Timesheet app for social media managers

Everhour turns social media time into clear reports, so client accounts, campaigns, and billable work stay organized.

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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Building reliable social media timesheets

Track client and campaign work

Social media managers rarely work on one task for one audience all day. A useful timesheet separates time by client or account, campaign or project, and task category. Common categories include content creation, campaign execution, community management, analytics, and reporting. That structure keeps a sponsored launch, monthly content calendar, and inbox monitoring from blending into one vague weekly total.

Agency and freelance work need this detail because client accounts and individual projects drive budgets, contracts, and billing. A sample entry can read: Client A, spring launch campaign, content creation, 2.5 hours, billable. Another can read: Client B, monthly reporting, analytics review, 1.25 hours, non-billable. The label matters because it tells you which work produced the invoice, budget report, or scope discussion.

Separate creative and reporting time

Social media work includes strategy, campaign management, content planning, post production, monitoring, engagement, analytics, and performance reporting. O*NET identifies campaign KPIs and tracking reports as part of this occupation, and those activities need their own time categories. A clean timesheet does not hide reporting inside content creation because the work answers a different business question.

Analytics work often covers visits, time on site, page views, revenue, traffic mix, click-through rate, conversions, CPA, and CPC. Community management covers monitoring and responding to questions or concerns, while listening work can include evaluating public opinion through social media. Separate categories help you see whether a campaign consumed time in production, optimization, audience response, or client reporting.

Avoid vague weekly totals

A weekly total gives you a number, but it does not explain the work. Social media managers often switch between accounts, channels, campaigns, and urgent responses during the same day. A timesheet should capture daily entries with enough context to support budget review, client billing, and project profitability. For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, employer records must include daily hours worked and total hours worked each workweek.

For covered nonexempt employees, the federal baseline requires overtime pay after more than 40 hours worked in a fixed 168-hour workweek at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate. The FLSA does not require a specific timekeeping app or form, but the method must produce complete and accurate records. State wage, privacy, and employee-monitoring rules can add requirements.

Use a workflow when volume grows

A one-off timesheet is enough when you need to total a small week, send a simple client update, or reconstruct time for one campaign. It breaks down when several clients, recurring retainers, team members, approvals, and budget reviews depend on the same hours. At that point, tracked time should feed reports, billing review, and project records without retyping.

Everhour fits that managed workflow by keeping social media time tied to projects and tasks, then turning logged hours into customizable reports. Teams can group and filter by client, project, member, billable time, costs, invoice status, and other report columns. That matters when a campaign manager needs the same source data for a client invoice, retainer burn-down, and profitability review.

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

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Frequently Asked Questions

What should a social media manager timesheet include?

A social media manager timesheet should include the date, client or account, campaign or project, task category, time worked, billable status, and notes when the entry needs context. Strong task categories include content creation, campaign execution, community management, analytics, and reporting because those activities support different billing, budgeting, and performance review decisions.

Should community management and content creation be tracked separately?

Yes. Community management covers monitoring, responding, listening, and audience concern handling, while content creation covers planning, writing, design coordination, production, and publishing work. Separate entries show whether time went into making campaign assets or managing audience response after publication. That distinction improves client reporting and prevents reactive work from hiding inside production budgets.

Can one timesheet cover several social media clients?

Yes, one timesheet can cover several clients if each entry names the correct client or account and campaign or project. Agency and freelance social media work often spans many accounts in one day. Client-level labels keep billable hours, retainers, and budget reviews clean, especially when two clients use the same task type, such as monthly analytics reporting.

Which timesheet mistake hurts campaign budgets most?

The most damaging mistake is grouping all social media work into one general marketing line. That hides whether the budget went to content, campaign execution, community management, analytics, or reporting. Budget review needs those categories because advertising and promotions work often involves campaign budgets, cost estimates, contracts, and finance coordination.

Do social media managers need a special timesheet format under federal law?

The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, but it does not require a particular timekeeping form or app. For employees covered by the FLSA minimum wage or overtime provisions, records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. Keep payroll records for at least three years and basic time and earnings records for at least two years.

How does Everhour Reporting help social media managers review campaign time?

Everhour Reporting turns logged campaign time into customizable reports with 45+ columns, grouping, filters, date ranges, and exports in CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF. A social media lead can group hours by client, project, member, billable time, costs, invoice status, or budget fields before sharing a campaign review.

Can Everhour connect social media time to project tools?

Everhour can run standalone or embed time tracking inside tools such as Asana, ClickUp, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, GitHub, Linear, and Basecamp. Social media teams can track time where campaign tasks already live, then send those hours into one reporting layer for review.

Turn campaign time into reports

Track social media work by client, campaign, and task category. Everhour Reporting turns approved hours into grouped, filtered, exportable reports for billing, budgets, and campaign profitability.

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