Harvest™ Brings Simplicity to Time Tracking & Invoicing So Dating Experts Can Focus on Clients

The Short Version: For matchmakers and dating coaches, love is their business — but that doesn’t mean they love all of the time-consuming tasks that are involved in their work. Using the Harvest platform can take many of these tedious tasks out of the equation. Through employee time tracking, invoice creation, and expense logging, Harvest gives a business owner more hours to spend with clients and customers. The platform, compatible with a variety of digital devices, also stores valuable data that can be used to make budgetary and scheduling decisions, helping promote growth.

Benjamin Franklin had a warning for us about how we spend our days: “You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.” Those words illustrate time’s importance and how we must use it wisely. For busy matchmakers and dating and relationship coaches, who must juggle the needs of their clients with a growing business, making good use of time is especially significant — and so is being paid in a timely manner.

Luckily, as a busy professional, you can more efficiently log time spent with customers and quickly generate accurate invoices with Harvest, a platform that allows users to track that information — even on their iPhone, Android device, or laptop. From creating and forecasting budgets to approving timesheets and recording expenses, Harvest helps you work smarter instead of harder.

This level of efficiency can also contribute to improved relationships with clients — which is crucial in the love business — by carving out more moments in a dating expert’s day. Harvest’s simple invoicing tools have been heralded by The Wall Street Journal, which describes the platform as a less stressful option for managers who hate demanding payment from customers.

Harvest is an innovation that grew from necessity. In 2006, Shawn Liu and Danny Wen were looking for ways to easily log hours and get payments for their web design studio, Iridesco, but couldn’t find a program that met their needs.

Harvest Founders Danny Wen (left) and Shawn Liu bult the platform to grow their business and help others do the same.

“As our business grew, we looked for tools to help us scale. We searched for a way to easily track time and invoice for our services. We wanted a well-designed application that took user experience seriously. We couldn’t find one,” Shawn and Danny explain on the company’s website. “So we decided to invest our own time, energy and money into creating what we knew was a better way to run our business — and Harvest was born.”

Since its inception, Harvest has addressed a pain point for business owners who are already stretched too thin trying to do more tasks with less time. Now the New York City-based organization has customers in 100 countries ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Through the Harvest platform, this diverse customer base has tracked nearly 800 million hours — and counting — while enjoying virtually no downtime.

Dating experts have a powerful need to create strong connections. That takes time, which is much better spent interacting with your client base and helping them enhance their romantic lives than it is spending countless hours toiling over spreadsheets. By using Harvest, you can efficiently perform the administrative tasks necessary to run a business, which allows you to focus more energy on what is important.

Information can be input and accessed from the device of your choice, whether you prefer to work on your iPhone, Android, laptop, or even your Apple Watch. Harvest also gives you the option to log information in a way that best suits your operation, whether it’s to manage employee timesheets on a daily or weekly basis. And after finishing timesheets, the approval process is simple.

But the most important aspect of a business is getting paid, so Harvest integrated an invoicing system that generates bills based on hours and expenses and even gives customers the option to pay through popular integrations like PayPal or Stripe. In fact, Harvest users have sent more than $13 billion worth of invoices since the platform’s creation.

A business can save time on invoicing with Harvest’s streamlined features.

Harvest also includes a forecasting feature that replaces spreadsheets with dynamic reports to track the progress of a project and its budget. This reporting gives business owners a visual comparison of forecasted and tracked hours, as well as estimated and actual expenditures, so they can make informed decisions about how they should allocate resources should.

Harvest has iPhone and Android apps that make working on the go easier for dating and relationship experts. From the convenience of your phone, you can manage time, log expenses with the images of receipts, and share information about projects with relevant team members. In addition, Harvest allows you to add a myriad of other apps to increase productivity.

With an app for almost any device, Harvest puts a wealth of productivity tools in your hands.

Some of the available add-ons include Chrome, which is browser based and can access Harvest’s project management tools. Safari integration allows employees to clock in and out by using a start/stop timer in the toolbar. Adding QuickBooks lets users import data directly from Harvest, so they don’t need to re-enter information.

Other add-ons can also make it easier for clients to pay for services. For example, the Harvest app allows customers who want to use their credit cards to pay their invoices quickly.

As Benjamin Franklin advised, we waste time at our own risk because once it’s gone, it’s gone forever. Busy dating coaches and matchmakers must juggle the needs of lovelorn clients with the demands of business, and lost time can mean lost revenue.

There is no time to waste when it comes to running a business. However, with Harvest, you can track it all more efficiently. From invoicing to approving timesheets, Harvest gives you the tools to streamline laborious tasks so you can focus on relationships with customers.