Everhour connects affordable time tracking with reporting, so teams can watch hours, costs, billable work, and project totals.
Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.
| Day | Time In | Break Start | Break End | Break | Time Out | Total |
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The calculator gives you the number — Everhour takes it from there.
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.
An affordable time tracker helps you record this week's work without turning timekeeping into a separate project. The practical job is simple: capture hours by person, date, project, client, and task, then separate billable and non-billable time. A freelancer needs clean invoice support. A small team needs totals that managers can review before payroll or client billing.
For U.S. employers, price does not change the recordkeeping baseline. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for non-exempt workers, and records for employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. The method can be a spreadsheet, app, time clock, or other system, as long as it is complete and accurate.
A useful entry needs more than a start and stop time. Record the worker, date, project, task, client when relevant, total time, billable status, rate when billing applies, and notes for unusual work. U.S. billing and rate fields normally use USD. For payroll review, keep the fixed workweek visible because FLSA overtime for covered non-exempt employees is based on hours worked over 40 in a workweek.
A clean weekly record shows daily hours and the weekly total side by side. For example, a designer can log 3.5 billable hours to a client landing page, 1.0 non-billable hour to internal review, and 0.5 hour to project admin on the same day. That split gives a manager enough detail to bill the client, evaluate project cost, and review time without rebuilding the week from memory.
Affordable should mean a smaller bill, not missing records. A cheap tracker fails when it hides export limits, skips project or client fields, or makes corrected time hard to audit. The first cost test is practical: can you leave with a usable weekly record, including daily totals, weekly totals, and billable status, without paying for unrelated features?
Privacy also belongs in the cost decision. Time tracking records personal work data, so U.S. businesses handling personal information must avoid unfair or deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act. FTC guidance says companies keeping sensitive personal information about customers or employees should collect only what they need, keep it safe, and dispose of it securely. A low-cost setup still needs clear access and retention practices.
A one-off tracker is enough when you need a weekly total, a small invoice backup, or a short project recap. It is also enough for a solo worker who reviews time personally and keeps separate payroll, billing, and accounting records. Keep payroll records for at least three years and basic time and earnings records, such as daily start and stop sheets, for at least two years.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when multiple people track time across clients, projects, and tasks. Everhour Reporting turns logged time, budgets, costs, and project data into customizable reports with columns, grouping, filters, date ranges, exports, scheduled email delivery, and dashboards for budget, billability, payroll, and profitability review. That structure replaces scattered weekly files with records managers can review and reuse.
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G2
Summer 2026
Best Ease Of Use
Capterra
Summer 2026
Rated in the top time trackers across G2, Capterra, and TrustRadius — with consistent praise for ease of use, integrations, and support.
An affordable time tracker should include date, worker, project, task, client when relevant, start and stop time or duration, billable status, notes, and weekly totals. For U.S. payroll review, covered employers need accurate records for non-exempt workers, including daily hours worked and total hours worked each workweek for employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions.
A cheap time tracker is enough only when it creates complete and accurate records. The FLSA does not require a specific timekeeping form or system, but covered employers must keep accurate records for non-exempt workers. Missing daily totals, unclear edits, or unavailable exports create problems because payroll records must be preserved for at least three years and basic time and earnings records for at least two years.
Automatic timers are useful when people switch between projects during the day, but they are not legally required under the FLSA. The key requirement is accuracy and completeness. Manual entries work when workers enter time promptly and managers review totals before payroll or billing. Reconstructed end-of-week entries often miss short tasks, internal work, and client changes.
A team cannot average hours across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime purposes. A workweek is a fixed, regularly recurring period of seven consecutive 24-hour periods, or 168 hours. Unless exempt, covered employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay.
The FLSA does not require overtime premium pay solely because work happens on Saturday, Sunday, a holiday, or a regular rest day. Premium pay applies under the federal baseline when the weekly overtime rule is triggered for covered non-exempt employees, unless another state law, local rule, policy, contract, or agreement creates a separate requirement.
Everhour Reporting helps teams see where tracked time turns into cost by project, client, member, task, billable time, labor cost, budget, and invoice status. Reports can use 45+ columns, filters, grouping, date ranges, and exports in CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF, so managers can review spending without rebuilding spreadsheets.
Everhour can run as a standalone tracker or inside tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Linear, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Teams keep tracking near the task while logged time flows into one reporting layer for budgets, utilization, billing, and review.
Track time where work happens, then use Everhour Reporting to review costs, billable hours, budgets, and project totals without paying for scattered manual spreadsheets.
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