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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…

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Snagged a nice accounting/bookkeeping/management solution with Harpoon

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 2, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I've been using Harpoon for my business since 2018. There have been moments when I tried other, competing platforms, but I still ended up coming back to Harpoon in the end. It...
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Scott Rosenblum
Executive - Professional Services
President/Founder
LEVEL PR
Harpoon2 years of experience

For Freelancers, Harpoon Is The Essential Invoice & Financial Management Tool For Success

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 1, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
As a freelancer, Harpoon is my primary tool for managing invoices, collecting payments, and actualizing my goal progress. With the dashboard and scheduling features, I know ho...
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Jason Montoya
C-Level Executive - Customer Service
Virtual Chief Growth Officer (CGO)
JasonScottMontoya.com
Harpoon2 years of experience
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Pricing

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Single User - Unlimited Everything

$19

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://harpoonapp.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Tops Knives Hoffman Harpoon - Demo By BladeOps

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Getting Started with Harpoon

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Birdy - Light Me Up (Kid Harpoon Demo)

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Harpoon V Demo - Jumpstart Scenario Up To Current Time

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Harpoon V Demo - Jumpstart Scenario Up To Current Time

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A Familiar Feeling + Harpoon Gun demo - Hurk's Redemption Mission 3 - DLC - Far Cry 4

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Product Details

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.

Harpoon Features

  • Supported: Forecasting/Planning
  • Supported: Invoicing
  • Supported: Time Tracking
  • Supported: Projects
  • Supported: Expenses
  • Supported: Analytics

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.

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Harpoon Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesAustralia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Spain, Singapore
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian, German
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

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Harpoon is a solid resource for businesses in growth mode, offering a wide range of options for predicting trends and managing systems. According to a customer who has been using the product for about 4 years, it provides phenomenal support to users. Beginners also find it handy as an all-in-one financial software for billing and sending invoices. With its user-friendly interface, Harpoon comes highly recommended for managing invoices, expenses, and budgeting.

One of the key problems that Harpoon solves is the need for a seamless platform that handles timers and invoicing. It serves as an elite program for running a business, allowing users to track and manage various aspects such as revenue, sales, expenses, and sick days. For freelancers, Harpoon is the primary tool to manage invoices, collect payments, and track goal progress. Its dashboard and scheduling features enable users to track their earnings and project future earnings with ease. Additionally, the program allows for easy comparison of actuals with goals, providing valuable insights into progress.

Harpoon simplifies invoicing by offering easy creation of invoices and integration with Stripe for direct deposit. It also takes care of client payment reminders automatically, reducing the need for additional follow-ups. The software provides comprehensive reports, expense tracking, and time tracking features. Designed to be helpful for freelancers and small agencies alike, customers have been relying on Harpoon since 2018 despite trying other platforms. They appreciate its bookkeeping, invoicing, project management, and profit goal setting capabilities. Overall, Harpoon proves to be a versatile tool that addresses multiple pain points faced by businesses and freelancers alike.

Easy to Use and Set Up: Many users have found Harpoon to be easy to get up and running, even with basic data. They appreciate the simplicity of the tool and its user-friendly interface.

Great Invoicing Features: Several reviewers have praised Harpoon as a great invoicing app that is widely preferred by freelancers. They highlight its features such as time tracking, project scheduling, and budget management, which make creating client invoices simple and non-accountant friendly.

Helpful Visuals: Users particularly enjoy the visuals in Harpoon, especially the dashboard with its large icons for easy access to visuals. The variety of stats and data points available in the tool help them track their business's progress and financial health effectively.

Difficult User Interface: Some users have found certain interface items to be not very user-friendly, making it challenging for them to navigate the software effectively. They have expressed frustration with elements such as menu layouts and button placements.

Inadequate Color Scheme: There were complaints from users about the left panel color, with many finding it difficult to read the text against the light blue background. Several reviewers have mentioned that this issue affects their overall experience and makes it harder for them to use the software efficiently.

Expense Tracking Issues: Users have reported issues with expense tracking, specifically with automatic expense reporting creating duplicate transactions. This has caused frustration and extra work for those using the software, as they need to manually delete these duplicates from their reports. Multiple customers have highlighted this problem and emphasized its impact on their workflow efficiency.

Reviews

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Snagged a nice accounting/bookkeeping/management solution with Harpoon

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
August 02, 2021
SR
Scott Rosenblum
President/Founder
LEVEL PR (Public Relations & Communications, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Harpoon
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I've been using Harpoon for my business since 2018. There have been moments when I tried other, competing platforms, but I still ended up coming back to Harpoon in the end. It helps with several things at once - bookkeeping, invoicing, project management and profit goal setting.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.)
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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
These others accounting/invoicing platforms did a great job with the invoicing and bookkeeping, but at the time I used them, none of them had any goalsetting features. I also found the metrics dashboards a bit underwhelming.
Other Software Used
Support Rating
10
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.
Premium Support
No. I don't believe it is an option that is offered.
Exceptional Examples of Harpoon Support
As mentioned prior, the fact that the founder himself came to my assistance with my questions was a nice touch.

For Freelancers, Harpoon Is The Essential Invoice & Financial Management Tool For Success

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 01, 2018
JM
Jason Montoya
Virtual Chief Growth Officer (CGO)
JasonScottMontoya.com (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Harpoon
2 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
As a freelancer, Harpoon is my primary tool for managing invoices, collecting payments, and actualizing my goal progress. With the dashboard and scheduling features, I know how much I've earned, and how that earning will play out over the course of the year.

With my tracked goals, I can easily and quickly compare actuals with the goals and discover if I'm on track or ahead of the game.

With invoicing, they're easy to create and quickly integrates with Stripe for direct deposit into my bank accounts. On late invoices, Harpoon automatically emails my clients and prods them for payment. Very rarely do I need to do anything further to collect payments.

Harpoon also offers reports, expense tracking, and time tracking. As a freelancer or small agency, Harpoon is designed to work with its users in a helpful way. How Harpoon structures the interface and system is just as important than what it does.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you're freelancing or running a small marketing agency, I'll steer you strongly towards Harpoon. It's such a terrific fit for this business type. It provides easy invoice management so if that's all you care about, use Harpoon this way. If you want a tool that will guide you towards success, Harpoon helps you do this when launching your account. Know what you want to earn, what it takes to get there, and how you're doing along the way. What financial software for freelancers provides simple project tools? Harpoon.
Return on Investment
  • 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.
Alternatives Considered
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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