Field crews need site-ready time records for jobs, travel, and breaks. Everhour turns tracked hours into reports.
Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.
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Use this page when you need a clean way to capture a technician's day across customer jobs with more detail than an end-of-day total. Field service work moves between customer sites, emergency calls, travel, repair time, and breaks. A useful record names the worker, date, job or work order, status, time spent, and notes that explain the work performed.
For U.S. employers, the field log also needs to support wage-and-hour records. Under the FLSA, covered employers must keep accurate records for each nonexempt worker, including hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. The federal rule does not require a specific timekeeping form or system, so a complete and accurate app-based record can serve the same recordkeeping purpose.
A strong field service entry starts with the job context. Use the customer name, site or service address, work order or booking number, technician, date, start and stop times, and a status such as Scheduled, Traveling, In Progress, On Break, or Completed. Add the labor category or task type when you need job costing, billing detail, or a clear service history for repeat customer issues.
One filled-in day can show the structure: 8:00 to 8:35 Traveling for work order 1842, 8:35 to 10:10 In Progress for service diagnosis, 10:10 to 10:25 On Break, and 10:25 to 11:05 Completed with parts notes. That level of detail lets billing separate travel from labor and lets operations compare scheduled duration with actual duration.
Field days break down fast when every stop lands in one line. Keep travel, on-site work, waiting time, and breaks separate because each category answers a different question. Dispatch cares about route time, billing cares about chargeable labor, and payroll review needs hours actually worked by day and by workweek for covered nonexempt workers.
Location data adds context only when the company has enabled it and the technician allows it in the mobile app. Treat location signals as dispatch support and keep separate time entries for the record. 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.
A one-off tool is enough for a short job list, a sole operator, or a manager checking this week's totals before sending a simple invoice. It works when the same person enters the hours, reviews them, and sends the bill. Keep the output with payroll and billing files so the daily and weekly record stays available later.
Use a managed workflow once several technicians cover multiple customer sites, work orders, and approval steps. Everhour can turn tracked time into customizable reports with 45+ columns, filters, grouping, exports, scheduled email delivery, profitability dashboards, and overtime visibility in Team Hours and custom reports, so field service managers can review jobs from the same reporting layer.
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Record the technician, date, customer, site, work order or booking, start and stop times, status, and notes about the work performed. Field service records often need to connect labor hours to repairs, tests, parts, job history, billing, and job costing. A clean entry gives payroll the hours and gives operations the job context.
Yes. Separate entries make the day easier to review because travel, service labor, waiting time, and breaks serve different purposes. A typical field workflow uses statuses such as Traveling, In Progress, On Break, and Completed. Keeping those statuses distinct helps preserve break time, show arrival and completion points, and compare scheduled duration with actual duration.
Yes, if the field-service system supports offline mobile entry. Offline mode lets technicians keep viewing and working with job details when internet access drops, then sync entries after reconnecting. A technician should still record the work order, status, and actual time details while the job is fresh.
No. Location history can support dispatch and routing when administrators enable it and technicians allow it, but it does not replace daily and weekly hours records. If location sharing is used, set a clear policy for collection, access, retention, and security. Some systems recommend refresh intervals of 60 to 300 seconds for field dispatch visibility.
Federal law does not require overtime premium pay solely because a covered nonexempt employee works on Saturday, Sunday, a holiday, or a regular rest day. Under the FLSA federal baseline, covered nonexempt employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek at not less than 1.5 times the regular rate, unless an exemption applies. State law, policy, or contract can add obligations.
Everhour Reporting lets managers build reports from tracked time with 45+ columns, filters, grouping, and date ranges. A field service lead can group hours by task, project, client, or member, export CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF files, and schedule recurring email reports for job review.
Track field work once, then use Everhour Reporting to group hours by project, client, member, or task and export job-ready files for billing, payroll review, and profitability insight.
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