Harvest Reviews 

The same as everyone else has mentioned. Went from being a fairly basic but useable piece of software at a slightly overpriced amount to a complete joke pricing wise. We went from $437.50 to $2,335.50 a month with one spam-like email, no notifications within the software. Incredibly poor.

We have been longtime Harvest customers and were recently notified with a 30 day notice, that our pricing would increase from approximately $6,000 per year to $30,000 per year, a 5x increase. When we questioned the increase, we were told the new pricing already reflected an 85% discount.

A price increase of this magnitude is simply not reasonable, so we are leaving Harvest and moving to OneSuite. Based on the recent reviews, it’s clear we are not alone.

After using harvest for over 8 years, I just learned today that our monthly subscription was to increase by 871% !!! in 10 days time. This price increase is surreal that I had to contact Harvest support and.... it is true, each of our $12 subscriptions is to increase to $116.50 that is $1398 per year. we have immediately exported our data and moved over to clockify.com for $8 per month. This goes to show harvest cannot be trusted with your data. I'm not against an increase but 871% increase is an insult. - This company doesn't deserve to have customers.

I’ve been a Harvest customer for around seven years and, until now, have been perfectly happy with the service.

Our annual subscription last year was $129.60. We’ve now been told that at our next renewal we will automatically be moved onto a new plan costing $1,158 per year - an increase of approximately 794%.

We were given a month’s notice of this change.

The increase isn’t accompanied by anything that, for our business, comes remotely close to justifying that level of additional cost. We haven’t suddenly gained functionality worth nearly nine times what we were previously paying; instead, Harvest has fundamentally changed its pricing model and is automatically moving existing customers onto a much more expensive Enterprise + Unlimited setup unless they actively intervene.

There are cheaper options available, but even those represent a very substantial increase over what we previously paid.

What I found particularly disappointing was that, once I started the cancellation process, Harvest suddenly offered me a 52% discount to stay. Even after that discount, the cost would still be several times what we had been paying previously, and there was no indication that this reduced pricing would be permanent rather than a time-limited retention offer.

After seven years as a loyal customer, the combination of such a huge increase, very short notice and retention discounts appearing only when you try to leave has left a very poor impression.

We have now moved our invoicing and time tracking elsewhere and cancelled our subscription. It’s a shame, because without this pricing change we would probably have continued using Harvest for many more years.

I was using this product for about 12 years, they were bought out and my monthly cost went from roughly $25.00 to $160.00. That's a insane price change for nothing that's changed product wise except for the new UI design.

Predatory pricing. Do not use.

"Flex" pricing charges a _percentage_ of what you're charging.

Switching to a free plan will lock you in, then when it comes to invoice time, you will not be able to use/export unless using stripe. That charges a percentage - and cost even more than the "flex" pricing.

Use Zoho for free, or one of the MANY other companies that aren't doing predatory pricing.

Absolutely insane price increase. Just found out that on our renewal date that Harvest are wanting to put up our bill from $180 to $2,145 a month! Or we can change to a Flex plan for 'just' $1,100 no doubt that'll suddenly increase to as we use it.

Completely unjustified increase, locking features we already had behind complex paywalls on the flex plan.

Trying to take 0.5-1% of what small businesses invoice is a disgrace

Blatant ripoff. You are now charged per seat and on every possible usage metric (per client, per project, per task, per invoice, and on invoice value). Price has effectively gone up 10x to 1000x. Avoid!

Horrible people.

What absolutely donkeys. Decided they'd like to increase their fees to approximately 15% of our monthly revenue.

And their new subscription model is so complicated you can barely understand the pricing.

I've been using Harvest for a number of years now. I pay around $12 as a freelancer with a few projects each month. Just got an email to say my price increase was going up to $113 PER MONTH. I have no choice but to cancel. This is ridiculous.

Been a customer of Harvest for 16 years. August 2026 we were told our monthly subscription would change from $40 to $586.50 PCM (yes, really!). Apparently they've recently been taken over, so we've been forced to switch our agency timekeeping software to another provider (which still charge $40 per month). What a poor way to treat longstanding clients.

1,091% price increase with 30 days' notice — check your renewal email today

We've been a Harvest customer for years. $69/month for 7 users — reliable, did its job, never gave it a second thought. This month we received notice that at our next renewal, 30 days later, our account would be moved to an "Enterprise plan with Unlimited usage billing" at $821.50/month. That is a 1,091% increase. The "cheaper" Flex option was still quoted at 4–5x our current bill — and because it's usage-based, it grows every time we take on a new client.

The notice landed in early August — peak holiday season, when small business owners are most likely to be away and least likely to be reading vendor emails. I had stepped away from the business for the month for serious family reasons and only caught it by chance. Anyone who didn't will simply find the charge on their card.

For context: we're an 8-person accountancy practice. This change would have made our time tracker — time tracking! — our single most expensive piece of software, more than double the cost of our practice management system.

The product itself is fine. The pricing behaviour since the Bending Spoons acquisition is not. A 1,000%+ increase with a single billing cycle's notice, timed for when customers are on holiday, tells you everything about how this company now views the people who built it.

We're exporting our data and closing our account before renewal. If you're a Harvest customer: go and check your renewal date and your inbox today, before the charge lands.

1000% price hike. From $2000/year to $22,000 (!) per year - charged to my credit card without warning. So disappointed after nearly 15 years of using Harvest. From great to fraudelent grift in less than a year.

We used Harvest for 13 years. Business of 11 employees. We paid around $1000USD per year for 13 years depending on the # of staff we had.
About a month ago we received 1 months notice that our subscription cost would be going up to $13,000-$20,000USD per year. They had set pricing or flex pricing so that was the explanation for the the $7000 differential in cost.
We feel as though the company is trying to hold our accounting data hostage. Its boarder line extortion. We have exported all of our data and cancelled our subscription.

I have used Harvest for years. I originally used the bloated QuickBooks, then landed on FreshBooks. FB was good, but at the time, it didn't have a time tracker. Then I found Harvest and it did both. And all was good. Invoices were simple. It had basic reporting for things like uninvoiced time, which I used to build out invoices. Now, they're shoving a massive redesign down our throats. Feels like, "We don't care if you want it or not. Here's a redesign and you're going to eventually like it." Now I have a countdown timer "9 Days Until We Force You Into The New Redesign". Geez thanks a lot. I hate the redesign. I hate that I'm forced to reorient myself to something I never consented to and have no option to opt out of. Not cool. But I guess when you're a star they let you do it.

Worked well for a small business. However, new ownership blew up subscription pricing from $168 to $1980/year. HOLY FK! Bye bye. It was good while it lasted. But, now you greedy bastards can rot in hell.

Loyal customer for 8 years then on short notice INCREASED fees by 893%. I'm a small business owner with small profit margins. It will take me hours & hours to replace all of the data and work I've put into their system. They are just another corporate greed machine, sucking the life out of hard-working people. I guess they don't care who they hurt as long as they make more money. SHAME ON THEM!

It was great, but since being purchased the price increase is legitimately insane. 5X our current price, with 30 days notice of the change. A difference of nearly $20,000 on our annual bill, with less than a months notice. Completely unacceptable and we're finding an alternative.

I used to be happy with their product BUT they made changes to their pricing structure and announced via email – however, I have like 4k unread messages. THEY TRIED TO DEDUCT 5K FROM MY BANK ACCOUNT WHILE I WAS PAYING AROUND 10 DOLLARS PER MONTH BEFORE. Scam! DONT USE THIS

Disgusting organisation to think it is ok to charge clients 10 times what they’ve been paying… long term customer (coming up 10 years) but will be cancelling my subscription immediately. Disgraceful, avoid these guys at all costs!