Everhour captures task and project hours, giving teams cleaner weekly totals for billing, budgets, payroll review, and approvals.
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.
A time tracking dashboard helps you see work hours by person, project, client, task, and date without rebuilding the same spreadsheet every week. The immediate job is practical: total the week, separate billable from non-billable work, catch missing entries, and prepare records for invoicing, payroll review, or project budget checks.
For U.S. employers, the dashboard does not replace wage-and-hour judgment. Covered employers must keep accurate records for non-exempt workers, including hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. The FLSA does not require one specific timekeeping system, so the dashboard matters because it must make the chosen method complete, consistent, and easy to preserve.
Start with the fields that make the numbers usable: person, date, project, client, task, start and stop time or duration, billable status, rate, notes, approval status, and source of entry. Rate fields for U.S. billing or payroll review normally use U.S. dollars. A weekly view should also show total hours by workweek, because FLSA overtime is measured weekly for covered non-exempt employees.
A strong dashboard separates hours actually worked from paid time not worked, because those categories answer different questions. It also keeps billable time distinct from payroll time. A consultant may bill a client for 32 project hours while payroll review covers 40 working hours, plus any company-approved time off. Mixing those fields creates invoice disputes and weakens payroll records.
The most useful view is a weekly summary with drill-down detail. Daily totals catch missed timers and unusual spikes. Project and client totals show budget pressure. Member totals show capacity and workload. Approval status shows which entries can move into invoices, payroll review, or archive without more edits. A dashboard should make late edits visible instead of quietly changing prior totals.
Federal overtime needs special handling in U.S. summaries. Covered non-exempt 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. Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or rest-day work does not create a federal premium by itself unless the weekly rule is triggered or another law, policy, contract, or agreement applies.
A time tracking dashboard holds personal work data, so access and retention matter. Federal rules require employers to preserve payroll records for at least three years and basic time and earnings records, such as daily start and stop time cards or sheets, for at least two years. A dashboard should support clean exports and stable records after approval.
Privacy rules in the United States are sectoral and state-dependent. Businesses handling personal information must avoid unfair or deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act, and FTC guidance says companies should collect only what they need, protect it, and dispose of it securely. California adds a common example: CCPA rights cover California employees and job applicants for covered businesses.
A free weekly dashboard is enough when you need a quick total, a one-time client summary, or a simple check before sending hours to another system. It works best when one person controls the data and the risk is low. The limit appears when several people edit time, managers need approvals, or tracked hours feed billing, payroll review, budgets, and retained records.
Everhour Time Tracking supports the managed version of that workflow. Teams can use live timers or manual entries, track time inside supported project tools, send reminders, lock completed periods, approve timesheets, and apply timer rules. Logged task and project hours then feed reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review instead of sitting in a stand-alone weekly snapshot.
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High Performer
G2
Summer 2026
Best Ease Of Use
Capterra
Summer 2026
Rated in the top time trackers across G2, Capterra, and TrustRadius — with consistent praise for ease of use, integrations, and support.
A useful dashboard includes person, date, task, project, client, duration, billable status, notes, approval status, and weekly totals. Teams that bill clients also need rates and invoice status. U.S. employers reviewing non-exempt worker time need daily hours worked and total hours worked each workweek in the underlying records.
A dashboard is enough only if the records behind it are complete and accurate. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for non-exempt workers, but it does not require a specific timekeeping form or system. The method must preserve daily hours worked and total hours worked each workweek.
A U.S. dashboard should not label daily hours as federal overtime by default. Under the FLSA, covered non-exempt employees receive overtime for hours worked over 40 in a fixed 168-hour workweek. State law, contracts, collective bargaining agreements, or employer policy can add daily overtime or other premiums.
Combining billable, non-billable, and internal time into one total creates bad billing data. Client invoices need the billable portion tied to the right project, task, rate, and date range. Payroll review may need a broader working-time total, so one merged number forces manual cleanup before invoices or payroll records can be trusted.
Federal rules require payroll records to be preserved for at least three years and basic time and earnings records, including daily start and stop time cards or sheets, for at least two years. State rules, contracts, tax needs, or client agreements can require longer retention, so many teams keep approved exports with the billing or payroll file.
Everhour Time Tracking captures task and project hours through live timers or manual entries, including tracking inside tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Admins can use approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules before hours feed timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review.
Track approved hours where work happens. Everhour connects task and project time to timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review.
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