Switching from Harvest
Harvest is a good product, and in 2026 its pricing model changed. If your firm bills by project — architecture, engineering, interior design, creative — here is how Decent Billing compares, and how we help you move.
Harvest moved to usage-based pricing: a per-seat price plus fees that grow with your active projects, tasks, clients, and invoicing. For project-based firms, that ties the software bill to the very things a busy studio produces more of.
Decent Billing takes the other approach: simple seat-based pricing, and a product built specifically for architecture, engineering, and creative firms — covering the whole billing lifecycle from projects, time, and expenses through review and invoices ready for QuickBooks.
45 day, no credit card required trial. Free onboarding help, including bringing your Harvest data over.
The facts first
Through late 2024, Harvest sold flat per-seat plans with no usage fees. In early 2026 it introduced its current lineup: two plans, Teams and Enterprise, priced per seat, plus usage-based fees on five measures — active projects, active tasks, active clients, invoices created, and amount invoiced. As of August 2026, Teams is $9 per seat per month billed annually ($11 billed monthly) and Enterprise is $14 per seat per month billed annually ($17.50 billed monthly), with usage fees charged on top. An Unlimited option replaces the usage fees with one flat fee: $1,900 per month on monthly billing, or $1,583 per month on annual billing.
Each Harvest plan carries this fine print: “Your base rate includes core features. As your team grows, additional invoices, projects, clients, and tasks are billed based on what you use, so you’re never overpaying.” Existing accounts move to the new pricing at renewal, in batches Harvest controls — its help center states a move can’t be delayed or, once made, reversed.
Notably, the per-seat price went down compared with the previous Pro plan. What changed is the usage fees added on top — so whether a team’s total goes up depends on its activity. To estimate your own firm’s number, use our free Harvest pricing calculator.
Two pricing philosophies
Under Harvest's Flex pricing, active projects, tasks, clients, invoices, and the amount invoiced each carry their own fee tier. Studios juggling many small projects and phases can land in higher tiers even with a small team, and the total shifts with each billing period's activity.
Decent Billing prices by seat. The price follows your headcount, not your project count, so a busy month of projects, phases, and invoices doesn't change your software bill — which makes it predictable to budget as the studio grows.
More than time tracking
Projects, phases, retainers, and initial deposits set up before the first hour is logged, with lightning-fast timekeeping the team keeps up with.
Reimbursables, transit, and expense markups captured against the right phase — no separate expense tool to reconcile at invoice time.
Catch missing time, move work to the right phase, and resolve billing questions with the team before anything is handed to accounting.
Percentage complete, milestones, deposits, and mixed billing rules are part of the workflow, so the invoice can follow the contract.
Progress, hourly, reimbursable, and retainer invoices, prepared in one place and sent to QuickBooks in one step.
Utilization, realization, and what's ready to bill — one login for the timesheet, the invoice, and everything in between.
Switching is our job, not yours
Moving billing systems mid-year is the part firms dread, so we do it for you. Onboarding help is free, and that includes bringing your data over from Harvest — the same way we help firms coming from Monograph, Toggl, BQE Core, or Clockify. Your projects and history come with you, and your team can be set up in an afternoon.
Then try it on your own work: the trial runs 45 days, needs no credit card, and gives you enough billing cycles to see review, rules, and invoice prep working in one place. Curious what makes the workflow different from a generic time tracker? See what makes Decent Billing different.
Start your free trial
Start with a 45 day, no credit card required trial — and let us handle the migration from Harvest.
