Everhour captures task and project hours on desktop workflows, keeping records ready for billing and weekly review.
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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Use this page to create a clean desktop workflow for logging work as it happens, correcting missed entries, and turning time into a record you can review. On a desktop, keep the source task, ticket, or email open beside the time entry screen so the client, project, task, and notes match the work instead of memory at the end of the week.
For U.S. employers, the federal baseline is record accuracy rather than a required clock format. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, and records for employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
A useful time entry identifies the person, date, project or client, task, start and stop context, total hours actually worked, billable status, and a short note when the work needs explanation. For U.S. billing and payroll review, rate fields normally use U.S. dollars. A one-line entry can read: March 5, 2026, Acme redesign, QA fixes, 2.25 hours, billable, $85 per hour.
Daily detail prevents a weak weekly summary. Records for employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions must show hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. Add break handling, paid time not worked, and approval status as separate labels if your policy uses them, because mixing them into hours actually worked obscures payroll and client billing review.
Desktop tracking fails when the timer runs through meetings, lunch, or a task switch without a correction. Stop the active entry before changing tasks, add a manual entry for missed work, and use notes for unusual days. A timer shows elapsed computer-side time; it still needs task labels and review before the entry supports billing, payroll, or project reporting.
Weekly overtime review needs the employer's fixed workweek, a regularly recurring 168-hour period. Covered nonexempt employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate. Hours may not be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime purposes.
A one-off desktop timer or sheet is enough for a solo invoice, a short project, or a personal audit of where the week went. It works when the same person records, reviews, and bills the time, and when there is no approval trail, budget cap, or payroll handoff to maintain.
A managed workflow fits teams that need tracked time to feed timesheets, reporting, budgets, invoices, and payroll review. Everhour Time Tracking supports one-click timers and manual entries against tasks and projects, with admin controls for approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules, so desktop entries become a controlled record instead of a private log.
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A timer alone is not enough if it only shows elapsed time. The record must be complete and accurate for the worker category involved. 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. Task, project, and approval fields help connect the raw time to payroll or billing review.
Federal FLSA rules do not mandate one particular timekeeping method for covered employers, so either approach can work if the record is complete and accurate. Start and stop times create a stronger audit trail for corrections, breaks, and task switches. Total-hours entry works better for after-the-fact professional billing when notes and approvals clearly explain the work.
No. Under the FLSA, a workweek is a fixed, regularly recurring period of seven consecutive 24-hour periods, totaling 168 hours. Hours may not be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime purposes. Covered nonexempt employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in each workweek.
The FLSA does not require overtime premium pay solely because work happens on Saturday, Sunday, a holiday, or a regular rest day. A premium line belongs in the record when weekly FLSA overtime is triggered for covered nonexempt employees, or when a state law, local rule, policy, collective bargaining agreement, or contract requires it.
Teams should avoid collecting more personal information than the timekeeping purpose requires. U.S. privacy duties are sectoral and state-dependent, but Section 5 of the FTC Act bars unfair or deceptive practices and supports data-security enforcement. FTC guidance tells businesses holding sensitive employee information to collect only what they need, protect it, and dispose of it securely.
Everhour Time Tracking lets users start one-click timers or add manual entries against tasks and projects in the web app, browser extension, or macOS desktop app. Admins can set reminders, lock completed periods, control timer behavior, and approve timesheets before payroll or billing review.
Everhour Reporting turns logged task and project time into customizable reports with filters, grouping, date ranges, and columns such as client, member, billable time, labor costs, budget metrics, and invoice status. Saved reports can be exported as CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF for review or archive needs.
Use Everhour Time Tracking to log task and project hours with timers or manual entries, route them through approvals and locked periods, and send cleaner time data into billing and payroll review.
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