“Any type of new project—animation, for example, which is new—that can be potentially a big project in terms of hours, we’ll look at the postmortem of ‘predicted versus actual’."
"Harvest was a better way of keeping things real, understanding what I was spending time on and whether these jobs were as profitable as I was imagining them to be."
“It’s just easy to get people set up, so that they’re tracking time immediately. I haven’t seen anything that would be better.”
"Harvest was very key to helping me start my company – it allowed us to move from a world of managing a lot of subcontractors to managing a staff quite easily."
“I use the reports to understand revenue recognition, across all our projects, and then the roll up for each client. I also use it to look at utilization of staff and time.”
“When COVID happened, we had eight years of consistent time entry reporting and budget tracking under our belts. We were in a good position with our projects—and if there were projects that weren’t performing well enough, we were aware of it and could make an adequate response.”
“It works well because you have continuity. A lot of the same people who are designing might be involved in the construction management, and we can go out to the nursery and see whether the plant material we want to use is available.”
“I think that’s the true value of the platform. If you’re able to get people to think more holistically about the data, then they can effectively manage the teams better and they can manage morale, they can manage culture, they can manage the balance between work and play.”
“Our mission is to make something so delicious that consumers come back for a second bite. Clients often require us to create their product with guardrails such as, low-calorie with a health halo. We love this kind of challenge and using our expertise to create a delicious bite that consumers not only crave but feel good about eating.”
“I clocked in under my 10,000th hour last year with Harvest — so we've nerded out on Harvest for a long time. And we've really seen it evolve with our company and now we have it where it's really simple and we can build in a lot of automation.”
"We have 170+ team members globally in multiple offices and remote locations, so tracking time and expenses efficiently required getting the important features right, a killer user experience, 100% cloud, and mobile apps Harvest nailed that and more."
"The administration and analytics components of the application allow for the sophisticated accounting controls and reporting ability we need to support the thorough invoice detail requirements of many clients. Being able to export reports to Google Drive helps us to share information quickly and facilitate collaboration across our organization."
"We always want to be using emergent technology and smart software, not just following the old standards of antiquated agency software and solutions."
“Time tracking has helped us understand that we (and our clients) don’t realize how long it takes to design great work.”
"For me, it’s about understanding the scope of a project, how much time we’re spending on it, and the value of that work."