Everhour adds budget and cost reporting to Linear project work, with analytics grounded in tracked hours and issue context.
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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.
Measurement
Track your budget through time or costs
Every report you need — configured your way, always up to date.
Tracked hours flow straight into a polished invoice — no copy-paste, no manual math.
Start with the reporting question: where time went, which work drove cost, which people contributed, and which issues carried billable or non-billable effort. Linear supplies the issue context, including project, assignee, status, priority, labels, and estimates. Tracked hours add the time layer needed for cost and billing review.
A useful report starts with the audience. A delivery lead needs issue and project breakdowns. A finance reviewer needs cost, billable amount, and non-billable time. A client stakeholder needs a compact project summary with dates, work categories, and totals that match the billing policy or contract.
Group by project when the question is portfolio spend or budget movement. Group by issue when you need delivery detail. Group by member when you need staffing, utilization, or review context. For cycle reviews, use the cycle period as the date range and keep issue status visible so the report supports the weekly or sprint-shaped conversation.
Billable and non-billable time belong in the same review view when money is involved. Separating them too early hides the full workload and makes cost look cleaner than reality. Keep comments, issue names, project names, member names, and status context visible when the report needs explanation, then export a tighter version for people who only need the summary.
Linear issue estimates are effort values, with scales such as Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, or T-Shirt. Treat hour estimates and tracked hours as a separate time layer. A report that mixes effort points with logged hours creates ratios that look precise but do not describe actual labor cost.
Use one unit for each question. Tracked hours answer how much work time the team recorded. Cost rates turn tracked hours into internal cost. Billable rates turn billable tracked hours into client-facing amounts. Issue count, status, labels, assignee, and project fields explain where the work happened, but they do not replace time entries when the report needs hours or money.
A one-off export is enough for a single stakeholder update, a monthly snapshot, or a quick comparison of members, issues, and projects. It works when the source time is already clean, the date range is closed, and the report does not need recurring review, approval status, or budget follow-up.
A managed workflow fits recurring reviews. Everhour connects Linear issue work to time and money budgets, recurring budget periods, threshold email alerts, and budget protection that can stop timers or prevent extra logging after the cap. Approved time then feeds standing reports, exports, and budget checks without rebuilding the same spreadsheet every week.
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Use project-level totals for executive status, issue-level detail for delivery review, and member-level totals for staffing review. For a cycle update, set the report date range to the cycle period and include issue status so reviewers can connect tracked time to completed, started, and still-open work.
Show billable and non-billable time side by side before calculating totals for cost, revenue, or project health. Non-billable work still consumes capacity and affects margin. Hiding it from the main view makes a project look more efficient than it was and weakens future estimates.
Issue effort values should stay separate from tracked hours. Linear estimate scales such as Fibonacci, Exponential, Linear, and T-Shirt describe size or effort, not clock time. Use tracked time entries for hours, cost, billing, and utilization, then use issue fields to explain the work context.
Match the date range to the decision. Weekly reports support cycle review, blocker cleanup, and staffing adjustment. Monthly reports support budget checks, client summaries, and finance review. Closed periods produce cleaner numbers because late edits, missing entries, and unapproved time do not keep changing the result.
The most common mistake is exporting totals without the fields that explain them. A report with hours but no issue, project, member, date range, or billable status forces reviewers to ask for a second file. Keep enough context in the report to trace each total back to the work.
Everhour Project Budgeting lets teams track time or money budgets against Linear project work, including recurring budget periods and threshold email alerts. Budget protection can stop timers or prevent extra logging at the cap, so budget reports reflect controlled work instead of late manual cleanup.
Everhour Reporting can turn tracked Linear work into reports with grouping, filters, date ranges, and columns such as billable time, labor cost, profit, invoice status, and budget metrics. Saved reports can be exported as CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF for reviewers outside the tool.
Connect Linear work to Everhour budgets, alerts, and approved time reports. Replace recurring spreadsheet rebuilds with a standing workflow that gives teams clearer project cost control.
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