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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Harpoon

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AHarpoon is a web-hosted accounting and finance app that helps freelancers and consultants set and meet their financial goals. In addition, Harpoon provides useful tools to help users collect revenue and manage finances. Features include time tracking, invoicing, expense tracking, project scheduling and more.  The vendor’s value proposition is that their solution that helps users boost their freelancing career.

    $19

    per month

    Nifty

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ANifty consolidates projects, work, and communications in one place. Nifty simplifies and automates the tracking of project milestones, communications with teammates and clients, collaborative document creation, and more in a centralized workspace! Nifty enables organizational oversight across projects and teammates with project & team workload overviews. With communications, project management, and workflow collaboration centralized in one place, teams can consolidate their workday as well…N/A
    Pricing
    HarpoonNifty
    Editions & Modules
    Single User - Unlimited Everything
    $19
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HarpoonNifty
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$89 simple flat-rate pricing
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    Features
    HarpoonNifty
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Harpoon and Nifty
    Feature
    Harpoon
    -
    Ratings
    Nifty
    9.6
    3 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings8.83 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Harpoon and Nifty
    Feature
    Harpoon
    -
    Ratings
    Nifty
    9.3
    2 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings8.62 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    HarpoonNifty
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HarpoonNifty
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Harpoon
    I think Harpoon works best for freelancers, consultants, self employed people and smaller companies with less client to bill. For larger enterprises with hundreds or thousands of clients, there are larger, more intricate platforms in the market that are better suited for those needs.
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    Nifty
    I've found myself recommending Nifty to other business owners as well as for personal use. I've personally found it to be invaluable when it comes to:
    • Daily / Weekly / Monthly / Quarterly recurring tasks
    • Creating templates for company processes such as new product creation, marketing strategy, on-boarding, quarterly goals, content management
    • Having forms zapped into a new task from multiple locations ensuring they're never overlooked
    • Having clear milestones and timelines for projects
    • Communicating on projects, tasks, and just in general
    • Assigning different components of projects to different people
    • Creating prior requirements that must be completed before completing the task
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    Pros
    Harpoon
    • Makes Sending Invoices & Collecting Payment Easy, for Freelancers
    • Tracking Financial Goals (Monthly & Annual) & Projecting Future Results
    • Provides Insights On AR, Earned Income, Top Clients, and other helpful but highly relevant data points.
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    Nifty
    • An overview of project timelines and milestones.
    • One-on-one or group conversations.
    • Tracking the status of projects and tasks.
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    Cons
    Harpoon
    • Sometimes expense reporting bring up duplicate transactions, which may be more of a fault of the API that connects my account, which is Plaid
    • Would be nice if in the future, they can offer ACH as one of the payment options for invoices
    • There are some redundancies that pop up when setting time frames for client work and the projects attached to them. If they aren't aligned, it can cause inaccurate reporting. If it just sent it once and it took care of both functions, it would be easier
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    Nifty
    • Time Expense could be improved since we cannot edit the previous/past time logs entered.
    • Lacks expense management and Purchase order management functionality
    • Newest product updates are not always stable and I had to reach Nifty's support team a couple of times in the past to fix the issues with new updates e.g. our document management and meeting integrations had to be re-authorized
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    Support Rating
    Harpoon
    The few times I've needed help or had questions about the platform, the founder got back to me. And fairly fast. The extra effort resonated well with me
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    Nifty
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    Alternatives Considered
    Harpoon
    I've used Less Accounting and & Quickbooks Online. After Less Accounting was acquired, its development was mostly stopped. While the tool was a simple way to manage invoices and expenses, its directional philosophy changed with the new owners. Quickbooks Online was a solid tool, but the company support was unhelpful and hard to work with at times. Harpoon provides a great tool, with a company that cares about its users.
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    Nifty
    There's no comparison. Nifty does what all of these do all in one place (with the exception of Slack's community aspect with hashtagging - not sure if Nifty can do this, never tried) Nifty even has the ability to import directly from many other platforms - I've personally imported projects from Trello and Asana, saving tons of time in migration.
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    Return on Investment
    Harpoon
    • Clear and precise visibility of my financial status.
    • Projections of how I'm doing today, this month, and this year.
    • Clarity on what needs to happen with client development to reach my goals.
    • It shrinks the amount of time I spend on getting clients to pay my invoices.
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    Nifty
    • Consistent communications.
    • Staying on project schedule.
    • Aligned projects with business strategies.
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    ScreenShots

    Harpoon Screenshots

    Screenshot of Harpoon's Dashboard showcases over a dozen crucial metrics to help you understand the health of your business. Enjoy the big picture view of your freelancing finances.Screenshot of Every business has expenses and Harpoon is the perfect place to track them. Assign expenses to your projects and easily add those expenses to invoices for reimbursement.Screenshot of You'll appreciate how simple it is to create invoices, and your clients will appreciate the one-click ease of making payments online. Harpoon's invoices are clean and beautiful, a perfect complement to the professional services and products you provide.Screenshot of All of a project's invoices, expenses, and recorded hours are grouped and organized in one convenient place ready for you to take action, or simply there for historical reference. Handy!Screenshot of Harpoon gives you powerful tools to track and organize your time. Simple one-click timers combined with flexible reporting puts you in total control of your business's tracked time.

    Nifty Screenshots

    Screenshot of Project DiscussionsScreenshot of Project MilestonesScreenshot of Project Overview