Everhour records task time and turns work logs into reports, budgets, approvals, and invoices.
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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You came here to record work from a computer, usually while project tickets, email, calendars, and documents are already open. Keep the timer or entry form one click away, such as in a pinned browser tab or desktop shortcut, so the record is updated while the context is fresh. The immediate goal is a clean day log: task, project, start or duration, billable status, and notes.
The finished record should answer three questions without a follow-up message: who worked, which project or task used the time, and whether the time affects payroll, billing, budgeting, or internal reporting. For U.S. wage records, covered employers need accurate records for nonexempt workers, including hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek for employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions.
A good work log uses the same structure every day. Record the person, date, project, task or work category, start and stop time or duration, billable status, rate when billing applies, and a short work note. U.S. billing and payroll rate fields normally use USD. Paid time not worked should sit in a separate category so payroll or policy review can handle it correctly.
Use a fixed workweek for review, not a loose pay-period bucket. Under the federal baseline, an FLSA workweek is a fixed, regularly recurring 168-hour period, and hours may not be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime for covered nonexempt employees. Employers must preserve payroll records for at least three years and basic time and earnings records, such as daily start/stop cards or sheets, for at least two years.
All-day entries create disputes because they hide meetings, project switches, lunch breaks, and admin work inside one total. Split the day when the work changes meaning: different client, different project, billable to nonbillable, or work to break. Keep notes factual and short, such as "drafted onboarding checklist" or "reviewed project tickets," instead of personal commentary or private employee details.
Idle time needs a stated rule before the team starts tracking. A timer left running during lunch, commuting, or a personal errand should be corrected according to the employer's timekeeping policy. For hourly wage review, managers should preserve the actual work record and any correction history instead of replacing uncertainty with a rounded guess. State wage, overtime, privacy, and employee-monitoring rules can add requirements beyond the federal baseline.
A one-off tracker is enough when one person needs today's hours, a client backup note, or a quick export for a single invoice. It also works for a short project with few tasks and no approval step. Stop there when the record will be reviewed once, saved with the invoice, and never reused for staffing, budget, or payroll analysis.
A managed workflow becomes the better choice when tracked time feeds reports, budgets, payroll review, approvals, or recurring invoices. Everhour keeps timer and manual entries tied to projects and tasks, then turns that time into reporting, budget, billing, and approval workflows. That system of record matters once more than one person edits time or relies on the same hours.
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A daily entry should identify the worker, date, project or client, task or work category, start and stop time or total duration, billable status, and a factual note. Employers covered by the FLSA also need records showing hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek for employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions.
A timer total is useful only when the surrounding record is complete. Add the task, project, date, worker, and reason for any manual correction. A device-based timer that shows only "8 hours" leaves too much unresolved for billing review, payroll review, and client questions because it hides project switches, breaks, and billable status.
Correct idle time through the timekeeping policy instead of silently deleting it. A lunch break, personal errand, or timer left running after work should have a correction that preserves the final accurate total and, for managed records, the reason for the change. Hidden edits make later payroll, invoice, or dispute review harder.
Federal FLSA rules do not require overtime premium pay solely because work happens on Saturday, Sunday, a holiday, or a regular rest day. Under the federal baseline, covered nonexempt employees receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek at not less than 1.5 times the regular rate, unless another law or agreement requires a different premium.
U.S. privacy duties depend on the data, sector, state, and worker category. At the federal level, businesses handling personal information must avoid unfair or deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act, and FTC guidance says companies should collect only what they need, protect it, and dispose of it securely. California covered businesses may have CCPA duties for employee time-tracking data.
Everhour Reporting lets managers group logged time by project, client, member, billable status, or other metadata, then add from 45+ columns such as labor costs, invoice status, budget metrics, and comments. Saved reports can be exported as CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF for review outside the tracker.
Everhour Time Tracking adds timers and manual entries to tasks and projects, including tracking controls inside supported tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Teams keep work context attached to the time entry before it reaches approval or billing review.
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