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Harvest Free
$0
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forever
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$10.80
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per month per seat
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$12
Cloud
per month per seat
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- No setup fee
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What is Harvest?
Harvest is used to track time, gain insights from past projects, and get paid for work. Dedicated apps and integrations with popular tools like Asana and Slack allow Harvest to fit into a team’s workflow.
A selection of visual reports are offered to keep projects running smoothly and an organization's team supported. Harvest also helps to turn a team’s tracked time and expenses into professional nvoices and collect payment quickly with integrated online payments.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
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The most common users of Harvest are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Harvest has proven to be invaluable for users looking to customize their time tracking and pull detailed time reports. Users have found it helpful for managing time tracking and expense management, both for client reimbursement and company reimbursement. The software has been effective in accurately reflecting time worked on projects for clients, as well as paying hourly contractors. Additionally, Harvest has been praised by users for its ability to show clients how much time is used to complete projects and requests, aiding in project estimation and determining how much to charge clients. Harvest also facilitates invoicing, keeping all financial reporting in one accessible location and providing complete insight into the profitability of each project by tracking billable and non-billable time and expenses. It further supports businesses in evaluating the health of their operations through comprehensive reports. With its simple and effective invoicing feature, Harvest minimizes fees compared to other methods and helps organizations track time and expenses efficiently, analyze productivity, assess profitability, and plan for a successful future with accurate quotes for future projects. By providing insights into individual team members' time and project finances, Harvest aids in measuring outcomes, matching time spent on projects, making informed decisions, managing clients and individual projects, recording billable and non-billable hours, tracking work across departments, improving billing processes, providing accurate reports on hours spent on projects, replacing rough estimations, importing tracked hours from other software systems, managing digital marketing services, budgeting internal projects, ensuring transparency in time allocation within small teams or agencies, capturing timesheets for staff members, applying different rates to specific tasks, increasing accuracy in tracking client work throughout the entire organization, tracking service hours for each client and account to uphold agreements, streamlining time tracking and expense management for better project budgeting and reporting purposes. Overall, users appreciate Harvest's user-friendly interface and intuitive design that make time tracking and expense management easy and effective.
Simplicity and Intuitiveness: Many users have praised Harvest for its simple and intuitive user interface, which has made the onboarding process smooth and minimized the learning curve. They appreciate how easy it is to navigate and set up tasks in the software.
Flexible Time Tracking: The availability of multiple ways to track time in Harvest has been highly valued by users. With options to run timers constantly or add all their time at the end of the day, users can choose a method that suits their working style. This flexibility accommodates different preferences and enhances productivity.
Accurate Time Tracking: Users find the start-stop functionality of timers in Harvest effortless and accurate. They have mentioned that this feature allows them to track their time with precision, ensuring that billable hours are recorded properly. The ability to round up to the next 6 minutes also simplifies the time tracking process for billing purposes.
Limited Integration with Other Software: Some users have expressed frustration with Harvest's limited integration capabilities, particularly when it comes to project management systems like Basecamp and Asana. They feel that the lack of seamless integration hinders their workflow and makes it difficult to manage projects efficiently.
Difficulty in Finding Specific Items: Several reviewers have mentioned that they find it challenging to locate specific items within Harvest's interface. They feel that the organization of tabs for time, projects, team, and reports is not always clear, making it time-consuming to find what they need.
Lack of Robust Accounting Functionality: A number of users have commented on Harvest's lack of robust accounting functionality. They feel that while the software excels in time tracking and invoicing, it falls short when it comes to more advanced accounting features needed by growing companies.
Users commonly recommend the following actions when using Harvest:
Firstly, they suggest trying out the free trial of Harvest to see if it fits their workspace needs. They also recommend integrating Harvest with project management tools like Trello or Asana to minimize manual data entry.
Secondly, reviewers advise exploring Harvest thoroughly before implementing it for small businesses. They also recommend considering other time tracking software like Toggl and TSheets to make an informed decision.
Lastly, users highly recommend Harvest for any-size team to track time and analyze data effectively. They find it helpful for invoicing clients and suggest utilizing the Reports section for quick invoice generation. Additionally, they recommend creating a quick how-to guide for employees to ensure easy adoption of Harvest's features.
These recommendations highlight the importance of trying out the free trial, exploring the software fully, and considering integration with project management tools. Users also emphasize the benefits of using Harvest for tracking time, analyzing data, and managing invoices efficiently.
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December 20, 2023
Maximizing Efficiency and Transparency
- It has helped me charge properly by taking guesswork out of tasks
- It helps me justify time spent to clients
- I have seen a 30% increase in accepted billing by using Harvest. to report
September 06, 2021
Easy Time Tracking for Billing
- Harvest has helped us to easily track our time across multiple accounts, and it saves our time when dealing with the billing for each month.
- We've been able to increase our revenue on services such as interior and graphic design.
- We've been able to improve our billing process on services and look see where there is room for improvement.
- Team management has improved across multiple departments and states.
May 03, 2021
Very user friendly!
- Software expense was within budget
- Solved and immediate need for a time tracking solution to be implemented quickly
- Runs reports easily, very intuitive interface
May 03, 2021
Harvest is excellent value for time tracking, expense management and resource forecasting
- Lower administration costs
- Improved expense accuracy
- Harvest has made it easier to track time -- easier to input time at the end of the day (so it saves time in the long run).
- It allows for easy exporting of time/expense data for internal analyses.
- Harvest has lots of options on how to set up your projects that you report against, which means we are able to slice and dice our reports into even more meaningful divisions.
April 11, 2020
Harvest, the best way to track time
- Makes it easy to know how to bill
- Makes payroll a lot more simple
March 15, 2020
Very reliable and easy to use
- It's helped us invoice faster and made it easier to track payments. I probably value that savings at $100/month. Really we wouldn't be able to function without something similar to Harvest since we do billable hours.
- It makes it easy to track certain expenses and bill them directly to clients. It also helps us get prepayments when that's applicable.
March 10, 2020
A little polish wouldn't hurt, but it does the job well
- It's helped us be much more accountable for the time we spend on in-house tasks.
- It has helped us no more accurately how we should bill out our work.
March 02, 2020
Great Product for Cross Team Time tracking
- ROI: tracking for employee time
- Good for reporting time tracking to customers
- Easy for cross team reporting
February 13, 2020
Why I have time for Harvest
- Reducing over working.
- Prompt filing of expenses.
December 11, 2019
Harvest to simplify time tracking for consultants and remote agents
- I don't have to create multiple invoices per month.
- My manager doesn't have to try to keep track of my multiple invoices, thus neither does her payroll person.
November 11, 2019
Harvest Review
- Positive in that is it much more efficient than paper timesheets or using Excel; since Harvest is relatively cheap, it does pay for itself.
October 31, 2019
Invoicing and Time Management Made Easy
- Harvest saves me hours every month creating new invoices.
- Harvest saves me money by offering both invoicing and time management in one app.
- Harvest saves me money by not charging a transaction fee.
October 30, 2019
Harvest, the project time tracker your TEAM needs!
- Better tracking of time for projects = better quotes for clients! In turn, they trust us more, because we're only billing for the time used and projects completed.
- We can also have clear conversations with employees about productivity and provide feedback with real numbers that the employee has control over.
October 30, 2019
A great solution for online businesses!
- Saves month by allowing me to have a timer available so I don’t go over hours
- Easy billing so I don’t forget to invoice
- Paypal options for lower transaction fees
- Harvest allowed us to show senior leadership the true amount of time performing certain tasks that are resource-heavy.
- Using the tool helps each team member better understand their own working patterns.
- A negative impact is that tracking time on client projects also takes time! It's a hard habit to form if not doing so as part of the onboarding process.
October 17, 2019
Efficient way to submit, track, and manage project resources
- Efficient time tracking for employees.
- Efficient time tracking for contractors.
- Efficient resource management for project and account managers.
- Efficient budget management for project and account managers.
- Generate reports.
October 16, 2019
Get a true sense of time management with Harvest!
- A few years back, we used Harvest to better inform our budget creation. We analyzed the time spent on similar projects and were able to create thresholds and minimums.
October 16, 2019
Harvest - Easy to use, but upfront customization is required
- Given us an idea of what clients are profitable and which aren't
- Helped us tweak our pricing model based on trends we've discovered over time
- Helped us become more efficient with certain tasks that Harvest was showing were taking longer than expected across the organization.
October 16, 2019
A Must Have for Consulting
- Our company relied heavily on Harvest and used it for all projects.
- The ease of use meant we could focus on billable work or generating new business rather than back-end tracking and reporting.
- Using Harvest let us quickly know which projects and clients were profitable for us and which we needed to re-evaluate.
October 15, 2019
Time Tracking for the Win
- Harvest has saved me time when clients ask "What I've been working on" because I can easily look at my Harvest reports and share what I've done over a certain period of time.
October 15, 2019
Simple billing & easy time tracking solution for peace of mind
- Removes administrative burden.
- Makes monthly and quarterly billing easier and less time-consuming.
- Increases accuracy in our date and records.
May 09, 2019
Harvest used by a remote worker
- Budgets are kept on track.
- Employees forget to track their time and end up estimating.
- New projects are easy to add, saving time.
February 28, 2019
Harvest is a Money Saving Investment
- Harvest has had an extremely positive impact on our company! We are more organized, efficient, and productive as a result.
- Harvest allows our entire team to be on the same page as we work on projects. This reduces the number of questions asked throughout the day.