Harvest

What is Harvest?

Harvest is a time tracking tool with built in invoicing and expenses, turning tracked time into invoices, suited to freelancers and agencies wanting to track time and bill clients in one place. It lets you track time against projects and clients with timers or manual entry, record expenses, and then turn billable time and expenses directly into professional invoices, with online payment collection, plus timesheets, reporting on time and project budgets, and integrations with project management and accounting tools. Established and well regarded, Harvest suits freelancers, agencies and professional services who bill clients for their time and want tracking and invoicing combined. For time tracking with invoicing, Harvest is a leading choice.

Harvest's distinction is combining time tracking with built in invoicing and expenses. Beyond tracking, it turns billable time and expenses directly into invoices and collects payment, so freelancers and agencies manage tracking and client billing in one tool, which simple trackers without invoicing do not offer. That integrated tracking to invoicing workflow sets it apart.

Who Harvest is best for

Harvest is best for freelancers, agencies and professional services that bill clients for their time and want time tracking combined with invoicing, expenses and project budgets in one tool. It suits time tracking with invoicing. It is a weaker fit for those wanting the simplest free tracker, where Toggl or Clockify fit, remote monitoring, where Hubstaff fits, productivity analytics, where Time Doctor fits, or payroll and scheduling, where QuickBooks Time or Deputy fit.

Key features

The core strengths are time tracking (timers and manual) against projects and clients, expense tracking, built in invoicing from billable time and expenses, online payments, timesheets, reporting on time and project budgets, and integrations with project management and accounting tools. Harvest offers tracking plus billing in one. Its integrated time tracking and invoicing are its defining advantages.

Harvest pricing

Harvest has a free plan (1 user, 2 projects), with a Pro plan from around 11 US dollars per user a month (unlimited projects, invoicing and features), and business options. So solo users can start free and teams pay per user. Costs scale with users. Confirm details via the Harvest pricing page.

Integrations and ecosystem

Harvest integrates with project management tools (Asana, Trello, Jira), accounting (QuickBooks, Xero), payments (Stripe, PayPal) and many apps, plus Harvest Forecast for scheduling. Its integrations with PM, accounting and payment tools, which let time flow into billing and accounting, support its tracking to invoicing workflow.

Harvest and invoicing

Combining time tracking with invoicing and expenses is the signature strength: Harvest turns billable time and expenses directly into professional invoices and collects payment, so freelancers and agencies handle tracking and client billing in one tool, which simple trackers do not offer. For those who bill by time, this is the main reason to choose Harvest.

Ease of use and support

Harvest is well rated for combining tracking and invoicing, ease and project budgets, with good support, popular with agencies and freelancers, though reviewers note it is more about billing than deep monitoring or analytics. Its G2 reviews praise tracking plus invoicing and ease, with fewer monitoring and analytics features the main consideration.

Is Harvest worth it?

For freelancers, agencies and professional services that bill clients and want time tracking combined with invoicing and expenses, Harvest is an excellent choice. The main caution is that it is billing focused rather than a monitoring or analytics tool, so those wanting the simplest free tracker may prefer Toggl or Clockify, monitoring Hubstaff, and analytics Time Doctor, but for time tracking with invoicing Harvest leads.