Happy new year! We’re starting this new year with a new, neat feature: Harvest now offers more flexibility for rounding and invoicing hours. When you export or invoice hours, you now have the option to round to nearest, or round up to 6, 15 or 30 minutes.
Another big improvement is that Harvest now supports incremental billing. What that means: if you have this option turned on, when you invoice and choose the “Summary by…” option, Harvest will round the hours first, and then sum them up. Some of our customers prefer to sum up the hours, and then round the totals – and you can still do that by not choosing the incremental billing option.
Both options can be updated via Invoices > Configure, under the section Default Values.
Hope you find this new feature useful, and please let us know if you have any questions or comments!
12 Comments
James Archer / 06 January 2010
Thanks, guys.
George / 06 January 2010
I guess this means we can turn off our GreaseMonkey-script that accomplishes this task. Thanks!
Alice / 08 January 2010
Thanks for the insight!
David Zuelke / 28 January 2010
Wow, that’s kick ass, I totally missed that!
William / 28 January 2010
THANK YOU!!!!! That’s a great feature! Keep up the good work
Amberly / 28 January 2010
How about an option to round the total invoice amount to the nearest dollar, for those who prefer to track true time (no rounding) but would like to invoice in whole dollar amounts?
Brandon / 28 January 2010
Since we don’t use the invoicing part of the system – it would be really nice to have the rounding added to time tracking since our tracking is done to the nearest quarter hour.
David Zuelke / 28 January 2010
Brandon: I think that would be nice; could be recorded separately to the actual time. Maybe even with the ability to manually adjust the number (e.g. client calls at 8pm, needs something *now*, gets billed a full hour even though the task only took 15 minutes to complete).
Danny Wen / 28 January 2010
Thanks for all the feedback, guys! We’ll take them into account as we continue to improve things around here.
Brandon / 28 January 2010
+1 Agreed – we tend to manually adjust the time on things like that as well. We used to use a program called TimePost on the Mac that integrates with Harvest and you can set a preference to adjust the time before posting to Harvest. Unfortunately we had too many issues with TimePost
David Zuelke / 28 January 2010
Brandon: you could use the timesheet approval feature for that, that at least streamlines the process a bit. Alternatively, since you don’t bill through Harvest anyway, couldn’t you enable the rounding for the excel export for timesheets? That has always been possible I think… it gives an extra column, with the rounded value.
MJ McBride / 28 January 2010
AWESOME!!! We built our own Gumeshoe to do this for clients invoicing. This will save a lot of time and makes our addiction to Harvest way greater!