Time tracking and invoicing for service businesses and teams that bill by the hour.
Harvest is a great fit if you run a service business — like a design agency, consulting firm, or law office — where you bill clients by the hour. The combo of time tracking, project budgets, and invoicing in one place saves you from juggling multiple tools, and the 70+ integrations mean it plays well with what you already use. The downside is the per-seat pricing adds up fast as your team grows, and the free plan is too limited (1 seat, 1 project) to be useful for most real businesses.
Simple time tracking with timers, manual entry, and weekly timesheets
Project budgets show which projects are on track or over budget
Create and send invoices from tracked time and expenses
Reports show time spent by person, project, or client
Integrates with QuickBooks, Xero, Asana, Slack, and Trello
Source: Harvest·Verified March 2026
Copies Harvest invoices and payments into QBO. Line items from tracked time appear on invoices.
Connected via Make for workflow automation between FreshBooks invoicing and Harvest time tracking.
Browser extension tracks time from Asana tasks directly. Auto-links task names and URLs.
Harvest browser extension adds time tracking buttons to GitHub issues and PRs.
The Harvest Power-Up lives inside Trello's Power-Ups menu — you enable it per board, authorize your Harvest account, and a Harvest button appears on every card. Click the button to start or stop a timer without leaving Trello. The first time you track on a card, you pick the matching Harvest project and task; Harvest remembers that mapping for every future entry on the same card. Time entries sync to Harvest in real time and include a back-link to the originating Trello card in the notes field. You can attach a shareable time report directly to a card, showing each team member's hours — admins and managers see the full team, while members see only their own. The power-up won't track time on cards still sitting in your Trello inbox; move a card to a board first. Data flows: Trello card → Harvest time entry (project, task, duration, billable flag). Time report from Harvest is displayed back on the Trello card. One-way sync: projects and tasks must be created manually in Harvest; no auto-creation from Trello boards or lists. Pain points: The in-card time report only includes entries tracked via the Harvest button on that exact card. If a team member logs time directly in Harvest against the same project/task, it won't appear on the card report. Browser compatibility issues can cause performance lags with the Power-Up; keeping your browser up to date or clearing cache usually fixes it. Authorization errors happen when credentials mismatch — revoking and re-authorizing the Power-Up resolves most cases.
Harvest tracks time directly from Jira's interface, logging hours against specific tickets.
Built-in node with 51 operations for invoices, projects, tasks, time entries, and users.
Harvest for Slack — start/stop time tracking with slash commands. Daily timesheets in channels.
Harvest's companion Forecast product for resource allocation. Same team, native data sharing.
Auto-creates Harvest tasks from Todoist tasks via Zapier for seamless time tracking.
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AI-generated training guides tailored to your team's size, skill level, and focus areas for Harvest — coming in v0.3.2.
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Last researched: March 2026
