Everhour tracks task and project hours with timers or manual entries, turning work time into timesheets, reports, and billing records.
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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Tracked hours flow straight into a polished invoice — no copy-paste, no manual math.
Use an hour tracker when you need a clear record of work time for the week, a client invoice, a payroll review, or a project budget check. The basic job is simple: capture hours by day, person, project, client, or task, then separate billable time from non-billable work.
For U.S. payroll records, covered employers must keep accurate records for nonexempt workers covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions. Those records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. The FLSA does not require one specific timekeeping form or system, but the method must be complete and accurate.
A practical hour record starts with the date, worker, start and stop times or total hours, project or client, task description, and billing status. Teams that bill clients also need the rate, invoice status, and notes that explain the work without exposing unnecessary personal or sensitive information.
Manual entry works for short updates, corrections, and work recorded after the fact. Timers work better during active project work because they reduce end-of-week reconstruction. A clean weekly view should show daily totals, weekly totals, billable hours, non-billable hours, and any entries that need approval before payroll or invoicing.
The biggest hour-tracking mistake is rebuilding the week from memory after the work is done. Reconstructed time often loses small task switches, internal work, meetings, and client follow-up. The result is a timesheet that looks tidy but fails to explain where the week actually went.
For covered nonexempt employees under the FLSA, overtime is based on hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek. Hours may not be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime purposes. Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or rest-day work does not create federal overtime premium pay by itself unless the weekly overtime rule is triggered or another law or agreement applies.
A free hour tracker is enough when you need one weekly total, a quick billable-hours summary, or a simple record for your own notes. It also works for a freelancer who has a small number of clients and can review every entry before sending an invoice.
A managed workflow matters when tracked time feeds payroll, client billing, budgets, and approvals. Everhour Time Tracking lets teams record hours with live timers or manual entries, connect time to tasks and projects, and route entries into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoicing, and payroll review. Admins can also use reminders, locked periods, approvals, and timer rules.
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An hour tracker should record the date, worker, project or client, task, daily hours, weekly total, and billing status. For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, employer records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
An hour tracker captures time as work happens or when a worker enters it later. A timesheet organizes those entries for review, approval, payroll, billing, or reporting. The tracker creates the raw record; the timesheet turns it into a weekly or pay-period document.
Use a timer for active task work and manual entry for corrections, short offline work, or approved adjustments. Timer-based entries usually reduce memory-based estimates, while manual entries still need enough detail to explain the date, project, task, and hours recorded.
Weekend work does not create federal overtime premium pay by itself under the FLSA. Covered nonexempt employees must receive overtime pay at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate for hours worked over 40 in a workweek, unless another law, policy, or contract adds a different rule.
Federal rules require employers to preserve payroll records for at least three years and basic time and earnings records, including daily start and stop time cards or sheets, for at least two years. State rules, contracts, or company policies can require longer retention.
Everhour Time Tracking records task and project hours through live timers or manual entries. Those entries can flow into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review, with admin controls for approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer behavior.
Track approved hours across projects, clients, and tasks with Everhour Time Tracking, then use those records for timesheets, reporting, billing, budgeting, and payroll review.
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