As a solopreneur, Texas designer Eva Burns needed a more efficient means of keeping track of her hours. Her current system of jotting down her time spent on a project in her phone’s Notes app left a lot to be desired—not to mention money on the table. She shares how a subscription to Harvest has completely elevated her time management and improved her billing.

I use Harvest as a time-tracking software. It was recommended to me by a friend who’s a freelance graphic designer, who made fun of me because I was keeping track of all my hours in the Notes app on my phone. I was also using Adobe Illustrator to make my invoices, which was very clunky. My friend was like, “You can’t be doing it this way.” And she was right! I’m doing multiple projects at the same time, and I need to keep my hours straight for each client, and using this rudimentary work-around of jotting down hours was not great. Shifting to Harvest was immediately wonderful and easy to use. 

The subscription is about $140 a year, and I’m utilizing this every single day. It’s a really good value. It’s nice because I can track all my invoices and send them out through Harvest as well. They also offer an option for my clients to pay an invoice online, though there is a fee for that. (I prefer to use a Venmo business account, which has the lowest fee I could find, as an option for clients who don’t own checkbooks anymore.)