Everhour captures employee hours through timers or manual entries while keeping team records ready for review.
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.
You came here to choose a practical way to track employee time across a team. The result should show who worked, which project or task used the time, whether the work was billable, and which week the hours belong to. For U.S. employers covered by the FLSA, records for nonexempt workers must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek.
The app also has to match the way people work. Field staff need mobile entry. Desk teams often prefer timers inside task tools. Managers need weekly review before payroll or billing. Owners need exports and summaries that survive a later question about a client invoice, project overrun, or wage-and-hour record.
Employee time tracking starts with entries tied to a person, date, project, client, and task. A useful record separates billable and non-billable time, keeps notes short, and stores rates in U.S. dollars when the team bills or reviews payroll in the United States. Manual entries work for completed work. Timers work better when employees switch between tasks during the day.
The workweek matters for payroll review. Under the FLSA, a workweek is a fixed, regularly recurring period of 168 hours, made of seven consecutive 24-hour periods. Covered nonexempt employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek at at least one and one-half times the regular rate. Hours cannot be averaged across two or more workweeks for FLSA overtime purposes.
A top app is more than a stopwatch. It supports manual entry and automatic timers, lets teams track by project, client, and task, and gives managers a clean approval step before records feed payroll, billing, or reports. The best fit also shows late edits, missing entries, and unusual daily totals before they become cleanup work.
Privacy and monitoring deserve a clear policy. Time tracking should record work time and work context, not turn every activity into surveillance by default. U.S. privacy obligations are sectoral and state-dependent. At the federal level, businesses handling personal information must avoid unfair or deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act and follow sound data-security practices for sensitive employee information.
A one-off weekly total is enough when you only need a quick check of hours for one person or one project. That same quick total can support a simple invoice or confirm whether a team member entered a complete week. The limitation appears as soon as corrections, approvals, billing rates, or project budgets enter the workflow.
Everhour fits the managed version of this process. Employees track time with live timers or manual entries, including inside supported project tools, and managers review approved hours before using them for timesheets, reports, budgeting, invoicing, or payroll review. Admin controls such as reminders, locked periods, approvals, and timer rules keep the record consistent after the week closes.
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G2
Summer 2026
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Summer 2026
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No federal rule requires covered employers to use one specific timekeeping form or system under the FLSA. The method must produce complete and accurate records for nonexempt workers, including hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek. A digital app, time clock, spreadsheet, or paper sheet can work if the records are accurate and retained properly.
Timers fit task switching, client work, and project teams that need accurate billable or budgeted time. Manual entry works for stable schedules and corrections after work is done. A practical employee app supports both, then marks or preserves enough entry detail for a manager to spot reconstructed time, missing days, and late changes before approval.
No. Time tracking records work hours, projects, tasks, and sometimes notes needed for payroll, billing, budgets, and reporting. Monitoring focuses on observation of employee activity. Employers should collect only time data they need, keep it secure, and explain the policy. California covered businesses should also account for CCPA obligations when employee time data involves California residents.
The app should preserve the fixed workweek and the total hours worked inside that same workweek. For covered nonexempt employees under the FLSA, overtime applies to hours worked over 40 in a workweek at at least 1.5 times the regular rate. Saturday, Sunday, holiday, or rest-day work does not trigger federal premium pay by itself.
Covered employers must preserve payroll records for at least three years and basic time and earnings records, such as daily start and stop time cards or sheets, for at least two years. An employee time app should make old records searchable and exportable so payroll, billing, and wage-and-hour questions do not depend on memory or screenshots.
Everhour Time Tracking lets employees log task and project hours with live timers or manual entries, including inside supported tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and others. Those entries feed timesheets, reporting, budgeting, invoicing, and payroll review, with admin controls for approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules.
Everhour Reporting turns logged time, budgets, costs, and project data into configurable reports. Managers can group and filter by project, client, member, task, billable time, labor costs, budget metrics, and invoice status, then export reports in CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF for review or archive.
Use Everhour Time Tracking to capture task and project hours, review approved timesheets, lock closed periods, and move clean records into billing, budgets, reports, and payroll review.
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