Everhour captures campaign and project hours so marketing teams can review budgets, billing, and weekly work without spreadsheet cleanup.
Enter your time in and out for each day. Overtime and gross pay are calculated automatically.
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A marketing timesheet helps you see where time went across campaigns, accounts, deliverables, and internal work. Agency teams use it for billing, retainer review, utilization, and profitability. In-house teams use it to compare effort across launches, content, paid media, market research, and stakeholder requests. The useful output is a record that shows the person, date, project, task, time worked, billable status, and notes.
For U.S. employers, the federal baseline is record accuracy, not a mandatory clock-in tool. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, including hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. Employers may use any complete and accurate method. Payroll records must be kept at least three years, while basic time and earnings records must be kept at least two years.
Marketing work rarely fits one generic bucket. Advertising, promotions, and marketing managers plan campaigns, discuss budgets and contracts, negotiate advertising contracts, analyze market research, and direct marketing staff. A useful timesheet mirrors that reality with fields for client or account, campaign, deliverable, role, billable status, and notes tied to the work performed.
A clean agency entry might read: client account, spring launch campaign, paid media planning, strategist, 2.5 hours, billable, budget review and channel mix. A non-billable entry might log internal training, new business support, or account administration. Tracking both categories matters because billable time supports invoices, while non-billable time shows estimating gaps, training needs, and operational load.
Marketing teams need timesheets even when the client contract is not hourly. ANA's 2022 Trends in Agency Compensation study found that 82% of surveyed marketers used fee-based agency compensation models, and smaller advertisers were much more likely to use labor-based fee agreements, with 76% using them. Rate-based pricing also remains the predominant form of compensation in advertising according to the 4As.
Fixed or output-based agency fees are negotiated for a specific project or deliverables without regard to agency labor time. That contract structure still needs time visibility. Actual hours show whether a deliverable took the effort assumed in the scope, whether revisions consumed unplanned capacity, and whether the next estimate needs a different staffing plan. The mistake is treating fixed-fee work as untracked work.
A one-off weekly timesheet is enough when you need a simple recap for a campaign, a client request, or a short internal review. It works when the team is small, the work is easy to remember, and the output only needs totals by person, project, and task. It also works for a quick comparison between planned deliverables and actual effort.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when tracked time feeds invoices, budget review, approvals, payroll checks, or project reporting. Everhour Time Tracking lets marketing teams use timers or manual entries against tasks and projects, then route those hours into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review. Admins can use approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules to keep weekly records review-ready.
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A marketing timesheet should include the employee or contractor, date, client or account, campaign, deliverable, task, role, hours worked, billable status, and notes. Agency teams also need a billing rate or rate category when the record supports client invoicing. U.S. employers with covered nonexempt workers must also keep daily hours worked and total hours worked each workweek under the FLSA.
Fixed-fee marketing projects still need time tracking because the fee is tied to a project or deliverables, while the team still spends measurable labor. Actual time shows whether the scope matched the work, whether revisions consumed extra capacity, and whether future estimates need adjustment. The timesheet supports management review even when the invoice does not list every hour.
Marketing teams should track both billable and non-billable work. Billable entries support client invoices, retainer review, and rate discussions. Non-billable entries show internal meetings, training, administration, new business, and rework that still affect capacity. Agency Management Institute notes that timesheets help agencies understand what teams do, how long work takes, estimate accuracy, training needs, and operational efficiency.
Weekend 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. A state law, employment agreement, or company policy can create a different premium rule.
Remote marketing teams can use self-reported timesheets if the records are complete and accurate. BLS CPS data showed a 22.9% overall telework rate in Q1 2024 and a 40.4% telework rate for workers age 25 and older with a bachelor's degree or higher. The practical requirement is consistent daily entries by project, task, and workweek, with review before billing or payroll use.
Everhour Time Tracking captures marketing hours through live timers or manual entries tied to tasks and projects. Those entries feed timesheets, reporting, budgeting, invoicing, and payroll review, while admins can use approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer behavior rules to keep weekly records controlled before downstream use.
Everhour works inside supported project tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Linear, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Marketing teams can keep campaign tasks in the system they already use while tracked time flows into one reporting layer for budgets, utilization, and billing review.
Track approved campaign and project time before it reaches billing, budgets, or payroll. Everhour connects timers, manual entries, approvals, and locked periods into one marketing time workflow.
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