Creative work shifts between concepts, revisions, and client calls. Everhour keeps time tied to projects and tasks.
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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Use this page to organize time for design, copy, video, branding, production, and account work into records a client, manager, or finance reviewer can understand. A useful entry names the client, project, task, date, person, and billable status. The result supports invoices, budget checks, staffing review, and weekly approval without forcing someone to decode vague notes later.
For U.S. employers, time records also touch wage-and-hour obligations. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for non-exempt workers, including hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. The federal rule does not require a specific timekeeping form or system, so the method can match a studio workflow as long as the records stay complete and accurate.
Creative work should be tracked against the unit that drives cost and client value. A clean structure uses client, project, deliverable, and task. For example, a brand project can separate discovery, concept design, copy review, presentation prep, client feedback, revisions, and production handoff. That detail shows whether time went into approved scope, added rounds, or internal coordination.
Billable status needs the same discipline. Client-facing work, meetings, revisions, and production time often need different treatment from internal critique, training, pitching, or administrative work. A time entry should show whether the work is billable or non-billable before it reaches an invoice or utilization report. Clear tags reduce disputes when a client questions a line item or a manager reviews margin.
Creative teams often work in uneven blocks, but covered non-exempt employee records still need daily and weekly hours. Federal overtime under the FLSA is weekly, not daily. Unless exempt, covered employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek at not less than one and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay.
Weekend work needs careful handling. The FLSA does not require overtime premium pay solely because work happens on Saturday, Sunday, a holiday, or a regular rest day, unless the weekly overtime rule is triggered or another law, policy, contract, or agreement applies. Payroll records must be preserved for at least three years, and basic time and earnings records such as daily time cards or sheets must be preserved for at least two years.
A one-off weekly total is enough when you need a quick view of hours for one person, one project, or one billing period. It works for a freelancer checking time before sending an invoice, or a studio lead reviewing whether a small project stayed within the expected effort. The record still needs enough context to explain the work later.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when tracked time feeds approvals, invoices, budgets, payroll review, or recurring client reports. Everhour Time Tracking lets users start timers or add manual entries against tasks and projects, then carries that time into timesheets, reporting, budgeting, invoicing, and payroll review. Admin controls such as approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules keep the record stable after review.
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A practical structure uses client, project, deliverable, task, date, person, duration, and billable status. Creative notes should describe the work in plain terms, such as concept design, revision round, client presentation, production prep, or internal review. That level of detail supports billing and budget review without turning the time record into a long activity diary.
Deliverable-based tracking gives better billing and scope visibility because it connects time to the client outcome. Department labels such as design, copy, or production help with staffing review, but they do not explain which asset, campaign, or revision round consumed the hours. Many teams need both fields, with deliverable as the primary billing unit.
Time tracking records work time, projects, tasks, and billing context. Employee monitoring watches behavior or activity signals. 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 data, protect it, and dispose of it securely.
Covered employers 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. Unless exempt, covered employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in that workweek at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate.
Vague task names create the most friction. A line that says "design work" gives the client little basis to approve the charge, especially after multiple revision rounds. Entries tied to a client, project, deliverable, task, and billable status show what was done and why the time belongs on the invoice.
Everhour Time Tracking captures task and project hours through live timers or manual entries, so creative teams can record concept work, revisions, meetings, and production tasks in the same workflow. Submitted time can feed timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review.
Everhour supports approval and lock controls that protect reviewed time entries. Admins can lock completed periods, approve submitted timesheets, and use reminders or timer rules so billing and payroll review rely on stable records instead of late edits.
Track approved creative time by client, project, task, and billable status. Everhour Time Tracking connects those entries to approvals, budgets, invoices, and payroll review.
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