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Track Earnings from Billable Hours with Scythe (Mac OS X only)

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.

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Computer-readable Invoices with billFLO

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 [...]

Get Paid Faster (and Greener) via Harvest + PayPal

Starting this Friday, you will be able to integrate PayPal with your Harvest account. The new feature will make billing in Harvest faster, simpler and more organized; your clients will love the new simplicity and ease of paying your invoices; and our planet will appreciate the reduction on paper waste!
To activate PayPal integration, go to [...]

Better & Sharper Invoice Email to Clients

This Friday we’re launching a new feature that will let you integrate PayPal with your Harvest account.  We will publish a post tomorrow to give you more details on that – but today, we’d like to first show you a small, but significant upgrade to the format of invoice emails sent to your clients.
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Handling GST/PST Taxes in Invoices for Canadian and European Businesses

If you are doing business in Canada and the EU, you may be required to collect two sets of taxes on many of your invoices. While this may seem like a complicated procedure, Harvest invoices make these calculations very simple. Harvest is able to calculate both simple and compound taxes in dual tax fields.
Invoicing with [...]

New Feature: Write off Invoices

We’ve added a new feature to Harvest, the ability to write off an invoice with an outstanding balance. On an open invoice, under “More Actions”, you can select the option “Write off Invoice”. A notes field will pop-up, allowing you to make a record of why this amount of money is being written-off. This option [...]

How to Raise Billing Rates in a Recession

I recently made my yearly call to the accountant. After some small talk and catching up, he apologized, but informed me that my appointment was going to cost a bit more than it did last year. He cited the general state of the economy, the fact that his rent has gone up and that even [...]

Invoice Updates: Payment Received Report, Improved Dashboard and Draft Invoices

We’ve just released a few updates to the Harvest invoicing tool: an improved Invoice Dashboard, draft mode for invoices, and a brand new Payments Received Report.

The Invoice Dashboard has been updated so that you can quickly scan through all the outstanding invoices, and see what invoices are in draft mode, which have already been sent, [...]

Harvest API Ruby wrapper now available

If you are working or plan on working with the Harvest API and Ruby, we have some great news. An open-sourced Harvest API Ruby wrapper is now available thanks to the kind folks at Alexander Interactive.  This first release of the API wrapper and supports most of the methods in our API.  A big thanks [...]

A Flurry of Updates Before 09

We’ve added a bunch of new features to Harvest, right before we welcome the new year:

Estimate by people hours. It works just like estimate by task hours, but you can now put in estimated hours by each person on each project.
Duplicate invoice. On each invoice, you can now duplicate the invoice by clicking on the [...]