Marketing work splits across campaigns, channels, and clients, and Everhour keeps those hours tied to the work they support.
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.
Set a budget, assign rates, and get alerted before you're over.
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Use this page to turn scattered marketing work into time records you can review by campaign, client, channel, task, and deliverable. An agency can separate a paid search optimization from a landing page edit on the same account. An in-house team can see whether a product launch consumed time in content, creative, analytics, or stakeholder review before the deadline moved again.
Marketing teams do not have a profession-specific legal rule that requires a time tracker. The value is operational and financial: clearer scope, better resource allocation, cleaner budget review, and fewer arguments over where effort went. For U.S. payroll, covered employers still need accurate records for covered nonexempt employees under the FLSA, including hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
A useful entry records the date, person, campaign or project, client or account, channel, task, deliverable, billable status, time amount, and short note. A sample agency line can read: March 5, 2026, Jordan Lee, Acme Spring Launch, paid search, search term build, 2.5 hours, billable, $125 hourly rate, expanded nonbrand ad groups after client approval.
Set the unit of tracking before the team starts. Campaign-level time works for a fast internal initiative; task-level time works better when budgets, invoices, or scope changes matter. Split work when one session covers different channels, such as 1 hour on email copy and 1.5 hours on social media ads, because blended entries hide which deliverable absorbed the budget.
Marketing work often lives in communication, analytics, document, design, advertising, and email platforms. The time record should map that scattered work back to one campaign, project, task, client, or deliverable. A generic marketing admin category leaves a manager with no decision: no channel to adjust, no scope to renegotiate, no resource plan to change before the next campaign.
Scope creep shows up fastest when the same request touches many stakeholders: sales feedback, executive review, creative changes, vendor coordination, and analytics follow-up. Agency teams need client and contract context so campaign budgets and retainers reflect actual work. In-house teams need resource and capacity context so overloaded channels, underused specialists, and deadline risk appear before launch week.
A one-off tracker is enough for a short campaign, a solo contractor, or a weekly cleanup before a status meeting. It gives you a quick total by project or deliverable and supports a simple handoff to a spreadsheet, invoice, or manager review. That approach breaks down when multiple marketers update the same client account, share a budget, or work across campaigns that keep changing.
A managed workflow becomes the better system when time needs approval, locked periods, corrections, capacity checks, and role-based project access. Everhour Team Management supports project assignments, team groups, weekly capacity, personal tracking limits, approval workflows, and admin time correction, so marketing leaders can turn campaign hours into a record that survives billing, payroll review, and resource planning.
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Track the units that explain effort: campaign or project, client or account, channel, task, deliverable, billable status, and reviewer notes. Common marketing categories include email campaigns, paid search, social ads, blog posts, ebooks, videos, webinars, brand campaigns, media buys, and creative production. A single generic marketing category hides the reason time changed.
Use campaign-level tracking for a short internal effort where leaders only need a total. Use task-level tracking when budgets, invoices, scope changes, or capacity planning require detail. An agency account usually needs client, campaign, and deliverable detail; an in-house product launch usually needs project, channel, stakeholder review, and deadline context.
Keep notes specific enough to explain the work without storing unnecessary personal or confidential details. A useful note names the deliverable, decision, or approval point, such as revised webinar landing page after sales feedback. U.S. businesses handling personal information must avoid unfair or deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act and should collect only what they need, keep it safe, and dispose of it securely.
No profession-specific legal rule requires marketing teams to use a time tracker. For U.S. payroll, covered employers must keep accurate records for covered nonexempt employees under the FLSA, including hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. Federal rules require payroll records for at least three years and basic time and earnings records, such as time cards or sheets, for at least two years.
Weekend or holiday campaign work does not trigger federal FLSA overtime premium pay by itself. 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. State law, local law, a policy, or a contract can add a premium rule.
Everhour Team Management lets marketing managers assign projects, organize team groups, set weekly capacity, apply personal tracking limits, route timesheets for approval, lock reviewed periods, and correct entries as admins. That workflow gives campaign leads one reviewed record before billing, payroll review, or resource planning uses the hours.
Everhour Project Budgeting tracks hour-based and money-based project budgets as people log time. Marketing teams can use one-time or recurring budgets for campaigns, retainers, or ongoing work, then send threshold alerts at 75%, 90%, 100%, or a custom level to selected admins.
Use Everhour Team Management to assign projects, group teams, set weekly capacity, route approvals, and lock reviewed periods, giving marketing leaders cleaner records for billing, payroll review, and campaign resource planning.
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