Philippine teams need daily time records that handle overtime, night work, and peso billing. Everhour adds budget controls.
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.
Measurement
Track your budget through time or costs
Every report you need — configured your way, always up to date.
Tracked hours flow straight into a polished invoice — no copy-paste, no manual math.
A Philippine timesheet needs more than a total hours column. For covered employees, the normal hours of work must not exceed eight hours a day, so daily entries matter. A practical record separates regular time, work beyond eight hours, rest-day or holiday work, meal periods, and night-shift hours between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
The record should also identify the employee, date, project or cost center, task, start and end time, break time, approval status, and pay or billing category. Peso-based records fit local payroll and client billing. English labels work for many teams, and Filipino labels can reduce review friction for local operations.
Covered employees must receive at least 10% night shift differential for each hour worked between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. Work beyond eight hours a day is overtime for covered employees and must be paid at the regular wage plus at least 25%. Work beyond eight hours on a holiday or rest day has a separate premium structure.
Meal time also needs a clear field because employers must give employees at least 60 minutes of time off for regular meals, subject to Department of Labor regulations. A clean timesheet distinguishes paid working time from unpaid meal breaks and short rest periods counted as hours worked. That distinction keeps review focused on the right pay rule.
Employee time entries and monitoring records identify individuals, so they fall under the Philippines Data Privacy Act of 2012 when processed by employers or vendors. A timesheet workflow needs a lawful purpose, transparent notice, proportionality, safeguards, and respect for data-subject rights. Basic time entry creates a different privacy profile than activity monitoring.
A common mistake is collecting more data than the payroll or billing workflow needs. Screenshot capture, keystroke tracking, or continuous activity scoring requires stricter scrutiny than start time, end time, project, task, and approval status. The safest operational record captures the time evidence needed for pay, billing, scheduling, and audit review.
A simple timesheet tool is enough for a freelancer, a small client job, or a one-week cleanup where you only need dated hours, project notes, and a peso total. It also works when approvals happen outside the system and the final record only needs to support an invoice or internal review.
A managed workflow fits teams that need continuous records across people, projects, and clients. Everhour Project Budgeting connects logged time to hour-based or money-based budgets, recurring budget periods, threshold email alerts, and budget protection. That setup helps managers review project spend before billing, payroll checks, or client reporting.
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Philippine labor rules do not name one required software product for all employers. The practical requirement is that records support the applicable working-time and pay rules for covered employees, including daily hours, overtime after eight hours, night-shift differential, rest-day or holiday work, and meal-period treatment.
A usable record separates regular daily hours, overtime beyond eight hours, night work from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., rest-day work, holiday work, meal breaks, and paid time categories used by the employer. Project, task, client, and approval status also matter when the same record supports billing.
No. Philippine Labor Code Book III working-time rules apply to employees in establishments and undertakings, with exclusions such as government employees, managerial employees, certain field personnel, dependent family members, domestic helpers, personal-service workers, and workers paid by results as determined by regulation.
Yes. Employers must give employees at least 60 minutes of time off for regular meals, subject to Department of Labor regulations. A separate meal-break field prevents unpaid meal time from being mixed with hours worked and keeps overtime review tied to actual covered working time.
Yes, but employee time and monitoring records are personal data when they identify a person. The Data Privacy Act of 2012 requires transparency, legitimate purpose, proportionality, lawful processing grounds, safeguards, and data-subject rights. Collect the minimum data needed for time, pay, billing, and review.
Everhour Project Budgeting connects tracked time to hour-based or money-based budgets, recurring budget periods, and threshold email alerts. Teams can review project spend before work exceeds an internal limit or a client-approved budget.
Everhour Timesheets let users submit weekly project hours or working hours for review, and managers can approve, reject, or partially approve entries. Submitted and approved time can stay locked, which protects reviewed records from routine edits.
Use Everhour Project Budgeting to connect logged hours to time or money budgets, recurring periods, threshold email alerts, and budget protection, so project work stays reviewed and within budget.
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