![]() Both do a fine job at time tracking though. Harvest started out as time tracking software, while FreshBooks started out as accounting software. Harvest doesn’t have as many graphs and you often have to “run a report” when you want to see your information. ![]() I really like how they provide these graphs automatically. Your FreshBooks home screen even has some nice graphs which provide a snapshot of your financial status. FreshBooks has really beautiful graphs and reports which are easily accessible. This is where FreshBooks really beats Harvest. What a pain! It would be so simple to fix this.īut overall, online downloading trumps this, and FreshBooks is a clear winner here. Inexplicably, with FreshBooks, you have to convert the miles to dollars yourself. You enter the current IRS mileage rate in one place, then you can just enter your mileage for each item and it will convert it to dollars. The one area that Harvest does better is mileage tracking. Entering expenses in Harvest is a bit more clunky as well, as I alluded to before. It started out as time-tracking software, so it has some catching up to do with the accounting part. Wow! Really cool! This is a huge time-saver!!!! FreshBooks has one killer feature here: it will download bank and credit card transactions from your financial institutions. If you accept ACH payments like I do, then Harvest is a big winner and could save you a good amount in fees over the year.Īnother important feature that I was looking for is expense tracking. Harvest offers ACH payments through Stripe with a 0.8% fee with a maximum of $5.00. Harvest and FreshBooks offer credit card payment processing through Stripe and PayPal with the same fee of 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction.įreshBooks offers ACH payments with a 1% fee. Payment Processing Fees – Winner: Harvest So, since Harvest makes it so easy to include a PDF version of the invoice in the email, it wins this important category. Certainly, if you include a PDF and a web link, almost everyone will just open the PDF, and you would lose the tracking ability, which is probably why FreshBooks is so adamant about this. Many users have asked FreshBooks for a way to attach a PDF, but this seems counter to their philosophy. You have to generate the PDF, then send it separately, or make the user click on a link, which goes to a website, where they can download a PDF. With FreshBooks, there’s currently no automatic way to include a PDF with the invoice email. Harvest includes a PDF version of the invoice in the invoice email by default. No more “I didn’t get the invoice” excuses! Cool, huh?Īnother great thing about this is that you then know exactly when they opened the invoice. This means that you send an email to your client which contains a link to the actual invoice online. Okay, now down to the main reason you’re probably looking at these two programs: invoicing. I really didn’t have to consult with any help pages. Originally I had FreshBooks as the winner here, but Harvest has improved so now it’s a tie. Ease of Use – Tieīoth FreshBooks and Harvest are pretty easy to figure out. So, FreshBooks wins this category easily. Again, these items look cleaner and nicer with FreshBooks. Perhaps more important is the look and feel of the client-facing content, like emails and web invoices. Harvest has a more old-school stodgy look to it, and the orange is not that appealing (Note, they just added the ability to change the color). The blue and green colors are calming, I might even say. FreshBooks has a clean, beautiful design. ![]() “Look and feel” might seem like a frivolous thing to start talking about, but if you use these for time tracking, you’ll be staring at these sites for a good part of your work day every day. I own this site and the opinions expressed here are mine. I test or research each service before endorsing it. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you. ![]() Disclosure: Some of the links on this page are affiliate links.
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