Everhour records work hours by task, project, and client so teams can review time before billing or payroll.
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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A work time tracker helps you turn each work session into a usable record. For a freelancer, that record supports client billing. For an employer, it supports payroll review, project costing, and weekly hour checks. The useful result is a clear log that connects a person, date, task, project, client, and time amount without forcing someone to reconstruct the week from memory.
For U.S. employers, the federal baseline centers on accurate records rather than a required clock system. The FLSA requires covered employers to keep accurate records for nonexempt workers, and those records must include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek for employees covered by the minimum wage or overtime provisions. State rules, contracts, and company policies can add stricter requirements.
A complete work time entry identifies the date, worker, project, task, start and stop time or duration, and whether the time is billable. Teams that bill clients also need the client name, billing rate, and notes that explain the work well enough for review. U.S. billing and payroll rate fields normally use U.S. dollars unless the business has a specific reason to use another currency.
Manual entries work when someone records time promptly and consistently. Timers work better for task switching because they capture time as work happens. The key decision is the tracking unit: project, client, task, or a combination. Project-level tracking is faster, task-level tracking gives cleaner budget and invoice detail, and client-level tracking helps agencies and consultants separate external work from internal time.
A work time tracker should make weekly review easy because U.S. federal overtime is based on the workweek. Under the FLSA, unless exempt, covered employees must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek at not less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay. A workweek is a fixed, regularly recurring period of 168 hours.
Weekend and holiday work needs careful labeling, but the FLSA does not require overtime premium pay solely because work happened on Saturday, Sunday, a holiday, or a regular rest day. The weekly overtime rule must be triggered, or another law, policy, contract, or agreement must apply. A tracker that separates dates, workweeks, and total weekly hours prevents daily totals from being mistaken for federal overtime triggers.
A one-off weekly total is enough when you only need a personal check, a quick client summary, or a draft of hours before entering them elsewhere. It stops being enough when multiple people submit time, managers review corrections, payroll depends on approved hours, or client billing needs a clean audit trail from task work to invoice detail.
Everhour Timesheets support that managed workflow by collecting weekly project hours and working hours by person. Team members can submit time for review, and managers can approve, reject, partially approve, or request corrections before payroll or billing uses the numbers. Submitted and approved time can stay protected from edits, which helps preserve the reviewed record after a period closes.
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A practical tracker supports both. Timers capture work as it happens, which reduces end-of-week reconstruction. Manual entries cover meetings, offline work, and corrections after a timer was missed. Teams should label timer-based and manually entered time separately when accuracy matters, since the entry method helps managers spot patterns and clean up records before billing or payroll.
A weekly review should include hours worked each workday and total hours worked each workweek for FLSA-covered nonexempt employees. Billable teams should also separate client time from internal time. Payroll review, client billing, project budgets, and utilization reporting all rely on the same basic discipline: record the work date, person, project, task, and time amount consistently.
Federal FLSA overtime for covered nonexempt employees is based on hours worked over 40 in a workweek, with a workweek defined as 168 fixed, recurring hours. Federal law does not create overtime only because someone worked a long day. State law, local rules, union agreements, employment contracts, or company policy can require additional daily overtime treatment.
Federal rules require employers to preserve payroll records for at least three years and basic time and earnings records, including daily start and stop time cards or sheets, for at least two years. Businesses should also follow any longer state, industry, contract, tax, or litigation hold requirements that apply to their records.
Time tracking records work hours, tasks, projects, and related billing or payroll details. Employee monitoring can involve broader activity surveillance. U.S. privacy obligations vary by sector and state, and businesses handling personal information must avoid unfair or deceptive practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act. Covered California businesses also need to treat employee time-tracking data as potential CCPA-covered employment data.
Everhour Timesheets collect weekly project hours and working hours by person so managers can review time before payroll, billing, or reporting. Employees can submit time, and managers can approve, reject, partially approve, or request corrections while submitted and approved entries stay protected from ordinary edits.
Everhour can run standalone or inside tools such as Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, Linear, Jira, Monday, Notion, Trello, and Basecamp. Tracking controls appear where work is assigned, so task time flows into one reporting layer for budgets, utilization, billing, and project review.
Track weekly work time, review submitted hours, and protect approved entries before payroll or billing. Everhour Timesheets give teams a cleaner approval workflow for paid and billable time.
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