RIP, Harvest

Software Business 2026-11-08 I’ve been a self-employed contractor for about a decade now, and I’m bummed about Harvest. Harvest was a time-tracking and invoicing service. You’d track how many hours or weeks you spent on a project, put together an invoice, email it to the client, and close it out when they paid. There was a little Stripe integration for accepting credit and ACH payments on the invoice web view. A historical chart of total billed/paid amounts over time, and a table of invoices. Harvest was exactly what you want from small-business software: it solved a well-defined problem with a reliable, simple interface, and did so at a reasonable monthly price. They managed to avoid scope creep and never tried to become an accounting platform, or a…