Harvest
Time tracking and invoicing that turns tracked hours into paid invoices
By Harvest · HQ Milan, Italy · 4.5/5 verified-buyer score
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Professional services teams that bill clients for time, such as agencies, consultancies, legal, accounting and architecture firms
- Freelancers and small teams that want free or low-cost time tracking with built-in invoicing
- Operations and finance leads who need utilization, capacity and project profitability reporting
- Finance teams that want invoices generated from tracked time and synced to QuickBooks, Xero or Stripe
- Distributed teams that track hours on web, desktop, iOS and Android, or from Asana, Slack, Jira and Trello
Ideal size: 5-200 seats people · Professional services firm that bills client work hourly or by fixed fee
Not for
- Teams that need a full project management or PSA suite rather than time tracking and billing
- Companies that do not bill for time and only need task or issue tracking
- Enterprises needing native SAP, Oracle or Workday project accounting
- Organizations that require HIPAA, FedRAMP or a vendor-held ISO 27001 attestation
- Buyers looking for built-in AI forecasting or autonomous agent workflows
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
About 1-2 weeks
~14 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$2,160/yr
Starts at $0 · Per seat, billed monthly or annually with a 20% annual discount; free plan for one seat, plus usage-based charges
Implementation Friction
1/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Buyer Score
out of 5 · verified buyers
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Free: 1 seat and 2 projects. Teams and Enterprise: unlimited seats, priced per seat
Add-on costs
- Additional invoices, projects, clients and tasks beyond the base rate are billed based on what you use
- Harvest Forecast is offered as a separate resource planning product
- Enterprise Plus is custom priced with tailored integrations, onboarding and training
Company & support
Who is behind Harvest, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- 2006 · 20 yrs in business
- Headquarters
- Milan, Italy
How you get support
- PhonePaid plans
- EmailNot listed
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsPlan not stated
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsAll plans
- Dedicated account managerEnterprise only
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- Business hours
- Response time
- Not stated
Pricing lists scheduled phone support on Teams and Enterprise. A help request form and Help Center are on the site. Enterprise Plus adds a dedicated Customer Success Manager and custom onboarding.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Harvest sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Harvest
- Clockify
- Fieldwire
- Wagepoint
- Canopy
- Financial Cents
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Harvest. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Harvest ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Harvest is a time tracking and invoicing platform for professional services teams, used by 70,000+ customers since 2006. Teams log hours on web, desktop, mobile or inside Asana, Slack and Jira, then turn that time into invoices with online payments. Reporting covers project profitability, team utilization and budgets, with accounting syncs to QuickBooks, Xero and Stripe. Pricing starts free for one seat, then $9-$14 per seat per month billed annually, and Enterprise adds SSO, approvals, audit trails and custom onboarding.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Harvest cost?
Harvest has a free plan for one seat and two projects. Teams starts at $9 per seat per month ($108 per seat billed annually) and Enterprise at $14 per seat per month ($168 annually), both with a 30-day free trial and no credit card required. Additional invoices, projects, clients and tasks beyond the base rate are billed based on usage, and Enterprise Plus is custom priced.
How long does implementation take?
Most teams track time within days. Accounts are self-serve, projects and people can be bulk-imported from CSV, and integrations with Asana, Slack, Jira, QuickBooks, Xero and Stripe are configured in-product. Harvest lists phone support as scheduled calls on Teams and Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus adds custom onboarding, training and assisted data migration.
Is Harvest secure and compliant?
Harvest's security page states that accounts use SSL-encrypted connections, data is encrypted at rest and in transit, backups run daily, access is strictly controlled with an immutable audit trail for support data access, and uptime averages 99.9% on Google Cloud. It states a PCI-DSS merchant certificate, and says SOC 2 is covered through its server host's audit rather than Harvest's own certification.
Can Harvest handle invoicing and payments?
Yes. Invoices can be generated automatically from tracked time and expenses, clients pay online by credit card or ACH through Stripe or PayPal, and overdue reminders and recurring retainers are supported. Invoice and payment data syncs to QuickBooks Online, Xero and other accounting tools, and enterprise plans add an activity log, timesheet approvals and custom exports.
Does Harvest have AI features or an MCP server?
Harvest's own product and pricing pages do not describe built-in AI features, and no Harvest MCP server is documented in the sources reviewed. AI-driven analysis of Harvest data appears only through third-party integrations such as Metric AI, and Harvest publishes developer documentation and an API that partners and customers can build against.
Who is Harvest best for?
Professional services firms that bill clients for time, including agencies, consultancies, design and software shops, architecture, legal and accounting teams. It suits teams from freelancers up to departments inside large companies that want lightweight time tracking tied directly to invoicing and profitability reporting, rather than a full project management or PSA suite.