The Home section is the first thing you see when you open Everhour. It's designed to give managers and team leads an instant summary of what's happening across all projects and people — without having to dig into individual reports. Rather than surfacing a single fixed dashboard, the Home section is composed of configurable widgets that you can arrange to match your management priorities, whether that means watching budget burn, monitoring team activity, or keeping an eye on today's timers.
This video walks through each widget on the Home dashboard and explains how to customize the view to surface the metrics that matter most to your team.
What's covered in this video
The Home dashboard greets you with a live activity feed that shows every time entry logged by any team member, updating in real time as the day unfolds. This means a manager opening Everhour in the morning can immediately see who has already started work, which projects are getting attention, and whether any timers have been running suspiciously long. Alongside the activity feed, the dashboard displays budget progress bars for active projects, making it immediately obvious which projects are approaching their allocated hours or spend limit before they go over. You can filter the entire Home view by date range or by a specific team member, which is useful when you want to focus on a single person's week or review what happened in the previous billing period.
The budget indicator widgets are particularly powerful for project managers billing clients on fixed-fee contracts. Each widget shows the percentage of budget consumed alongside the raw hours and cost figures, and changes color as the project approaches its threshold — giving you a clear visual warning before scope creep becomes a financial problem. Clicking any widget takes you directly to the relevant project, report, or time log, so the Home section also serves as a quick-navigation hub rather than just a passive display.
Key features shown
The Home section is built around widgets that you can enable, disable, and reorder to create a dashboard tailored to your role. The live team activity feed shows recent time entries with project, task, user, and duration at a glance. Budget alert indicators display color-coded progress for all active projects, making overruns visible before they occur. Active timer cards show any timers currently running across the team, so you can confirm work is in progress without asking anyone. The date and person filters let you narrow the entire dashboard down to a specific scope, making it useful for daily standups, one-on-one check-ins, or end-of-week reviews. All widgets link directly to their underlying data for quick drill-down access.
