Who Uses Harvest?
Harvest is ideal for client services businesses that need a way for their team to track time and expenses to multiple projects as well as freelancers who need to track time and invoice clients.
What Is Harvest?
Harvest makes it easy to track time from your desktop, phone, and favorite tools, including Asana, Trello, and Basecamp.
It then collates this timesheet data into intuitive, visual reports that make it easy to see what your team is working on, catch projects before they go over budget, and make more intelligent decisions about your business.
And if you need to invoice your clients, seamlessly create an invoice from your billable time, email it to your client, and get paid online.
Harvest Details
Harvest
http://www.getharvest.com/
Founded 2006
Harvest pricing overview
See pricing plansHarvest has a free version and offers a free trial. Harvest paid version starts at US$12.00/month.
Starting Price
US$12.00/month See pricing details
Free Version
Yes
Free Trial
Yes, get a free trial
Harvest deployment and support
Support
- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- Phone Support
- Chat
Deployment
- Cloud, SaaS, Web-based
- Mac (Desktop)
- Windows (Desktop)
- Android (Mobile)
- iPhone (Mobile)
Training
- Webinars
- Documentation
- Videos
Harvest Features
Nonprofit Project Management
- Activity Dashboard
- Approval Process Control
- Budget Management
- Calendar Management
- Collaboration Tools
- Customizable Templates
- For Nonprofits
- Gantt/Timeline View
- Kanban Board
- Mobile Access
- Project Planning/Scheduling
- Reporting/Project Tracking
- Resource Allocation & Planning
- Task Management
Project Management Software
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Agile Methodologies
- Alerts/Notifications
- Billing & Invoicing
- Budget Management
- Calendar Management
- Client Portal
- Collaboration Tools
- Commenting/Notes
- Cost-to-Completion Tracking
- Customizable Templates
- Document Management
- Document Storage
- Drag & Drop
- File Sharing
- Gantt/Timeline View
- Idea Management
- Issue Management
- Kanban Board
- Milestone Tracking
- Multiple Projects
- Percent-Complete Tracking
- Portfolio Management
- Prioritization
- Progress Tracking
- Project Planning
- Project Planning/Scheduling
- Project Templates
- Project Time Tracking
- Project Tracking
- Project Workflow
- Projections
- Real-time Updates
- Reporting & Statistics
- Reporting/Project Tracking
- Resource Management
- Risk Management
- Status Tracking
- Task Management
- Task Planning
- Task Progress Tracking
- Task Scheduling
- Testing/QA Management
- Third Party Integrations
- Time & Expense Tracking
- Traditional Methodologies
- Workflow Management
Time Tracking Software
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Accounting Integration
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Alerts/Notifications
- Approval Process Control
- Attendance Management
- Attendance Tracking
- Automatic Time Capture
- Billable & Non-Billable Hours
- Billable Items Tracking
- Billing & Invoicing
- Calendar Management
- Clock In / Out
- Customizable Reports
- Employee Database
- Employee Management
- Employee Scheduling
- Employee Time Tracking
- Invoice Management
- Leave Tracking
- Mobile Time Tracking
- Monitoring
- Multiple Billing Rates
- Offline Time Tracking
- Online Time Tracking Software
- Overtime Calculation
- Payroll Management
- Project Management
- Project Time Tracking
- Project Tracking
- Projections
- Real Time Data
- Real Time Notifications
- Real Time Reporting
- Real-time Updates
- Reminders
- Reporting & Statistics
- Reporting/Analytics
- Sick Leave Tracking
- Summary Reports
- Task Management
- Task Progress Tracking
- Third Party Integrations
- Time & Expense Tracking
- Time Off Requests
- Timesheet Management
- Vacation/Leave Tracking
- Workflow Management
Time and Expense Software
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Accounting Integration
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Alerts/Notifications
- Approval Process Control
- Approval Workflow
- Attendance Tracking
- Billable Items Tracking
- Billing & Invoicing
- Budgeting/Forecasting
- Calendar Management
- Customizable Fields
- Customizable Reports
- Data Import/Export
- Employee Management
- Estimating
- Expense Tracking
- Invoice Management
- Leave Tracking
- Mobile App
- Multi-Currency
- Payroll Management
- Progress Tracking
- Project Time Tracking
- Project Tracking
- Projections
- QuickBooks Integration
- Real Time Data
- Real Time Notifications
- Real Time Reporting
- Real-time Updates
- Reimbursement Management
- Reminders
- Reporting & Statistics
- Reporting/Analytics
- Resource Allocation & Planning
- Summary Reports
- Task Management
- Task Progress Tracking
- Third Party Integrations
- Time & Expense Tracking
- Time Tracking
- Time Tracking by Client
- Time Tracking by Project
- Timer
- Timesheet Management
- Vacation/Leave Tracking
- Workflow Management
Harvest Alternatives
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Harvest Reviews
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Bart M.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality4 /5
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Customer SupportUnrated
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 24/11/2020
"Invoicing made easy"
Comments: We started using Harvest years ago with my previous company and it was our go-to solution with our new company. No questions asked. It just works and that is why I would recommend it to everyone looking for a simple solution.
Pros: It just works. Creating an offer, turning it into an invoice, setting everything up... it just works easy. In contrast with many software you can use for invoicing, Harvest doesn't try to do it all, it just keeps things simple. Probably too simple at times, but I never ran into any issues as we have straightforward product & services lines to add to our invoices.
Cons: The fact that the time tracking is included and cannot be ignored as easily as the optional planning tool (that they sell separately) was a small frustration at first. Afterwards, I just tended to directly surf to the Invoices overview and avoid the timetracking part all together. For some it is probably thé selling feature as time tracking looks very easy, but our company doens't keep track of detailed time tracking so we never used that part thoroughly.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 24/11/2020
Mathew T.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer SupportUnrated
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 21/04/2020
"The gold standard for timekeeping"
Comments: We've used harvest in the past and moved away to other products in the name of trying to fine one software suite that does it all: timekeeping, project management, chat, resource management, etc. Inevitably, we end up coming back to Harvest (alongside basecamp and slack) because it keeps things simple and does its job extremely well.
Pros: Exceptionally easy to use. Intuitive interface design that's obviously been user tested and refined. Every button and feature is exactly where you'd expect it to be.
Cons: This software does one thing really well – timekeeping. We've tried using solutions that try to do more and have gone back to Harvest because there's nothing we don't like about it.
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- Reviewed on 21/04/2020
Laura M.
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Overall Rating4 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality3 /5
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Customer SupportUnrated
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Value for MoneyUnrated
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 29/06/2021
"Wanting for More Features"
Comments: Overall, Harvest does what it needs to do for our company - provide a place to track time worked, on an array of different projects, and report that time worked to upper management. But I think Harvest could certainly add some features to their interface that would increase user productivity, and help guide employees through their work weeks, with an eye on time management.
Pros: Harvest certainly offers a very user-friendly interface. When you log on, it's immediately apparent how to use the software for the basic need of time tracking. The interface is set up to reflect the current week, with the days of the week displayed left to right, and the time you've tracked for each day displayed below it. Each day is broken up into time tracked according to a specific project. If using Harvest in the way our company does, you can create project codes to reflect different projects, so you'll be able to track how long you or your employees are spending on individual projects, or even separate types of tasks within that project.
Cons: I do wish there was a a sort of "Week So Far" tracker feature, that appeared as its own tab in the top menu bar, or perhaps was totaled at the bottom of the screen on the current day's time sheet. At the moment, if you'd like to see the hours you've spent on different projects summed up so far in a given week, you would have to either click into each day, and add up the hour totals yourself, or you go to the "Reports" tab, then click on "Team," then click on your own name under that, where then you would be able to see the total number of hours you've spent on different projects that week. This seems like a simple feature that should be more accessible, or at least more clear to navigate to.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 29/06/2021
Verified Reviewer
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Overall Rating3 /5
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Ease of Use2 /5
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Features & Functionality3 /5
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Customer Support3 /5
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Value for Money4 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 11/01/2018
"I don't admin Harvest. I only enter time into Harvest. I don't like Harvest."
Comments: I personally get no benefits from this software. I'm not a fan.
Pros: So overall I'm not a fan. That said, documenting expenses is the best I've ever seen in Harvest. It's really well done and simple. Nice and clean, get your photos, get your monies and go. Big fan. That is where my love affair ends with this app. From an administrative point, maybe there are incredible advantages over other offerings. The world may have never experienced such a revolutionary piece of software and I, in turn, am a simpleton; stuck in a world of misunderstanding.
Cons: If you write a app which tracks hourly time and tries to put it into buckets for easy expensing, the time-tracking app should be simple for the multitude of non-admin users. Simply put, it's cumbersome and annoying.... and I say that because someone is going to take stronger language less seriously. Forget the fact that you have to enter in time _Daily_. When I say daily, I don't mean that you click on the day, you do the thing and save. I mean that it shows you one day per page at a time. No calendar to quickly go through a week, no monthly review where you can quickly fill in gaps. One page == one day. You can bring stuff over from the last-entered day, but the hours aren't filled in... just the buckets. This leads to an incredibly slow, painful, and frankly uninteresting experience. For a bunch of users who want to do their job instead of fiddling around with tracking how long they've done their job, asking them to use Harvest is basically asking them to make none of their time billable unless threatened with homelessness. It's incredibly painful to use. To be sure, I'm not a fan of time-tracking apps anyway. I akin them to asking your employees to lie to you and giving them a form in which to do it... but Harvest makes the fun of lying to your employer the low-light of your day. It's not fair.
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- Reviewed on 11/01/2018
Jason F.
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Overall Rating4 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality4 /5
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Customer Support4 /5
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Value for Money3 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 20/04/2021
"Great for a small creative business."
Comments: We've been using harvest for years, and when we were just doing small side projects here and there it met our needs perfectly. Now that our business has grown we need a more powerful tool that integrates bookkeeping and vendor management, in addition to time tracking, billing, and invoicing.
Pros: We love Harvest and its features. From time tracking to billing and invoicing Harvest has helped us grow our business and keep on top of the projects we are working on.
Cons: There are other similar products on the market that offer the ability to send contracts and proposals, as well as products for bookkeeping that integrate many of the same features for not much more in total cost.
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- Reviewed on 20/04/2021
