Everhour organizes interior design time into timesheets, billing review, and project records for client work, procurement, and installation.
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Use this page to organize time for interior design work that moves across consultations, space planning, drawings, specifications, ordering, installation, and construction coordination. The practical outcome is a clean weekly record by client, project, phase, and task. That record helps you invoice hourly work, check flat-fee scope, explain procurement time, support change orders, and see staffing needs before a deadline becomes a budget problem.
Interior design billing rarely follows one pattern. A project can use hourly billing, a flat fee, cost-plus or product markup, a percentage of project cost, or a hybrid structure. Angi's 2026 cost guide lists hourly interior designer rates at $100 to $500 per hour, so unclear time notes create real invoice friction. BLS also reported that 21% of U.S. interior designers were self-employed in 2024, making clean records useful for solo billing and firm review.
Start each entry with client, project, phase, task, date, time spent, billable status, and rate in USD for U.S. billing. Use phases that match actual delivery: schematic design, design development, construction/procurement, and installation. Task labels should stay plain, such as client requirements, space planning, drawings, specifications, ordering, site installation, and construction coordination.
For employee time, separate billing detail from wage-and-hour recordkeeping. Covered employers must keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, and the FLSA 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. Payroll records must be preserved for at least three years, and basic time and earnings records for at least two years.
Match entries to the fee model before the week starts. A flat-fee package needs nonbillable internal time to show whether the estimate is holding. A project-percentage agreement, often benchmarked at 10% to 30% of project cost in Angi's 2026 guide, still needs time detail for staffing and margin review. Per-square-foot and flat-fee benchmarks, including $5 to $17 per square foot and $2,000 to $12,000 flat fees, make phase-level tracking useful.
Procurement and scope changes need their own labels because they often sit outside the original design package. Record hourly shopping, managing, procurement, or mid-project changes as separate billable categories when your agreement calls for them. A clear line reads: Client A, design development, specifications, 1.5 hours, billable, $150 per hour, furnishings follow-up. That line ties the charge to a phase, task, rate, and decision.
A one-off tracker is enough when you need a weekly total for one client, a quick invoice backup, or a check on a small flat-fee engagement. It also works for a solo designer who wants to separate schematic design from procurement before sending a status update. The limit appears once several people enter time, revise entries, or hand records to a bookkeeper.
A managed workflow matters when design time feeds billing, payroll review, budgets, and project staffing. Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project and working hours by person, route submissions to managers, and keep submitted or approved time from casual edits. That approval trail gives a design studio a cleaner handoff from client meetings, drawings, procurement, and installation work into review.
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A complete entry names the client, project, phase, task, date, time spent, billable status, rate, and a short work note. Interior design phases should match delivery, such as schematic design, design development, construction/procurement, and installation. Task labels should identify work like client requirements, space planning, drawings, specifications, ordering, installation oversight, or construction coordination.
Yes. Flat-fee work still consumes capacity, and time records show whether the original estimate matches the actual effort. Track the same phases and tasks used for hourly work, then mark the entries as nonbillable or internal if the client does not receive an hourly charge. That habit supports staffing, budget control, and future pricing.
Use separate categories for procurement, shopping or ordering, management, and mid-project scope changes when your agreement bills those items hourly. A design package can be flat fee while later procurement or revisions are hourly. Separate labels keep the base design scope from absorbing extra work and give the client a clearer invoice trail.
No. The FLSA does not require overtime premium pay solely for Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or regular rest-day work. Covered nonexempt employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek at at least 1.5 times the regular rate. State law, local rules, or an employment agreement can add requirements.
Keep notes focused on the work performed, the project phase, and the decision or deliverable tied to the entry. U.S. businesses handling personal information must avoid unfair or deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act. FTC guidance says companies keeping sensitive personal information about customers or employees should collect only what they need, keep it safe, and dispose of it securely.
Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person, so a studio can review design, procurement, and installation time before billing. Managers can approve, reject, partially approve, and lock submitted entries, which keeps approved time stable before handoff.
Use Everhour Timesheets to collect weekly project and working hours, route submissions for approval, and lock approved entries before design time moves into cleaner billing review.
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