Timesheet app for marketing teams

Everhour organizes campaign time, weekly approvals, and billing review for marketing teams working across clients, channels, and deadlines.

Calculate your hours

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

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Overtime0:00
Double OT0:00
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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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Campaign time, budgets, and weekly review

Turn campaign work into records

A marketing team timesheet should help you capture this week's work by campaign, project, task, deliverable, channel, and client or account. That structure fits how marketing work usually moves, from planning and strategy through scheduling, launch, monitoring, and closure. A single weekly total hides the difference between a paid search build, a webinar deck, a blog post, a media buy, and last-minute creative revisions.

Agency teams need records that support client billing, retainer review, campaign budgets, and contract scope. In-house teams need the same discipline for capacity planning, budget control, and deadline management. A useful timesheet turns scattered work from communication, analytics, design, advertising, email, and document tools into a single view of where time went and which projects absorbed the week.

Choose the right tracking level

Track time at the level where someone will review, approve, bill, or manage the work. For an agency, that usually means client, campaign, task, and billable status. For an in-house marketing team, it often means campaign, channel, deliverable, owner, and deadline. A useful entry reads like "Client A, Q3 launch campaign, paid search build, 2.5 hours," not "marketing, 2.5 hours."

Overly broad categories create rework later. Overly narrow categories create a timesheet nobody maintains. Use separate categories for work that affects budgets or staffing decisions, such as email campaigns, paid search, social media ads, blog posts, ebooks, videos, webinars, brand campaigns, media buys, and creative production. Keep meetings separate when they consume meaningful time or relate to a specific client or campaign decision.

Keep approvals tied to weeks

A weekly review cycle gives managers enough detail to catch missing hours before billing, payroll review, or budget reporting. For U.S. employers covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, records for nonexempt workers must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. The federal baseline allows any complete and accurate timekeeping method, so a digital timesheet works when the records are complete.

Marketing deadlines often push full-time employees past normal schedules, especially near launch dates. Under the FLSA, 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. Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or rest-day work does not create a federal premium by itself unless weekly overtime or another law, policy, or agreement applies.

Move from totals to workflow

A free or one-off timesheet is enough when you need a weekly record for a small campaign, a quick freelance summary, or a basic internal review. It works best when the team is small, the categories are stable, and the same person who enters time also prepares the invoice or status update. The limit appears when approvals, corrections, payroll review, and client billing involve more than one person.

Everhour Timesheets fit the managed workflow stage: users submit weekly project hours or working hours, managers approve, reject, or partially approve entries, and submitted or approved time stays protected from regular edits. That creates a cleaner handoff for marketing teams that need approved time before invoices, payroll review, campaign reporting, or budget analysis.

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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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Frequently Asked Questions

What should a marketing team timesheet track?

A marketing team timesheet should track campaign or project, task, deliverable, channel, client or account, date, hours worked, owner, and billable status when billing applies. Useful categories include email campaigns, paid search, social media ads, content assets, webinars, brand campaigns, media buys, and creative production. The right fields let managers compare planned work with actual effort.

How detailed should campaign time entries be?

Campaign time entries should be detailed enough to support the next decision. Client billing needs account, campaign, task, and billable status. Resource planning needs campaign, channel, owner, and deadline. A vague category such as "marketing" blocks budget review because it does not show whether time went to strategy, production, launch work, reporting, or stakeholder revisions.

Can a marketing timesheet use one total per week?

One weekly total is usually too thin for marketing work because it does not connect hours to campaigns, deliverables, clients, or budget lines. For covered nonexempt workers under the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, employer records must include daily hours worked and total hours worked each workweek. Project-level detail also makes client reporting and scope review easier.

Which timesheet mistake causes budget problems?

The most damaging mistake is logging time after the fact under broad categories. Late, vague entries hide scope creep, deadline pressure, and overused team capacity. A campaign can look on budget until the team separates strategy meetings, creative production, paid media setup, reporting, and revision rounds. Accurate categories make budget pressure visible while managers can still adjust staffing or scope.

Are marketing teams required to use a specific time tracking system?

No profession-specific U.S. rule requires marketing teams to use a particular time tracking system. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, and federal rules do not require a specific form or app. State wage, overtime, privacy, employee-monitoring rules, contracts, and internal policies can add requirements for a specific team or workplace.

How does Everhour support marketing timesheet approvals?

Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person, then let users submit time for manager review. Managers can approve, reject, or partially approve entries, and submitted or approved time is locked for regular members unless the workflow sends it back for correction.

How does Everhour help marketing teams report campaign time?

Everhour Reporting turns logged campaign time, budgets, costs, and project data into configurable reports. Marketing managers can group and filter time by project, client, member, task, billable time, labor costs, budget metrics, and other available columns, then export reports as CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF.

Approve marketing time faster

Use approved weekly timesheets before billing, payroll review, and campaign reporting. Everhour gives marketing teams a controlled review workflow with locked submitted time and clearer project handoffs.

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