Marketing agencies bill across clients, campaigns, and tasks, and Everhour keeps those hours organized for budgets and approvals.
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.
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You came to turn scattered agency work into usable time records for client accounts, campaigns, projects, and tasks. A marketing agency needs more than a start time and an end time. The useful output shows who worked, which client received the work, which campaign or project absorbed the effort, whether the time is billable, and which task category explains the work.
Agency work crosses creative, client service, sales, finance, executives, media buying, and project management. O*NET reports that 70% of marketing manager respondents rate working with or contributing to a team as extremely important, so individual notes alone break down fast. Shared categories let account leads compare labor effort against budget, contract scope, media plans, and campaign cost estimates.
A complete agency time entry should include the date, team member, client account, campaign or project, task, billable status, hours worked, and a short note. A practical line reads: Monday, Jordan Lee, Acme Foods, spring launch, paid social setup, billable, 2.5 hours, audience build and QA. For U.S. billing and rate fields, use U.S. dollars unless the client contract says otherwise.
For payroll records in the United States, covered employers must keep accurate records for each nonexempt worker, including hours worked each day and total hours worked each workweek. The FLSA does not require a specific timekeeping form or system. The method simply needs to be complete and accurate enough to support payroll, wage-computation records, and review of weekly hours.
A single client total hides the work that makes agency margins move. Ten hours on a client account can mean senior strategy, junior production, media trafficking, design revisions, copy review, client calls, or finance cleanup. Those categories affect budget burn, scope discussions, staffing, and profit-loss review differently, even when the invoice shows one account name.
Marketing and advertising work commonly involves budgets, contracts, creative direction, marketing plans, media buying, and cost estimates. Track time at the level where someone can act on it. For retainers, connect hours to the account and recurring scope. For campaigns, connect hours to the campaign budget and deliverables. For project work, separate planning, execution, revisions, and client communication.
A one-off tool is enough when you need a quick weekly total, a simple client summary, or a short review of one campaign. A freelancer, small account team, or agency owner can use a lightweight record to answer a narrow question: which client consumed time this week, which project needs billing detail, or which task category caused the overrun.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when time feeds invoices, payroll review, capacity planning, and budget accountability every week. Everhour gives agency managers approval workflows, lock rules, project assignments, team groups, and weekly capacity settings, so submitted time can move from team entry to account review without rebuilding the record in a spreadsheet.
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Use client account as the top level, then campaign or project, then task category. Common task categories include strategy, creative production, copywriting, media buying, analytics, client communication, project management, and revisions. Keep the list short enough for daily use and specific enough to explain budget burn, billing detail, and team utilization.
Yes. Retainer work should show the client account, recurring scope, and monthly or weekly budget use. Campaign work should show the campaign, deliverable, and task category tied to the campaign budget or estimate. Keeping both structures under the same client account gives account leads a clear view of total relationship effort.
A client-level weekly total is usually too thin for time-and-materials billing, scoped retainers, or disputed work. Add project and task detail so the invoice narrative explains the work performed. Fixed-fee work still benefits from detailed tracking because the agency can compare actual effort with the estimate and adjust future pricing.
In the United States, covered employers must keep accurate records for each nonexempt worker, including hours worked each day and total hours worked each workweek. Covered nonexempt employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a 168-hour workweek at not less than 1.5 times the regular rate of pay.
The FLSA does not require overtime premium pay solely for Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or regular rest-day work. For covered nonexempt employees, the federal overtime rule turns on hours worked over 40 in a workweek. A state law, local rule, employment agreement, or agency policy can add a different premium rule.
Everhour Team Management lets managers receive submitted timesheet notifications, approve or reject entries, and keep approved time locked for regular members. Agency leads can review time before billing or payroll handoff without losing the account, project, and team context attached to each entry.
Everhour embeds tracking controls inside supported tools such as Asana, ClickUp, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, GitHub, Linear, and Basecamp. Agency teams can track time from the task where campaign work happens, then send that tracked time into one reporting layer for review.
Use Everhour Team Management to route submitted timesheets for approval, lock reviewed periods, and group teams by account or department before billing and payroll handoff, giving agency managers cleaner time governance.
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