A free tracker helps employees record daily work, while Everhour gives teams controls for approvals, limits, and reporting.
Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.
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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 capture employee time for a current workweek, split hours by day, and separate billable work from internal work. A useful employee time record shows the person, date, project or task, time spent, and notes that explain the work. For U.S. payroll review, covered employers need records that can support daily hours worked and total hours worked each workweek for employees covered by FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions.
A weekly total alone rarely gives enough detail for review. If an employee logs 42 hours, the record should show which days created the total and which tasks or projects used the time. 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. State law, policy, or a contract can add stricter rules.
A free employee time tracking app should let you record names, dates, projects, tasks, billable status, hourly rates when needed, and comments. The practical value is the finished weekly record you can export, save, or hand to payroll, a manager, or a client. A no-install tracker is enough for freelancers, small teams, and one-off cleanup when you need a clean record before an invoice or payroll deadline.
Free access does not remove the need for complete records. The FLSA does not require covered employers to use a specific timekeeping form or system, but the method must be complete and accurate for non-exempt workers. Keep payroll records 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.
Manual entry works when employees already know the time spent and need to reconstruct a small number of entries. Timers work better when the task changes during the day, because the employee records time while the work happens. A practical weekly record can show 2 hours on client support, 3.5 hours on implementation, and 1 hour on internal admin for the same employee on the same date.
Teams should decide before tracking starts whether entries use start and stop times, duration totals, or both. Start and stop times help explain long days, breaks, and late corrections. Duration totals are faster for project billing. Billable and non-billable labels matter because client invoices, project budgets, utilization reports, and payroll review answer different questions from the same time data.
A free app is enough when you need a weekly total, a simple export, or a short-term record for a small group. It is also practical for testing what employees should track before choosing a system. A managed workflow becomes necessary when time affects payroll, client billing, approvals, project budgets, capacity, or repeated reporting across multiple employees and clients.
Everhour fits that longer workflow by adding team controls around the time record. Team Management supports lock rules, admin time correction, personal tracking limits, weekly capacity, approval workflow, roles, project assignments, team groups, and team-wide policy defaults. That structure helps a manager turn employee entries into reviewed records instead of chasing edits after payroll or invoicing has already started.
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A free app can support payroll records if it captures complete and accurate daily hours and total weekly hours for employees covered by FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions. The employer still remains responsible for recordkeeping quality, retention, and any state wage, overtime, privacy, or employee-monitoring rules that apply.
Employees should enter the date, employee name, project or task, hours worked, billable status when relevant, and comments that explain unusual entries or corrections. U.S. teams commonly use USD for rate and billing fields. Covered employers also need records that support daily hours worked and total hours worked each workweek for covered employees.
Free time tracking records hours, but payroll rules determine overtime pay. Under the federal baseline, covered nonexempt 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. Hours cannot be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime purposes.
Weekend and holiday hours can stay in the same weekly employee record when the dates and hours are clear. The FLSA does not require overtime premium pay solely for Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or regular rest-day work unless weekly overtime is triggered or another law, policy, or agreement applies.
The biggest mistake is recording only a weekly total with no daily breakdown or task context. That format makes payroll review, client billing, and corrections harder. A better record shows daily hours, the work performed, billable status, and any later correction so a reviewer can understand the entry without asking the employee to recreate the week.
Everhour Team Management gives admins lock rules, personal tracking limits, weekly capacity, approval workflows, roles, project assignments, team groups, and team-wide policy defaults. Managers can review submitted time, correct entries when needed, and protect approved periods from regular member edits.
Everhour embeds tracking controls inside supported tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Linear, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Employees can track time against existing tasks while logged time flows into Everhour for timesheets, reports, budgets, and billing review.
Use a free tracker for quick weekly records, then move recurring employee time into Everhour Team Management for approvals, limits, locked periods, and cleaner payroll or billing handoff.
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