The Harvest Blog
Advice to help you keep work running smoothly.
Shawn Liu
New & Improved Reporting Coming Next Tuesday
Five years ago, we created Harvest with two goals: to take the pain (and ugly) out of time tracking, and to create a powerful report that’s easy to read by normal people like you and me. What we came up with was a deceptively simple and visual...How We Handle Feature Requests
Harvest is nearly 5 years old and serving thousands of customers from over 100 countries. It’s great to be in this position, but with a large user base comes the responsibility of receiving many feature requests. Requests flow in via email, support...Coming Thursday: A Wider, Roomier Harvest
This Thursday, we’re releasing a significant update to the Harvest layout: the app will have a wider, borderless shell. The look and feel of Harvest largely remains the same, but you’ll notice more breathing room throughout the entire app. We’ve...Get Paid Faster, Part II – Accept Credit Card Payments Online From Your Web Invoice
UPDATE: As of October 16, 2014, Harvest only offers Stripe and PayPal for online payment. More details here. According to our data, Harvest invoices with an option to pay via PayPal receive payments nearly 16 days faster (twice as fast) than...Get Paid Faster, Part I – New & Improved Web Invoice
In the next few weeks, we will be releasing a series of new features to help your business collect payments faster. Our first step, launched today, is the new and beautiful Web Invoice (formerly, Client View): The new Web Invoice has been widened,...Coming Soon: New Web Invoice Layout
A wider, sharper-looking Web Invoice (formerly, Client View) is coming next Tuesday! Here’s a preview of how it will look: Some highlights of the new layout: Wider canvas – The invoice will feel more roomy and can accommodate more information....New Home Tab
There’s going to be a relatively small change to Harvest this coming Monday: the current Account Overview screen will be moved to a new Home tab, and we will be calling it Dashboard from here on. Everything will still work the same, we’re just...New Feature: Manage Retainers in Harvest
We’re excited to announce that you can now manage retainers in Harvest. Here’s how it works. Create Your First Retainer Go to the new Invoices > Retainers section. Click on Create Retainer Fill out your retainer invoice like a normal invoice. The...Coming Soon: Manage Retainers in Harvest
We have heard from many customers who need to track retainers in Harvest. You can invoice for a retainer today in Harvest – say, you invoice a client for $5,000. That works, but there’s no easy way to invoice the hours you worked, and draw from that...Start tracking time today
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