Everhour keeps marketing time organized by campaign, account, and task so approved hours can support billing 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.
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Marketing time tracking is for turning scattered work into usable records by campaign, account, deliverable, and team role. A useful week does not stop at total hours. It shows time on creative production, media coordination, reporting, client meetings, market research, revisions, and internal planning, so managers can compare effort against scope and budget.
Agency teams often need the same record for several uses: client billing, retainer burn-down, staffing, profitability, and future estimates. In-house marketing teams use similar records to see where effort goes across campaigns, launches, events, and recurring channels. The format changes less than the purpose. Each entry needs a date, person, project, task, duration, and clear work description.
Marketing managers commonly plan campaigns, discuss budgets and contracts, negotiate advertising contracts, analyze market research, and direct marketing staff. Time records should reflect that mix. A practical setup separates client or business account, campaign, channel, deliverable, and role, so strategy work does not disappear inside a generic marketing bucket.
A useful example is a weekly entry such as: "Client A, Q3 launch campaign, paid social ad copy, 2.5 hours, billable." Another entry can show "Client A, internal estimate review, 1 hour, non-billable." That distinction matters because agency timesheets should track both billable and non-billable time to show how long work takes, where estimates miss, and where operations need attention.
Marketing compensation often depends on clear labor records. ANA's 2022 agency compensation study found that 82% of surveyed marketers used fee-based agency compensation models, and 76% of smaller advertisers used labor-based fee agreements. The 4As also describes rate-based pricing as the predominant form of advertising compensation, with hourly billing rate benchmarks supporting pricing discussions.
Fixed or output-based fees still need time tracking. ANA defines those fees as payment for a specific project or set of deliverables without regard to agency labor time involved, but actual hours still show whether the scope was priced correctly. A campaign landing page, email sequence, and reporting deck can look profitable on the invoice while hidden revision time erodes the margin.
A free weekly total is enough when you need a quick view of one person's hours for a short campaign or a one-off client request. It works for a freelancer checking this week's effort or a manager preparing a simple internal recap. That record should still separate billable and non-billable work and name the campaign or account.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when several marketers contribute to the same account, time feeds billing or payroll review, or managers need an approval trail. Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person, then let managers approve, reject, partially approve, and lock submitted time before records move into billing, payroll, or reporting.
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A marketing timesheet should separate campaign planning, client or stakeholder meetings, creative production, media coordination, market research, reporting, revisions, and internal administration. Agency teams should also split billable and non-billable time. That structure shows which deliverables consumed budget and which internal activities affected capacity without being charged to a client.
Marketing teams should track time on fixed-fee campaigns because the invoice amount does not show whether the work was profitable. Fixed or output-based fees pay for a specific project or deliverables without regard to agency labor time, so tracked hours reveal whether revisions, meetings, or reporting consumed more effort than the scope allowed.
Covered employers must keep accurate records for non-exempt workers covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, including hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. The FLSA does not require a specific timekeeping system, but the method must produce complete and accurate records.
Remote marketing work increases the need for clear self-reported entries by campaign, task, and date. BLS CPS data showed a 22.9% overall telework rate in Q1 2024, and workers age 25+ with a bachelor's degree or higher had a 40.4% telework rate, which is relevant context for many marketing roles.
The common mistake is tracking only client-facing work. Non-billable time such as internal reviews, estimates, training, handoffs, and reporting cleanup explains why a campaign took longer than planned. Without those entries, managers see billable totals but miss the operational work that affects pricing, staffing, and future scopes.
Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person, so marketing managers can review time before billing or payroll review. Managers can approve, reject, partially approve, and lock submitted entries, which keeps campaign records controlled after the team finishes corrections.
Everhour can embed time tracking controls inside tools such as Asana, ClickUp, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, GitHub, Linear, and Basecamp. Marketers can track time against the task where campaign work already lives, while logged hours flow into Everhour for reports, budgets, and billing.
Use Everhour Timesheets to collect weekly campaign hours, review submissions, lock approved time, and keep billing or payroll records tied to approved marketing work.
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