Harvest

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Web, desktop and mobile timers are documented, offline tracking with sync-back and conflict resolution is stated on the offline-timesheet page, and timesheets can be submitted for approval — though "Timesheet approvals" appears only in the Enterprise feature list. I found no public information on a shared capture point such as a kiosk, terminal or badge reader, on bulk correction with attribution, and the GPS and geofencing claims come without the vendor stating their limits. Desk and phone capture is solid; the shared-terminal side of the picture is unevidenced. 1 2 5 6

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Every compliance reference on the captured pages is American — the Fair Labor Standards Act — and I found no public information on break rules, daily maximum hours, the eleven-hour rest period, statutory retention of the working-time record, or any mapping to the German recording duty. The only retention figures are operational ones (database backups up to 180 days, activity logs up to 1 year). Structured, approved timesheets are more than raw hour sums, so this sits just above the bottom. 2 4 10

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I found no public information on vacation requests, entitlement calculation, carry-over, sickness recording or per-location holiday calendars. Harvest Forecast is presented as its own product for scheduling teams across projects — capacity planning, not a shift roster with availability or rest checks — and no substitution or swap workflow is evidenced. The absence half of this criterion is not on the pages at all. 1 2

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This is the vendor's home turf: rates by person, project or task type chosen automatically, budget alerts, profitability and utilization reporting by team, project and client, recurring hour banks with real-time consumption, billable and non-billable entry, and invoices clients can pay directly. Approval before export and a named QuickBooks handoff are also evidenced. I found no public information on a cost-centre dimension, role-based rate cards, or rate rules that survive a mid-project rate change, which is what separates this from the top. 1 2 5 7

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The export workflow is genuinely documented — individual, group or all timesheets, predefined payroll periods, approval required before export, mark-as-exported to prevent duplicates, and field mapping to payroll categories — with QuickBooks named as a direct payroll integration and API or CSV/Excel as paths. I found no public information on night, Sunday or holiday surcharges, time accounts, mid-month changes, a lock step before transmission, or any German payroll system; "customizable pay rules" is the only sentence standing in for all of it. 5 9 10

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The provenance gives Harvest Inc. of New York as the vendor while the privacy policy names Bending Spoons S.p.A. of Milan as controller — the captured pages give different answers for the contracting entity. I found no public information on the Google Cloud hosting region, the subprocessor exposure is flagged for the US CLOUD Act with Stripe and Braintree named for payments and Google Analytics for analytics, and the sub-processor list is only pointed to, not shown. Standard Contractual Clauses exist as a safeguard, but a transfer mechanism is not a data location. 3 4

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Per-seat prices are public with billing period and currency — "$9 seat/month" or "$108 per seat, billed annually" for Teams, "$14 seat/month" or "$168 per seat, billed annually" for Enterprise, annual 20% off, all prices in USD. But the same pricing bills additional invoices, projects, clients and tasks "based on what you use" beyond the base rate with no unit prices published, so the real annual invoice is not computable; Enterprise Plus carries no public price, and I found no VAT treatment or minimum term. 2

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