What is Harpoon?

Harpoon 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.

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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.

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.

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.

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and recorded hours are grouped and organized in one convenient place ready for you to take action, or simply there for historical reference.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!

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.

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Scott Rosenblum View profile

President/Founder in Professional Services at LEVEL PR (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

Helps define profit goals and with metrics, shows if you are on track to reach them
Invoicing is easy and easy to track with projects and clients
For tax seasons, it easy to pull reports (e.g. expenses, P&Ls, etc.)

Cons

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

Most Important Features

Tracking profit goals in real time
client/project management tools
Invoicing is not the fanciest, but it works well

Return on Investment

By providing a nice all-in-one platform for managing clients, related projects, invoicing and bookkeeping, it saved me from having to work with multiple platforms.
Saved me from wasting any further time trying to research competitors and trying out other software

Alternatives Considered

Wave Accounting and FreshBooks

Other Software Used

Muck Rack, Toggl, Slack

Jason Montoya View profile

Virtual Chief Growth Officer (CGO) in Customer Service at JasonScottMontoya.com (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

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.

Cons

The automatic expense management is basic. It does sync with banks, but I've had some duplicate entry issues that are being worked out of the system.
I'd like to see additional reports that dive deeper into some of the dashboard widgets.