Choose your workflow
TrackTimer vs Harvest: time and margin visibility or integrated invoicing?
Harvest is a strong fit when time tracking needs to lead directly into invoices and payment collection. TrackTimer focuses on recording project time and showing billable value, pay, and gross profit, with billing handled through your existing workflow.
By TrackTimer · Sources reviewed
The short answer
Agencies choosing between a dedicated time-and-margin workspace and a combined time, expense, and invoicing system.
At a glance
| Workflow | TrackTimer | Harvest |
|---|---|---|
| Primary workflow | Project time and agency financial visibility | Track, analyze, invoice, and collect payment |
| Invoices and payments | Handled in your separate billing tools | Native invoicing and payment integrations |
| Expenses | Track outside the current time-and-pay model | Expense tracking and inclusion in invoices |
| Financial interpretation | Billable value minus recorded pay; not cash collected | Time reporting plus invoicing and accounting connections |
Follow an hour all the way to payment
Recording an hour is only the first step in getting paid. Harvest can turn recorded time and expenses into invoices, accept online payments through its payment integrations, and connect invoicing with accounting software. If your main frustration is rebuilding invoices from timesheets, those features deserve a direct trial. TrackTimer supplies the time and financial context for billing; it does not currently provide a native invoice-sending or payment-collection workflow.
Separate earned value from money collected
TrackTimer's billable value reflects recorded billable time and its saved rate. Gross profit subtracts recorded team pay from that value. Those figures help an agency understand its work, but they are not proof that a client has paid, and they do not include every business expense. For example, software subscriptions and subcontractor costs outside the recorded pay model still need to be considered in your accounting. Keep that distinction clear when evaluating either product's financial reports.
Choose the scope you need
Harvest documents expense capture, reporting, timesheet approvals, and tracking across devices. TrackTimer may fit a studio that already has an invoicing system and primarily needs consistent project timers, separate pay and billable rates, and contractor access boundaries. Harvest may fit better if you want the billing workflow bundled with tracking. Neither choice should be reduced to which product has fewer screens; consider which system will own each step of your process.
Test a real month-end scenario
Use a client with hourly work, some non-billable revisions, and an expense. Reconcile the resulting hours and financial totals, then prepare the invoice using the process you intend to keep. If you are moving away from Harvest, plan how you will retain invoice history, payments, expenses, and attachments. Moving the timer alone does not migrate those accounting records.
Sources and editorial notes
Written by TrackTimer, the maker of one of the products compared. Competitor details come from the official sources below; features and plan limits can change. Check the provider’s current terms before choosing. We do not assign star ratings or claim every feature is available on every plan.