Everhour tracks task and project time, then turns those hours into reports for billing, budgets, timesheets, 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.
Set a budget, assign rates, and get alerted before you're over.
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Every report you need — configured your way, always up to date.
Tracked hours flow straight into a polished invoice — no copy-paste, no manual math.
Use this page to organize time by person, date, project, client, task, and billable status. The goal is a usable weekly record, not just a total number of hours. A report only helps when each entry explains where the time went and whether the time belongs in billing, payroll review, budget tracking, or internal analysis.
For U.S. employers covered by the FLSA, records for covered nonexempt workers must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. The FLSA requires accurate records but does not require a specific timekeeping form or system. A spreadsheet, timer app, or managed platform can work if the records are complete and accurate.
A useful time report needs consistent fields: date, worker, project, task, client, start and stop time or duration, billable status, rate, notes, and approval status. Teams that bill clients usually separate billable and non-billable time. Teams reviewing payroll need daily totals, weekly totals, and a fixed workweek.
For U.S. payroll context, the FLSA workweek is a fixed, regularly recurring period of 168 hours. Unless exempt, covered employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek at not less than 1.5 times the regular rate. Hours from separate workweeks may not be averaged for FLSA overtime purposes.
Reports should show more than a weekly total. A project manager needs actual hours against estimates. A bookkeeper needs billable time by client and invoice status. An owner needs utilization, labor cost, and project profitability. A payroll reviewer needs daily and weekly hours, with corrections visible before approval.
The most common reporting mistake is tracking too little detail at entry time. A note such as "admin work" may be enough for a personal log, but it fails when a client asks why a line appeared on an invoice. A better entry names the task, client, and outcome, such as "Acme, onboarding setup, billable, 2.5 hours."
A free weekly tracker is enough when you need a quick total, a one-off client summary, or a simple check against planned hours. It works best for a freelancer, owner, or small team that can review every entry manually and does not need approvals, locked periods, budget alerts, or recurring exports.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when tracked time feeds invoices, payroll review, project budgets, and management reports every week. Everhour Time Tracking captures task and project hours through timers or manual entries, works inside supported project tools, and sends those entries into timesheets, reporting, budgeting, invoicing, and payroll review with admin controls for approvals, locks, reminders, and timer rules.
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G2
Summer 2026
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Summer 2026
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A practical time tracking app should produce reports by person, project, client, task, date range, billable status, and approval status. Billing teams need client and invoice views. Managers need budget, utilization, and project progress views. Payroll reviewers need daily and weekly totals for covered nonexempt workers when FLSA recordkeeping applies.
A timesheet records time for review, usually by worker and week. A time report analyzes that same time for a purpose, such as billing, payroll review, utilization, project cost, or budget progress. The best workflow uses one set of time entries and lets different reports answer different operational questions.
Timer entries work best for active task tracking because they capture time as work happens. Manual entries work for corrections, offline work, and after-the-fact updates. Reports should show enough context to tell whether time came from a timer or manual entry, because reconstructed end-of-week entries are harder to verify.
A U.S. payroll-facing report should make weekly totals clear for covered nonexempt workers. Under the FLSA, covered employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek unless exempt. Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or rest-day work does not create a federal overtime premium by itself.
Billable status gets missed often because teams focus on total hours first. That creates invoice cleanup later, especially when internal meetings, client work, rework, and project management sit under the same project. Each entry should identify whether the time is billable before reports become the source for client invoices.
Everhour Time Tracking lets people use live timers or manual entries on tasks and projects, including inside supported tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Those entries can flow into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review with approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules.
Everhour Reporting turns logged time, costs, budgets, and project data into customizable reports with columns, grouping, filters, date ranges, and exports. Teams can review billable time, labor costs, profit, invoice status, budget metrics, and client or project totals before sending an invoice or archiving records.
Track approved hours where work happens, then let Everhour carry the same time entries into reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review.
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