Everhour tracks campaign work by client and project, so digital marketing hours stay ready for budgets, billing, and review.
Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.
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Use this page to organize digital marketing time into records you can invoice, review, or summarize for a client. A useful log separates client, campaign, task, date, duration, billing status, and a short work note. For an agency or freelancer, that structure shows where retainer hours went. For an in-house team, it shows how much capacity went into ads, organic search, content, email, analytics, and meetings.
The same structure also supports payroll review when digital marketers are employees. Under the FLSA, covered employers must keep accurate records for employees covered by the minimum wage or overtime provisions, including hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek for nonexempt workers. The federal rule does not require a specific timekeeping system, but the record must be complete and accurate.
A marketing time record should start with the assignment, then add the client or internal stakeholder, project, campaign, task, date, start and stop time or duration, billable status, and note. For U.S. billing, rate fields normally use U.S. dollars. The task label should name the work, such as paid search optimization, search audit, landing page writing, email build, analytics QA, reporting, or client call. Vague labels like admin or marketing hide scope and weaken invoice review.
A clean entry can read: sample client Northstar Coffee, project July paid search, campaign brand protection, task search-term review, date July 9, duration 1.4 hours, billable, note: added negatives and checked budget pacing. A second entry for the same day can mark internal weekly planning as non-billable. Separate lines keep client-facing work, internal coordination, and campaign management from blending into one large total.
Digital marketers often mix retainer delivery, ad platform work, reporting, and internal coordination in the same week. Treat each client retainer or campaign budget as its own container. Billable execution belongs there; agency operations, proposal work, training, and general team meetings should use a separate non-billable category unless your contract or billing policy says otherwise. That split protects the client budget from absorbing time that does not advance the agreed campaign work.
Retainer burn-down becomes unreliable when every activity uses the same code. A two-hour reporting meeting, 45 minutes of UTM cleanup, and 30 minutes of budget pacing review describe different kinds of work. Keep the categories granular enough to explain the outcome, but not so granular that every small click becomes a separate task. Client invoices and manager reports both improve when the labels match the actual campaign decisions.
A one-off tracker is enough for a solo marketer who needs a weekly client summary, a quick invoice backup, or a clean export after a short project. It also works for in-house planning when you only need a temporary view of where time went. Save the export with the invoice, payroll file, or campaign recap so the record stays retrievable after the work closes.
A managed workflow becomes the better fit when tracked time must feed retainers, budget alerts, approvals, invoices, and recurring client reporting. Everhour Project Budgeting can track hour-based or money-based budgets, reset budgets daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly, and send threshold emails at 75%, 90%, 100%, or a custom point as campaign work consumes the budget.
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Break time by client or internal stakeholder, project, campaign, task, date, duration, billable status, and note. The task level should show the work performed, such as ad optimization, search term research, creative QA, reporting, or client communication. A single daily marketing total does not give enough detail for retainer review, client billing, or capacity planning.
Use separate categories for client retainer delivery and non-billable agency operations. Retainer work should show activity that advances the agreed client scope, while internal training, sales support, hiring, or general team administration should be separated unless the contract or billing policy treats it differently. Mixing both categories makes budget burn-down and invoice review harder to defend.
No. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, but it does not require a particular form or software. For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. State rules, contracts, or company policy can add requirements.
No federal rule adds overtime premium pay solely because a covered nonexempt employee works on Saturday, Sunday, a holiday, or a regular rest day. Under the FLSA, overtime applies to hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek at not less than 1.5 times the regular rate, unless a state law, policy, or agreement gives more.
Record enough detail to explain the work without copying unnecessary customer, employee, or account data into the note. A useful note names the task outcome, such as built Q3 email segments or reviewed paid search budget pacing. U.S. businesses handling personal information must avoid unfair or deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act and should collect only what they need, keep it safe, and dispose of it securely.
Everhour Project Budgeting lets digital marketing teams assign hour-based or money-based budgets to campaign work and use recurring periods for retainers. Selected admins can receive threshold emails at 75%, 90%, 100%, or a custom point, and budget protection can stop extra time logging after the budget is exceeded.
Everhour embeds time tracking in tools such as Asana, ClickUp, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, GitHub, Linear, and Basecamp, so marketers can log time on the task they are already using. Teams can run timers or add manual entries after the work is done.
Connect digital marketing hours to campaign budgets, recurring retainers, and threshold alerts before invoices are drafted. Everhour Project Budgeting keeps client work visible before the retainer is spent.
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