Grade ERP vs Harvest: Which Is Better in 2026?

Grade ERP helps IT companies and digital agencies manage projects, employees, recruitment, finances and business performance in one platform. Track budgets, revenue, costs, cash flow and profitability with real-time dashboards. Streamline HR and recruiting, automate workflows and make data-driven decisions as your company grows. Built for IT service businesses that want better visibility, control and operational efficiency.

What problem it solves

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Harvest is a time-tracking and invoicing platform that helps professional teams log their hours, bill clients accurately and understand whether their projects are actually profitable. Used by more than 70,000 companies, it pairs simple, flexible time tracking with the reporting and invoicing tools service businesses need to turn logged hours into paid invoices.

What is Harvest?

At its core, Harvest makes it easy to capture time — with a timer, a manual timesheet or straight from your calendar — and attach it to the right client, project and task. From that data it generates invoices, tracks expenses, and produces reports on project profitability and team utilization, so a business can see not just how many hours were worked but whether that work made money.

Who it's for

Harvest is used across advertising, architecture, construction, law, accounting, consulting, design and software development, by teams of all sizes. It suits any business that bills for time or needs to keep projects on budget, from a solo consultant tracking billable hours to a large agency managing many concurrent client projects.

Key features

• Time tracking via timer, timesheet or calendar integration
• Expense logging with receipt attachments
• Invoicing auto-generated from tracked time and expenses
• Project profitability and team utilization reporting
• Budget tracking with alerts before you overrun
• Team capacity planning and timesheet approvals
• Clear project organization by client, project, task and tag
• Forecasting and scheduling via Harvest Forecast

From hours to invoices

Harvest's real payoff is how smoothly tracked time becomes revenue. Once hours and expenses are logged against a project, Harvest can turn them into a professional invoice automatically, and clients can pay online through integrations like Stripe. That removes the tedious, error-prone step of assembling invoices by hand at the end of the month and gets businesses paid faster.

Profitability and budgets

Beyond billing, Harvest is built to protect margins. Budget tracking warns you as a project approaches its limit, while profitability and utilization reports show which projects and people are pulling their weight. Multi-tiered billing rates — by person, project or task type, selected automatically — mean invoices reflect the right rate every time without manual adjustment.

Integrations and apps

Harvest offers more than 40 integrations with tools including Asana, Slack and Stripe, so time can be tracked inside the apps teams already work in and payments flow through familiar gateways. Desktop apps for macOS and Windows and mobile apps for iOS and Android mean time gets captured wherever the work happens.

Pricing

Harvest offers a free 30-day trial with no credit card required, and its paid plans scale with team size, so a solo user and a large agency each pay in proportion to how much they use it. The straightforward model keeps it accessible for freelancers while still serving bigger teams.

Capacity planning and approvals

For teams, Harvest adds the coordination layer that keeps projects on track: managers can plan capacity so no one is over- or under-booked, and timesheet approvals ensure the hours flowing into invoices and reports are accurate. Harvest Forecast extends this into forward scheduling, letting teams map out who will work on what in the weeks ahead and spot resourcing crunches before they happen.

Why choose Harvest

Harvest hits a practical sweet spot: time tracking that's simple enough that people actually do it, tied to invoicing and profitability reporting that turn those hours into paid, well-managed projects. For any business that bills for time or runs to a budget, it's one of the most trusted and approachable tools available.