Everhour organizes browser-based work time into controlled entries for timesheets, approvals, budgets, billing, and payroll 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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This page is for creating usable time records while you work in Firefox. Keep the tracker in one tab and the task, ticket, calendar, or client brief in another so each entry reflects the work you actually performed. A useful record names the date, person, project, task, work category, duration, and whether the time is billable, payroll-only, or internal.
For U.S. payroll, browser convenience does not change the federal baseline. 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. The method can be digital, paper, or another complete and accurate system.
Start with fields that support both billing and review: worker, date, start time if used, end time if used, total duration, project, task, client, billable status, rate, and notes. U.S. rate fields normally use U.S. dollars. For a client invoice, a line such as "March 5, 2026, Website QA, 2.5 hours, $85/hour, billable" gives the reviewer enough context without turning notes into a diary.
Payroll and billing categories should stay distinct. Billable time answers what the client agreed to pay for; payroll time records hours actually worked and other policy-driven categories, such as paid time off if your workplace tracks it in the same system. Do not hide internal meetings, rework, or admin time just because it will not appear on an invoice. Those entries affect staffing, utilization, and wage-and-hour review.
A browser workflow works best when entries happen close to the task. Pin the tracker tab, keep the source work open beside it, and add a short note before switching projects. Separate windows can help you keep client, payroll, and admin work from blending together, but the record still needs the same fields no matter where the tab sits.
Shared or public computers need a stricter routine. Submit the entry, download or send any needed export, and sign out before leaving the machine. Do not rely on an open browser tab as the official record. If your settings clear site data or you use private windows, finish the entry before closing the session so draft work does not become your only record.
A free, one-off entry flow is enough for a solo invoice, a short client job, or a quick reconstruction of the week from calendar notes. It also works when you only need a clean export for your own archive. The limits show up when several people edit late entries, managers need approvals, or payroll needs a consistent weekly cutoff.
Managed tracking fits teams that need a system of record. Everhour Team Management supports lock rules, admin time correction, personal tracking limits, weekly capacity, approval workflow, roles, project assignments, team groups, and team-wide policy defaults. Those controls turn browser-entered time into reviewed records before reports, billing, payroll review, or staffing decisions use the numbers.
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Yes, a digital system can be the employer's timekeeping method if it is complete and accurate. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, but it does not require a specific time clock, form, or app. Records still need daily hours worked and total hours worked each workweek for employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions.
Federal rules focus on accurate hours worked, and preserved basic time and earnings records can include daily start and stop time cards or sheets. A practical record should capture enough detail to prove each workday's hours and each workweek's total. Use exact clock times when your policy, contract, state rule, audit process, or client billing format requires them.
Yes, one system reduces gaps as long as the categories stay clear. Mark client-billable work separately from internal meetings, training, admin, rework, and paid time not worked if your workplace tracks that category. Payroll review needs hours actually worked; client billing needs invoiceable scope. Mixing those labels creates disputes and weak utilization reports.
No. For FLSA purposes, a workweek is a fixed, regularly recurring period of 168 hours, made of seven consecutive 24-hour periods. Unless exempt, covered employees must receive overtime pay at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate for hours worked over 40 in a workweek. Hours may not be averaged across two or more workweeks.
Submit the entry, export or send any needed file, and sign out before leaving a shared device. Employee time records contain personal information. U.S. businesses handling personal information must avoid unfair or deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act, and FTC guidance says sensitive employee or customer data should be collected only as needed, kept safe, and securely disposed of.
Everhour Team Management gives admins lock rules, approval workflow, personal tracking limits, and admin time correction for entries submitted through a browser workflow. Managers can set weekly capacity, organize team groups, and control project assignments so reviewed time is ready for payroll review or billing handoff.
Everhour records timer, manual, and past-date entries separately, so managers can review how each time entry was created. That distinction helps a team compare live tracking with after-the-fact timesheet entry before approving the week, correcting missed work, or reviewing unusual changes.
Use Everhour Team Management to apply lock rules, approval workflow, tracking limits, and weekly capacity, turning browser-entered hours into controlled records for payroll review and billing.
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