Harvest

Pros: The time tracking interface is clean and intuitive. Logging hours against specific clients and projects is straightforward, and converting tracked time into an invoice is seamless. The Stripe integration setup was also simple and quick.

Cons: Harvest silently deducts an $80 application fee from invoice payments on free trial accounts — on top of Stripe's standard processing fees. On my first $2,000 invoice, I received only $1,861.70 with zero prior warning. There is no disclosure during onboarding, no warning when setting up Stripe, and nothing shown before the client pays. Customer support was extremely unhelpful — they cited an irrelevant cancellation policy, failed to read my issue, and billing ultimately offered no resolution despite multiple follow-ups.

Pros: Very easy to use so an easy learning curve, two factor authentication ensures security, excellent timetracking and project job costing, I use this for billing and integrates with Xero accounting software. I haven't come across any bugs and/or issues and never had to contact customer support. I can increase or reduce my team numbers at any stage and my costs are instantly amended.

Cons: I manage payments via Xero and these do not flow through to Harvest. I find the reporting is limited as I would like to see the discounts I provide clients and do a little more reporting on clients billings etc.

Pros: Clean interface, effortless time tracking, strong invoicing, and clear reporting that’s easy to understand and share.

Cons: Somewhat limited customization and higher cost for small teams, features feel basic for advanced needs.

Pros: It's intuitive and easy to get started using the platform. Keeping track of time is pretty straightforward and there's a decent amount of features.

Cons: It would be fantastic if there could be different colored tabs. It's black and white at the top, which looks very nice as part of the overall simplistic theme, but it does make it more difficult to differentiate quickly.

Pros: Time tracking, project management/collaboration and integration. I like the ability to have it integrated with Zendesk.

Cons: The different tabs for adding/editing time for certain projects can be buggy. Sometimes manually adding time does not save and it requires you to go back and add the time again.

Pros: Very customizable with the time sheet options and the ability to add categories and sub categories to a specific time block. Easy to learn right away with a simple and clean user interface and able to easily edit time so it is not rigid or if you accidentally forget it on you can go back and fix it.

Cons: I don't like that it does not send you the "did you leave your timer on" towards the end of my work day as a reminder to turn it off. Instead I get it at odd hours or the next morning and I have to figure out when I actually stopped working because the clock just keeps going.

Pros: C'est vraiment facile de comptabiliser le temps en entrant peu de données pour y arriver puisque plusieurs données de base ont été entrées en amont. L'utilisation de la plateforme est simple et se former est facile!

Cons: Il y a certains rapports qui sont limités et qui ne permettent pas d'avoir des données pourtant importantes.

Pros: Expense tracking and team management: Log expenses, approve timesheets, and monitor billable hours with automated reminders.

Cons: Limited offline access: Requires internet for most functions, posing issues in low-connectivity areas.

Pros: The most simple time tracking software i've ever used! Easy to understand and very good at time tracking and project timesheets.

Cons: Unfortunately there's other products out there that offer multiple additional features, Harvest is just time tracking whereas others offer billing etc.

Pros: Simplicidad. No hay complicaciones en la interfaz de usuario. Recordatorios no intrusivos. Facilidad de uso. Poder colocar solo un número y que se autorellene el ":00" después, para poner horas.

Cons: Más visibilidad para gestionar o acceder a proyectos. Sería bueno poder, como usuario, solicitar al responsable ser incluido en diferentes proyectos

Pros: Harvest is excellent for managing my time tracking across multiple clients, and multiple projects for each of those clients. Having worked in a previous organization that required time tracking, yet didn’t have a tool implemented, it was so cumbersome to maintain my time on a spreadsheet. I also appreciate the ability to make changes—if I forget to switch my timer between clients, or if I attend an event not in front of my computer (where I didn’t start a time on my phone).

Cons: Nothing—gets the job done well for my use case! It could be nice if using the PTO code would sync with PTO tracking in our HRIS, but it’s possible that’s a setting our team hadn’t enabled.

Pros: From a user perspective it is easy to use and manage and the expense capture from the phone app makes it very easy to capture as soon as you get a receipt in your hand.

Cons: The calendar is set to a standard working week (Mon to Fri) however when with clients in Saudi Arabia the working week is Sunday to Thursday so a week is split over 2 time sheets and can't be adjusted. Does make it a little manual when creating client invoices and timesheet matching.

Pros: Harvest is pretty intuitive and has a lot of great customization our organization needed for tracking different projects.

Cons: When adding new users, it can be difficult to make sure they are setup in the right projects if you have a lot of different projects already. It would be ideal if you can copy profiles from one employee to another.

Pros: I liked how you could separate the clients and the products, very easy to use and very understandable

Cons: Well to be honest there is no such a thing like I liked the least, its very good time keeping tool and I state that

Pros: I have used Harvest for almost 3 years now. Overall, I am satisfied with it. I used it with some contractors and also for my self. I does the job it is designed for. Quite easy to track time on a project.

Cons: It could benefit from easier access to create new clients and project. Something faster and straight forward. Also, tracking not invoiced hours could gain for being more intuitive.

Pros: I love the MacOS app, which sits at the top of my screen. In particular, I love the feature which detects when I've been inactive so I can remove any time I might have recorded when I'd accidentally left the timer running. Several of my clients have also commented on how well presented the time reports are that I send over to show where my billable time has been spent.

Cons: Although the Android application is useful, it doesn't have feature parity with the desktop website. You can't view things like the "uninvoiced amount" (if it is there, I can't seem to find it) which is something I check regularly on the desktop.

Pros: I love the ease in which this works and the organization of it, I have recommended to folks.

Cons: I don’t have anything negative to say about it, I keep using it because I like it.

Pros: I can see all my employees clock in from my mobile device manage all reports and set up task assignments for each person

Cons: Price small business looking for an easier way to run a business not enough revenue

Pros: I like the color scheme and the flexibility

Cons: I don’t like how the projects are difficult to bring over from week to week

Pros: Harvest is a great tool for time tracking - especially for organizations where most/all workers are remote.

Cons: Sometimes, it can be difficult to remember to stop or start the timer. It would help if Harvest had better reminders. Harvest does have some type of reminder if it perceives the clock has run too long. But it doesn't always remind the user until it is way too late.

Pros: I love how easy and intuitive is it to use Harvest. Tracking time across my various projects is completely painless, and it's super helpful to be able to generate reports and handle invoices!

Cons: I have no complaints, Harvest is amazing! It does exactly what I wanted it to do.

Pros: I like the ease of being able to track and bill time.

Cons: I do not love how you enter retainers into the program. But it is probably more user error than how it works. Everything else is SO EASY to operate, that is the only thing I usually question if I am doing right.

Pros: It’s easy to use and never glitchy, which is important when tracking hours. Real time sync between phone app and laptop version.

Cons: That the work week is from Sunday to Saturday only and you can’t adjust that. The result is that it’s not synced perfectly with payroll (Rippling) work week. This doesn’t affect whether employees get their money, it’s just the thing I like least, but not really a complaint point.