Everhour tracks task and project hours with timers or manual entries, so weekly logs stay usable for 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.
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A time log should give you a clean record of who worked, which project or client received the work, the task performed, the start and stop time or duration, and whether the time is billable. For a freelancer, that record supports an invoice. For a manager, it supports approval, project reporting, budget checks, and payroll review without rebuilding the week from memory.
If you use the log for U.S. wage and hour records, keep the legal scope clear. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for non-exempt workers, and records for employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. The law allows any complete and accurate timekeeping method.
Start with fields that survive review: person, date, project, client, task, start time, stop time, total time, billable status, rate if used for billing, notes, and approval status. U.S. billing and rate fields normally use USD. Notes should identify the work enough for a reviewer to understand the entry, without collecting private details unrelated to the job.
A good weekly log also assigns every entry to the correct workweek. Under the FLSA, a workweek is a fixed, regularly recurring period of seven consecutive 24-hour periods. Covered non-exempt 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. Hours may not be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime purposes.
A useful time logging app gives you two entry paths: a live timer while work happens and manual entry after the fact. Timers reduce end-of-week reconstruction because the entry starts on the task itself. Manual entries still matter when time gets added after work is done or corrected during review, and each correction needs the date, workweek, reason, and reviewer context.
Treat app settings as recordkeeping controls. Choose whether people log to projects, tasks, or both; decide if client and billable status are required; and lock reviewed periods before invoices or payroll files are prepared. For U.S. employers, basic time and earnings records, such as daily start and stop time cards or sheets, must stay available for at least two years, and payroll records must be preserved for at least three years.
A one-off weekly log is enough when you need a quick total, a simple invoice attachment, or a short project recap. It works best for a small set of entries with one reviewer and no ongoing approval cycle. Keep the exported copy with the invoice, payroll packet, or project file so the numbers can be traced later.
A managed workflow fits when tracked time must feed approvals, budgets, invoices, reports, or payroll review every week. Everhour Time Tracking captures task and project hours through timers or manual entries, works inside supported project tools, and gives admins approval, locked-period, reminder, and automatic timer stop controls. That system reduces re-keying and creates a clearer handoff from work to review.
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A time clock records start and end of a work period. A time logging app adds project, client, task, billable status, notes, approval, and reporting fields. A payroll time clock can satisfy record needs if it captures complete and accurate hours; a project log needs additional coding for invoices, budgets, and utilization.
Use a timer for work you can start and stop as it happens, especially task-based work that needs project or client coding. Use manual entry for accurate after-the-fact additions and approved corrections. Manual entries should keep the date, workweek, person, total, and correction reason so a reviewer can see why the record changed.
Use the fixed workweek the employer has established, a regularly recurring period of seven consecutive 24-hour periods under the FLSA. The weekly boundary matters because covered non-exempt employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek. Averaging hours across two or more workweeks is not allowed for FLSA overtime purposes.
The FLSA does not require overtime premium pay solely because work falls on Saturday, Sunday, a holiday, or a regular rest day. A special code is useful when another law, employment policy, union agreement, or contract pays a premium. The weekly overtime rule still applies when covered non-exempt employees work over 40 hours in the workweek.
Collect enough detail to identify the project, task, client, and business purpose of the entry. Avoid unrelated personal notes. 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.
Everhour Time Tracking logs task and project hours through one-click timers or manual entries, including inside supported tools such as Asana, ClickUp, Jira, Trello, and GitHub. Those entries feed timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review without moving the work out of the project tool.
Use Everhour Time Tracking to capture task and project hours through timers or manual entries, lock approved periods, and move clean records into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoicing, and payroll review.
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