Everhour records task and project hours while MacBook users keep client, payroll, and budget details organized.
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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Tracked hours flow straight into a polished invoice — no copy-paste, no manual math.
Use this page to create a clean record of work sessions, project time, and billable details from a laptop. On a MacBook, the simplest workflow is to keep the timer visible in a browser tab or desktop window while client briefs, project boards, email, and files stay open beside it. Add the project, task, and note before context disappears.
For U.S. employers, the record must serve more than billing. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt workers covered by the minimum wage or overtime provisions, including hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. The federal rule does not require one specific timekeeping form or system, so a digital log works when it stays complete and accurate.
A useful entry identifies the person, date, project, task, and work note. For paid work, include start and stop times or total hours, a billable or nonbillable label, and the client if the work maps to an invoice. U.S. billing and rate fields normally use USD. A note such as "drafted website text for Client A" gives more audit value than "worked on copy."
For team records, connect the entry to the weekly review. Employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions need records of daily hours and total weekly hours, so task timers are incomplete if they never roll up by workday and workweek. Keep notes business-focused; FTC guidance says companies keeping sensitive customer or employee personal information should collect only what they need, keep it safe, and dispose of it securely.
A live timer fits focused work with a clear start and stop, such as coding a feature, preparing an invoice, or reviewing a client file. Manual entry fits work captured after the fact or a correction to a forgotten stop. It also works for short admin blocks that are easier to enter once, provided the date, duration, project, and note stay accurate.
Stop or split the entry when the project, client, billing status, or task changes. A short note protects the later invoice and the manager's review because it explains the business purpose of the time. If the team pays employees, the weekly total still controls the federal overtime check: covered nonexempt employees must receive at least 1.5 times the regular rate for hours worked over 40 in a workweek.
A one-off tracker is enough for a solo work session, a simple client invoice, or a short project where you only need a timestamped list of tasks and hours. It also works when you export the result, save it with the project files, and do not need approvals, recurring budgets, or team-level reporting.
A managed workflow becomes the better system when multiple people log time, managers approve entries, budgets change as hours are added, or accounting needs the same data for invoices and payroll review. Everhour Time Tracking supports timers and manual entries against tasks and projects, with admin controls for approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer behavior.
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A digital log can satisfy the method requirement when it is complete and accurate. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, but it does not require a particular timekeeping form or system. For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
One timer should cover one continuous block of work with the same project, client, task, and billing status. Split the time when any of those details changes. Mixed timers create weak invoices and weak management reports because the final allocation relies on memory instead of a record made near the time of the work.
Under the federal baseline, the FLSA does not require overtime premium pay solely for Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or regular rest-day work. Premium pay applies under the FLSA when covered nonexempt employees work over 40 hours in a workweek, unless a state law, policy, contract, or other agreement creates a different rule.
For the federal baseline, use the fixed workweek: a regularly recurring period of seven consecutive 24-hour periods, totaling 168 hours. Covered nonexempt employees must receive overtime pay at not less than 1.5 times the regular rate for hours worked over 40 in that workweek. Hours cannot be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime.
Covered 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, contracts, grant requirements, or internal retention policies can require longer storage.
Everhour Time Tracking lets users start a timer or add manual time against tasks and projects through the web app, browser extension, mobile apps, or macOS desktop app. Those entries feed timesheets, reporting, budgeting, invoicing, and payroll review without retyping the same hours.
Everhour lets admins approve submitted timesheets, lock completed periods, send reminders, and define timer rules before time moves into payroll or billing review. Submitted or approved time stays protected from regular member edits unless the workflow sends it back for correction.
Use Everhour Time Tracking to capture task and project hours through timers or manual entries, then send approved time into reports, budgets, invoices, and cleaner payroll review.
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