Everhour connects tracked hours to budgets, while elapsed-time totals keep timesheets, invoices, and payroll review precise.
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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You came to convert a start time and an end time into a usable duration. That total may become a timesheet entry, an invoice line, a payroll review note, or a project budget update. Enter the clock times in the same format, include dates for spans that cross midnight, and subtract time not actually worked before treating the result as hours actually worked.
For U.S. payroll review, the total must fit into daily and weekly records. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, but the federal baseline does not require one clock, app, form, or system. For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, records must show hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
A useful time entry needs more than a duration. Record the person, start date, start time, end date, end time, project, client, task, and whether the time is billable. U.S. rate and invoice fields normally use U.S. dollars. Add a short work note when the entry supports client billing, a correction, or a manager review.
A clean line can read: March 5, 2026, 9:10 AM to 12:40 PM, Client A discovery call, billable, $125 per hour, notes complete. The elapsed total is 3 hours 30 minutes. That line gives the bookkeeper a billable amount, gives the manager a project-hours update, and gives payroll a daily-hours input for an employee covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions.
Elapsed-time entries become payroll-sensitive once they roll into a workweek. Under the FLSA, a workweek is a fixed, regularly recurring period of seven consecutive 24-hour periods, or 168 hours. Covered nonexempt employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in that workweek at not less than one and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay.
Two common mistakes distort the total. A 45-hour week cannot be averaged with a 35-hour week for FLSA overtime purposes. 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, policy, contract, or agreement applies.
A quick elapsed-time total works for a single shift check, a one-time client note, or a simple weekly total. It stops being enough when several people charge time to the same project, a retainer resets every month, or a manager needs an approval trail before payroll, billing, or budget decisions use the hours.
Everhour Project Budgeting fits the managed version of that workflow. Teams can track hour-based or money-based budgets, set one-time or recurring periods, and receive email alerts at 75%, 90%, 100%, or a custom threshold. With budget protection enabled, Everhour can stop running timers and prevent additional time logging after a budget is exceeded.
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A reliable total needs the start date, start time, end date, end time, and a label that ties the span to a worker, project, client, or task. Payroll review also needs the total placed into the correct workday and workweek. Billing review needs the billable status, rate, and a short description of the work.
A single elapsed-time result does not decide overtime under the FLSA. The result must roll into the employee's fixed workweek total. Covered nonexempt employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek at not less than one and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay.
FLSA overtime uses each fixed workweek separately. A workweek is a regularly recurring period of seven consecutive 24-hour periods, totaling 168 hours. Hours may not be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime purposes, even when the combined two-week total looks balanced.
The FLSA does not require overtime premium pay solely for Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or regular rest-day work. Premium pay is required under the federal baseline only when the weekly overtime rule is triggered for covered nonexempt employees, or when another law, policy, contract, or agreement requires it.
Under federal FLSA recordkeeping rules, employers must preserve payroll records for at least three years. Basic time and earnings records, including daily start and stop time cards or sheets, must be kept for at least two years. State rules or company policies may require longer retention.
Everhour Project Budgeting tracks time and expenses against hour-based or money-based budgets as people log work. Teams can use one-time or recurring budget periods, email alerts at 75%, 90%, 100%, or custom thresholds, and budget protection that stops timers or prevents extra time logging after a budget is exceeded.
Everhour embeds time tracking controls inside supported tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Linear, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Tracked time stays tied to the task or project where the work happens, then flows into Everhour for reporting, billing, and review.
Move from one-off elapsed-time checks to live project budgets. Everhour tracks time and expenses against hour or money budgets, sends threshold alerts, and with budget protection enabled, prevents extra logging to control project overrun.
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