Startups run on tight capacity and fast handoffs. Everhour tracks project time so hours can support billing, budgets, and 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.
Set a budget, assign rates, and get alerted before you're over.
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Tracked hours flow straight into a polished invoice — no copy-paste, no manual math.
Startup teams need a simple way to turn scattered work into usable records. A founder, operations lead, or project manager usually needs hours by person, client, project, task, and week. For client services, each entry also needs a billable or non-billable status so the same time record can support invoicing, margin review, and internal capacity planning.
U.S. startup employers also need accurate records for FLSA-covered non-exempt workers. Records must include hours worked each day and total hours each workweek, along with wage basis, regular hourly rate, overtime earnings, total wages, and pay-period dates. The FLSA does not require a specific timekeeping system, as long as the method is complete and accurate.
A practical startup time entry needs the worker, date, client, project, task, start and end time or total duration, billable status, approval status, and billing status. A sample entry can read: "June 8, client onboarding, CRM migration, data cleanup, 2.5 hours, billable, unapproved." That level of detail lets a manager approve time without asking the worker to reconstruct the day.
Project timesheet data should also export cleanly. XLS, CSV, and PDF exports give founders, finance leads, clients, and project managers usable records for billing, work review, and reporting. For a startup using invoices, approved billable time should move into the invoice flow with the client, project, task description, rate, and USD amount intact.
Lean startup teams need capacity visibility before work becomes a staffing problem. In 2023, Carta data cited by The Wall Street Journal showed 267,818 hires versus 286,195 departures across about 40,000 U.S. private companies on Carta. That context matters because a small team can look busy while client work, internal operations, and product work compete for the same hours.
The common mistake is tracking only invoiceable client work. A startup also needs non-billable categories for sales calls, investor reporting, hiring, support, internal product work, and admin. Those categories should stay separate from billable tasks so client invoices stay clean and leadership can still see the real cost of running the business.
A free weekly total is enough when you need a quick recap for one person, one project, or a short client update. It works when the record will not feed payroll review, invoice creation, recurring budget checks, or stakeholder reporting. Once a startup has employees and contractors working across several clients or product areas, a saved workflow becomes more reliable than a spreadsheet assembled after the fact.
Everhour fits that managed workflow when startup time needs to move from task tracking into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review. Timers and manual entries capture work as it happens or after the work is done, while approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules help keep weekly records ready for billing and review.
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A startup should track person, date, client, project, task, total time, billable status, approval status, and billing status. Client-facing teams also need invoice-ready descriptions and rates. Internal teams need categories for product, operations, support, hiring, and admin so leadership can see where limited team capacity goes each week.
The FLSA does not require covered employers to use a specific timekeeping software. U.S. employers may use any complete and accurate method for FLSA-covered non-exempt workers. The records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek, plus required wage and pay-period information.
Founders should track non-billable work when they need a clear view of capacity, cost, and focus. Sales calls, fundraising support, hiring, admin, internal product work, and customer support can consume meaningful time without appearing on client invoices. Separate non-billable categories keep invoices accurate and make workload reports useful.
Federal overtime for covered non-exempt employees is based on the workweek, not a single long day. 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. State rules or contracts can add requirements.
The biggest mistake is mixing unapproved, non-billable, and invoice-ready time in the same bucket. That creates client invoice errors and weak payroll review. A better setup labels each entry before billing, keeps approval status visible, and exports the final record in a format finance or the client can actually use.
Everhour Time Tracking captures task and project hours through live timers or manual entries, including tracking inside tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Linear, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Those entries can feed timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review.
Everhour supports approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules so managers can review time before it reaches invoices or payroll review. Submitted and approved time can be protected from edits, which gives a startup a cleaner weekly record for billing and internal reporting.
Track project and task hours before invoice day. Everhour turns startup time entries into reviewable records for timesheets, budgets, billing, and payroll review.
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