China's hour caps and PIPL rules shape project records. Everhour turns tracked work into reporting for review.
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A project time tracking app supports the weekly work of assigning hours to clients, projects, tasks, and people. For China-based work, the practical goal is a record that shows who worked, on which project, on which date, for how long, and whether the time belongs to billable delivery, internal work, or administrative activity.
The output should help a manager approve project totals without rebuilding the week from chat messages or calendar notes. A clean record separates project hours from attendance assumptions. It also gives finance a better handoff for billing and gives HR a clearer trail when working-time or overtime questions need review.
China does not impose one universal clock-in system for every employer, but the Labor Law sets working-time limits of no more than 8 hours per day and no more than 44 hours per week on average. Employers also work under overtime extension limits and statutory overtime pay rates of 150%, 200%, and 300% depending on the work situation.
Identifiable time entries or attendance logs are personal information under China's Personal Information Protection Law. Ordinary HR use can rely on necessary human-resources management under lawful labor rules or collective contracts, but biometric data, individual location tracking, and cross-border transfers require stricter handling. Mainland teams should also plan for Putonghua and standardized Chinese characters in user-facing workflows.
A useful project record starts with the employee, date, project, task, duration, work description, billing status, and approval status. Teams that bill clients should also keep the client, rate category, invoice period, and comments explaining unusual entries. Teams reviewing labor cost should keep non-billable project work visible instead of hiding it inside general administration.
A filled weekly record should read like an audit trail, not a diary. For example, a product implementation task can show 2.5 hours on configuration, 1 hour on client review, and 30 minutes on internal corrections, with billable status set per line. That structure supports project reporting while leaving room for payroll and working-time review.
A free one-off tracker is enough when you need a short project total, a client summary, or a quick export for a narrow billing period. It works best for freelancers, small vendors, or managers reconciling a single week. The record still needs accurate dates, people, project names, task notes, and a clear separation between billable and non-billable time.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when project hours repeat every week, several people submit time, managers approve entries, or finance needs consistent exports. Everhour Reporting turns logged time, budgets, costs, and project data into configurable reports with columns, grouping, filters, date ranges, exports, and scheduled email delivery, giving teams a durable reporting layer for project review.
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China's national labor rules do not prescribe one universal clock-in system for all employers. Employers still need records that support working-hour, overtime, employee-roster, and wage-payment obligations. A project time tracking app should therefore fit the employer's work rules, approval process, privacy controls, and reporting needs.
The Labor Law sets ordinary working time at no more than 8 hours per day and no more than 44 hours per week on average. It also limits overtime extensions to 1 hour per day generally, up to 3 hours per day for special reasons, and no more than 36 hours per month.
Identifiable time entries and attendance logs fall within China's Personal Information Protection Law when they relate to an identified or identifiable natural person. Employee names, IDs, task records, login details, location-based records, and device-linked attendance records require privacy-aware handling under the employer's lawful HR rules.
Location tracking and biometric information are sensitive personal information under PIPL. Employers need a specific purpose, sufficient necessity, strict protection measures, and separate consent unless another law provides otherwise. Basic task time entry usually creates less privacy risk than fingerprint, face, or individual location tracking.
Cross-border transfer of personal information from China requires a PIPL transfer route, such as a security assessment, certification, standard contract, or another authorized condition. The employer must also give notice to the individual and obtain separate consent before providing the personal information outside China.
Everhour Reporting turns logged project time into customizable reports with 45+ columns, grouping, filters, date ranges, and export formats including CSV, Excel/XLSX, and PDF. Managers can review project, client, member, billable time, labor cost, and invoice-status data in one reporting workflow.
Everhour Time Tracking lets users start a timer or add manual entries against tasks and projects, including inside tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Those entries feed timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review.
Turn recurring project hours into reports that finance and managers can use. Everhour Reporting organizes logged time by project, client, member, cost, and billing status for cleaner review.
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