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$12
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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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| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
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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
As a dedicated user of Harvest, I've found it to be an invaluable asset in both tracking time and managing project timelines. Initially, I adopted Harvest for personal time management, but its utility quickly extended to overseeing our team of contractors. The intuitive interface simplifies the logging of hours spent on various tasks, fostering a more organized workflow. Additionally, Harvest excels as a predictive tool for future project planning. By analyzing past project data, I can accurately estimate the duration and resource allocation for upcoming proposals. This not only streamlines our proposal process but also enhances our efficiency in project execution. Moreover, Harvest’s reporting features offer deep insights into productivity trends, allowing us to identify areas for improvement and adjust our strategies accordingly. Overall, Harvest has become an indispensable tool in our arsenal, significantly contributing to our operational effectiveness and strategic planning.
September 06, 2021
Easy Time Tracking for Billing
We use it across the whole organization to clock-in and clock-out. We also use it for dozens of clients. It helps us to track the amount of time so we can bill our clients correctly. The software helps us stay on budget for each of our clients by allowing us to input a specific budget amount and receive notifications when we are close to hitting that limit.
We use Harvest between our graphic design and interior design departments to track billable time, as well as analyze hours spent on projects for time and billing efficiency. Harvest allows us to seamlessly track time between departments and collaborative projects which is especially helpful with employees working from home as well as from different states. Overall using Harvest has allowed us to improve our billing process on projects with our sales team.
May 03, 2021
Very user friendly!
Our entire company uses Harvest to capture the timesheets for our staff for given tasks, roles and projects; and then use that information to run reports to be used as data for billing. This is the basic minimum requirement that we needed. The ability to apply different rates to specific tasks and run reports and insights on that specific task is very valuable.
At this time we are not using it to send and receive invoices because the software we we coming from didn’t offer that and we had developed other processes. Although I can see that it is part of the Harvest suite. So far I enjoy how user-friendly and intuitive Harvest is.
May 03, 2021
Harvest is excellent value for time tracking, expense management and resource forecasting
We implemented Harvest for time tracking and expense management across multiple clients and at one point had a few hundred consultants billing through it. It was used across the organization and solve time tracking in preparation for invoicing clients as well as expense management for clients reimbursement and company reimbursement. It was also use to pay hourly contractors.
Harvest is used by every employee at my company. We use harvest for expense tracking and for hour tracking against all of our different client contracts. Harvest allows us to customize how we track our time, and makes pulling detailed time reports very easy. The user interface is very easy to use, and a vast improvement over our previous time-tracking software we were using.
April 11, 2020
Harvest, the best way to track time
We use Harvest to track time for each employee. We also use it to track time for different projects that we bill hourly for. Every employee uses it to track their daily hours as well as the hours that they put in for various clients. It makes billing much easier because we can show how long each employee worked on each project.
March 15, 2020
Very reliable and easy to use
We use Harvest for our time tracking, invoicing, and some billing. Our business uses billable hours so we use the harvest app to track the time we spend on each client. We can set different billable rates for different people or rates for different tasks. It also handles flat-rate projects, recurring monthly fees, and retainers quite well. At any time, we can see our billable time, how much each client owes, and how much of that has already been invoiced. Twice a month we invoice everyone for what they owe using Harvest. It's pretty simple to use and reliable.
March 10, 2020
A little polish wouldn't hurt, but it does the job well
We use Harvest across our organization to track all of our time on our own projects, client projects, and really, everything else that goes on! It helps us really understand where our time and money are going, and it's user-friendly for everyone in our organization. I have been using it for almost 2 years, and it has become second nature to switch timers and keep everything on track.
March 02, 2020
Great Product for Cross Team Time tracking
We used Harvest to time track hours for our customer success team. Both engineers and customer success managers used it. We found it helpful and a non-arduous way to time track (since time tracking can be the absolute worst!). Harvest is an enjoyable time tracking experience, and we'd recommend it again.
February 13, 2020
Why I have time for Harvest
One of my clients uses Harvest and when I started working with them they asked me to use it to record all of my time and expenses on the projects I was working on. It solves the simple problem of tracking what time is done on what. As well as to record when expenses are incurred and on what project. Every second I spend on doing work for this client is recorded on Harvest plain and simple as it's a great solution to track what you are doing and for how long.
December 11, 2019
Harvest to simplify time tracking for consultants and remote agents
Harvest is used by the owner of Cantle Tech, Inc. so she can control payment to her employees and how many hours and time to bill individual clients and projects. It's easy for her to manage and it's easier for me to track my time through this online portal than to create and manage individual invoices for hours worked on various projects.
November 11, 2019
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It is being used by all employees and officers of the company. It addresses the tracking of time to projects, which provides data for billing.
October 31, 2019
Invoicing and Time Management Made Easy
We use Harvest for the entire company. We are small online business owners who support multiple clients. Harvest allows us to log our hours so we know how long each project is taking. Then, once the projects are complete, we are able to view how long each project took us. If it is a retainer project, Harvest will send you a warning email to let you know when you are about to use up your hours for the retainer. It is a great resource for small business owners. It also sends invoices which is great so you don't need multiple apps.
October 30, 2019
Harvest, the project time tracker your TEAM needs!
All employees use Harvest to reflect time worked on projects for clients. Our whole organization uses it. We use it as a tool to show clients how much time is used to complete projects, requests, and brainstorming. This answers the question clearly for ourselves and our clients; which is helpful when we decide on how much to charge clients for projects.
October 30, 2019
A great solution for online businesses!
Harvest is how my company managers multiple clients as a digital marketing company. I am able to send invoices, and track time all in one location. Not only can you send detailed invoices for hourly clients but you can auto send retainers. Some of my clients also don’t want to think about paying their bill each month so they opted into auto pay which takes out the money each month for them.
As our non-profit continues to grow both in mission and personnel, senior leadership desired to understand how some key groups spent their time. Specifically, how many work hours are spent on revenue vs. non-revenue projects. Harvest has helped quickly and easily provide reports to back up what were a rough estimation of hours spent on projects in the past.
October 17, 2019
Efficient way to submit, track, and manage project resources
Harvest is being used to track employee time, contractor time, manage project details, and manage/reconcile client budgets. It is being used across the whole organization for time tracking but project and account managers use it more thoroughly to manage project details as it pertains to resource and budget. It allows our organization to have access to resource allocation that is easily viewed in report format for audits and billing.
October 16, 2019
Get a true sense of time management with Harvest!
Harvest is used by everyone at our agency. We use it to track our time and productivity as well as managing scopes of projects to monitor profitability. Harvest allows us to get a better understanding of the time restraints and requirements associated with each type of campaign or project our agency takes on.
October 16, 2019
Harvest - Easy to use, but upfront customization is required
Our entire organization uses Harvest. For one, it gives us a good idea of how much time on average each employee is working in a given week. Most importantly, however, it gives us a good idea of work is being spread across clients - are we spending too much time on a certain client, or not enough on another? Additionally, we compare the time data to revenue data to see if there is anything to learn or improve from our pricing model.
October 16, 2019
A Must Have for Consulting
I was a part of a small engineering consulting group that used Harvest for time and expense tracking as well as tracking budgets for specific projects. We used Harvest for both Time & Materials projects and Firm Fixed projects. Everyone in the company used it for tracking their hours spent on each project. Project lead and managers used Harvest for making sure each project was on budgetary schedule. The owner of the company also looked at the reports generated from Harvest.
October 15, 2019
Time Tracking for the Win
Working for lots of clients, it's important to track my time effectively and be able to relay to clients what I've been working on. Using Harvest allows me to categorize my work by project and by task. It's great for helping me stay on track with my assignments and ensure I'm not going over budget on projects.
October 15, 2019
Simple billing & easy time tracking solution for peace of mind
We use Harvest for individual team members to track time spent on client projects. Then, on our billing side, we manage invoices based on entered hours or just a flat project rate. From within the program, we can update the invoices, send them to the client with a customized message, and mark paid once payment is received.
May 09, 2019
Harvest used by a remote worker
We use it primarily for time tracking -- making sure our employees are counting their time in categorized buckets so we can accurately budget how much time is spent on each internal project.
February 28, 2019
Harvest is a Money Saving Investment
Harvest allows our business to track time and expenses efficiently. It is used across our entire organization to analyze daily, quarterly, and yearly productivity. The data supplied is critical to assessing our profitability, and we are able to track business success by reviewing metrics every month. We are able to plan with for a successful future!