Everhour connects tracked hours to budgets and billing, while small teams keep accurate records without extra admin.
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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A small business time tracking app helps you capture the workday before memory turns into estimates. For U.S. payroll records, the FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, including hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. The law does not require a specific timekeeping form or system, so a complete and accurate app can fit the rule.
The practical goal is a clean weekly record: person, date, project or job, billable status, hours actually worked, and notes when needed. Small teams also need a fixed workweek for review. Under the FLSA, a workweek is a fixed, regularly recurring 168-hour period, and covered nonexempt employees must receive overtime pay after 40 hours in that workweek at at least 1.5 times the regular rate.
A useful setup starts with the fields that affect decisions. Track employee or contractor name, date, start and stop time or total duration, project, client, task, billable or non-billable status, and rate when time feeds an invoice. U.S. billing and payroll fields normally use U.S. dollars. Keep notes short and work-related so the record explains the entry without collecting unnecessary personal detail.
Small businesses should separate payroll review from client billing. Payroll needs daily hours and weekly totals for covered nonexempt workers. Billing needs client, project, task, billable time, and rate. A single entry can serve both purposes only when those labels are consistent. For example, "June 8, 2.5 hours, ACME website, design revisions, billable, $85 per hour" is easier to approve and invoice than a free-text note that says "website work."
Small teams often lose accuracy when everyone fills in a timesheet on Friday from memory. Reconstructed time creates rounded blocks, missing project switches, and unclear billable status. Timers work better for task-based work because the entry starts when the work starts. Manual entries still have a place for meetings, field work, or missed timers, but they need same-day notes and manager review.
Weekend and holiday labels also need care. The FLSA does not require overtime premium pay solely because work happens on Saturday, Sunday, a holiday, or a regular rest day. The federal baseline turns on weekly overtime for covered nonexempt employees, unless another law, policy, contract, or agreement adds a premium. Mark special days when your policy requires it, but do not treat the label alone as the overtime rule.
A one-off weekly total is enough when you only need to check a short week, rebuild a simple timesheet, or total hours for a single invoice. It stops being enough when the same people work across several clients, rates, tasks, and budgets. At that point, the business needs a system of record that preserves entries, approvals, changes, and exports for payroll, billing, and project review.
Everhour Project Budgeting fits the managed workflow when tracked time must stay tied to project limits. Teams can use hour-based or money-based budgets, recurring budget periods, threshold email alerts, budget protection, expense inclusion controls, multiple billing methods, and client-level budgets. That turns time tracking into an operating control, not a weekly cleanup exercise.
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Each entry should identify the worker, date, time worked, project or client, task, and billable status when billing applies. For covered employees under the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, employer records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. Add rates, invoice status, or approval notes only when those fields support payroll, billing, or project review.
Federal law does not require a specific app, clock, spreadsheet, or timekeeping form. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt workers. A small business can use any complete and accurate method, but the record must still support daily hours, weekly totals, wage review, and overtime review when the worker is covered by the rule.
Timers fit work that moves between projects, clients, or tasks during the day. Manual timesheets fit predictable blocks of work, field work, or corrections after a missed timer. A strong policy allows both and labels how the time was entered, so managers can spot end-of-week reconstruction, missing task detail, or repeated late edits before payroll or billing uses the record.
Weekend work does not automatically create FLSA overtime. Covered nonexempt 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. A state law, local rule, employment contract, collective bargaining agreement, or company policy can add a separate premium.
A time tracking app should collect the work data the business needs, protect it, and dispose of it securely when retention no longer applies. At the federal level, U.S. businesses handling personal information must avoid unfair or deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act. California covered businesses also need to treat employee time-tracking data as potentially covered by CCPA obligations.
Everhour Project Budgeting connects tracked time to hour-based or money-based project budgets, with recurring periods and email alerts at defined thresholds. A small business can use budget protection to stop extra logging after a budget is exceeded, then review spending before invoices, client updates, or staffing changes.
Track time against real project budgets before work reaches billing. Everhour connects logged hours, budget limits, alerts, and billing methods so small businesses catch overruns earlier.
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