Everhour keeps employee hours organized by task, project, and client, with reporting that supports billing and payroll 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.
Set a budget, assign rates, and get alerted before you're over.
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Use this page when you need an employee time tracking app that people can adopt without training-heavy setup. The practical goal is a clean weekly record: daily hours worked, total hours worked each workweek, project or client labels, billable status, and notes that explain the work. For U.S. employers covered by the FLSA, records for nonexempt workers must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
An easy app reduces the two problems that damage time records: skipped entries and vague entries. A weekly total alone does not show which day the work happened, and a project name alone does not show whether time was billable, internal, or administrative. A usable record gives a manager enough detail to review time without asking the employee to reconstruct the week from memory.
The easiest setup starts with a short list of fields: employee, date, start and stop time or duration, project, task, billable status, and notes. A timer works well for active task work because it captures time as the employee works. Manual entry still has a place for corrections, meetings, travel time, or work recorded after the fact, but managers should review late entries more closely.
Defaults matter. A team that works mostly on client projects should make the project and billable fields visible by default. A team that tracks internal work should use task labels such as support, admin, training, or operations. U.S. billing and rate fields normally use U.S. dollars. Simple labels create better reports than free-text descriptions, especially when several employees work on the same client.
A good employee time tracking app makes weekly review obvious. The FLSA workweek is a fixed, regularly recurring period of seven consecutive 24-hour periods, and 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 may not be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime purposes.
Weekend work needs context, not automatic premium treatment under the federal baseline. The FLSA does not require overtime premium pay solely for Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or regular rest-day work unless the weekly overtime rule is triggered or another law, policy, or agreement applies. A clear weekly review should show daily totals, the weekly total, billable and non-billable time, and any entries that need correction before payroll or invoicing.
A free weekly tracker is enough when you need a quick total, a short project recap, or a one-time record for a small job. A managed workflow becomes necessary when several employees track time across clients, managers approve timesheets, reports feed billing, or payroll review depends on locked records. U.S. employers must preserve payroll records for at least three years and basic time and earnings records for at least two years.
Everhour fits the managed workflow when a team needs more than a weekly total. Time entries can flow into customizable reports with 45+ columns, filters, grouping, exports, scheduled email delivery, profitability dashboards, and overtime visibility through Team Hours and custom reports. That structure helps managers turn employee time into reviewable records without rebuilding the same spreadsheet every week.
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An easy app keeps the first entry short and repeatable. Employees should be able to choose a project or task, mark time as billable or non-billable, add a short note, and submit the week without sorting through unrelated fields. Managers still need enough structure to review daily hours, weekly totals, and missing entries.
Yes, if the records stay complete and accurate. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, but it does not require a specific timekeeping form or system. For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
Task-level tracking gives better detail when managers need billing, budget, or productivity reports. Project-level tracking is faster when the work is broad and the client or department matters more than the exact task. Many teams use both: project for the main category, task for the specific work item, and notes only for exceptions.
Loose text labels create the most avoidable reporting problem. If one employee enters "Admin," another enters "Internal," and a third enters "Ops," the weekly total becomes harder to group. A short controlled list of projects, tasks, and billable statuses gives managers cleaner reports without making employees fill out long forms.
Yes. 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. FTC guidance says companies keeping sensitive personal information about customers or employees should collect only what they need, keep it safe, and dispose of it securely.
Everhour Reporting turns logged time into customizable reports with 45+ columns, grouping, metadata filters, date ranges, and exports in CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF. Managers can review employee hours by project, client, member, billable status, labor cost, invoice status, and other fields before billing or payroll review.
Everhour Timesheets let employees submit weekly project hours or working hours for review. Managers can approve, reject, or partially approve submitted time, and submitted or approved time is protected from edits unless it is withdrawn or rejected, which keeps the review trail cleaner.
Track approved hours, review team totals, and schedule report delivery with Everhour Reporting, so employee time records move from weekly entries to billing and payroll-ready summaries.
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