eHour vs Harvest
Compare pricing, approvals, reporting, expenses, integrations, AI agent compatibility, and migration before you switch.
If you are here, Harvest is probably already part of your workflow. You know how it handles time tracking, invoicing, and integrations, along with its notorious usage-based pricing.
In this article, we compare eHour with Harvest: Harvest's broader accounting ecosystem against eHour's more structured approach to approvals, reporting, access, and audit history.
This page compares those differences and sets out a practical migration path from Harvest to eHour. If you are still exploring the wider market, see our roundup of the seven best Harvest alternatives.
Comparison at a glance
| Area | Harvest | eHour |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free is limited to 1 seat and 2 active projects. Teams starts at $9/seat/month billed annually, Enterprise at $14/seat/month billed annually, plus usage-based extras | One plan. $5.49/user/month billed monthly, or $4.99/user/month billed yearly. No usage-based extras |
| Approvals | Timesheet approvals are Enterprise tier only | Included in the standard price: multi-level approvals, routing, fallback reviewers, batch approval, cycles, locks and audit trail |
| Reporting | Profitability reporting and unlimited custom reports are Enterprise tier only | 14 reports, custom report builder and Insights dashboards included |
| Expenses | Project expenses, categories, billable flags, receipt attachments, mobile entry and detailed expense reporting | Project expenses on desktop and mobile, receipt attachments, configurable categories and tax, bulk actions, separate access permission and two expense reports |
| Integrations | Stronger accounting, payment and work-management ecosystem | Stronger native Jira integration, identity, SCIM, REST API and Power BI. Jortt for invoicing |
| AI agent access | No MCP server or AI agent access listed on their pricing or integrations pages, checked September 2026 | Optional MCP connection for external AI assistants |
| Hosting and controls | General SaaS hosting, strong fit for invoicing-led teams | EU hosted, ISO 27001 certified, Cyber Essentials, 2FA. No GPS, screenshots, keystroke logging or activity monitoring |
eHour vs Harvest pricing
With eHour, you pay $4.99 per active user per month billed yearly, or $5.49 billed monthly. Every feature is included in one plan, with no usage-based extras. Here is how that compares with Harvest for a team that needs timesheet approvals.
A 50-person team that needs approvals
If a 50-person team needs timesheet approvals, Harvest puts that on Enterprise: 50 x $14 = $700 per month when billed annually, or $8,400 per year. On monthly billing it is 50 x $17.50 = $875 per month.
For the same 50 users, eHour costs $249.50 per month when billed yearly, with approvals included. On monthly billing, you would pay $274.50 per month.
Compare those figures with your current Harvest bill and the features you need. Harvest Teams starts at $9 per seat per month billed annually, or $11 monthly. Enterprise starts at $14 billed annually, or $17.50 monthly, and includes timesheet approvals. Additional invoices, projects, clients, and tasks are billed based on usage.
All prices are in US dollars. Harvest list prices checked September 2026.
eHour vs Harvest features
Both Harvest and eHour cover time tracking, reporting, and project expenses. The differences show up in how teams enter and review time, which controls are included in the standard price, and how each product fits into the rest of your workflow.
Approvals and audit history
Harvest uses a direct submit, review, and lock workflow. People submit time and expenses together on a daily, weekly, or custom schedule. Managers can filter submissions and approve one timesheet or all visible timesheets. People can edit until approval; approval locks the week, and only an administrator can withdraw it. There is no reject action, so reviewers request changes by email or edit entries themselves when permitted.
eHour is designed for organizations where approval responsibility is split. Project managers can approve project hours while line or team managers review the full timesheet, and reviews can pass through multiple approvers in a chosen order.
What you gain with eHour
- Multi-level routing, per-person overrides, and fallback reviewers
- Formal rejection instead of handling corrections by email
- An audit trail for every submission, approval, edit, and rejection
- Batch review, automatic locks, and all approval controls in the standard price
What to plan for
- Harvest supports daily, weekly, or custom submission schedules; eHour uses weekly or monthly approval cycles
Time entry
Harvest separates bulk duration entry from detailed entries. Its Week view autosaves a project-and-task grid, can copy rows from a previous week, and supports keyboard entry. Timers, notes, and start-and-end-time entry move to Day view because Week view is unavailable when notes are required or the account tracks start and end times.
eHour also provides a weekly grid, then adds a running log for entries with comments, tags, start times, and end times, plus a start-stop timer. People can search and favorite work, while project assignments limit the list to work they can book against.
Explore time entryWhat you gain with eHour
- A weekly grid, detailed running log, and timer as three entry options
- Time tags, comments, start and end times, project search, and favorites
- Cleaner project lists based on each person's assignments
- Configurable reminders and time entry directly from Jira issues
What to plan for
- Harvest has desktop and native mobile apps; eHour uses a responsive web app with an add-to-home-screen mode
- Harvest's separate Day, Week, and Calendar views become eHour's weekly grid, running-log, and timer workflow
Reporting and budgets
Both products offer ready-made and custom reports, sharing, scheduled delivery, and exports. Harvest connects time and expense analysis with invoicing. eHour includes 14 reports and Insights dashboards covering time, approvals, utilization, expenses, revenue, and budgets per project and assignment.
eHour's strength is customization: combine filters across projects, people, tags, custom fields, approval status, and more. Choose your columns, group and sort results, then drill into the detail. Export to CSV, Excel, PDF, or Google Sheets with a connected Google account.
Explore reportingBillable and non-billable hours
Time budget, by Project
What you gain with eHour
- Extensive filtering, selectable columns including your custom fields, and drill-down to tailor reports to your team's questions
- The full reporting set is included in the standard price
- Daily scheduled email delivery, alongside weekly and monthly schedules
What to plan for
- Report names, fields, filters, and permissions are not one-to-one, so rebuild and verify your saved Harvest reports
- Map Harvest's invoice, payment, and uninvoiced reports to your invoicing system
Expenses and receipts
Both products let people record expenses against projects, choose a category, and attach receipts. Harvest adds billable expense flags, native mobile receipt capture, and a detailed expense report that can be filtered and exported.
eHour supports expense entry on desktop and mobile, configurable categories and tax, bulk handling, a separate permission for expense data, and Expense Summary and Detailed Expenses reports. These capabilities are included in eHour's standard price.
Integrations and access
If you rely on Harvest's Stripe, QuickBooks Online, Xero, Deel, Asana, or Slack connections, check how you would replace them before switching. Harvest has broader accounting and payment coverage. eHour's invoicing integration is Jortt.
If your team works in Jira, you can log time directly on issues with eHour's native app. Jira sends issues and projects into eHour, and eHour pushes the logged time back onto the Jira issue.
You can use Microsoft Entra ID or Google for single sign-on, and SCIM 2.0 to provision and deprovision users and fill teams from groups. If you report in Power BI, eHour includes a template for time, project, budget, and utilization data.
AI agent compatibility
You can connect external assistants such as Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Codex to eHour data through its optional MCP connection. You use your own assistant; eHour has no built-in AI chatbot. The REST API also gives you programmatic access to eHour data and management functionality.
Moving from Harvest
1. Export and decide what to keep
Start with the export checklist. Before you leave Harvest, collect what the new setup needs: active users, clients, projects, tasks, assignments, historical time and expense entries, receipt files, billable settings, rates, tags, open budgets, and the reports finance still uses. Decide what has to move into eHour and what can stay as archive data.
2. Set up your team and approvals
eHour imports clients, users, and assignments from Excel, which is the cleanest starting point for most teams. Build the structure first, then assign people only to the projects they should see. Add time and money budgets per project and per assignment where you need budget tracking. Set up approval cycles, approvers, fallback reviewers, roles, SSO, SCIM, and reporting access before inviting everyone.
3. Choose your cutover
Then pick one cutover model. A hard cutover means everyone starts in eHour on a set Monday. A parallel run means one team or department runs a full approval cycle in eHour while the rest stays in Harvest.
Optional: use the API or an agent
For agent-driven migration work, use the REST API or the optional MCP connection. A script can create and verify setup data through the API. An external AI agent can help review that setup.
Is eHour right for your team?
If you need more control over timesheet reviews and reporting at a predictable price, try your workflow in eHour. If Harvest's accounting and payment integrations are central to your work, keeping those connections may matter more than the difference in subscription cost.
We build eHour, so this page is not neutral. Use the 14-day trial to check the comparison against your own projects, approval process, and reports before deciding whether to switch. Every feature is included, with no credit card required.