Time is the most important asset you have. Harvest is designed and built so you can quickly and easily track time, log expenses, run reports, and bill your clients. Harvest is also constantly improving as customers provide ideas and suggestions.
Harvest's graphical reports lets you analyze data intuitively. See how your business is distributing its time across clients, projects, people, and tasks. Turn on filters to highlight just billable, non-billable, employee, or contractor hours. Harvest's interactive reporting interface allows you to drill down on just about everything so you can get more details when you want it.
Reporting doesn't stop there--you can also export your time into Quickbooks or CSV format (for import into Microsoft Excel).
With all the hours and expenses your business has tracked with Harvest, you can literally create an invoice with just a couple of clicks. Harvest does all the work for you in retrieving and organizing all your billable hours, so billing is easy, accurate, and fast.
Once an invoice is created, the invoice dashboard keeps track of all open, past due, and recently paid invoices - so you can quickly find out your account receivables and track your revenue. Filter through and see what each client is bringing in, or what you have made last quarter, with just a single click.
Your time is your inventory and you need to know where you stand against your estimates. With Harvest's Estimates Report, you can easily see how projects are doing against their estimates. If a project is in danger of going over-budget, you can be right on top of it.
Set your estimates for each project as a lump sum or break it down and estimate by individual tasks.
Harvest offers multiple ways to input time: you and your employees can choose to record time via a straight-forward weekly timesheet or in more detail with the daily timesheet. And if you prefer to track your time in real-time, the Harvest widget (for Mac and PC) will do the trick. Harvest is flexible so you can choose the method that works best for you.
Best of all, Harvest is simple to use so that little or no training is needed when deploying across your organization.
Adding an employee or contractor takes, literally, seconds. Simply add your new teammates via a short form, and they will be able to log into your Harvest account - and because Harvest is web-based, there is absolutely nothing to install.
There are 3 types of users you can create - administrator, who will have all the admin access to your Harvest account; project manager, who have access to reports for the project that they are assigned to; and normal employee/contractor who can enter time for projects that they are assigned to, and see reports of their own activity.
Harvest works like GMail or Hotmail - access Harvest with any computer, anywhere, as long as there is internet access. There is absolutely nothing to install.
Harvest works with modern web browsers on both PC and Mac: Internet Explorer 6 and later, Firefox 2 or later, Safari 2 and later.
Harvest works well with your favorite software and services. If your business is using the popular project management software, Basecamp, you can import projects and employees easily into Harvest.
Export Harvest reports into Microsoft Excel for analysis or to Quickbooks for billing and record keeping - it takes just one click.
With Harvest, your data will always remain yours. You can export all your data at anytime into plain text files or for import into Microsoft Excel or Quickbooks.
Harvest servers are physically secured behind cages at our data center. All servers are monitored 24/7 and regularly updated with the latest security upgrades.
All data is backed up daily, and your data is never shared. You will not have to worry about viruses, computer crashes or failures. Harvest comes with its own IT team to take care of the nitty-gritty so you don't have to.
Harvest strives to be the best, and is constantly improving its service. As Harvest improves, your account automatically benefits from the upgrades. No additional fees apply for upgrades. You will always be running the latest and greatest.
Harvest believes in working out the details to help you run your business easier, and we take our customers feedback seriously. Here are some of the new features added to Harvest since it was launched: