We’re excited to announce the release of one of the most requested features in Harvest: the Uninvoiced Report! This new report will help you catch any missed invoicing opportunities, and will significantly speed up the invoicing process. Here’s a quick video to explain how it all works:
Invoice Faster
The goal of this report is simple and straightforward. It allows you to quickly scan and find all the outstanding, unbilled amounts for each client and project. You can view the amount by month, quarter or year; and each client has an “Invoice” button – click it to create an invoice for the selected timeframe. If your account has rounding turned on, this report will automatically round the hours according to how you configure it.
Here are some other features we’ve added to enhance the Uninvoiced Report:
Check the Active Projects Only box to hide any archived projects
Uninvoiced Hour and Expense amounts generate detailed reports
You can Export this report to Excel or CSV
We hope the Uninvoiced Report helps your business stay on top of its numbers and get paid faster for all of your hard work. Thank you for your continued support and helpful feedback, and we look forward to hearing from you!
Last month, we revealed the new Harvest Time Report, and since then, we’ve continued working on updates to the other sections of Harvest Reports. Today, we’re launching the new Detailed Time Report. It’s faster and more precise, enabling you to easily create the exact reports you need. Take a look:
Find What You Need
We’ve added new input filters that make it so you can quickly choose what to include in your report. Simply start typing what you’re searching for and results will appear instantaneously. You can also select multiple items for the same category. Want to see a report for your two most tracked Tasks? This is now possible with the new filters. Continue Reading …
In the next few weeks, we will be launching a couple of big updates in the Reports section of your Harvest account.
We’re carrying over the new look and feel of the recently updated Time Report to the rest of the Reports section, and along the way, overhauling a few bits and pieces. We are also presenting a brand new Uninvoiced Report, one of the most highly requested features from the Harvest community.
The new Uninvoiced Report will be the place for your business to check for all of the time and expenses that have not been invoiced. The numbers are grouped by clients, broken down by projects – with a convenient button to invoice for the total unbilled amount.
The other significant update that will affect your workflow is an overhauled Detailed Time Report. We’re updating the report form with an all-new, super fast, auto-complete input filter. The new filters allow for selecting multiple items for the same category – so you can, for example, generate a report for multiple projects and tasks all at once.
We’re now in the final phase of testing and tweaking these new features, and we will launch the new features in the coming weeks. Thanks for your patience and continuing support, and we look forward to sharing the fruits of our labor soon!
Mobile devices have come a long way since their heyday as a voice communication device. Beyond helping us connect with friends and family, the smartphone has become a powerful business tool in the palm of our hands.
After we released Harvest for iPhone last year, it came as no surprise that one of the most frequent requests from customers has been for us to create a mobile app for Android. We’ve been paying close attention to the adoption of Android amongst our users and late last year decided that having a great mobile companion for Android was simply too important to not address. We needed to provide the best and most convenient way for our users to access Harvest on the emerging smartphone platform.
With the release of the official Harvest Android time tracker app, Android users can now enjoy the same powerful features available to iPhone users: start and stop timers on the go, enter expenses, and snap photos of receipts to securely send them to your Harvest account.
Now whether the members on your team have iPhones or Android devices, everyone will have access to the important mobile-centric things they might need to do while on the go.
Mobile phones will continue to rapidly evolve in form and function even over the next few months. We are committed to bringing you the best experience with Harvest, especially as the times are a changin’.
Visit Android time tracker to learn more and download this companion app for free.
BONUS: Have a Windows Phone 7? Check out the soon-to-be-released 3rd party app, TimeTractor: Windows Phone 7 Time Tracker
It’s arrived! Welcome to the brand new Harvest Time Report:
A redesign of the Time Report has been a long time coming. Reports need to effectively present the overwhelming amount of data your company enters every day, in a format that’s easy to analyze and understand. At its core, the Time Report is a decision-making tool. We want Harvest to help you make better decisions and the new version of Reports was designed with this in mind.
Here are a few of the enhancements in the new Time Report:
Easy to Scan
The new interface is designed to make it easy to understand the overall health of your business. We’ve added a summary panel at the top of the page that quickly shows you the big picture: total hours, billable percentage, billable amount, and uninvoiced amount. Details of this summary are displayed in a table organized by Clients, Projects, Tasks, and Staff. This layout will help you find what you need fast.
Recently, we’ve been sharing a lot of technical lessons from building our new Help Center and in upgrading Harvest to Rails 3. The gem Harvest is releasing today, Thebes, is at the intersection of both projects.
Thebes is a wrapper around Sphinx, the search engine we use on most of our projects. Thebes differs from other solutions by staying as far away from your Rails code as possible. Instead of hiding the Sphinx configuration file behind a domain-specific language, this library assumes you will write Sphinx config files by hand. In Thebes, you edit an ERB template of your Sphinx configuration and populate it with variables at generation time. For developers needing the most flexible or fastest solution possible, this is a great way to work with Sphinx. Continue Reading …
Harvest will be offline for 60 minutes between 1am EST to 2am EST on Sunday March 6th, 2011. What time is that for you?
This coming weekend, our datacenter provider is performing network maintenance to improve network redundancy. Many core services in the datacenter will be offline for 5 hours, between 1am – 6am EST, Sunday March 6th.
We have reconfigured a number of our systems so that we will be able to stay online during most of this maintenance, even when a large set of datacenter resources go offline. That said, we plan to take advantage of this maintenance to perform some upgrades of our own, increasing our storage capacity by more than 400%. For this reason, Harvest will be offline for 60 minutes.
During the extended 5 hour network maintenance we will be monitoring the progress and doing everything possible to keep Harvest systems online.
Follow @harvest on Twitter for real time updates from the team during this work, and thanks for your patience.
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 interface on top of layers of complex data. You can quickly glance at a report and find out what projects are consuming the most of your business’s time, and click one button to see distribution of billable hours.
Over the years, the reporting tool became more sophisticated with even more data: billable amount, budget, invoiced vs uninvoiced hours, etc. Frankly, the original interface structure is not holding up to the amount of data points Harvest supports today.
Late last year, we set out to improve Reports. We started with a customer survey, and thanks to your participation, we received a ton of amazing feedback. We sifted through your comments and boiled everything down to a few major goals, providing us with a solid direction as we began our overhaul of Reports. We’ve been working hard on this project since January, and have internally nicknamed the project “Reports 2.0.” Here’s a preview:
We’ve broken up the goals into different milestones, and the initial release of Reports 2.0 is coming Tuesday, March 8th. Here are some of the highlights that you can expect:
Blazing fast report render – Our development team rebuilt the reporting engine from scratch, taking advantage of some of the cool, new things that came from Rails 3.
A spanking new Staff report – This is one of the highest requested reports from the survey, and we added a few bells and whistles to make it easier to scan the report.
Improved navigation and data layout – You’ll see a brief summary of important data points on top, and a clearer table structure makes it easier to digest numbers and details.
And there are many more improvements and surprises for you to uncover next week. Our design and development team have poured their hearts into this project and it’s a work of beauty. We can’t wait to share the fruits of our labor, and thank you all for your patience, support and feedback!
Two weeks ago, we launched the new Harvest Help Center. The goal for the redesign was to provide comprehensive and well-organized content, so you could get what you need and move on with your day. We thought the design was effective, but how do we really measure and continuously improve the Help Center? Stats from Google Analytics tell us part of the story, but nothing beats actual customer feedback. So today, we’re launching a small feature so you can tell us directly how we’re doing:
At the bottom of each help article, you’ll find a “Was this article helpful?” question. If something was helpful, great! If not, leave some suggestions on how we can improve. Your feedback will help us update current articles and guide us in writing future ones.
As always, get in touch, and let us know how it’s working for you!
We’re ready to unveil our shiny, new Harvest Support! We’ve added a whole lot of content, changed the layout, and incorporated a fast and efficient instant search. Here’s a peek:
Take it for a spin, and read on to find out more about the specifics of what we’ve done.
Why the Redesign?
We love talking to our customers, but we understand that it’s more convenient for you to find answers to your questions through a support section. Our old Help & Support was full of useful information, but it was hard to scan, and some of the content was outdated. We wanted our support section to be easy to use, so you could get what you need and move on with your day.
The new section has been dubbed Harvest Support, and it’s divided into three main parts: the Help Center, the Forum, and a Contact Support form. Help Center is where you’ll find our updated and new help content, reorganized and easily searchable with our fast instant search.
Published May 12th, 2011 by Matt Lettini 
