Harvest

The Operations Lead

Web, desktop and mobile apps with a one-click timer, offline tracking that syncs once the connection returns, GPS and geofenced check-in for field crews, and timesheet submissions with approval — workable for my office and field staff. But we found no public information on any shared kiosk, terminal or badge for workshop and shift crews without their own device, no bulk-correction workflow, and the geofencing claims come without the vendor stating its limits. 1 2 5 6

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The compliance story is written for the United States — record keeping is framed around the Fair Labor Standards Act — and we found no public information on break rules, the 8/10-hour daily maximum, the 11-hour rest period or retention of the working-time record itself; the retention figures published cover backups and logs, not employee time records. Since the BAG ruling that record is the whole job in my operation, and nothing here evidences the German duty. 2 4 10

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The Operations Lead

There is a separate scheduling product, Harvest Forecast, for scheduling a team across projects — capacity planning, not a shift or duty roster with rest checks or qualification coverage. We found no public information on vacation entitlement or carry-over, sickness recording, holiday calendars or swap workflows, which is the half of attendance that makes the time data mean anything for 200 people. 1 2

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This is the vendor's home ground: client-project-task structure, rates by person, project or task type picked automatically, billable and non-billable flags, budget alerts before overrun, recurring hour banks, invoices created in-product with payments collected via card, ACH or wire, and timesheet approval before export. Cost centres are not named as such and I found no statement on rate rules surviving a mid-project rate change, but the chain from tracked hour to paid invoice is well evidenced. 1 2 5 7

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The export path is a real process: timesheets must be submitted and approved for the period, batch export to CSV with field mapping to payroll categories, payroll-period date ranges, and a mark-as-exported step that prevents duplicate transmission; QuickBooks is named for payroll integration. But we found no public information on DATEV or any German payroll system, and night, Sunday and holiday surcharges, time accounts and absences are not evidenced anywhere on the captured pages. 5 9 10

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Hosting runs on Google Cloud with the server region not stated, and the captured pages give different answers on who I would be contracting with: the vendor provenance is Harvest Inc. of New York while the privacy policy names Bending Spoons S.p.A. of Milan as controller. A subprocessor list is published and EEA transfers rely on standard contractual clauses, which lifts this above nothing — but as a German employer I cannot tell from public pages where my employees' data sits. 3 4

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Per-seat prices are public for every tier with both monthly and annual figures — Teams at $9 seat/month and $108 per seat billed annually, Enterprise at $14 seat/month and $168 per seat billed annually — and the currency is stated as all prices in USD, so the base seat maths for 200 people is doable. But the plan states that additional invoices, projects, clients and tasks are billed based on what you use without publishing those usage rates, and we found no public information on VAT treatment or minimum contract term, so the real annual invoice stays an estimate. 2

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