Everhour tracks project time and budgets while Portugal's Labour Code requires accessible working-time records.
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You came here to choose a way to record work time for people in Portugal, not to read a generic software checklist. The practical output is a record that shows who worked, on which day, for which project or cost center, and which hours count toward payroll, client billing, overtime review, or internal capacity planning.
Portugal adds a statutory recordkeeping layer. The Labour Code requires employers to maintain accessible working-time records, including for workers exempt from a fixed work schedule. The record must support immediate consultation and must contain enough detail to calculate daily and weekly working time for each worker.
A Portugal-ready timesheet should capture the worker, date, start time, end time, interruptions, intervals excluded from working time, project, task, approval status, and notes for exceptions. The start and end fields matter because the Labour Code requires records showing the beginning and end of working time, plus excluded intervals, so daily and weekly totals can be calculated.
Project and billing fields serve a different purpose. A consultant who logs 6 hours on a client implementation and 2 hours on internal support needs those categories separated before payroll, invoice review, and profitability reporting. EUR-denominated billing, Portuguese localization, and clear approval labels reduce cleanup before finance or HR exports the record.
Timesheet settings in Portugal should flag schedules that move beyond the Labour Code's ordinary frame of 8 hours per day and 40 hours per week, while still allowing specific Labour Code exceptions and collective-agreement arrangements. The weekly view also needs an average-hours check because working time, including overtime, is limited to 48 hours per week over the applicable reference period, normally four months unless a collective agreement or listed exception changes it.
Overtime review needs annual tracking, not just daily totals. Ordinary temporary workload overtime is capped at 175 hours per year in micro and small companies, 150 hours per year in medium and large companies, and can rise to 200 hours by collective labour regulation. Premiums run from +25% to +100% depending on annual volume, weekday timing, rest days, and holidays.
A free one-off timesheet is enough when you need a clean weekly total, a simple contractor backup record, or a short project export. It stops being enough when outside-company work must be validated and returned within 15 days, when records must be retained for five years, or when managers need a consistent approval trail.
A managed workflow connects time entry to budgets, approvals, reporting, and handoff. Everhour fits that longer-running setup by tying logged hours to project budgets, recurring budget periods, and threshold alerts. That matters when Portugal-based work spans clients, departments, or retainers and the team needs live budget control before payroll or billing review.
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Yes. Portugal's Labour Code requires employers to maintain working-time records in an accessible place that allows immediate consultation. The rule covers workers exempt from a fixed work schedule as well as workers with standard schedules, and a violation of the working-time record rule is a serious administrative offence.
The record should show the start and end of working time, plus interruptions or intervals excluded from working time. Those fields let the employer calculate each worker's daily and weekly hours. Project, cost center, approval status, and exception notes support internal review, but they do not replace the required working-time fields.
Portugal requires a specific validation step for work performed outside the company. The employer must ensure the worker validates the record immediately on return or sends it validated so the company has it within 15 days of the work being performed. Timesheet software should make that exception visible instead of burying it in comments.
Employers must keep working-time records for five years. A practical retention setup keeps approved records locked, searchable by worker and date, and exportable for HR, payroll, audit, or labor inspection needs. Editable spreadsheets create risk when past periods can be changed without an approval trail.
Portugal applies the GDPR through Law 58/2019, and CNPD is the national supervisory authority. Worker biometric data is legitimate only for attendance control and access control, using non-reversible representations. Basic time entry is different from biometric monitoring, so employers should separate ordinary timesheets from stricter attendance-control systems.
Everhour Project Budgeting tracks hour-based and money-based budgets as people log time, with daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly budget resets. Teams can set threshold email alerts at 75%, 90%, 100%, or custom levels, then use budget protection to stop extra time logging after a limit is exceeded.
Track Portugal project hours against recurring budgets, approval rules, and EUR billing workflows. Everhour gives teams live budget visibility before timesheets move into payroll, client invoicing, or reporting.
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