Creative work moves by client, deliverable, and revision round, and Everhour helps turn approved time into billing records.
Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.
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Use this page to create time records that fit creative work: client, project, deliverable, task, billable status, and approval status. A designer may move from a logo concept to a web layout to client changes in one day, so each entry needs a link to the work product. That detail supports invoices, scope conversations, and workload review.
The need applies across freelance and agency work. Self-employed workers accounted for 18% of U.S. graphic designer jobs in 2024, while specialized design services employed 9% and advertising, public relations, and related services employed 8%. A structure organized by client, project, and team workload fits both independent billing and client-service teams.
A usable creative entry needs more than a timer total. Include the client, project, deliverable, task type, date, start and stop time or duration, billable status, rate field, and note. U.S. users normally record rate and invoice fields in USD. Add an approval status if a creative director, account lead, or client manager reviews time before billing.
Set project names to match the way the work is sold or managed, such as campaign, identity system, report, brochure, layout, illustration, image, web design, or print design. A brochure project can separate scope review, initial layout, illustration, art-director changes, client revisions, and final file preparation. The entry then explains both the finished deliverable and the work stage that consumed the hour.
Revision work deserves its own category because creative jobs often include changes recommended by clients or art directors. A single bucket for design time hides the difference between original production and later change requests. Separate revision entries make scope discussions cleaner, especially when a contract includes a limited number of review rounds or a client asks why the invoice grew.
Time pressure makes this split practical. O*NET reports that 70% of graphic designers experience time pressure every day, and 67% rate working with or contributing to a team as extremely important. Team entries should show which designer, art director, or account owner worked on each phase, so managers can see deadline pressure without reducing creative work to surveillance data.
A one-off tracker is enough for a solo assignment, a small freelance project, or a short internal sprint where you only need a clean weekly record. Use it to total hours, label billable work, and send a simple client summary. The record becomes weak once approvals, multiple collaborators, rate changes, retainers, or repeat invoicing enter the workflow.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when tracked time has to feed billing review, payroll review, capacity planning, and an approval trail. Everhour Timesheets fit that handoff by collecting weekly project hours and working hours, letting people submit time for review, and allowing managers to approve, reject, partially approve, and lock entries before the numbers move downstream.
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Separate client discovery, concepting, production, meetings, revisions, final file preparation, and administration when those categories affect billing or workload review. Use deliverable-level labels for logos, brochures, reports, layouts, illustrations, web design, or print design. Add billable status to each entry, because internal creative direction and client-approved billable work often need different treatment on an invoice.
Revision time should have a separate label when client or art-director changes affect scope, budget, or invoice review. Use the same project and deliverable, then change the work type to revision, review round, or client change. That structure preserves the history of the job and gives you a clearer answer when a client asks about extra hours.
A weekend client meeting does not create a federal overtime premium by itself. Under the FLSA federal baseline, covered nonexempt employees must receive overtime pay at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate for hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek. A state law, employer policy, or contract can add a separate weekend or holiday premium.
Project labels alone do not supply the hour detail needed for payroll review. For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, employer records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. Covered employers can choose any complete and accurate timekeeping method, so the system can be flexible as long as those records exist.
Client names, deliverables, and plain work descriptions usually give enough context for billing and workload review. U.S. 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 needed sensitive personal information, secure it, and dispose of it safely. California employee time-tracking data can also fall under CCPA obligations for covered businesses.
Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person, then let designers submit time for manager review. Managers can approve, reject, partially approve, and lock entries, so approved creative hours form a cleaner handoff for client billing or payroll review.
Everhour Project Budgeting tracks hour-based or money-based budgets as time and expenses are logged. Creative teams can use recurring budget periods for retainers and send threshold alerts at 75%, 90%, 100%, or a custom point before scope overruns reach the client conversation.
Use Everhour Timesheets to collect weekly creative project hours, route submissions for approval, and lock approved entries before billing or payroll review, giving teams a cleaner time-to-approval workflow.
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