Everhour's Jira integration is free, available on the Atlassian Marketplace, and takes minutes to set up. It replaces Jira's confusing native time tracking with a clean, consistent experience.
Setup
- Sign up for Everhour. During signup you'll be prompted to connect Jira
- Install the Everhour add-on from the Atlassian Marketplace — this step requires a Jira administrator
- Invite your team to Everhour — Jira users are not synced automatically. Only users you explicitly invite can use the add-on inside Jira
- Optionally install the Everhour browser extension to unlock extra controls like timesheet access from list/board views without opening issue details
Replace Jira's native time tracking
Jira shows its own time-tracking fields by default even when a third-party app is installed, causing duplicate UI and potential confusion. By switching the "Time tracking provider" to Everhour in Jira settings, Jira hides its native interface and hands full control to Everhour.
Enable this under Settings → Issues → Time tracking in your Jira admin panel.
Controls inside Jira
After connecting, Everhour adds the following to every Jira issue:
- Sidebar — open your Everhour Time page and weekly timesheet directly from a Jira issue; admins can view project time totals and budget history
- Time tracking — track with the Everhour timer, add time manually, or edit existing entries; syncs to the Jira time tracking field if enabled
- Work log — view the full history of time changes; syncs to Jira's work log if the sync is enabled
- Estimate — syncs with Jira's "Original Estimate" custom field
Sync Everhour time entries to Jira work log
Enable work log sync from the Integrations page → Configure next to Jira. All time entered through Everhour then writes to Jira's native work log, keeping both systems in agreement. Note: historical data and time entered directly in Jira are not back-synced.
Reports
Jira-specific columns available in the Everhour report builder:
- Project / Task — Jira project and issue names
- Parent task — groups child issues under their parent epic
- Task number / Task status — issue ID and open/closed state
- Tag — Jira label names
- Any Jira custom field can be added as a separate column
Permissions
Everhour mirrors Jira's permissions. If a user has access to a project in Jira, they can track time to its issues. Remove access in Jira and the user loses it in Everhour too (past history stays in admin reports). Budgets and billing settings can only be configured by admins.
