Top FAQs
- Can I define a different billing rate for different people or tasks assigned to a project?
- Can I track time with Harvest using my cellphone?
- How do I view detailed notes associated with the hours reported?
- My widget is not working! Help!
- What are "Project Managers", and what can they do?
- What are the different types of users in my account, and what can they do?
- What is an "active user"?
- Why are my hours not showing up on my invoice?
Getting Started with Harvest
A collection of concise guides and get you going fast.
Account, personal information, billing, upgrade, and cancellation
- Can I set up a currency other than US Dollars?
- What is an "active user"?
- Where are the invoice receipts from Harvest?
- How do we update or change the credit card?
- How do we add more users to our account?
- How do I cancel my account?
Timesheets, Expenses, and Approval
- What is the Harvest Timer?
- How do I change my password?
- How do I track time off, vacation, sick days, or overtime?
- What is the difference between "Save" and "Submit for Approval"?
- What is the difference between the weekly time entry and daily time entry?
- How do I see my time in minutes format (versus decimal)?
- As an administrator, how do I edit another user’s time?
- My widget is not working! Help!
- What does 'submit for approval' mean?
- What is the approval process?
- How do I stop receiving approval notifications?
- We don't need to approve timesheets. How do I turn off approval altogether?
Manage projects, clients, people, and tasks
- How do I add a project?
- Can I define a different billing rate for different people or tasks assigned to a project?
- What does it mean to archive a project?
- How can I delete a project?
- How do I remove a client from my account?
- How do I add a person to a project?
- What are "Project Managers", and what can they do?
- What are administrators?
- What are the different types of users in my account, and what can they do?
- Is the 'hourly rate' the rate that contractor gets paid, or the rate the client is being charged for the project work?
- How do I archive a user?
- How do I add a task?
- I just added a task, but it's not showing up on my timesheet's task dropdown.
- How do I manage a default set of tasks so they can be automatically added to every new project?
- How do I mark a task as completed on a project?
- How do I remove tasks from our account?
- We work on projects in phases. How can I set up my tasks to reflect that order?
Reports & Estimates
- How do I view detailed notes associated with the hours reported?
- How do I see the hours logged by everyone in my organization?
- Is it possible to round off time to the closest 15 or 30 minute?
- How do I print my reports?
- Can I export Harvest data into QuickBooks?
- Why are characters showing up weird in my Excel export?
- How do I view estimate status by task?
Integration with 3rd party apps (QuickBooks, Basecamp, Twitter)
- How do I set up QuickBooks to work with Harvest?
- What are the requirements for QuickBooks integration?
- What data can be exported from Harvest for QuickBooks?
- How do I import the file I downloaded from Harvest into QuickBooks?
- How does QuickBooks data map to Harvest's data structure?
- What is the Basecamp integration all about?
- How do I enable Basecamp integration?
- How do I sync Basecamp’s to-do lists with Harvest’s tasks?
- Can I track time with Harvest using my cellphone?
- How do I integrate Harvest with Twitter?