Employee hours contain payroll and privacy data. Everhour supports approved timesheets for teams that need controlled review.
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.
Measurement
Track your budget through time or costs
Every report you need — configured your way, always up to date.
Tracked hours flow straight into a polished invoice — no copy-paste, no manual math.
A secure employee time tracking app helps you record hours without turning timekeeping into guesswork. 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. The app should make those fields easy to review before payroll, client billing, or project reporting.
The federal baseline does not require one specific timekeeping form or system. Covered employers may use any complete and accurate method for nonexempt workers. The practical job is simple: capture the work date, person, project or task, daily hours, weekly total, and approval status in a way an owner, manager, bookkeeper, or HR reviewer can understand later.
A useful employee time record separates date, worker, project, task, billable status, start and stop detail or total daily hours, and notes for corrections. Teams that bill clients also need rates in U.S. dollars, invoice status, and enough project context to explain the charge. Payroll review needs daily and weekly totals, not only a month-end summary.
FLSA overtime for covered nonexempt employees is based on a fixed 168-hour workweek. Unless exempt, covered employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay. 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.
Security for employee time tracking is partly technical and partly procedural. Collect the hours and work context needed for payroll, billing, budgets, and reporting. Avoid turning a timesheet tool into broad surveillance. FTC guidance for businesses handling sensitive personal information says companies should collect only what they need, keep it safe, and dispose of it securely.
State privacy rules can add duties beyond the federal baseline. California is a clear example: CCPA privacy rights extend to California residents who are employees or job applicants, and the employment-data exemptions expired on December 31, 2022. Covered businesses using employee time-tracking data need privacy handling that fits those obligations, including access limits, retention discipline, and clear correction workflows.
A free weekly tracker is enough when you need a single employee total, a quick client note, or a short-term project record. It stops being enough when multiple people submit time, managers approve corrections, payroll needs a closed period, or client invoices must tie back to project hours.
A managed workflow gives you continuity. Tracked time feeds weekly timesheets, project reports, billing review, and payroll handoff without re-entering the same hours. Everhour fits that longer-term use case when a team needs submitted time, manager approval, rejected or partially approved entries, and locked records after review.
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No. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, but it does not require biometric time capture. A complete record can come from timers, manual entries, timesheets, or another accurate method. Biometric collection creates separate privacy and consent questions under applicable state law and company policy.
No. Time tracking records work time for payroll, billing, budgets, and project review. Employee monitoring often covers broader activity such as screenshots, keystrokes, or app usage. A secure time tracking setup should collect the hours and work context needed for the business purpose, then restrict access and retention for that employee data.
Manager review, role-based access, locked periods, and correction history matter most. Payroll and billing records lose value when any user can edit old entries without review. A secure workflow lets employees submit time, lets managers approve or reject it, and prevents regular members from changing approved records.
No. The app can store entries, but the employer must define the workweek correctly. Under the FLSA, a workweek is a fixed, regularly recurring period of seven consecutive 24-hour periods. Hours may not be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime purposes.
Employers must 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. A secure app should make retention practical without keeping unnecessary employee data longer than the business, legal, or policy need requires.
Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person so managers can review time before payroll or billing. Employees can submit time, and managers can approve, reject, partially approve, or request corrections before approved time becomes locked for regular members.
Everhour embeds time tracking inside tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, Linear, and Basecamp. Teams can track time where work happens while approved hours flow into one reporting layer for budgets, utilization, billing, and payroll review.
Move employee time from one-off totals to approved weekly records. Everhour Timesheets give teams submission, review, rejection, partial approval, and locked time for cleaner payroll and billing review.
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