Everhour tracks project time and budgets for photography studios with varied shoots, editing work, client delivery, and team schedules.
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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A photography studio uses time tracking to see the full labor behind a client job, not only the session itself. A single project can include client meetings, pre-production, travel, equipment setup, session time, post-production, proofing, archiving, and digital delivery. That structure gives the owner a clearer view of job cost, staff load, and whether the quote matched the work.
Solo and owner-led studios need this discipline as much as larger teams. BLS reported that self-employed workers made up 66% of photographer jobs in 2024, and part-time work is common for photographers. Variable schedules make per-assignment records more useful than a fixed-office assumption. A wedding, school portrait day, and commercial product shoot each deserve a separate project record with dates, people, tasks, and billable status.
Studio owners need to separate client production from business operations. Client work includes planning the shoot, capturing images, editing, proofing, and delivering files or prints. Internal work includes marketing services, maintaining a digital portfolio, scheduling appointments, buying supplies, keeping records, paying bills, and training or directing workers. Mixing those categories hides the cost of getting paid work done.
A practical studio setup uses project names for clients or jobs, task names for labor stages, and tags for billable, non-billable, travel, proofing, and delivery. One job can contain entries such as "Smith family portraits, post-production, 2.5 hours" and "Smith family portraits, digital delivery, 0.5 hours." Those details support pricing because photography rates need to account for business costs, cost of goods, time and labor, profit, and taxes.
U.S. studios with non-exempt employees need accurate time records when covered by the FLSA. The law does not require one specific clock or app, but records for employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions 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.
Federal overtime is weekly. Unless exempt, covered employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay. Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or regular rest-day work does not trigger federal overtime premium pay by itself unless the weekly overtime rule applies or another law, policy, or agreement adds a premium.
A free weekly total is enough for a solo photographer checking how long one edit queue took or estimating the labor behind a recent shoot. It is also enough for a quick review of travel, setup, session, and delivery time before sending a simple invoice. That approach breaks down once multiple clients, assistants, editors, recurring packages, or retainer-style commercial work enter the studio calendar.
Everhour Project Budgeting fits the managed workflow stage. Studios can track hour-based or money-based budgets as people log time, set recurring budget periods for ongoing client work, and use threshold alerts at 75%, 90%, 100%, or custom levels. Budget protection can stop extra logging after a limit is exceeded, and client-level budgets can cover multiple projects under one client relationship.
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Track work that belongs to a client job by project: client meetings, pre-production, travel, setup, session time, post-production, proofing, archiving, and digital delivery. Keep internal operations separate, including marketing, portfolio updates, scheduling, supply purchases, records, bills, and staff direction. That split shows client labor without turning business administration into billable production time.
Yes, separate travel and setup when those activities affect pricing, scheduling, or job profitability. PPA identifies travel to the assignment and equipment setup as labor that belongs in photography pricing. Separate entries also help compare studio sessions with on-location work, where travel and setup can be a meaningful part of the total job.
A U.S. employer covered by the FLSA can use any complete and accurate timekeeping method for non-exempt workers. The required record is the substance, including hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek for employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions. The law does not require a specific time clock format.
Editing and post-production time belong in the labor picture for many photography deliverables. PPA describes cost of goods for prints as including labor and materials such as the print, post-production charges, packaging, shipping, proofing time, digital file storage, and digital delivery. Tracking those stages prevents a studio from pricing only the session and overlooking delivery work.
Keep each workweek separate for employee pay review. Under the FLSA, a workweek is a fixed, regularly recurring period of seven consecutive 24-hour periods, and covered non-exempt employee hours cannot be averaged across two or more workweeks for federal overtime. A slow editing week does not erase overtime from a prior busy shoot week.
Everhour Project Budgeting tracks time and money budgets as studio staff log work against projects. A studio can set recurring budget periods for ongoing clients, use alerts at 75%, 90%, 100%, or custom thresholds, and apply client-level budgets across multiple projects for the same account.
Everhour Reporting turns logged time, budgets, costs, and project data into reports with columns for project, client, member, comments, billable time, labor costs, profit, invoice status, and budget metrics. Studio owners can export reports in CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF for billing review and records.
Track shoots, editing, proofing, and delivery in one budget-aware workflow. Everhour connects photography project time to budget alerts, client-level limits, and invoice-ready records.
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