Team hours turn into payroll, billing, and budget decisions. Everhour keeps employee time connected to real project work.
Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.
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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 team employee time tracking app helps you collect time from multiple people without turning weekly review into a spreadsheet chase. The practical outcome is a clean set of daily hours, weekly totals, project assignments, client labels, and billable status. For U.S. employers, the federal baseline under the FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for non-exempt workers, including hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
The app does not need to use one federally required format. The FLSA allows any complete and accurate timekeeping method. That flexibility matters for teams with mixed work patterns: one employee can use a live timer on task work, another can enter approved hours after a client call, and managers can still review one consistent weekly record.
Team tracking works best when each entry answers four questions: who worked, when they worked, what they worked on, and whether the time is billable. A useful entry names the project, client, task, date, duration, and note when the work needs context. For billing teams, rate fields normally use U.S. dollars for U.S. users, then invoices and reports can follow the same money format.
Payroll review needs different checks than client billing. Covered non-exempt employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek at not less than 1.5 times the regular rate. Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or rest-day work does not create federal premium pay by itself unless the weekly overtime rule applies or another law, policy, or agreement adds a separate requirement.
The most common team mistake is treating a total-hours number as the whole record. A weekly total helps, but it does not replace daily hours worked, project detail, and review status. Reconstructed time entered at the end of the week also drifts toward rounded guesses. Timers and same-day entries create a cleaner record because employees log work closer to the moment it happened.
Privacy also belongs in the setup decision. Time tracking should collect the work data needed for payroll, billing, budgets, and staffing, then protect it. U.S. businesses handling personal information must avoid unfair or deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act, and FTC guidance says companies keeping sensitive customer or employee information should collect only what they need, secure it, and dispose of it safely.
A free weekly tracker is enough when you need a quick view of team hours for one period, a small job, or a simple internal check. Early use can also show whether your team needs project labels, client fields, billable status, approvals, or exportable records before you commit to a workflow.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when time feeds budgets, retainers, payroll review, or recurring client billing. Everhour Project Budgeting supports hour-based and money-based budgets, recurring budget periods, email alerts, budget protection, expense inclusion controls, multiple billing methods, and client-level budgets. That turns employee time from a weekly total into a live control for project limits and client spend.
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For covered employers under the FLSA, records for employees covered by minimum wage or overtime provisions must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. A team app should keep both levels visible. Weekly totals help managers review capacity, but daily entries support payroll review, corrections, and wage-and-hour recordkeeping.
Manual entry is acceptable when the record is complete and accurate. The FLSA does not require one specific timekeeping form or system. Teams should set clear rules for same-day entry, corrections, approvals, and notes, because delayed manual timesheets often lose task detail and create more manager follow-up.
Teams that bill clients, watch budgets, or compare estimates against actuals should track by project and client. Internal teams can use project and task labels to understand capacity and workload. A plain employee total shows attendance or working time, but it does not show which customer, initiative, or budget consumed the hours.
FLSA overtime for covered non-exempt employees is based on each fixed 168-hour workweek. Hours may not be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime purposes. An employee who works 45 hours in one workweek and 35 in the next still has 5 overtime hours in the first week, unless an exemption applies.
Employers must keep payroll records for at least three years. Basic time and earnings records, including daily start and stop time cards or time sheets, must be preserved for at least two years. State rules, contracts, audits, grants, or client agreements can require longer retention, so teams should match the stricter rule when one applies.
Everhour Project Budgeting uses logged employee time to track hour-based or money-based project budgets in real time. Teams can set recurring budget periods, email alerts at budget thresholds, budget protection, expense inclusion rules, multiple billing methods, and client-level budgets for work that spans several projects.
Track employee hours against budgets before invoices, payroll review, or client reporting begin. Everhour connects time entries to project budget controls so teams see spend earlier and protect margin.
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