Everhour keeps employee time tracking simple with timers, manual entries, and project workflows that support billing and budgets.
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.
Use this page to think through employee time tracking as a weekly operating habit: capture time worked each day, total the workweek, and keep entries tied to the person, project, client, or task that needs review. For covered nonexempt employees under the FLSA, employer records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
An easy employee tracking setup starts with three decisions: who tracks time, which work categories they use, and who reviews entries before payroll, billing, or project reporting. The FLSA does not require a specific timekeeping form or system for covered employers. It requires complete and accurate records for nonexempt workers, so the app needs to preserve enough detail to support that record.
A low-friction tracker gives employees a clear choice between starting a timer while work happens and adding a manual entry after the work is done. Timers fit task-based work because the entry starts before the employee switches context. Manual entries fit meetings, field work, or cleanup, as long as the employee records the time promptly and the reviewer can see the date, person, and work category.
Simple also means fewer fields, with the right fields kept mandatory. A practical employee entry includes date, employee, start and stop time or duration, project or client, task or work type, and billable status when the time affects invoices. U.S. billing and rate fields normally use U.S. dollars. Comments help only when they explain an exception, such as a corrected entry or a task split across two projects.
Rebuilt timesheets create avoidable errors because employees estimate blocks of time after the work has already moved on. A Monday-to-Friday employee who fills the whole week on Friday afternoon often rounds meetings, misses small client tasks, or assigns internal work to billable projects. Daily tracking reduces cleanup because the employee records the work while the task and context are still specific.
The workweek matters for payroll review. Under the FLSA, a workweek is a fixed, regularly recurring period of seven consecutive 24-hour periods, totaling 168 hours. Covered nonexempt 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. Hours cannot be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime purposes.
A free weekly tracker is enough for a small one-time total, a quick client recap, or a short internal check before payroll. It stops being enough when employee hours need approvals, locked periods, budget alerts, invoice support, or repeated exports. Payroll records must be preserved 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.
A managed workflow connects tracked time to project budgets, client billing, and review steps before the numbers leave the team. Everhour can support that shift with time and money budgets, recurring budget periods, threshold email alerts, and budget protection that stops extra logging after a budget is exceeded. That turns a simple weekly habit into a repeatable system for project and cost control.
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The FLSA does not require covered employers to use an app, time clock, spreadsheet, or any other specific system. Covered employers must keep accurate records for nonexempt workers. For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, those records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
Useful entries identify the employee, date, work duration or start and stop time, project or client, task or work type, and billable status when invoicing applies. A reviewer also needs comments for corrections or exceptions. The goal is a record that explains who worked, when the work happened, and where the time belongs.
Manual entries are acceptable when the record stays complete and accurate. Timers reduce recall errors for task-based work, while manual entries fit meetings, travel, field work, or work added after the fact. A clear review process matters because late manual entries often need confirmation before payroll, billing, or project reporting.
The FLSA does not require overtime premium pay solely because an employee works on Saturday, Sunday, a holiday, or a regular rest day. Covered nonexempt employees receive FLSA overtime when they work more than 40 hours in a workweek, unless another law, policy, contract, or agreement creates a separate premium rule.
A simple app should collect the time data needed for payroll, billing, and project review, then protect it. 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 employee information should collect only what they need, secure it, and dispose of it safely.
Everhour Project Budgeting turns employee hours into live time or money budget progress. Teams can use one-time or recurring budget periods, receive email alerts at 75%, 90%, 100%, or custom thresholds, and apply budget protection to stop timers and prevent extra logging after a budget is exceeded.
Everhour Time Tracking embeds timers and manual entry controls inside tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Linear, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Employees can log work against the task they already use, and tracked time flows into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review.
Start with simple employee time entries, then connect them to budgets, alerts, and approved workflows. Everhour gives teams project budget visibility from the same hours used for billing and review.
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