Harvest Reviews - Page 5

I love that you can create tasks just for you. In our company we have created our own verbiage and this lets us create tasks just for us. It is so simple to create a new project.

Creating reports based on the work that was done for the day or for a total project can be a little tricky if you are not really good at computers. It would also be nice if on the mobile app you were reminded of a past time still running or if the project manager was notified by email that there is an employee with a timer still running.

Harvest provides a really simple and easy-to-use interface for team members to track time. It's simply a case of selecting a project and the task within that project, then logging the amount of time. It couldn't be any simpler.

At times, Harvest is quite slow to load, wasting precious time waiting for the time tracking system to load. This is a particular issue when trying to view time reports on projects, as that requires loading different pages, causing a considerable wait time.

I like that it is simple to get started and easy to use. It is so easy, you have to put very little effort into getting started. Billing is straight forward, making estimates is a breeze and the customer service has always been top notch and responsive.

It is not for project planning, which is something that I think would be very beneficial. Especially for a services based company, I would like to see the ability to create a simple project with associates time lines, budgets and deadlines. They introduced a partner product but it wasn't as intuitive as the time keeping.

My company recently changed project management software for one without a built-in timer. The feature was essential, so I went looking for a solution. Harvest fit the bill exactly. When I continue an existing timer, it starts the same timer up again, instead of starting a new one "grouped" with it, like most time tracking software - that quickly becomes cluttered and hard to manage.

I would like a rounding feature, up to the nearest 5 or 6 minutes, or more options for rounding in general.

This is a must have app for software houses. After initial setup it helps with: - billing the client like a pro - transparency with the client - keep tracking of utilization of the devs - maintain records of works done

Some learning curve required. Also some habit needs to be acquired. After around 2 weeks teams acquired habit and remember to use time tracker correctly with issue tracker (tickets/jobs numbers).

For what harvest is, it is great for a tracking hours. Sometimes it can be hard to keep the task organized and making sure that everyone has access to the correct task. This is something that needs to be set up in depth before it is rolled out to the whole entire team.

If you aren’t using this tool just to track daily work time, it is great. But if you are needing it to track billing or client retainer time… There might be other tools that are better out there.

Really like how seamlessly it integrates with the PM software, Basecamp. A little stop watch/clock appears next to each task within a project, making it easy to track the time "per task."

Attempting to find things was rather difficult. Unless I knew the precise name, I could not find the project for which I was searching.

Harvest is a great product that is easy to use. When my company still used Harvest I was always on top of my timesheet. Now that we have moved to another product, I find that it takes more time to get my timesheet. in.

Not as many features and integrations as other timer products. This may have changed but at the time I used Harvest it didn't have an autotrack feature like other products have. I feel like that would have been a great bonus.

I like the estimates, invoicing and time tracking from Harvest the best. We have it integrated with Asana and works great.

I wish the estimate templates gave you more control over the layout design. It doesn't even use a standard editor with basic HTML formatting tools, so it is cumbersome to format the terms and conditions.

It's very easy to use. We don't have to do any training for new employees. There are some good features such as splitting rates for personnel among projects. Reporting has improved over the years. Invoice tracking is good and useful.

There are a few limitations if you want to get more complex with invoicing and budget tracking for Fixed Fee Pricing contracts.

Interface, Ease of use, integrations

Would like more user permission options and more control over the quickbooks online integration.

I loved that there was absolutely no learning curve. Everything with this software is set up intuitively so that you can literally just sign up and get started.

I got slightly confused as to whether to add a .3 or a .5 when I was trying to indicate one half hour timeframe, then I realized it depends if you use the colon : or the period . Other than that, there are no cons.

For Mac, the best part of the software is the amazing menu bar functionality. I don't have to use a chrome extension, so when I'm working in Photoshop or some other offline app, I can still easily track my time!

The invoicing system is great ... except ... you have to choose ACH and/or credit card as a payment method globally. This is not ideal, as there are some invoices that I only want to offer ACH on (aka big ones that I don't want to pay credit card fees on).

It is simple to use for employees and management. I love that it tracks by week / month. It is a fun platform in the sense that the comments when you try to go back in time are about time travel. I like that it is interactive in this sense. It is a great way to track employee time for payroll. It also integrates well with other products such as meistertask.

The set up at first was a bit confusing when adding employees. Once we got that resolved it was a simple platform to use and is great for tracking employee time.

I enjoyed the layout of Harvest. It was an intuitive software if you had to rely solely on time tracking for one company.

We had two companies that we had to track time for and I would have appreciate some synergy or the ability to work within both companies without having to log out and in.

Harvest is very user friendly and allows staff to easily keep track of their hours, expenses, and project costs. Harvest also has an app that you can use while on the go. I have not found a better platform for keeping track of our employees than this.

It would be nice if you could make an expense as recurring rather than having to enter it every month.

I really like how easy it is to find buckets of time on harvest. I enjoy how easy it is to customize the tool for what we use it for at work. I frequently use the various reports on how people who report to me spend their time at the office. Its very helpful when assessing billable client hours on a project as well.

There are some issues navigating the reports and occasionally there will be time reporting discrepancies that clearly are a mistake.

We had many contractors working on various projects at our digital marketing agency. Harvest allowed me to have visibility into each project and provide transparency to our customers. It was easy to setup and quickly adopted by our team.

I really don't have anything negative to say - it worked very well for our needs. The free trial version is a great option for many freelancers that I know.

It's super easy for our team to track and manage project hours. For freelancers and small teams, it's a no-brainer decision if you need to track time. The app, web extension and easy to use website make it super easy to get people into the habbit of tracking time. Stable software.

The subscription fees are steep when you have a larger team. The integrations are decent enough. The reporting is clunky and not as sophisticated as it should be for the price point. I always seem to have to export to excel to get the data points I need.

One of the things I’ve discovered from doing freelance work is that I was highly underestimating the time it actually took me to do things. Whether it’s something you’ve done before, or a brand new project, managing your time can be tricky—especially when working from home. Harvest allows you to track your time per project and per task. This can be incredibly helpful when you’re doing a few different tasks within the same project or for the same client. Not only will this tool help you better track your time, it will also keep you more organized. It even allows you to create invoices directly in the app.

You can only track one task at a time, so for those who like to have multiple timers going, this may not be the best tool for you.

I love how simple the user interface is. It is easy to add and remove people from projects and tasks. I love the timer feature to get an accurate measure on how long I have been working. Tracking expenses is additionally very handy on here. The app allows you to do most things you would on the website. It is even easy to pull data into a third party to analyze.

There isn't much I dislike. It does become difficult to customize tasks if you're not an administrator and it is easy to forget if you are timing something but both of those are more user based. Not many complaints though.

Often i've had issues with time tracking software being clunky or complicated where just logging my time is a task unto itself, not with Harvest though. Harvest is simple to use and makes it really easy to keep track of what i'm spending my time on with my clients and see how best me and the rest of the agency I work at can allocate our resources. I also enjoy the graph views to visualize just where my time is going.

Seeing notes for tracked time can sometimes be a little complicated with how deep you have to click into the entries.

Harvest is very easy to implement and fast to start using it productively. Tracking time is easy, and the reports are comprehensive. Works great also on mobile. For our team of 15, this is a great tool.

If you have a big team and a great deal of different projects, management can become unnecessarily complicated.