Everhour tracks task and project time for IT teams, while records stay usable for payroll, 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.
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Tracked hours flow straight into a polished invoice — no copy-paste, no manual math.
IT time tracking software helps you turn scattered work into records a manager, bookkeeper, or client can read. A useful record shows who worked, the date, the task or project, the time spent, and whether the time is billable. For U.S. payroll review, covered employers must keep accurate records for non-exempt workers covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions.
The practical goal is a clean weekly view, not a pile of disconnected notes. Records for employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. Client billing needs a different lens: time grouped by project, client, task, billing rate, and invoice status. Good software lets both views use the same underlying entries.
Each time entry needs a worker, date, start and stop time or duration, project, task, and note that explains the work in plain language. Teams that bill clients also need billable and non-billable status, a rate field in U.S. dollars for U.S. users, and a way to review entries before they reach an invoice. Internal teams need project and task grouping to compare planned work with actual hours.
Manual entry and timers solve different problems. A live timer captures work as it happens and reduces end-of-week reconstruction. Manual entry covers time added after the work is done, corrections, and work that was not tracked live. A clear system labels entry types so reviewers can see whether time came from a timer, a manual entry, or a later change.
IT work often crosses tools, projects, and approval paths, so the time tracking structure has to follow the work without hiding payroll obligations. A single weekly total is too thin for covered non-exempt employees under the FLSA recordkeeping baseline because required records include daily hours worked and total hours worked each workweek. Project totals alone also leave billing reviewers without the task detail needed to explain charges.
Privacy deserves the same practical treatment as payroll. U.S. businesses handling personal information must avoid unfair or deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act, and FTC guidance says companies that keep sensitive personal information about employees should collect only what they need, keep it safe, and dispose of it securely. California employee time-tracking data may also fall under CCPA obligations for covered businesses.
A simple tracker is enough when you need one person's weekly total, a short project record, or a quick export for review. It works best when the work is simple, the reviewer knows the context, and no one needs locked approvals, recurring reports, budget alerts, or invoice-ready detail. The output still needs daily and weekly hours when FLSA-covered non-exempt employee records are involved.
A managed workflow fits teams that need continuous tracking across projects and clients. Everhour Time Tracking lets people use timers or manual entries against tasks and projects, including inside supported project tools. Those entries can feed timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review, while admins use approvals, reminders, locked periods, and timer rules to control the record before it leaves the team.
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G2
Summer 2026
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Capterra
Summer 2026
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IT time tracking software should record the person, date, project, task, time spent, and a short work note. Teams that bill clients also need billable status, rate, client, and invoice 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.
Project time alone is incomplete for U.S. payroll review when covered non-exempt employees are involved. The FLSA recordkeeping baseline requires daily hours worked and total hours worked each workweek for employees covered by its minimum wage or overtime provisions. Project totals help with budgets and billing, but payroll review also needs the workday and workweek view.
Overtime fields matter when the records support payroll for covered non-exempt employees. Unless exempt, covered employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek, at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay. Hours cannot be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime purposes.
Weekend work is not automatically overtime under the federal FLSA 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, contract, or agreement applies. State rules and employer policies can add separate requirements.
Federal rules require employers to preserve 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. Teams that use time records for invoices, budgets, or client questions often keep exports with the related billing or project file.
Everhour Time Tracking records task and project hours through live timers or manual entries, including inside supported tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Jira, Linear, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Those entries can feed timesheets, reporting, budgeting, invoicing, and payroll review.
Everhour Timesheets let users submit weekly project hours or working hours for review. Managers can approve, reject, or partially approve submitted time, and submitted or approved time is locked from regular edits unless it is withdrawn or rejected.
Track IT work where it happens, review weekly time before it reaches payroll or invoices, and let Everhour connect task hours to reports, budgets, and billing.
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