Minimal records reduce cleanup, and Everhour keeps employee time visible through reporting without turning tracking into surveillance.
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.
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You came here to capture employee hours with the fewest moving parts: who worked, on which day, for how long, and against which project, client, or task. A minimalist setup works best when the team needs a clean weekly record rather than a complex workforce system.
For U.S. employers, simplicity still needs structure. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for non-exempt workers, and records for employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
A practical employee time record starts with the employee name, date, start and stop times or total daily hours, project or client, task label, billable status, and notes for corrections. Payroll and billing fields normally use U.S. dollars for U.S. users, especially when hourly rates or invoice amounts are included.
The workweek matters more than the calendar month for federal overtime review. A workweek is a fixed, regularly recurring period of 168 hours. Unless exempt, covered employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek at not less than 1.5 times the regular rate.
A minimalist app should remove clutter, not remove the evidence behind the hours. One line that says "40 hours" for the week gives less review value than five daily entries tied to projects or tasks. Daily detail helps managers spot missing time, misplaced billable work, and corrections before payroll or client billing closes.
The cleanest setup uses defaults. Set the workweek, require a project or client, separate billable from non-billable work, and keep notes optional unless someone edits time after the fact. Avoid fields such as mood, screenshots, keystrokes, or broad activity labels when the business only needs time, project, and approval records.
A free weekly tracker is enough for a solo owner, a small team testing a workflow, or a one-time cleanup before invoicing. It gives you a quick total and a basic record without installing a full system.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when employee time feeds payroll, recurring client billing, budgets, approvals, or project reporting. Everhour fits that stage when tracked time needs to flow across projects and clients into reports, timesheets, and exports instead of living in scattered weekly files.
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A lean record should include employee, date, daily hours or start and stop times, workweek total, project or client, task, billable status, and correction notes when time changes. For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, employer records must include daily hours worked and total hours worked each workweek.
One all-day timer works only when the employee performs one kind of work for one project and the record still shows the daily hours worked. Teams that bill clients, compare budgets, or review non-billable work need project, client, or task splits. Otherwise, payroll may have a total, but billing and project review lose the detail they need.
Federal FLSA rules do not require a specific timekeeping form or system. Covered employers must keep complete and accurate records for non-exempt workers. A spreadsheet, app, time clock, or timesheet can work if it captures the required records and the employer preserves payroll records for at least three years and basic time and earnings records for at least two years.
Attendance shows that someone worked; project tracking shows where the time went. A team that only runs payroll can often start with daily employee hours. A team that bills clients, checks project budgets, or measures utilization needs project or client fields so time can be reviewed before invoices, budgets, or staffing decisions use it.
A setup that stores only a pay-period total creates overtime review problems. FLSA overtime for covered non-exempt employees is based on hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek, and hours may not be averaged across two or more workweeks. Daily and weekly records keep the review tied to the correct workweek.
Everhour Reporting turns logged time into configurable reports with 45+ columns, filters, grouping, date ranges, and exports in CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF. A team can keep time entry lean while managers review billable time, labor costs, project budgets, invoice status, and overtime visibility in Team Hours or custom reports.
Track employee time with a minimal entry flow, then use Everhour Reporting to group, filter, export, and review those hours for billing, payroll checks, and project visibility.
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