We’re excited to announce that you can now manage retainers in Harvest. Here’s a short video of how the feature works:

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 $5,000 and keep track of remaining balance.
Today, we’re [...]

Our customers have been asking for more control over their invoices, and we’ve been listening. We’re happy to announce the first of many improvements coming down the pipeline for Harvest Invoicing users: Line Item Reordering.

You can change the order of items on an invoice, with just a few quick mouse clicks. While adding or editing [...]

If you’ve ever wanted to download all of your PDF invoices from Harvest, you’ll be happy to know that there’s now a way to do just that! To access this new feature, go to the Manage tab and click on Account Settings. Scroll to the bottom, where you’ll see a Download Zip of [...]

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. [...]

Here’s a recap of a bunch of recent updates to Harvest:

Discounts on Invoices and Estimates – You can now easily put in a percentage discount on invoices and estimates. Just type in a percentage number and Harvest will calculate the correct discount value for your clients.
Duplicate Estimate – It works just like duplicate invoice. Go to [...]

We’re excited to announce the launch of the new Estimates feature. You can now create, send and manage estimates within your Harvest account. Like the Invoice feature, Harvest lets you create a professional estimate with just a few clicks, and everything is organized in a easy-to-scan dashboard for you to track what is outstanding, what [...]

Earlier today, one of our fine customers tweeted at @harvest to say that Harvest’s printer-friendly reports have helped to make the process of calculating estimated taxes a breeze.  Since making quarterly estimated payments to the state and federal governments are a requirement for all freelancers and businesses based in the U.S., we followed up with [...]

Secure Connection (SSL) Now Available on All Plans
We are always happy to deliver more value to our customers without raising prices whenever we can. Today, we have an opportunity to do just that. For our Basic and Solo customers, we’ve activated an option which allows you to use SSL for your connection to Harvest. [...]

We just released a small but important update for Harvest’s Invoice export.  On Invoices > Report you can export the report to Excel.  We’ve added three extra columns in the export: subtotal, tax, and tax 2.  So you can now download your data and run report on your earnings versus taxes.