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Category: Announcements

A Valentine’s Surprise for Solo Accounts

In many countries of the world, today (Feb 14th) is Valentine’s Day. It’s a day to show that special someone you care with a gesture or a gift. Here at Harvest, we’d like to give a little something extra to our Solo users to show that we care; starting today, all Solo accounts [...]

Updated Yahoo! Widget

We just released a new version of the Harvest widget for the Yahoo! Widget Engine. It’s stable, responsive, and plays well with the latest widget engine. So if you’re currently using the Yahoo! widget, please upgrade to enjoy the new improvements under the hood.
Whether you are on a Mac, Windows XP, or Windows [...]

Log into Harvest with OpenID

OpenID is a decentralized standard that addresses the problem of having to remember multiple username/passwords for different sites. By adopting OpenID, you can log in just once to your OpenID provider and then jump into all your multiple OpenID-supported sites without needing to log in again.
It’s a standard that’s becoming ever more popular and [...]

Display your hours in decimal or HH:MM format

To most people, seeing their hours in decimal format just doesn’t make intuitive sense. 2.50 doesn’t immediately say 2 hours and 30 minutes. Worst yet, trying to figure out what 2.12 is in hours and minutes takes some real effort. So while the decimal format is great for billing, it’s not great for [...]

Export to Excel on Project Report

We’ve released a small but useful feature: you can now export data to Excel from the client or project report. Export to Excel used to be only available on the root level, and the export file includes hours for all projects. Now you can export data for any particular client or project, with [...]

Refreshing your Basecamp information with one click

If you use Harvest’s Basecamp integration, you will be happy to know that it’s now a whole lot easier to sync up your Basecamp information with Harvest. Instead of re-authenticating at the setup screen every time you need to fetch your latest Basecamp information, you can now just click on a new handy link [...]

Time Tracking Gadget for Vista

Thanks to Harvest user, Dan Hall of the Karcher Group, those of you running Windows Vista can now enjoy the convenience of tracking your time with a desktop gadget built specifically for Vista.

Using the Harvest widget for Mac OS X as a reference point, Dan skillfully ported the functionality and the look-and-feel from our widget [...]

New Feature: Expense Tracking

Many of our users have been asking for a way to not only track their hours, but to track work-related expenses – such as materials, travel, and other miscellaneous expenses are incurred on the job. It’s out pleasure to say that this is now possible in Harvest!

Tracking Expenses
You can enter your expenses under Timesheet > [...]

Interface Update: Reports

We have done a major overhaul to the reports interface. There is a new navigation system for changing the timeframe, and the header has been expanded for better readability.

Why we did it
There are two main reasons. One is that we wanted a timeframe navigation system that ties in better with the actual reports. [...]

New Manage Screens

The new interface for the Manage section has been released. Here are some highlights of the improvements we’ve made:

All manage screens now share a consistent, and intuitive visual layout.
Bigger and sharper font for easier scanning.
You can now click anywhere on each row to edit a item (whereas with the previous interface, you need to [...]