Digital marketing work spans campaigns, channels, and clients. Everhour keeps approved time ready for billing review.
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.
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Digital marketers track billable hours to connect real work with client budgets, invoices, retainers, and campaign profitability. The goal is a clean record of time by client, project, task, and date, not a loose total at the end of the week. A paid search audit, landing page brief, analytics review, and campaign launch should not disappear into one vague "marketing" entry.
A practical entry names the client, campaign, channel, task, billable status, time spent, and a short note. For example: "Acme Co., Q3 lead gen, Google Ads, search term cleanup and negative list review, 1.4 hours, billable." That level of detail helps you explain invoice lines without turning every time entry into a long activity report.
Digital marketing work crosses paid search, paid social, organic search, email, analytics, reporting, and client communication. A tracker works better when those areas stay separate enough to answer real business questions. Client A can burn through budget on reporting calls, while Client B spends most approved time on campaign setup. A single weekly total hides that difference.
Retainer work needs special attention because the invoice amount may stay fixed while the tracked time changes. Track the hours anyway. A 20-hour monthly retainer with 28 hours of actual work shows scope pressure before the client relationship turns into a margin problem. The same record also shows which services deserve a revised scope or a clearer approval rule.
Client billing records and employee wage records serve different purposes. In the United States, the FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt 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. A client invoice summary alone does not replace those employer records.
Federal overtime for covered nonexempt employees applies to hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay. Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or rest-day work does not create a federal premium by itself unless the weekly overtime rule is triggered or another law, policy, or contract applies.
A free tracker is enough when you need a one-time weekly total, a quick client summary, or a small freelance invoice backup. It works for a solo digital marketer who tracks five hours of organic search edits, three hours of ad testing, and two hours of reporting before sending a simple bill in USD. The record stays useful when every entry has a client, task, date, and billable status.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when multiple marketers submit time, managers approve entries, and tracked work feeds billing or payroll review. Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person, then let admins approve, reject, partially approve, and lock submitted time. That approval trail matters when campaign records support client invoices, budget reviews, and internal labor checks.
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Split time at the level you need for billing and budget review. A practical setup uses client, campaign, channel, task, billable status, and date. Paid search setup, organic search research, email QA, analytics reporting, and client calls should use separate entries when they affect different budgets, invoice lines, or scope decisions.
Mark meetings and client calls according to the client agreement, statement of work, or internal billing policy. A kickoff call, weekly performance review, or campaign approval meeting is often tied to client work, but the tracker should reflect the approved billing rule. Separate internal team planning from client-facing or client-requested communication.
A useful note explains the work without exposing unnecessary detail. "Meta Ads, audience test setup, 1.2 hours" is clearer than "ads work" and shorter than a full project update. For client records, include the campaign, channel, task, and result area. For employee records, keep the required daily and weekly hours complete and accurate.
Retainer clients can use billable-hour tracking to monitor scope, burn rate, and profitability even when the invoice amount is fixed. The tracked time shows whether the team is spending the agreed effort on organic search, paid media, reporting, or account management. It also supports renewal talks when actual work consistently exceeds the retainer.
After-hours campaign work changes the billing rate only when the contract, policy, or applicable law requires it. Under the federal FLSA baseline, weekend or holiday work alone does not require premium pay. Covered nonexempt employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek, unless an exemption applies.
Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person, so managers can review campaign time before billing or payroll use. Submitted time can be approved, rejected, partially approved, and locked, which gives digital marketing teams a cleaner approval trail for client work.
Track client, campaign, and channel time before it reaches an invoice or payroll review. Everhour Timesheets give digital marketing teams approved weekly records for cleaner billing decisions.
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