Harvest Release Notes

In Season is our periodic update on what's new in Harvest, what's coming soon, and the ideas we're looking for your feedback on.

Harvest connects your time tracking with the invoices, payments, forecasts, and reports you rely on to run your business, all in one connected system. We're always improving that system, and that's why we're launching In Season, a new series where we'll share what’s new and what we’re working on next.

Many of our latest features started with ideas from the people who use Harvest. We’d love your feedback on what we should build next. Share your thoughts →

Harvest’s new look, released in May of 2026, will become the default for everyone over the coming weeks. If you haven't switched yet, now is a great time to get familiar with it. Watch this 7-minute video to learn how to navigate the new Harvest.

Just shipped

New ways to see, manage, and act on the data you capture in Harvest—with less manual work.

Alongside these major updates, we’ve continued shipping a steady stream of practical improvements inspired directly by your feedback. Recent additions include custom cost rates by project, default email recipients for invoices, improved calendar views, and much more, with new enhancements arriving week after week.

Build the report you need

Create custom reports that show exactly the data you need. Instead of starting from fixed report types, you can build the view you want in just a few clicks. Group, filter, and preview your data as you build, then save reports to reuse later. And yes, the 100-row limit on time-entry reports is officially gone.
Learn more about custom reports →

Work with your Harvest data in connected AI tools

Connect Harvest to AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT through our new Harvest MCP (Model Context Protocol). Once connected, you can work directly with your Harvest data in the tools and agents you already use. Log and review time, run reports, check budgets, draft invoices, and more, all within your existing AI workflows.
Learn how the MCP works and how to set it up →

Save time by making changes in bulk

Need to update rates, move teams to new projects, archive a batch of clients, or edit dozens of invoices? Bulk actions let you make the change once, preview exactly what will happen, and apply it to every selected record in a single step.
Learn more →

Automatically lock timesheets

Automatically lock timesheets and expenses on a schedule so finalized records stay accurate and no one can make changes after the reporting period ends. Set the lock time around your timesheet deadline or choose a custom cutoff.
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Organize teammates by department

Assign teammates to departments, then use those departments to filter reports and keep your team organized.
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Coming soon

More ways to manage your team, connect the tools you use, and get work done in Harvest—all these updates are on their way to you in the coming weeks!

Harvest AI

We’re bringing AI directly into Harvest, so you can ask questions about your projects, time, expenses, and invoices in plain language, then take action without clicking through menus. Log time, draft invoices, update records, and get answers in seconds all while staying in control. Harvest AI can only access the data and actions available to your profile’s role.
Coming to all accounts soon.
Learn more →

Request and approve PTO

Paid time off will soon be supported in Harvest, from setting company-wide holidays to approving individual PTO requests, so time off can be reflected accurately in all your timesheets and reports.
Tell us what you'd want from PTO →

Expense reimbursement within Harvest

You can already mark an expense as reimbursable when someone pays for a business expense out of pocket. Soon, you’ll be able to reimburse employees directly through Harvest.
Learn more →

Gusto integration

Keep your team in sync across Harvest and Gusto so headcount, pay rates, and seat invitations stay up to date without manual reconciliation when someone joins, leaves, or changes roles. We’re starting with team invites and exporting approved hours, with more to come.
Tell us what you'd want from the Gusto integration →

More flexible invoice templates, dark mode for better focus, and a new notification center are also on the way.

Keep an eye on the What's New section in Harvest to discover the latest features as soon as they’re available.

Give your input on new features in the pipeline

We’re exploring new ways to make project planning and reporting more flexible in Harvest. Your input matters most at this stage. If either of these ideas could help your team, share your thoughts so we can shape them around your needs.

Project planning & management

We want projects in Harvest to reflect the way you really work, making it easier to plan ahead and keep project execution predictable, whether or not you use Forecast today. Missing a billing method? Need a way to categorize time entries that doesn't exist yet? Tell us what would make planning and managing projects work better for your team.
Tell us how you want to plan projects →

Custom dashboards that reflect your business

We’re developing customizable dashboards that let you choose the metrics that matter most and build views tailored to the way you work. You could share dashboards with your team or clients. Tell us what your ideal dashboard would include.
Give your take →

Your input shapes what we build next. Every survey response, interview, and expression of interest helps us prioritize the features that will make the greatest difference.

We’ll share the next edition of In Season in a couple months, just in time for harvest season in the Northern Hemisphere.

Want more frequent updates? You'll always find the latest in the What's New section inside Harvest. And if you missed our May update on Harvest’s new look, catch up in our last blog post: Inside the new Harvest.

The Harvest team.

Questions? Visit our Help Center to see FAQs and contact us.

Today, we’re sharing a big update to Harvest: a new look, redesigned interface, and a new set of features built to make everyday work easier.

The new Harvest starts rolling out today—you’ll see it in your account soon. Keep reading to learn what’s new, and get a sneak peek in this video:

New features

Calendar view for time tracking

Plan your time the way you actually work. The new calendar view in duration mode lets you see your week at a glance and track time directly from your schedule—making it easier to stay on top of your hours without breaking your flow.

Learn more →

White-label invoices

Make invoices and client communications feel more like your own. You can now remove Harvest branding and add your own colors, banner, and contact details.

Find these settings under Invoices → Configure.

Learn more →

Expanded roles and permissions

Give every person the right level of access. Harvest now has a redesigned permissions system with six purpose-built roles, plus the option to create custom roles for your team.

Learn more →

Expenses and reimbursements

Team members can now flag expenses for reimbursement when creating them, and administrators can review and approve those requests in one place.

Enable the setting in Preferences to get started.

Learn more →

A new desktop app

The new Harvest desktop app is faster, more reliable, and built to help you track time without breaking your flow.

A new look and a simpler way to move through Harvest

Harvest has a new look and feel, with a more intuitive interface.

The goal is simple: make it easier to find what you need, move through your day-to-day work, and get more done with less friction.

Read this article or watch the tutorial video to learn how to navigate Harvest.

Other recent improvements you may have missed

We’ve also released a few updates to help teams work more smoothly:

Default values on invoices

Set your invoice defaults once, so every new invoice starts ready to go.

Direct debit and bank transfer via Stripe

Give clients more ways to pay with less friction.

Utilization rates in reports

Compare logged hours against available capacity by person or project.

Accounts receivable aging

See every outstanding invoice at a glance, organized by how overdue it is.

Two-way QuickBooks sync

Keep item types and payments in sync automatically.

Pause recurring invoices

Stop a schedule without deleting it.

More control over timesheet emails

Fine-tune when and how approval notifications are sent.

E-invoicing (UBL format)

Stay compliant with European VAT requirements.

Total hours on invoices

See the full time total without extra calculation.

Coming soon

We’re already working on more updates across reporting and analytics, invoicing, and time tracking.

This is a big step for Harvest, but it’s not the finish line. Thanks for trusting us with your time.

The Harvest Team

Questions? Visit our Help Center to see FAQs and contact us.

A new look. A faster, cleaner interface. And the features your team has been asking for. Harvest was built on a simple idea: your team's time should go toward the value your business delivers, not the admin around it. Here's where that's taken us.

Built to move faster

The Harvest interface has been redesigned with one goal in mind: getting you where you need to go faster. Navigation is simpler, the things you reach for most are exactly where you'd expect them, and day-to-day tasks take fewer steps than before. The design has been updated to feel as modern as the workflows it supports—without disrupting the familiarity you've built up.

The features teams have been asking for

We hear from teams using Harvest every day, and this update reflects what they've been telling us. We’ve added new features and improvements to offer more control for the people managing accounts, more flexibility and customization in your invoices, and better handling of expenses from first request to final reimbursement.

This is just the beginning

There's plenty on the horizon: new ways to see and act on your data, deeper tools for managing client relationships, and improvements to some of Harvest's core workflows. We'll be sharing those as they're ready over the coming weeks.

Already a Harvest customer?

These changes will reach your account gradually, and you'll hear from us before anything shifts. Nothing you rely on is going away.

We’re always working to help our customers run their business more efficiently and make smarter decisions. This month, we’ve made updates to both Harvest and Forecast that focus on deeper insights, smoother navigation, and more flexibility in managing projects and people.

Here’s what’s new:

Task-Level Scheduling in Forecast

Project planning is only as strong as the details behind it. For many Forecast customers, assigning scheduled hours only at the assignment level doesn’t quite fit how teams actually work (or how budgets are structured).

Teams need more granular control over their team’s schedules. That’s why we’re excited to introduce task-level scheduling in Forecast, so you can have more clarity, control, and confidence in planning and delivering client work.

Now, instead of assigning time just at the project level, you can plan time against individual tasks. Easily break complex assignments into manageable steps, helping you gain better visibility into workload distribution, and improve forecasting accuracy—two things that are critical for teams juggling multiple deliverables.

Watch this quick demo guided by Joschka, one of our Senior Software Engineers, for a closer look at task-level scheduling in Forecast:

Deeper Profitability Insights

We’ve expanded our Profitability Report to give you a more granular view of your business. The team and task subpages now show the revenue, cost, and profit associated with each team and task. These insights help you identify what’s working (and what’s not, double down on high-performing work, and make smarter decisions so you can make confident, informed decisions to grow your bottom line.

Seamless Switching Between Harvest and Forecast

You can now move effortlessly between Harvest and Forecast with our new app switcher in the top navigation. No more juggling tabs or signing in twice. Just quick, convenient access to the tools you use every day. Plan your team’s time in Forecast, then track their progress in Harvest with just a few clicks.

Looking ahead

From sharper scheduling to deeper profitability insights and easier navigation between tools, these updates are all about helping professional services firms work smarter, not harder. Whether you’re planning projects, managing time, or analyzing performance, Harvest and Forecast are evolving to meet your needs—so you can stay focused on doing great work.

Ready to explore what’s new? Jump in and start putting these updates to work for your team today.

Harvest Premium

Different customers have different needs. That's why we're thrilled to launch Harvest Premium, a new plan we designed to help those customers who need to stay on top of profitability while maintaining an accurate record of time spent and project details. Plus, with Premium, you get expanded SSO options through SAML.

Watch our live demonstration of Premium, hosted by Harvest Product Manager, Sophia Hagger, Customer Success Manager, Maggie Harrison, and Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cameron Fitchett. They discuss how Premium can help you create create more visibility while optimizing for greater profitability.

If you’re interested in trying Premium, all current customers of Harvest have access through the month of April, 2025. And for more information about Premium, details about features, and support articles to guide your experience, head on over to the Harvest Help Center.

What’s New in Premium?

Premium is designed for businesses that need to stay on top of profitability while enhancing transparency and control over project workflows. Here’s what’s new:

• Profitability Reporting: Access reports that visualize revenue, costs, and profit margin - for your company, clients, projects, teams, and even tasks.

• Activity Log: Stay up-to-date with a clear audit trail of changes made to timesheets and projects. Track changes, catch mistakes, and drive accountability.

• SAML-based SSO: Manage user permissions more effectively, giving your team a simple, one-click login experience while keeping sensitive data secure.

• Require Notes: Ensure every time entry includes details about what work was completed, helping you better track project status and communicate progress.

Feature Spotlight: Profitability Reporting

“What kinds of clients are most profitable for us? How much money did we make on that project?”

We want to help you pinpoint the kinds of clients and projects that are most profitable. That way, you can have confidence in the projects you decide to prioritize while refining your business development strategy for maximum impact.

We’ve introduced Profitability reporting in Harvest Premium to help you answer these questions. With Profitability reporting, you can assess business performance over time and validate you’re hitting your target margins. You can also drill down into specific clients, projects, teams, and even tasks to determine what kind of work is making the most money for your business.

Our profitability report visualizes your revenue, costs, and total profits in a single view. It’s great for quickly determining company performance and identifying trends.

We also calculate profitability by client, project, team, and task. This not only helps you pinpoint your best-performing work, but also optimize project and task price points, identify productivity gaps, and set high-level benchmarks.

Available to account Owners and Administrators, you can find profitability reports in the “Reports” tab in the top navigation menu. You can find more detailed instructions for using Profitability reporting in our support article.

Feature Spotlight: Activity Log

The accuracy of your team’s timesheets is critical for creating a precise picture of time spent. Accurate timesheets also mean accurate invoices and reporting, ensuring you never have to make corrections after the fact or make decisions based on bad data.

Harvest Premium includes Activity Log, a detailed record of all time entries, changes, project updates, and approvals. Activity Log helps you stay informed with an audit trail of who changed what and when.

By reviewing your team’s Activity Log, you can spot unexpected changes or errors across time entries, projects, and approvals. Stay up to date on the latest activity so you have complete visibility into your team’s progress.

Feature Spotlight: SAML-based SSO

Along with Profitability Reporting and Activity Log, Premium includes expanded SAML-based SSO options. You can now log in to Harvest in one click through platforms like Microsoft Entra, Okta, JumpCloud, and Ping Identity.

Check out our FAQ to learn more.

Why Upgrade to Premium?

As your business grows, so does the need for better oversight and operational efficiency. Harvest Premium provides you with the clarity and control to make smarter decisions, reduce administrative burden, and drive greater profitability.

Explore Premium Today On Us

Harvest Premium is available now! To learn more, visit our Premium Plan page.

A simpler way to schedule

Scheduling your team isn’t as simple as it should be. The aim is to assign the right people for the job at hand, putting your team in the best position to deliver great work.
But knowing who is available to take on new work isn’t always obvious. It requires constant communication and meticulous schedule maintenance—otherwise, you risk scheduling conflicts and under- or over-utilizing your people.
Our customers have shared horror stories of the homemade spreadsheets they use to allocate their people’s time across projects. These documents are complex, highly manual, and provide no clear visual experience. It's no wonder that our customers commonly report devoting an entire person’s time and energy to managing them.
We wanted to create a way to schedule your team that is simple, visual, and transparent. With Forecast, you can easily click and drag assignments across a timeline and visualize your plans.

Our recent updates to Forecast allow you to plan at any scale. You can scenario plan across broader periods of time, check the monthly availability of your team, and use placeholders to determine when and where they’ll need to spend their time. This helps you make those critical business decisions regarding what projects your team can commit to, and who you may need to hire to take on more work.
"It’s exceptionally helpful for assessing overall company availability across disciplines for new business opportunities in the future, in one central place," said Dina Murphy, Director of Production at Area17. "The ability to color code new potential business vs. current project runnings vs. retainers has been exceptionally helpful when understanding what work people are booked to."
You can also quickly build project timelines by scheduling your team by week, and then optimize their hours by day for greater utilization.
With Forecast, the choice is yours.

Maximizing impact while balancing workloads

Once projects get underway, it can be easy to lose track of your team’s capacity.
It's a balancing act.
On the one hand, you want to maximize your team's time, ensuring each person has the amount of work necessary to push projects forward, stay ahead of deadlines, and ultimately get the assigned hours they need to get paid. But on the other hand, too much work can quickly burn your team out. Your team becomes overextended, causing deadlines to slip and quality to suffer.
To thread the needle, you need an easy way to visualize your team’s workload at any moment.
Forecast was designed to provide a clear view of your team’s availability and capacity. With a color-coded heat map, Forecast highlights who on your team is overbooked (in red) and who has hours remaining to schedule (in green). You can also see the exact number of hours a person is either under or overbooked, or their capacity percentage by week or by month.
These details not only let you know which schedules you need to adjust, but also the exact number of hours you have to assign or need to reallocate.
The good news is that Forecast takes the pain out of adjusting your team’s schedules. Simply click and drag to resize assignments. You can also split assignments to break up larger chunks of work into smaller, more maneuverable pieces, or edit assignments directly for more granular control.

Keep projects on track and on budget

The profitability of your company depends on your ability to meet deadlines and keep projects on budget. No project goes exactly to plan, and when things change, it’s critical that you are able to track what has changed and the impact that has on your budget.
Forecast was built to work in tandem with Harvest. By bringing together tracked time and scheduled time, you can predict budget spend, track your remaining budget as you schedule, and compare your team’s scheduled hours to the actual time they track.

A clear view of your project’s runway

Harvest reports on your project’s progress over time. In our project summary report, you can see the progress of your project in terms of hours spent, the amount of budget remaining, your internal costs, and your uninvoiced amount.
When integrated with Forecast, Harvest will pull your project’s scheduled hours from Forecast over to your project summary report. Now, you can see exactly when your project will reach its budget based on the hours you’ve assigned.
That way, you can stay on top of your project’s budget and make adjustments if you’re at risk of going over.

Schedule with confidence

It’s important to not overextend your team’s time. Using more hours than you have available is a quick way to deplete your budget. When Forecast is integrated with Harvest, any linked project with an hourly budget will display the remaining budgeted hours alongside your team’s future scheduled hours.
This helps you determine whether you’re at risk of going over budget, or conversely, whether you have more hours available to assign so you can give those critical tasks the time they deserve.

Track progress against your plan

Forecast and Harvest work together to visualize your team’s scheduled hours vs their actual tracked time. You can see this in your project’s hours per week graph to get a high-level view of how your team has progressed against the original plan.
Use this graph to spot trends at a glance, identifying when your team has worked the expected amount of time and when they haven’t.
When things haven’t gone to plan and you need to investigate further, you can drill down into each person’s estimated vs actual hours tracked.
Who has worked more hours than expected? Who has worked less?
Seeing the estimated hours your team was assigned to work next to their actual, tracked time, allows you to identify discrepancies that might warrant a closer look. It’s possible that someone on your team was out, causing a decrease in the hours dedicated to a specific project.
It could also suggest that the project assigned didn’t require as many hours as you initially scheduled. If you see this trend manifest over time, then you’ll be able to create more accurate estimates in the future based on the actual time specific tasks take.

Try Forecast for free today

Are you ready to try a better way of planning your team’s time? Start a 30-day free trial of Forecast today and get access to easy scheduling, visualized capacity, and budget insights - all in one simple, easy-to-use tool.

Quickly access timers and seamlessly sync across all devices with the new mobile widgets in Harvest

The key to ensuring a successful time tracking process is to make it as easy as possible for your team to integrate it into their workday — and Harvest is an intuitive solution that does just that.

We’re constantly working on ways to make time tracking easier for you and your team — which is why we’re excited to announce our new feature: a mobile widget for iOS. Thanks to this update, you and your team can now seamlessly access timers without having to open the Harvest mobile app.

Read below for more details on what you can do with mobile widgets and how they make it even easier to track time without interrupting your workflow.

Quickly access timers

In order for time tracking to provide the most benefit, you need to be able to do it quickly and conveniently. And while this has always been possible with Harvest, our new mobile widgets make it even easier.

The new mobile widgets not only allow you to view the status of your running timers, but also to start a new timer or start an existing one on the go. Now you can save time by skipping the login process or opening the app — all you have to do is click start or stop before getting back to doing your best work.

Seamlessly sync across all devices

The best part about the new Harvest mobile widgets is that they’re seamlessly connected with the main application — meaning you can easily access any created timer via your mobile widget, desktop application, or mobile app.

This way you don’t have to worry about losing any tracked time or created timers when you use the mobile widget.

How to get started

Here’s how to enable the Harvest widget from your mobile Home Screen:

• Touch and hold an empty area on your Home Screen until the apps wiggle.
• Tap the “+” button in the upper-left corner.
• Search for Harvest and click “Add Widget.”
• Select a Widget size and tap “Done.” (Note: the amount of time entry information you can see from the Home Screen is dependent on the Widget’s size)

We’re confident that the new mobile widget will boost your time tracking process by ensuring the most seamless experience possible. If you have any questions on how to get started using this exciting new feature, our support team is always happy to help!

As you likely know, getting paid for your hard work is critical to the success of your business. With Harvest, it’s not only easy for you to create accurate invoices, but also send them to your clients and receive compensation quickly.

Now, we’ve made the invoicing process easier, faster, and more flexible than ever.

Over the last few months, we’ve worked on updates that give you the ability to quickly add multiple recipients to invoice emails, share invoice links in the way that works best for you, and even test them out before sending to ensure the best client experience possible.

Read below for more details on how the update enhances your invoicing process and helps you work how you want to work.

Easily add multiple recipients

While you’ve always had the capability of sending invoice emails to multiple recipients through Harvest, the update eliminates the need to exit the invoicing experience and add new contacts before completing the send.

Now, you can quickly and easily add multiple recipients with the click of a button without having to create a new contact. You can even CC important stakeholders to notify them of the new invoice.

Additionally, when you send invoice emails to multiple recipients, they’re now bundled — meaning all recipients and stakeholders will receive the same email and be included in one point of communication.

Send invoices with confidence

With Harvest you can rest assured your invoices are accurate — and now you have the ability to ensure your emails are as accurate as possible.

Our update allows you to preview invoice emails before sending them out so you can make sure they look exactly how you want. You can even send yourself a test email before completing the send so you can ensure you’re providing the best client experience possible.

And as a reminder, Harvest’s integrations with PayPal and Stripe also make it easy for your customers to submit safe, secure payments with one, hassle-free click — allowing you to get paid quickly.

Share invoices on your own terms

Do you prefer to send invoices outside of Harvest? We’re making it easier to do just that. With this update, you’re now able to easily access invoice links that you can add to outside emails, send over Slack, or share in any way that works best for you.

And the best part is these links still allow you to receive payment online — making your billing process more flexible than ever.

To access your shareable link, all you have to do is click on the “copy invoice link” button next to the send button on the invoice page, and you’re ready to send however you want. Additionally, PDFs of online payment-enabled invoices will now have a “pay online” link near amount due.

We’re confident that these invoicing updates will boost your business operations by ensuring the best experience possible. If you have any questions on how to get started using these features, our support team is always happy to help!