Employee hours touch payroll, budgets, and client billing. Everhour keeps time tracking connected to the workflows that use it.
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.
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Tracked hours flow straight into a polished invoice — no copy-paste, no manual math.
An all-in-one employee time tracking app helps you collect daily hours, weekly totals, project work, client time, and billable status without splitting the workflow across separate files. The practical job is simple: capture time in a format managers can review and accounting can use. For U.S. covered employers, FLSA records for nonexempt workers must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
The app should support the way work actually happens. A designer may track 2 hours on a client revision, 1.5 hours on internal review, and 4.5 hours on production work in the same day. A manager needs those entries grouped by employee, date, project, task, and billing status. That structure keeps the weekly total useful for payroll review, budget checks, and invoice preparation.
The all-in-one decision is about downstream use. A stopwatch alone records duration, but a working employee time system connects the entry to a person, project, client, task, rate, approval status, and reporting category. That connection matters when payroll needs weekly totals, finance needs billable hours, and a project lead needs to know whether a budget is already at risk.
Separate tools create common mistakes. A team tracks time in one app, approves timesheets in a spreadsheet, prepares invoices in another system, and copies project names by hand. Each handoff adds room for missing hours, duplicated entries, stale rates, and mismatched client names. A single workflow does not make every record correct, but it gives the reviewer one place to check the source entry before using it.
Employee time records work best when each entry answers six questions: who worked, when the work happened, how much time was worked, which project or task it belongs to, whether it is billable, and whether a manager approved it. U.S. billing examples normally use USD rate fields. A simple entry such as client onboarding, 3 hours, billable, $85 per hour, gives finance a usable invoice line and gives managers a project cost signal.
Covered nonexempt payroll review needs a workweek view, not only daily totals. Under the FLSA, covered nonexempt employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek at not less than 1.5 times the regular rate of pay. The FLSA does not require premium pay solely for Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or regular rest-day work unless weekly overtime applies or another law, policy, or agreement requires it.
A free weekly total is enough when you need a quick personal summary, a rough project check, or a one-time estimate before entering official records elsewhere. It stops being enough when multiple employees submit time, managers approve entries, clients expect invoices, or payroll needs a defensible record. At that point, the issue shifts from adding hours to controlling the workflow around those hours.
Everhour fits that managed workflow by letting employees track task and project hours through timers or manual entries, including inside supported project tools. Those entries can feed timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review. Admin controls such as reminders, locked periods, approvals, and timer rules help teams keep the record usable after the week closes.
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A complete app should capture employee, date, daily hours, weekly totals, project, task, client, billable status, notes, approval status, and rate information when billing uses hourly rates. For covered employers in the U.S., records for nonexempt workers covered by FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
Employee time tracking records hours, projects, tasks, and approvals. Employee monitoring can involve activity data beyond the time record. U.S. privacy obligations are sectoral and state-dependent, and businesses handling personal information must avoid unfair or deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act. Companies should collect only needed employee information, keep it secure, and dispose of it securely.
A team should use timers for work that happens throughout the day and manual entries for legitimate corrections or work recorded after the fact. Timers reduce end-of-week reconstruction, while manual entries keep the record complete when an employee forgets to start a timer. Managers need visibility into entry type so they can review patterns before billing, payroll, or budget reporting.
Employers subject to federal recordkeeping rules must preserve payroll records for at least three years and basic time and earnings records, such as daily start and stop time cards or sheets, for at least two years. Approved time should remain accessible with employee, date, daily hours, weekly totals, and any edits needed to explain corrections.
One app can support both when entries separate project work, billable status, employee hours, and approval status. Billing needs client-facing project and rate detail. Payroll review needs employee hours by workday and workweek, especially for covered nonexempt workers. The same source entry can serve both workflows when the app keeps those categories structured.
Everhour Time Tracking captures task and project hours through live timers or manual entries, including inside tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Linear, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. The same tracked time can feed timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review without re-entering the work log.
Everhour Timesheets let employees submit weekly project hours or working hours for review, and managers can approve, reject, or partially approve submitted time. Submitted and approved entries are protected from regular member edits, while reminders and activity history help managers review missing hours, unusual totals, and later changes.
Track approved hours where work happens, then carry them into reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review. Everhour Time Tracking gives teams one connected record for employee time.
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