Time tracking for marketing teams

Everhour tracks campaign and project hours so marketing teams can connect scattered work to budgets, reports, and approvals.

Calculate your hours

Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.

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Everhour does it all — track, budget, report & invoice

The calculator gives you the number — Everhour takes it from there.

Go ahead — start tracking!

One click and you're timing. Start a timer, add an entry, edit the details. This is exactly how it feels in Everhour.

  • One-click timer — browser, desktop & mobile
  • Works inside Asana, ClickUp, Linear, GitHub & more
  • Simple setup, no learning curve
Works with your favorite tool:
Everhour — Time Tracking
Time Entries
01:24:00
00:31:00
01:07:00

No more budget surprises

Set a budget, assign rates, and get alerted before you're over.

  • Real-time cost tracking
  • Set different rates per person or project
  • Alerts before you hit the budget limit
Everhour — Budgeting
Acme Web Project
1
50% of budget used
$2,500.00of $5,000.00
$2,500.00 remaining
75%
Actual costRemaining cost

Measurement

Track your budget through time or costs

Simple, customizable reports

Every report you need — configured your way, always up to date.

  • See who does what in real time
  • Configure any report
  • Scheduled email reports
Everhour — Reports

Your invoice is ready!

Tracked hours flow straight into a polished invoice — no copy-paste, no manual math.

  • Billable hours straight into the invoice
  • Configure invoice templates
  • Copy invoices to QuickBooks or Xero
  • Invoicing dashboard with status
Everhour — Invoices
Your Company LLChello@yourcompany.com
INVOICE
Invoice #1042
Group by:
DescriptionHoursRateAmount
Website Redesign14h$150/h$2,100.00
Brand Guidelines7h$150/h$1,050.00
Marketing Strategy3.5h$150/h$525.00
Total Due$3,675.00
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Better campaign time records

Turn marketing work into records

Marketing teams rarely work from one clean queue. A single launch can include strategy, copy, design, email, paid search, social ads, webinars, stakeholder reviews, and post-launch reporting. Time tracking gives that work a usable structure by tying hours to campaigns, projects, tasks, deliverables, channels, and clients or accounts instead of one broad marketing bucket.

Use the page to organize this week's marketing time into records that support budget reviews, workload planning, client reporting, and billing handoff. A useful entry reads like a work record: client or campaign, deliverable, task, date, person, hours, billable status if relevant, and a short note when scope changed or stakeholder review caused extra work.

Track by campaign and channel

Start with the work unit that managers actually review. In-house teams usually need campaign, project, channel, and deliverable data for capacity and budget control. Agencies usually need the same fields plus client account, contract, and billable status, because time often feeds client reporting and invoice support.

A practical agency entry can be: Acme Q3 launch, paid search, search term buildout, 2.5 hours, billable. A content team entry can be: product launch campaign, ebook draft, 3 hours, non-billable internal. Those labels make reports useful because the hours connect to a budget, deadline, scope decision, or account conversation.

Avoid vague marketing categories

The biggest mistake is tracking everything under "marketing" or "campaign work." That hides the difference between creative production, media buys, reporting, stakeholder revisions, social ads, email builds, webinars, blog posts, and strategy. Managers then see total effort without seeing which channel, deliverable, or client created the pressure.

Marketing teams also work across communication, analytics, document, design, advertising, and email platforms. Time records need to map that scattered work back to one project, campaign, task, client, or deliverable. Without that mapping, tool activity stays fragmented, budgets lose context, and scope creep becomes hard to prove during client or leadership reviews.

Match tool to workflow

A free weekly tracker works for a freelancer, a small campaign, or a one-off review where you only need a clean total by client, campaign, or deliverable. It also works when the team does not need approvals, locked periods, budget alerts, or exports for billing and payroll review.

A managed workflow becomes necessary when tracked time drives client invoices, retainer burn-down, resource planning, payroll review, or project profitability. Everhour Time Tracking captures task and project hours through timers or manual entries, works inside supported project tools, and feeds timesheets, reporting, budgeting, invoicing, and approval workflows without forcing marketing teams to reconstruct the week from scattered tools.

This content is for general information only, may not be fully up to date, and is provided without any warranty or liability.

High Performer

G2

Summer 2026

Best Ease Of Use

Capterra

Summer 2026

Loved by teams. Proven everywhere.

Rated in the top time trackers across G2, Capterra, and TrustRadius — with consistent praise for ease of use, integrations, and support.

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4M+Projects tracked

Frequently Asked Questions

Which marketing activities should teams track separately?

Marketing teams should separate time by campaign, project, channel, deliverable, and client or account when those details affect budget, workload, or billing decisions. Useful categories include email campaigns, paid search, social ads, blog posts, ebooks, videos, webinars, brand campaigns, media buys, and creative production.

Should agency marketing teams track time by client or campaign?

Agency teams should usually track both. Client and account fields connect time to contracts, retainers, and invoices, while campaign and deliverable fields explain where the work went. That combination gives account managers cleaner budget conversations and gives finance a stronger basis for billable and non-billable review.

Do marketing teams have a profession-specific time tracking law?

No profession-specific federal rule requires marketing teams to use a time tracking app. For U.S. employers, the FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, including hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek, but it does not require a particular timekeeping form or system.

Does late campaign work automatically create overtime?

Late campaign work does not automatically create federal overtime premium pay by itself. Under the FLSA, covered nonexempt 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, unless an exemption or another rule applies.

Which time tracking mistake hurts marketing reports most?

The most damaging mistake is using vague categories that hide the real work. A report that only shows "marketing, 38 hours" cannot explain whether time went to paid search, creative revisions, webinar production, stakeholder meetings, client reporting, or scope changes. Specific entries make budget and capacity decisions defensible.

How does Everhour Time Tracking support marketing team workflows?

Everhour Time Tracking lets marketing teams record task and project hours with live timers or manual entries, including inside supported tools such as Asana, ClickUp, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and others. Those hours can then feed timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and approval review from one tracking layer.

Track campaign time with Everhour

Connect campaign work to tasks, approvals, budgets, and reports. Everhour gives marketing teams a durable time record for client billing, workload planning, and project review.

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