One of our next big projects is to improve the Harvest Help & Support section. The current FAQ format has served us well, but the section became unruly as Harvest expanded and help content accumulated. My next project is to take the additional information we’ve gained and redesign “Harvest Help.” To prepare, I’ve been researching [...]
Category: Productivity Tips
Teaspiller Add-on Helps You With Your Taxes
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 [...]
Communicating Effectively With A Team Located Around The Globe
Though Harvest Headquarters are located in New York City, a few members of the team are located in different parts of the world, across the U.S. and Europe. Over the years, we have learned a thing or two about communicating efficiently over time and space. These tips are likely to be appropriate for all teams [...]
Track Your IRS Business Expenses with Harvest
As a follow-up to our article in June by Harvest user Jennifer about Simplifying Your Estimated Tax Process with Harvest, we’ve got another fine customer who wrote us about a parallel, but different issue: tracking IRS business expenses.
Kevin McGee, a freelance Technology Writer and Content Developer in the Bay Area, was kind enough to share [...]
Simplify Your Estimated Tax Process with Harvest Reporting
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 [...]
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 [...]
Duplicate Projects and Templates with One-Click
We’ve just added another user requested feature to Harvest, the ability to create duplicate projects. This will allow you to create copies of projects, and can be used to create project templates of your most common task sets to save you setup time.
You can make a duplicate of an existing project by going to Manage [...]
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 [...]
Introducing Our Small Business 101 Column
We founded Iridesco, the parent company of Harvest, in 2003 as a web design and development studio. In the Spring of 2006, we launched Harvest and soon found that we were better suited for the product business than we were as a studio. We then transitioned our business to a “software as a service” model. [...]


