UPDATE: ImageX Media just posted more information about the integration with Harvest and Drupal, and how to track projects and receive daily notifications.

ImageX Media has utilized the Harvest API, to allow you to integrate Harvest with Drupal, a popular open source content management system.  A few typical use cases  include:

• Create customized reports to display Harvest project data and share with team members and/or clients
• Keep your clients up to date on how many hours your team has spent on their project and on what tasks
• Remind your project team with regular updates on the project budget status
• Automatically generate time reports for contractors to add to their invoices

Hope this will be useful for all of you Drupal users!

Harvest user Martin Hansen has created a slick looking Harvest time tracking widget for Opera that looks something like this:

Many thanks to Martin for this great Harvest add-on!

As tax season swings into full effect here in the U.S., we have a timely Harvest add-on to share with you. Teaspiller is a new service which helps you get your taxes done quickly and easily by a certified tax expert.

With your invoices and business expenses already tracked in Harvest, it’s easy to export your numbers and get things rolling with a a tax expert. Here’s a brief video demonstrating the seamless integration with Harvest:

Teaspiller allows you to choose your own price for a tax expert (based on your specific needs: user reviews, experience, industry specialties), enter you basic tax information online, and then get unlimited support from a certified tax expert to make sure you’re maximizing all those Harvest expenses. Visit teaspiller.com for more information.

Our iPhone app has been updated! Get the newest version →

Today, we’re excited to announce the arrival of our official Harvest iPhone app to the iTunes App Store.

Harvest for your iPhone allows you to track time and expenses on-the-go, with or without a network connection. Start and stop the task timers or enter durations with notes while you’re on the road.

Need to submit receipts with your expenses? With Harvest for your iPhone, you can snap photos of your receipts and attach them to your expense entries in Harvest. It’s a great way to stay organized.

Hat tip to CrazedCoders (the creators of the Co-op iPhone companion, iCo-op) for helping us launch this app. Enjoy and let us know what you think!

We will be performing some hardware upgrades on servers, which will mean a small service interruption for Co-op (as well as this blog) between 2am – 3am EST on Sunday December 13th, 2009. Find out what time that is for you.

Thanks for your patience and continued support!

Note: Upgrade complete and everything is back online.

Zendesk is a great web-based helpdesk software solution which integrates with Harvest via our API.  In fact, a few months ago, Zendesk became our application of choice for handling all the support questions and requests from our customers.  We found it to be an efficient way for our growing team to support and communicate with Harvest users.

Starting Wednesday (Dec 9th), we’ll be co-hosting two webinar sessions with Zendesk to discuss our integration and show how Zendesk and Harvest customers can get the most out of the Harvest/Zendesk integration.

The webinar will cover the following:

• Harvest/Zendesk basics
• How to connect Zendesk to Harvest
• How to get time into Harvest from Zendesk and other sources
• How to work with time in Harvest (budgets, billing rate, reports)
• How to create invoices and bill for time

These two free webinar sessions are happening at the following dates and time:

• Wednesday, Dec 9, 10am ET (7am PT) – REGISTER FOR FREE
• Wednesday, Dec 16, 5pm ET (2pm PT) – REGISTER FOR FREE

Join us if you’re interested in learning more about how Harvest works with a great web-based helpdesk solution.

We’re very excited to discover that Jim Mullholland over at Squeejee came up with a super sweet plugin which integrates Harvest time tracking with the Redmine project management app!

With this plugin, you are able to tie Harvest projects to Redmine projects, import your timesheet data into Redmine, report on this data, and aggregate time entries to Redmine tasks.

Watch their video to see how it works:

and you can see what Jim has to say about it here.

A few weeks ago, we got a glimpse of beautifully executed Harvest add-on called Scythe.  We’re excited to tell you that this FREE add-on is now available for download.  The simple application allows users to track their earnings via an interface which appears on the menu bar of Mac OS X.

Let Harvest do your time tracking while you track earnings right on your desktop with Scythe.

Learn more and download Scythe

Many thanks to Doug of Falesafe Consulting for coming up with this great Harvest add-on!

According to one survey, nearly 20 billion paper invoices are exchanged between businesses each year–that’s a lot of paper!  Given that’s it’s Earth Day, the time is now for a start-up like billFLO.  The product focuses on eliminating paper invoices by creating a new format for invoices: machine-readable invoices.

billFLO has integrated with Harvest’s invoicing feature to facilitate the sending and receiving of machine-readable invoices.  It’s the first step in moving towards a more efficient, machine-readable standard, and we’re proud to be a part of this future.

Co-op is our simple solution for team collaboration. It’s a tool we use everyday to keep each other updated on what we’re working on right now and what we plan to work on later. It has made us more efficient as well as have more fun throughout the work day; it’s our central medium to share links and thoughts within the team. Co-op does all this while we seamlessly track time through Co-op’s Harvest integration.

CrazedCoders, a development firm which uses Harvest & Co-op, have taken the liberty to develop an amazing iPhone application using Co-op’s RESTful API. Read below for more information or download iCo-op from the iTunes Apps store (FREE)! Note: requires a Co-op account which is free to sign up via the web.

iCo-op is a native iPhone application for Co-op, a lightweight web-based project management and team collaboration tool. By providing an easy way for team members to update each other on what they are working on, iCo-op enables teams to work more efficiently and enjoyably together. With an optional integration to the Harvest time tracking and invoicing app (http://getharvest.com), professional services teams can effortlessly track time and bill clients while keeping everyone on the same page.

With iCo-op for the iPhone, staying in touch with your teammates on-the-go has never been easier. Share ideas, ask questions, or coordinate groups from wherever you are. Whether you are part of a small team in a larger company or one of many freelancers working together, iCo-op keeps you and your teammates connected so you can get more work done together.

• Download iCo-op Team Communicator from iTunes App Store (FREE)
  
• Sign-up and use Co-op for your team collaboration (also, FREE)