Everhour connects work hours to budgets and billing, while your records stay precise enough for payroll review.
Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.
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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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You track time at work to create a reliable record for payroll, billing, budgets, and workload review. A useful entry ties hours to a date, person, project, client, and task. For U.S. teams, covered employers must keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, including hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
A workweek under the FLSA is a fixed, regularly recurring period of 168 hours. Covered nonexempt employees receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in that workweek at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay. State wage, overtime, privacy, employee-monitoring rules, policies, and contracts can add requirements.
A complete and accurate method matters more than the format. The FLSA does not require covered employers to use a specific timekeeping form or system for nonexempt workers. Paper timesheets, spreadsheets, timers, time clocks, and software can all work when they capture the required details and preserve records.
Manual entry works for planned work that employees record promptly, such as a weekly client call or an internal meeting. Timers work better for task-based work that changes during the day. A developer moving between three tickets, for example, should record each task separately so project totals, billable time, and budget progress stay usable.
Payroll time and billable time answer different questions. Payroll records focus on hours worked by employees, overtime treatment, retention, and wage compliance. Client billing focuses on whether the work is chargeable under the contract, the billing rate, the client, and the invoice description.
A clean entry uses one source hour and then labels it correctly. For example, 2.5 hours on a client implementation task can be payroll time, project time, and billable client time. A 30-minute internal team meeting can be payroll time and non-billable project time. U.S. billing and payroll rate fields normally use U.S. dollars.
A one-off weekly total is enough for a quick self-check, a small freelance job, or a simple record of hours before you prepare an invoice. It stops being enough once several people, clients, budgets, approvals, or payroll reviews depend on the same time data.
Everhour Project Budgeting gives teams a managed workflow for time and money budgets, recurring periods, email alerts, budget protection, expense inclusion controls, multiple billing methods, and client-level budgets. Tracked time then feeds project limits as work happens, instead of forcing a manager to rebuild budget status from disconnected weekly notes.
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Federal law does not require one specific time clock system. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, including daily hours worked and total hours worked each workweek. The method can be manual or digital as long as the record is complete, accurate, and retained for the required period.
A timer gives the most reliable record when work changes across tasks, projects, or clients during the day. Later entry works when the employee records time from clear notes or a stable schedule. Reconstructed end-of-week timesheets create risk because task details, start times, and non-billable interruptions are easy to lose.
Weekly payroll review should include hours actually worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek for employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions. Covered nonexempt employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek unless an exemption applies.
Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or rest-day work does not create federal overtime premium pay by itself. Under the FLSA federal baseline, covered nonexempt employees receive overtime when hours worked exceed 40 in the fixed 168-hour workweek. State law, a contract, or an employer policy can require a different premium.
Employers must keep payroll records for at least three years. Basic time and earnings records, such as daily start and stop time cards or sheets, must be preserved for at least two years. State rules, contracts, litigation holds, and internal audit requirements can require longer retention.
Everhour Project Budgeting applies tracked time to hour-based or money-based project budgets as work is logged. Teams can use one-time or recurring budget periods, set email alerts at defined thresholds, and apply budget protection rules that stop extra time logging after a budget is exceeded.
Everhour embeds tracking controls inside supported tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Linear, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Team members can start a timer on the task they are already using, while the recorded time flows into Everhour for review.
Track approved hours against live project limits, recurring budgets, and client-level budgets. Everhour connects daily time entries to budget alerts and billing decisions before overruns reach the invoice.
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