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Category: Productivity Tips

Harvest Plays Nice With Twitter

We wanted to say ‘Hello’ to all our friends and Twitter followers and let you know that we’ve improved the integration between Harvest and Twitter, and  you are now able to start a timer remotely through Twitter.
It’s simple to stop and start a timer, as well as log expenses from anywhere by texting direct message [...]

Detailed Time Report, and Marking Hours as Invoiced

We’re really excited to announce our latest updates to Harvest: Detailed Time Report + Marking Hours Invoiced.  You can find this new section under Reports > Detailed Time.  The report runs fairly straight-forward: you choose a timeframe, and select any of the options (clients, project or people) and generate the report.  The magic happens on [...]

Invoice update: second tax field

Many of our international customers need to apply more than one tax to their invoices, and now you can do that in Harvest.  Create any invoice, and after you put in the first tax, you’ll notice a link next to the tax field that says, Apply another tax.  Click on that and you’ll get the [...]

Automatic reminder for submitting timesheet

We just added a tool for you to set up a weekly email to remind your staff to submit their timesheets for approval.  Try this out by going to Timesheets > Unsubmitted, and look on the right side.  Click on the button “Edit Reminder” and choose which day you’d like this email to send out.  [...]

New Founders Interview: MTWTF

After six years as an art director at the acclaimed graphic design studio, 2×4, Glen Cummings decided to start his own studio.  MTWTF was born earlier this year, in Lower East Side, New York City, and we’re excited to have a fellow NYC business as our latest New Founder.  Aside from running his new business, [...]

Introducing Recurring Invoice

Today we are introducing a new feature for you to set up scheduled, recurring invoices, which Harvest will automatically create and send for you.  Let’s say you bill your customer monthly for a retainer, now you can create a recurring invoice, and each month on a scheduled date, Harvest will send your client the invoice [...]

Harvest Invoices now supporting multiple currencies

Good news for customers who have clients in different countries:  you can now change currency on each invoice.  Just create an invoice, and you’ll find a new dropdown box below tax where you can choose from a long list of currencies.  Harvest will tally up the invoices, so you know how much you’re making and [...]

Time and Expense tracking from your iPhone

The iPhone is a revolutionary mobile device, but more than just a great consumer product, it’s also an increasingly useful tool for professionals and businesses.    Today, we’re excited to announce Harvest’s contribution to the iPhone user’s productivity with an optimized time and expense tracking experience for your iPhone.
All the handiest features of Harvest are now [...]

Using Twitter to track time

As you may already know, you can use Twitter to send Harvest your expenses and stop a timer you’ve accidentally left running, all from the convenience of your phone, IM, or other Twitter interfaces. Recently, we’ve added a new feature so you can also enter time via Twitter. Check out the updated Twitter [...]

Don’t need timesheet approval? Turn it off.

If you have been with us for a while, you know that Harvest supports a timesheet approval workflow. This means timesheets submitted by employees can be approved by project managers or administrators to ensure the time is properly recorded. While this is an invaluable feature for some operations, this can be extra noise [...]