Everhour turns tracked hours into reporting, budgets, and billing, while comprehensive tracking keeps projects, clients, tasks, and approvals organized.
Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.
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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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A comprehensive tracker helps you capture a full work record, not just a total at the end of the week. Each entry needs a person, date, project, task or activity, start and stop time or duration, billable status, and notes when the work needs explanation. For U.S. payroll records, covered employers must keep daily hours worked and total hours worked each workweek for employees covered by FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions.
The practical goal is a record that another person can review without asking what the time meant. A weekly total of 38 hours tells payroll one thing, but it tells a project manager almost nothing. A week split across client work, internal meetings, revisions, and non-billable admin gives you billing support, workload visibility, and a clearer view of where time is going.
Comprehensive tracking starts with consistent dimensions: client, project, task, member, date, billable status, rate, and approval status. Teams that bill clients also need currency and rate fields, usually U.S. dollars for U.S. users. Payroll-focused records need hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek, while project reports need enough detail to compare actual hours against estimates.
A useful setup avoids duplicate categories. Use clients for who pays, projects for the body of work, and tasks for the specific activity. A design agency might track 2.5 hours to Client A, Website redesign, Homepage revisions, billable. The same person might track 1 hour to Internal, Team meeting, non-billable. That structure lets finance invoice cleanly and lets managers see the cost of internal work.
A basic tracker stops at time entry. A comprehensive tracker handles the cases that make reports trustworthy: multiple clients, recurring projects, task-level estimates, billable and non-billable work, approvals, locked periods, exports, and rate changes. The system also needs a clear rule for manual edits, because reconstructed time entered days later has less audit value than time captured as work happens.
U.S. wage-and-hour rules add another design requirement. The FLSA does not require a particular timekeeping form or system, but covered employers must keep complete and accurate records for non-exempt workers. Unless exempt, covered 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. A tracker should keep weekly boundaries clean because FLSA overtime hours may not be averaged across workweeks.
A free weekly total is enough when you need a quick view of hours for one person, one project, or one client. It stops being enough when time feeds payroll review, invoices, approvals, utilization, or budget decisions. At that point, the tracker needs consistent categories, permission rules, locked periods, exportable records, and a review process before the data leaves the time system.
Everhour fits that managed workflow by connecting tracked time to reports, budgets, invoices, timesheets, and project tools. Teams can keep time inside tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and others, then review the entries in one reporting layer. That matters when the question changes from "how many hours this week?" to "which client, project, task, budget, and approval does this time belong to?"
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G2
Summer 2026
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A comprehensive time tracker records who worked, when they worked, what project or task they worked on, whether the time is billable, and whether the entry has been reviewed. It also supports approvals, reports, exports, and consistent categories across the team. For U.S. payroll use, covered employers still need accurate daily and weekly hours for non-exempt workers covered by FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions.
The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for non-exempt workers, but it does not require one specific form, app, clock, or software system. A paper sheet, spreadsheet, timer app, or integrated tracker can work when the records are complete and accurate. The required record must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek for covered employees.
Yes, if the same records support client billing, project costing, or utilization. Billable status shows which hours can go on an invoice and which hours are internal, administrative, training, sales, or rework. This split also helps managers compare client work against internal load. Payroll review still needs hours actually worked, even when some of those hours are non-billable.
One tracker can support both when the data model is clean. Payroll review needs daily and weekly hours, worker identity, and a stable workweek. Project reporting needs client, project, task, billable status, rate, and budget context. Mixing those fields in free-text notes creates cleanup work, so a comprehensive setup uses structured fields instead.
Inconsistent project and task naming creates the most cleanup because the same work spreads across duplicate labels. "Website," "Web redesign," and "Client site" can describe one project but appear as three separate lines in reports. A comprehensive tracker needs naming rules, required fields, and approval review before time moves into billing, payroll, or budget reporting.
Everhour Reporting turns logged time, budgets, costs, and project details into customizable reports with 45+ columns, grouping, filters, date ranges, exports, and scheduled email delivery. Teams can review billable time, labor costs, profit, invoice status, budget metrics, and integration custom fields without rebuilding the same report each week.
Everhour embeds time tracking inside supported project tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Linear, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Team members can track time against the task they are working on, then managers can review the resulting entries by project, client, member, and task.
Use Everhour Reporting to group, filter, export, and schedule time reports across projects and clients, so weekly entries become billing, budget, and utilization insight.
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