Harvest is a time tracker. A very good one — fourteen-plus years of polish, a focused product that does one thing well. Bridge is the operating system for a professional-services practice. This page is honest about both.
Where Harvest still wins
Honest list:
- Fourteen-plus years of stability. Harvest is predictable. The UI hasn't changed dramatically in years; if your team has muscle memory, that muscle memory still works.
- Focused product if all you need is hours. If you don't have agreements, multiple pricing models, retainers, or invoicing to think about — and you handle everything else elsewhere — Harvest is a clean single-purpose tool. Bridge has more surface area, which is the wrong shape if you don't need the rest.
- Native Xero integration. Bridge has QuickBooks Online; Xero is not yet on the integration list. If you live in Xero, Harvest is the easier fit today.
Where Bridge wins
Where Bridge does more than track hours:
Agreements and the work they describe
Harvest has no agreement system. No MNDA, no MSA, no SOW wizard, no Change Order workflow, no e-signatures, no redline tracking, no version history. If you need any of those — and most professional-services practices do — you're running Harvest plus another tool (DocuSign, PandaDoc, Bonsai, HoneyBook, a Google Doc) and reconciling between them by hand.
- MNDA, MSA, SOW, ICA, and Change Order templates with guided wizards
- E-signatures via BoldSign included on every plan, ESIGN + UETA compliant, white-label signing page, no per-send fee
- Contract redlining with AI-generated change summaries on every redline
- Full version history and audit trail per agreement
Engagements
Every signed SOW in Bridge becomes an Engagement workspace — a single page that ties the agreement to its deliverables, budget, time, and invoices. Harvest has projects and tasks, but they live independently of the agreement that's supposed to govern them. If the budget runs over, you find out when you build the invoice.
Every pricing model in one product
Harvest is built around time-and-materials. Bridge has all five native: time-and-materials with per-person billable rates, fixed-fee with milestone billing, recurring retainer with 3 retainer types and 4 recognition methods, unit-based for productized services, and hybrid — any mix on the same engagement. Most practices bill in a mix; Bridge generates one consolidated invoice from the agreement.
Draft invoice review, cost rates, and forecast
Bridge accumulates hours, milestones, and retainer drawdowns into a draft invoice you review before it goes out — the default is verify, then send. It tracks billable and cost rates per person, so every engagement reports its margin from day one. And the 5-layer Revenue Forecast (booked, committed, in-delivery, renewal-weighted, pipeline-weighted) is included on every plan. Harvest can't answer those questions because the data isn't in Harvest.
Ask Claude about your work
Bridge ships an MCP integration — connect Claude Desktop to your Bridge data and ask in plain English: "Who's under-utilized this month?" "What's our margin trend?" "Show me invoices over 60 days old." Harvest has no equivalent.
Apples to apples first: the part of Bridge that does what Harvest does — time tracking, the engagement workspace, deliverable-linked hours, draft invoicing — is the Engagements layer, a flat monthly fee for the whole firm. Harvest charges for time tracking per seat, so Bridge's comparable layer is cheaper once you have a few people, and it stays flat as you grow.
But that undersells it, because Engagements is an add-on to Bridge Pro — Bridge starts with the agreement layer (MSA, SOW, e-signatures, redline) that Harvest has no equivalent for at any price. So the honest comparison isn't Bridge vs. Harvest; it's Bridge vs. Harvest plus a separate contract tool.
| Plan | Monthly cost | Per-user cost |
|---|
| Harvest Teams — time tracking only (5 seats) | $45–88/mo | $9–17.50/user |
| Bridge Engagements — the comparable layer | $29/mo flat | $0 — add-on to Pro, any team size |
| Bridge Pro + Engagements — whole practice | $98/mo flat | $0 — agreements included, no Harvest equivalent |
Bridge charges per firm, not per user. Add a tenth, a twentieth, a fiftieth teammate — the price stays the same.
Switching from Harvest
Bridge is built to make this incremental — bring over what matters now, decide later about the rest. Most practices complete the move in 5–10 business days, working on it an hour or two a day.
- Connect Harvest. One OAuth click in Settings → Time Tracking. Bridge then sees your Harvest clients, projects, team, and time history.
- Import your Harvest clients and contacts with one click. Bridge pulls your full client list and contacts directly from Harvest into Bridge accounts. No CSV export, no column mapping. Idempotent — re-runs match by Harvest ID and update rather than duplicate. Your full historical Harvest invoices migrate too; only estimates stay behind.
- Set up your first Bridge agreements. Create MSAs and SOWs for your active engagements. Each signed SOW creates an engagement workspace. For agreements already signed outside Bridge, mark them executed with the original date and attach the signed PDF — no need to re-sign.
- Pull your Harvest time history. The historical-import slideout maps each Harvest project to the Bridge engagement you just created, up to 365 days. Going forward, Bridge polls Harvest every 30 minutes for new entries — your team keeps tracking in Harvest exactly as before.
- Invoice from Bridge. Invoices generate from your agreements + Harvest-sourced hours. Continuous Draft Invoicing lets you verify before send. You stop reconciling Harvest hours against a separate invoice against a QuickBooks entry.
- Decide Harvest's role. Most practices either keep Harvest as a focused time tracker (Bridge keeps pulling hours automatically) or switch to Bridge's native time tracker once their team is ready. Either way, your Harvest history stays accessible.
Full step-by-step walkthrough in the Migrating from Harvest guide.
Who should pick which
Pick Harvest if: you want a focused time tracker as a standalone tool, your billing is purely time-and-materials, you handle agreements and invoicing elsewhere, and you're not bothered by paying more each year for the same product.
Pick Bridge if: you want time tracking, agreements, engagements, invoicing, retainer recognition, profitability, and revenue forecast in one product; you bill on a mix of pricing models; you want to review invoices before they send; or you already use Harvest and want Bridge to handle the agreement + billing side alongside it.
A note from the founder
I built Bridge because I ran a professional-services practice and got tired of duct-taping a time tracker to our task tools to QuickBooks to Salesforce and more. Each tool was fine. None of them knew about the others. The reconciliation was unbillable, every week, forever.
Bridge is one product that knows about all of it. The agreement knows what was promised. The engagement knows what's being delivered. The invoice knows what's billable. The forecast knows what's coming. The reports know the margin.
It's bootstrapped because I want it to be useful to practices for a long time — not useful to investors for a 5-year exit. If that's the kind of tool you want underneath your practice, start for free below. You'll grow into it. No per-user fees, ever.
— Tommy Spann
Founder, Uplift Partners
Common questions
- Should I pick Harvest or Bridge for my practice?
- Pick Harvest if you want a focused time tracker as a standalone tool, your billing is purely time-and-materials, and you handle agreements and invoicing elsewhere. Pick Bridge if you want time tracking, agreements, engagements, invoicing, retainer recognition, profitability, and revenue forecast in one product, or you bill on a mix of pricing models.
- How does Bridge pricing compare to Harvest?
- Harvest charges per seat (Teams runs $9/user/month annual to $17.50/user/month monthly), so the bill grows with every hire. Bridge Pro + Engagements is a flat monthly fee for the whole firm at any team size, and it includes the agreement layer Harvest has no equivalent for.
- Can I switch from Harvest to Bridge incrementally?
- Yes. After connecting Harvest via OAuth, Bridge imports your full Harvest client list and contacts with one click — no CSV export or column mapping. The historical-time-entry slideout pulls up to 365 days of hours, and Bridge then polls Harvest every 30 minutes for new entries. Most practices keep Harvest as the time tracker for the first 90 days and consolidate on Bridge once the rest of the workflow is in place.
- Does Bridge migrate my Harvest clients and contacts automatically?
- Yes. With Harvest connected via OAuth, Bridge pulls your full client list and contacts directly through the Harvest API and writes them to Bridge accounts and contacts. It is idempotent — re-runs match by Harvest ID and update rather than duplicate. Estimates stay in Harvest as your archive; historical invoices migrate.
- Why is Harvest raising prices?
- Harvest was acquired by Bending Spoons in June 2025. PE-backed software companies operate under a cap table that demands a specific return profile, and the fastest non-product lever to hit it is price. Bridge is bootstrapped, has no outside investors, and only raises prices when it adds capability worth paying more for.