A Harvest Timesheet in your Gmail?!
Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of Harvest for Google Apps. Google Apps users can now easily add Harvest to Google Apps via the Google Apps Marketplace. Continue Reading
Harvest Now Available on Google Apps Marketplace
Walkabout NYC – Open House for Startups
On Friday, June 10th (tomorrow!), seize the opportunity to stop by over 20 New York City-based startups and technology companies as they welcome visitors to drop by to see their spaces, learn about their services, and meet the teams. We’re proud to present Walkabout NYC!
Since the day we set up our first desks for the company, we’ve enjoyed visiting creative offices and workspaces for inspiration that we could bring back to our work environment. With more and more startups calling New York City home, it was time to organize an open-house event for technology startups. We’re thrilled to have so many great companies on board with the Walkabout NYC event, helping us inspire each other and being accessible to the community at large.
For all the details, head over to Walkabout NYC. Come out and meet the neighbors.
When Networks Attack
Not everyone on the Internet plays nicely. Recently Harvest has been affected by DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) network attacks directed at sites with equipment physically near our equipment in our primary datacenter. There are some bad forces on the Internet and in the last few weeks there have been two incidents where those bad forces have attacked sites which have nothing to do with Harvest, but unfortunately happen to share a network path into our primary datacenter with our equipment. When these attacks have taken place, the sheer volume of bad traffic has saturated some of those network paths and caused Harvest to be slow for some users. Usually the effects last only a few minutes until the source and destination of the attacks are identified by the datacenter personnel and are removed from the network. Nevertheless, that’s a suboptimal situation for Harvest and our customers.
We’ve taken steps to mitigate the risk of these DDoS issues affecting us in future. Part of this involves moving some of our front facing load balancers to new locations in the primary datacenter where the network pipes are so large that issues of the type we have seen recently will not have any negative impact.
The first set of servers was moved this evening, some users may have noticed Harvest run a little slow for 20 minutes while this work was done. Co-op in particular was slower while we moved. Next week we’ll be moving the rest of the servers and I’ll update you when that work is complete.
Reorder Invoice Items
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 an invoice, click the “Reorder Rows” link and the individual rows will become sortable. Just click and drag a row to change it’s position on the invoice.
When you’re done moving items, you can simply save the invoice, or click “Done Reordering” to continue editing the invoice details.
We hope you find this new invoice improvement useful. As always, don’t hesitate to share your feedback and suggestions with us.
Come Out And Meet the Team in NYC
Join us for a drink next Wednesday, June 9th, between 6-8pm, and say hello to the guys and gals that make Harvest run. We’re hosting a gathering of customers, partners, and friends at Brinkley’s, just around the corner from Harvest HQ in Soho. We’d love to share a drink with you, introduce you to each other and simply get to know you better! RSVP on our Facebook Page, and we’ll see you there!
Export Uploaded Receipts to PDF
We’ve added another enhancement to help with your recording and reporting of expense receipts! Now you can export your receipts from the Expense Reports page in one neatly formatted PDF file.
Brief scheduled maintenance Saturday May 22 at 2am EDT
Sorry for the late notice on this one folks but we’ve got some features coming down the pipeline which require us to make changes to our databases. Sometimes this can be done while Harvest operates normally and sometimes we need to take Harvest offline to make these changes. We’ll be taking Harvest offline at 2am EDT on Saturday May 22nd for approximately 60 minutes. What time is that for you?
Follow Harvest on Twitter for realtime status reports. Thanks for your support as we improve Harvest!
Meet the New Harvest Sign In Page
Our redesigned sign in page can now be customized with your company’s logo. This means that your employees and contractors will have instant recognition of your company branding, and they’ll feel reassured that they’re signing in to the right place.
Adding a logo (or other graphic element) is easy as can be – just sign in to your account and follow these simple steps:
- Go to Manage > Account Settings
- Click the Edit Preferences button
- Next to the “Logo” option, click “Choose File” and navigate to a file of your choosing.
The space for your logo is 160×160 pixels wide. Uploaded images may be smaller than that – and larger images will be resized. Please note that this feature is not currently available for free accounts.
We hope you like this new bit of customization, and let us know if you have any questions or thoughts about the feature.
May HOBBY is coming up – get your tickets now!
It’s that time again – we’ve got a great line up of presenters for our upcoming Hobby event on Wednesday, May 19th, at 7pm:
- Michael Karnjanaprakorn is an avid poker player who will be donating 100% of his 2010 WSOP winnings to various charities. He’s been coached by Annie Duke and Rafe Furst, and will talk about poker, decision making, and why you should always throw paper on the first throw.
- Jordan X is a rock climber, mountaineer, and trader extraordinaire. When he’s not climbing rocks, scaling mountains, or watching the Dow tank in a matter of twenty minutes, he is one of more than twenty million people in the online dating scene in a quest to find true love or “the one” to join him in his adventures and high jinks.
- Brett Collinson is an experience designer from Melbourne, Australia. He visited New York for the first time a year ago and, like a kid in a candy store, saw theater every night he was here. Stimulated by this rich feast, he moved here 2 months ago and has been enjoying New York theater as a local ever since.
As always, you can see videos from previous Hobby events at our Hobby Channel, like Phin Barnes talking about his sneaker obsession at last months Hobby:
We look forward to seeing you at May Hobby!
Harvest Now Supports Native Excel Exports
Up until now, when you ran a report, and selected More Actions, there was an option to Export to Excel. What it did is export the report to a .csv file, which you could then open in Excel. While this worked fine for most of our customers, some of our overseas customers experienced character formatting issues due to the translation from .csv to Excel. Well, no more!
We have implemented an update to Harvest that now gives you the option to Export to Excel (as a native Excel file), or you can select Export to CSV, to continue exporting the same way you have been.
We hope you find this update useful, and let us know if you have any questions!
