Everhour brings weekly review, approvals, and cost context to team time logged on Linear issues.
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You came to connect team hours with the Linear issues people actually worked on, then review the week before payroll review, billing, or cost reporting uses the totals. The useful output is a weekly grid by person and issue, with one row that a reviewer can check. Each entry needs a date, a person, a Linear issue, hours actually worked, and enough context for a manager to approve it.
The by-issue view is strongest when it mirrors the work structure already used by the team. Linear holds the issue, project, cycle, assignee, status, labels, priority, and estimate value. The time record adds the hour total, comment, submission state, approval decision, and correction history. Together, those fields let a manager see both the delivery context and the reviewed time record.
Start the week with one row per contributor and one line for each Linear issue that received time. Group related work by project or cycle when managers review teams by delivery period. Keep task time and working hours distinct if the organization tracks both, because paid working time, project cost, and client billing do not always answer the same question.
A complete line reads like an audit-ready record: March 5, 2026, Priya N., issue ENG-214, 3.25 hours, API regression fix, project Mobile checkout, submitted Friday, approved Monday. The comment should explain context only when the time is unusual, split across issues, or changed after submission. Routine entries need clarity, not a diary.
Estimate values on Linear issues help teams plan scope, but they do not replace the time record. They describe size or effort for completion statistics, not clock time by person and date. A timesheet needs hours actually worked, tied to the contributor and review period. Treat the issue estimate as planning context and the submitted hours as the reviewed time input.
The common mistake is using completed issues as proof that the week is clean. A developer can close an issue after 30 minutes or after 2 days of interrupted work. Review the submitted hours against the issue activity, project context, and comments. Send corrections back before approval when the issue is right but the date, person, or hour total is wrong.
A one-off weekly grid is enough when one manager reviews a small team, the period is short, and the output only needs a quick internal check. It breaks down when people submit late, corrections happen after approval, expenses affect project cost, or payroll review needs the same record every period. Manual files also lose the trail behind who changed what and when.
Everhour turns collected Linear issue time into a reviewed operating record. Team members track or enter time from the work context, managers approve or reject weekly submissions, approved periods stay locked for regular members, and admins can correct entries with history. Reports, team timesheet exports, and expense views then carry reviewed hours and costs into billing, payroll review, or cost reporting.
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Question rows with missing issue links, unusually large daily totals, split work without comments, or hours posted to a closed delivery period. The manager should resolve the date, person, issue, and hour total before approving the week. Corrections made before approval keep the reviewed record cleaner than changes made after exports.
Use separate entries when the team needs cost, billing, or delivery reporting by issue type or project area. One combined entry works only when both activities belong to the same issue and the same reporting bucket. Splitting entries gives managers a clearer view of where the week went without forcing extra narrative comments.
Add a comment when the entry explains an exception: work moved between issues, time logged after the work date, unusually high hours, support work tied to a delivery issue, or a manager-requested correction. Standard development time on the assigned issue does not need a long note. The goal is review context, not a daily journal.
Approved issue time should stay locked after the reviewer accepts the week and exports or reports use the totals. Regular members should not change approved entries without a withdrawal, rejection, or admin correction process. A locked period protects downstream reports from silent changes to hours, project cost, or billable totals.
Yes, when the manager reviews each row against the Linear issue's project or cycle context. Review totals by person first, then use the issue context to check project or cycle totals where the team needs delivery, cost, or billing views. Mixed-project weeks need stricter row-level review before approval.
Everhour Expenses records project costs next to tracked issue time, with receipt uploads and unit-based categories for items such as mileage or materials. Managers can include expenses in budget calculations or keep them separate, then use expense reports by project, member, category, date range, and billable status.
Everhour Timesheets lets users submit weekly project hours or working hours for review, then lets managers approve, reject, or partially approve submitted time. Submitted time is locked unless withdrawn or rejected, and approved time stays locked for regular members, so billing and payroll review use a stable record.
Track approved hours and project expenses in one workflow. Everhour connects Linear issue time with timesheet approvals, locked periods, expense reporting, and exports, giving managers a cleaner billing, payroll review, and cost record.
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