Harvest review

Harvest combines time tracking, expense management, invoicing, and project reporting for professional teams. You can log hours with timers, timesheets, or connected calendar events, then turn tracked time and expenses into invoices. The product also supports online payments and overdue reminders, according to the published feature information.

For project oversight, Harvest reports on billable hours, profitability, and team utilization. Budgets can be set by hours or fees, with alerts before a project goes over. Team planning tools cover scheduling, capacity, workload, and time off.

The fit depends partly on team size and billing needs. The Free plan is for individual freelancers and includes one seat and two projects. Teams starts at $11 per seat monthly, or $9 per seat monthly with annual billing. Enterprise starts at $17.50 monthly, or $14 annually per seat. Enterprise Plus has custom pricing.

Harvest’s main advantage is bringing time, project costs, invoicing, and project health into one workflow. Teams can track billable hours and expenses, invoice from that work, and review profitability without treating time tracking as a separate tool. Budget alerts and reporting can also help flag projects that are consuming more hours or fees than planned.

The plan options give freelancers a low-cost way to start and teams access to shared tools:

• Free: $0, with one seat, two projects, time tracking, invoicing, and expense tracking.
• Teams: $11 per seat monthly, or $9 per seat monthly when billed annually. The pricing page lists unlimited seats, team reporting, capacity tracking, and accounting and payment integrations.
• Enterprise: $17.50 per seat monthly, or $14 annually. It adds unlimited custom reports, profitability reporting, timesheet approvals, and SAML-based SSO.

Annual prices are monthly equivalents and require paying for the year upfront, according to the pricing details. Teams and Enterprise also allow additional seats at the plan’s per-seat rate, prorated for the remaining days in the billing cycle.

The biggest drawback is that the advertised per-seat price may not be the whole bill. The pricing details say additional invoices, projects, clients, and tasks are billed based on usage on Teams and Enterprise, but do not publish those usage rates here. That makes it harder to forecast costs if you manage many small projects or clients.

Reddit discussions show why that matters. In one thread, a user said a six-seat bill rose from $770 per year to $6,000 after a billing-model change, citing many projects and tasks. Another freelancer described a jump from $129.60 per year to a quoted $1,116 per year, while a commenter reported being moved from $12 monthly to a $1,900 monthly option and said a flex option would have cost $17.50. These are individual reports, not a universal price schedule, but they point to real billing uncertainty.

The Free plan is tightly capped at one seat and two projects. Teams costs $11 per seat monthly before annual discount, and paid usage charges can add to that. Check your project, client, task, and invoice volume before switching or budgeting.

Harvest has a free plan for one person, limited to two projects, with time tracking, invoicing, and expense tracking. The paid Teams plan costs $11 per seat monthly or $9 per seat per month with annual billing. That’s a $6.50 monthly per-seat increase to Enterprise, which costs $17.50 monthly or $14 per seat per month annually. Enterprise adds unlimited custom reports, profitability reporting, timesheet approvals, and SAML-based SSO.

The pricing page lists a 30-day free trial. Annual prices are monthly equivalents, with the year paid upfront; the stated discount is 20%. Watch usage charges: Teams and Enterprise bill for additional invoices, projects, clients, and tasks based on use. Extra seats are charged at the plan’s per-seat rate and prorated for the remaining billing-cycle days. Enterprise Plus is custom priced, not published. If you have many small projects, those usage-based charges make the headline seat price a poor estimate of your total.

The published material doesn’t publish a general migration process, supported import formats, or data-export details, so we can’t say how much work a switch will take or how portable your records are. Harvest lists assisted data migration as an Enterprise Plus feature; it does not specify migration assistance for the other plans. Before moving, confirm how you can retrieve time entries, expenses, invoices, and project records, and check whether your accounting and payment integrations are covered on the plan you’re considering.

We also weren’t given Reddit posts or comments, so we can’t responsibly report why users say they leave. The clearest cost-based reason to reassess is the usage billing: extra invoices, projects, clients, and tasks are billed based on use on Teams and Enterprise. If you’re leaving, get export and retention details from Harvest before canceling. Those terms aren’t published in the published material, so don’t assume access or migration support continues after cancellation.