Everhour Time Tracking captures Dutch team hours for timesheets, reporting, billing, and payroll review from one work record.
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.
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Timesheet software in the Netherlands should help you collect hours by person, day, project, and task without turning every week into spreadsheet cleanup. The practical goal is a record that shows actual work patterns, supports payroll or billing, and gives managers enough detail to spot missing entries before the period closes.
Dutch employers must keep a proper registration of hours worked. Dutch guidance does not prescribe one fixed format, but the Labour Inspectorate must be able to verify Working Hours Act compliance from the records. That makes consistency more important than decoration: employee name, date, start and end time, break time, project, client, and approval status all need a clear place.
A good Dutch timesheet separates working hours from break time and keeps project details attached to each entry. For example, a consultant can log 7.5 working hours on a client implementation, 30 minutes of break time, and a note that the work belongs to a billable phase. That same entry can support a weekly payroll check and a client invoice in euros.
Break fields deserve attention because Dutch rules include concrete thresholds. A shift longer than 5.5 hours gives entitlement to at least 30 minutes of break time, and a shift longer than 10 hours requires at least 45 minutes, with limited collective-arrangement flexibility. Treat break capture as a required review field, especially for long shifts and employees with irregular schedules.
Dutch working-time rules make timesheets more than an internal productivity habit. For employees aged 18 and over, the ordinary maximum is 12 hours per shift and 60 hours per week, although that 60-hour week cannot be used every week. Average limits also matter: up to 55 hours per week over 4 weeks and up to 48 hours per week over 16 weeks, subject to applicable exceptions and collective arrangements.
Employee time records identify workers, so the GDPR applies. Basic time entry needs a lawful basis, clear purpose, limited collection, appropriate retention, and secure access. Enhanced monitoring deserves a separate privacy review because high-risk processing can require a data protection impact assessment. Dutch-language expectations and euro-denominated reports also matter for teams that share records with local employees, clients, or advisors.
A one-off timesheet file is enough for a short engagement, a small freelancer invoice, or a simple weekly hours recap. It works best when one person owns the work, the number of projects stays low, and no manager needs to approve time before payroll, billing, or reporting.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when Dutch staff, foreign employers with workers in the Netherlands, temporary personnel, or client projects need repeatable records. Everhour can capture time with timers or manual entries, feed timesheets and reports, and support approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules before hours move into payroll review or invoicing.
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Yes. Employers must keep a proper registration of hours worked, and the Labour Inspectorate must be able to verify Working Hours Act compliance from those records. EU law also requires an objective, reliable and accessible system for measuring each worker's daily working time, based on the CJEU CCOO v Deutsche Bank ruling.
A Dutch timesheet should make it easy to review 12 hours per shift, 60 hours per week, and average weekly limits of 55 hours over 4 weeks and 48 hours over 16 weeks. Overtime counts toward these caps. Applicable exceptions and collective labour agreements can change the review, so payroll should check the worker category and contract terms.
No. Dutch law does not set a statutory overtime premium. Overtime still counts toward the legal working-time caps, but extra pay is handled through employment terms or a collective labour agreement. A timesheet should therefore separate overtime hours clearly without assuming one universal premium rate.
Dutch timesheets should capture break duration and the shift length that triggered it. A shift longer than 5.5 hours gives entitlement to at least 30 minutes of break time, and a shift longer than 10 hours requires at least 45 minutes. Limited collective-arrangement flexibility exists, so store the actual break record instead of only the paid total.
Dutch employers can process employee time records under the GDPR when they have a lawful basis and follow lawfulness, fairness, transparency, purpose limitation, data minimisation, storage limitation, security, and accountability principles. Enhanced monitoring can create high risk to individuals, so a data protection impact assessment may be required before those features are used.
Everhour Time Tracking logs hours against tasks and projects through timers or manual entries, including inside supported tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Those entries can feed timesheets, reporting, budgeting, invoicing, and payroll review from the same time record.
Everhour Timesheets let users submit weekly project hours or working hours for manager review. Managers can approve, reject, or partially approve submitted time, and submitted or approved time can stay locked from regular member edits, giving payroll and billing teams a cleaner review trail.
Capture daily hours, approve weekly timesheets, and keep project records ready for payroll or billing review. Everhour Time Tracking turns scattered entries into a repeatable workflow for Dutch teams.
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