs a change, but the correction should happen through a controlled process.

How do Linear estimates relate to tracked team hours?

Linear estimates are effort or size values, not clock time. Teams can use Linear estimates to plan issue scope while using tracked hours to review actual work, payroll context, cost, and billing. Treat points and hours as separate measures unless your team defines an internal conversion rule.

How does Everhour Timesheets support Linear team review?

Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person, then let managers approve, reject, or partially approve submitted time before payroll or billing review. Submitted and approved time is protected from regular member edits, which keeps the reviewed Linear work record stable.

How does Everhour keep Linear time entries reportable?

Everhour syncs Linear project, issue, status, and tag data into its reporting layer, so tracked time can be grouped and filtered by the same work context the team uses. Managers can export reports or team timesheets when payroll, billing, or cost reporting needs a separate file.

Turn Linear hours into approved records

Track approved hours from Linear issues with Everhour Timesheets, then review submissions, lock approved periods, and export the records that support payroll, billing, and cost reporting.

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