Inicio rápido
Esta guía abarca todas las funciones de Harvest:
- Empezando — Crear cuenta y configuración básica
- Cómo usar el rastreador de tiempo — Track time with a timer or manual entries from desktop and mobile apps
- Cómo utilizar informes y análisis — Instant reports across projects, budgets, tasks, and team capacity
- Cómo usar el rastreador de facturas — Automated invoicing that turns tracked time and expenses into bills
- Cómo usar las integraciones — Works with the tools you use every day so tracking starts fast
- Cómo usar el Administrador de proyectos — Set up clients and projects with the right billing method
- Cómo utilizar el control presupuestario — Hourly or fixed fee budgets tracked as projects progress
- Cómo utilizar la programación de equipos — Capacity and utilization tracking that helps you avoid burnout
- Cómo utilizar la gestión de clientes — Client records with contacts, currency, and default billing rates
- Cómo utilizar la gestión de ausencias — Time off logging that keeps capacity reports honest
Tiempo necesario: 5 minutos por función
También en esta guía: Consejos profesionales | Errores comunes | Solución de problemas | Precios | Alternativas
¿Por qué confiar en esta guía?
I’ve used Harvest for two years across client projects and tested every feature covered here. This tutorial comes from real hands-on work — not marketing fluff or vendor screenshots.
Harvest is one of the most trusted time tracking tools available today.
But most teams only ever click the start button and stop there.
This guide shows you how to use Harvest properly — every major feature, step by step.
With screenshots, videos, and the pro tips I wish someone had given me on day one.
Tutorial de cosecha
This How to Use Harvest tutorial walks through every feature in order, from your first account setup to the reports that tell you which clients actually make you money.
Cosecha
Track time, bill clients, and measure performance with confidence. Harvest turns tracked hours into invoices and instant reports, and connects to the tools your team already uses. Start free — no credit card required.
Introducción a Harvest
Antes de utilizar cualquier función, complete esta configuración inicial.
Tarda unos tres minutos.
Here’s what my own Harvest account looked like after setup:
Ahora vamos a repasar cada paso.
Paso 1: Crea tu cuenta
Go to the Harvest website and click Sign up.
Introduce tu correo electrónico de trabajo y crea una contraseña.
You get a 30-day trial with no credit card required.
✓ Control: Comprueba tu bandeja de entrada for the confirmation email and click the sign-in link.
Paso 2: Invita a tu equipo
Go to Team and click the + Invite person button.
Choose their permission level, add their capacity and roles, then set their default billable rates and cost rates.
Así es como se ve:
✓ Control: Once added, each teammate receives an email invite and shows up in your Team list.
Step 3: Customize Your Preferences
Administrators can customize account preferences under Settings > Preferences.
Set Timer mode to Duration or Start and end times, pick your week start day, and turn on automatic timesheet reminders.
Those gentle reminders do more for adoption than any policy document.
✅ Hecho: Estás listo para usar cualquiera de las funciones a continuación.
Cómo usar el rastreador de tiempo de cosecha
Rastreador de tiempo lets you start a timer or log manual entries in seconds.
Aquí te mostramos cómo usarlo paso a paso.
Paso 1: Abra su hoja de horas
Go to Time > Timesheet in the left sidebar.
Click the green + Track time button.
Step 2: Choose Client, Project and Task
Pick the client, project, and task from the dropdowns.
Add a short description so the entry still makes sense next month.
Así es como se ve:
✓ Control: The timer appears at the top of your timesheet and starts counting.
Step 3: Stop and Save the Entry
Click the stop icon when the work is done.
Harvest will save the entry to that day automatically.
Forgot to start it? Click any past day and type the hours in as a manual entry.
✅ Resultado: Your first hours are tracked and ready to bill.
💡 Consejo profesional: Switch Timer mode between Duration and Start and end times under Settings > Preferences before your team starts tracking.
Cómo utilizar los informes y análisis de Harvest
Informes y análisis lets you pull instant reports across projects, budgets, and team capacity.
Aquí te mostramos cómo usarlo paso a paso.
Paso 1: Abra la pestaña Informes.
Click Reports in the top navigation.
Harvest opens the Time Report by default.
Step 2: Set Your Date Range and Filters
Choose a week, month, or custom range.
Filter by client, project, task, or teammate.
Así es como se ve:
✓ Control: A bar chart and a summary table load for the range you picked.
Step 3: Export or Drill Into a Row
Click any row to see the entries behind the number.
Export to CSV when you need the raw data elsewhere.
Bookmark the filtered view you check every week.
✅ Resultado: You can see exactly where the week went, project by project.
💡 Consejo profesional: Use the Time Report to spot profitable and unprofitable clients, then check non-billable time for hidden inefficiencies.
Cómo usar el rastreador de facturas de Harvest
Rastreador de facturas lets you convert tracked time and expenses directly into an invoice.
Aquí te mostramos cómo usarlo paso a paso.
Step 1: Start a New Invoice
Go to Invoices and click + New invoice.
The invoice wizard opens with your client list.
Step 2: Pull In Uninvoiced Time
Choose the client and the billing period.
Harvest imports uninvoiced hours and expenses with a detailed breakdown.
Así es como se ve:
✓ Control: The draft lists every billable item with hours, rate, and total.
Paso 3: Revisar y enviar
Edit any line description, then click Send.
Your client gets an email with a payment link.
Harvest then tracks the status from Draft to Sent to Paid, and chases late payers for you.
✅ Resultado: An invoice is out the door in under two minutes.
💡 Consejo profesional: Connect PayPal or Stripe so clients can pay from the invoice itself instead of asking for bank details.
Cómo usar las integraciones de Harvest
Integraciones lets you start timers inside the tools your team already opens daily.
Aquí te mostramos cómo usarlo paso a paso.
Paso 1: Abra la página de Integraciones.
Go to Settings > Integrations.
Browse the list of connected apps.
Paso 2: Instalar la extensión del navegador
Add the Harvest extension to Chrome, Firefox, or Edge.
A timer button then appears inside Asana, Trello, and dozens of other tools.
Así es como se ve:
✓ Control: A small Harvest button shows up on tasks inside your project tool.
Step 3: Connect Your Accounting App
Enlace QuickBooks Online or Xero for automatic syncing.
Invoices and payments flow both ways without manual re-entry.
Add PayPal or Stripe here as well if you want clients paying online.
✅ Resultado: Your team tracks time without ever leaving their workflow.
💡 Consejo profesional: Install the mobile apps too, so field work and client calls get logged before anyone forgets them.
Cómo usar Harvest Project Manager
Gerente de proyecto lets you create projects, assign teammates, and define how each one bills.
Aquí te mostramos cómo usarlo paso a paso.
Paso 1: Crear un nuevo proyecto
Go to the Projects section and click + New project.
Select an existing client or add a new one.
Name it something your team recognizes, not an internal job code.
Step 2: Pick the Project Type
Elija entre Tiempo y materiales, Tarifa fija o No facturable.
This decides how hours turn into money later.
Así es como se ve:
✓ Control: The project appears in your active list with the client name beside it.
Step 3: Assign Your Team
Add the teammates who will work on it.
Click Save and the project goes live.
✅ Resultado: Your team can now track time against a real project instead of a guess.
💡 Consejo profesional: Add specific tasks under Manage > Tasks with + New task, so reports show design and revisions separately.
Cómo utilizar el monitoreo del presupuesto de cosecha
Seguimiento del presupuesto lets you set hourly or fixed fee budgets and watch them as work progresses.
Aquí te mostramos cómo usarlo paso a paso.
Paso 1: Abra la configuración del proyecto.
Click a project, then choose Edit.
Scroll to the budget section.
Step 2: Choose a Budget Method
Set total project hours, hours per task, or total project fees.
Enter the number you agreed with the client.
Así es como se ve:
✓ Control: A budget bar appears on the project page showing hours used.
Step 3: Turn On Budget Alerts
Check the box for an email warning at 80 percent.
Save the project.
For retainer clients, choose the option that resets the budget every month.
✅ Resultado: You find out about overruns while you can still do something about them.
💡 Consejo profesional: Add cost rates alongside billable rates so the budget bar shows real margin, not just revenue.
How to Use Harvest Team Scheduler
Programación de equipos lets you track capacity and utilization to balance workloads.
Aquí te mostramos cómo usarlo paso a paso.
Step 1: Invite and Configure Your Team
Go to Team and click the + Invite person button.
Choose their permission level and add their roles.
Step 2: Set Weekly Capacity
Enter how many hours each person is available per week.
Part-time staff get a lower number here.
Así es como se ve:
✓ Control: Each teammate shows a capacity bar next to their tracked hours.
Step 3: Review the Capacity Report
Open Reports and switch to the team view.
Anyone above their capacity line is overloaded.
✅ Resultado: You can rebalance work before someone quietly burns out.
💡 Consejo profesional: Review capacity every Monday morning. Reshuffling one project temprano beats an emergency handover two weeks later.
How to Use Harvest Client Manager
Gestión de clientes lets you keep client records, contacts, and default rates in one place.
Aquí te mostramos cómo usarlo paso a paso.
Step 1: Add a New Client
Go to Manage > Clients and click + New client.
Enter the company name and billing address.
Step 2: Add Contact People
Add each person who should receive invoices.
Invoices then send to the right inbox automatically.
✓ Control: The client shows up in the dropdown when you create a project.
Step 3: Set Default Rates and Currency
Give the client a default hourly rate and currency.
Every new project inherits those settings.
✅ Resultado: Client billing details are set once instead of retyped every month.
💡 Consejo profesional: Archive old clients rather than deleting them. Their history stays in reports and past invoices remain intact.
How to Use Harvest Time-Off Manager
Gestión de ausencias lets you log holidays and sick days so reports show real available hours.
Aquí te mostramos cómo usarlo paso a paso.
Step 1: Create Time Off Types
Go to Manage > Time off.
Add holiday, sick leave, and any other categories you need.
Step 2: Let the Team Request Days
Teammates log time off from their own timesheet.
Requests land with the account administrator.
Así es como se ve:
✓ Control: Approved days off show on the calendar and reduce available capacity.
Step 3: Approve and Check the Calendar
Approve requests from the time off screen.
Approved days appear in team reports.
Remaining balances update on their own as days are approved.
✅ Resultado: Your utilization numbers stop looking terrible every August.
💡 Consejo profesional: Mark time off as non-billable. Otherwise holidays quietly drag down your utilization percentage in every report.
Consejos y atajos de Harvest Pro
After two years of daily tracking, here are the shortcuts I actually use.
Fast Paths
| Acción | Atajo |
|---|---|
| Start a new time entry | Time > Timesheet, then + Track time |
| Stop the running timer | Stop icon in the top bar |
| Start a timer inside another app | Harvest browser extension icon |
| Track time away from your desk | Harvest mobile app timer |
Características ocultas que la mayoría de la gente pasa por alto
- Non-billable analysis: Filter reports by non-billable time to find where hours disappear into admin and rework.
- Cost rates: Add what each person costs you, not just what you charge, and reports show true project margin.
- Retainer projects: Set a fixed fee project with a monthly budget to see when a retainer client has gone over.
- Timesheet approvals: Turn on approvals and set a weekly deadline so hours are locked before invoicing day.
Errores comunes en la cosecha que se deben evitar
Mistake #1: Tracking to Projects Instead of Tasks
❌ Incorrecto: Everyone logs eight hours to one project called Client Work with no task or description.
✅ Derecha: Create specific tasks under Manage > Tasks, and make a short description mandatory on every entry.
Mistake #2: Setting Budgets and Never Checking Them
❌ Incorrecto: A budget is added at kickoff, then nobody looks again until the project is 40 percent over.
✅ Derecha: Turn on budget alert emails and run a monthly review of timesheets to check accuracy of tracked hours.
Mistake #3: Letting Timesheets Pile Up
❌ Incorrecto: Teammates reconstruct three weeks of work from memory the night before invoicing.
✅ Derecha: Establish a consistent weekly deadline for timesheet submission, and gamify it with a simple team streak.
Solución de problemas de la cosecha
Problem: Time Doesn’t Show On the Invoice
Causa: The project is set to Non-Billable, or the task is marked non-billable.
Arreglar: Open the project, change the type to Time & Materials, and mark the task billable. Then rebuild the invoice.
Problem: The Timer Keeps Running Overnight
Causa: The timer was left running when the browser tab was closed.
Arreglar: Edit the entry from your timesheet and correct the hours. Switch Timer mode to Duration if this keeps happening.
Problem: The Browser Extension Button Is Missing
Causa: The integration isn’t enabled for that app, or the extension needs permission on the site.
Arreglar: Open the extension settings, enable the app, refresh the page, and sign in again if prompted.
📌 Nota: If none of these fix your issue, check the Harvest help center — its short articles and setup videos cover most edge cases — then contact Harvest support.
¿Qué es Harvest?
Cosecha is a time tracking and invoicing tool that helps professional teams track time, bill clients, and measure performance with confidence.
Think of it like a timesheet, an invoice book, and a profitability report that all talk to each other.
Mira este breve resumen:
Incluye estas características clave:
- Registro de tiempo: Track time with a timer or manual entries from desktop and mobile apps
- Informes y análisis: Instant reports across projects, budgets, tasks, and team capacity
- Rastreador de facturas: Automated invoicing that turns tracked time and expenses into bills
- Integraciones: Works with the tools you use every day so tracking starts fast
- Gerente de proyecto: Set up clients and projects with the right billing method
- Seguimiento del presupuesto: Hourly or fixed fee budgets tracked as projects progress
- Planificación del equipo: Capacity and utilization tracking that helps you avoid burnout
- Gestión de clientes: Client records with contacts, currency, and default billing rates
- Gestión de ausencias: Time off logging that keeps capacity reports honest
Para una revisión completa, consulte nuestra Reseña de Harvest.
Harvest keeps things deliberately simple. There is no AI activity scoring, no screenshots, and no mouse tracking — which is exactly why teams accept it.
Precios de la cosecha
Esto es lo que costará Harvest en 2026:
| Plan | Precio | Mejor para |
|---|---|---|
| Gratis | $0/asiento/mes | Solo trabajadores autónomos with one or two projects |
| Pro | $11/asiento/mes | Teams billing clients for unlimited projects |
| De primera calidad | $14/asiento/mes | Agencies that need capacity and cost reportando |
Prueba gratuita: Yes — 30 days on paid plans, no credit card needed to sign up.
Garantía de devolución de dinero: No formal guarantee, but you can downgrade to the Free plan at any time.
💰 Mejor relación calidad-precio: Pro — unlimited projects, invoicing, and integrations for the price of one billable hour a year.
Cosecha frente a alternativas
¿Cómo se compara Harvest? Este es el panorama competitivo:
| Herramienta | Mejor para | Precio | Clasificación |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cosecha | Billing clients from tracked time | $11/mes | ⭐ 4.2 |
| Doctor del tiempo | Monitored remote teams | $7/mes | ⭐ 4.4 |
| Clockify | Usuarios gratuitos ilimitados | $4/mes | ⭐ 4.6 |
| Reloj | Attendance and shifts | $5/mes | ⭐ 4.1 |
| Alternar | Frictionless solo tracking | $9/mes | ⭐ 4.7 |
| Tiempo de seguimiento | Visual team timelines | $5/mes | ⭐ 4.3 |
| Tiempo de memoria | Automatic activity capture | $14/mes | ⭐ 4.5 |
| Cronológico | Dispositivo de seguimiento físico | $9/mes | ⭐ 4.4 |
Selecciones rápidas:
- Mejor en general: Harvest — tracking, invoicing, and budgets in one place
- Mejor presupuesto: Clockify — a free tier that stays free as the team grows
- Ideal para principiantes: Toggl — start a timer in one click, learn nothing else
- Best for client billing: Harvest — tracked hours become an invoice in two minutes
🎯 Alternativas de cosecha
¿Buscas alternativas a Harvest? Aquí tienes las mejores opciones:
- 🔒 Doctor del tiempo: Adds screenshots and activity monitoring for teams that need proof of work, not just totals.
- 💰 Clockify: Free for unlimited users, which makes it the obvious pick for large teams on no budget.
- 🏢 Reloj: Leans toward attendance, shifts, and leave management rather than client billing.
- 👶 Alternar: The friendliest timer on the market, with idle detection and almost no setup.
- 📊 Tiempo de seguimiento: Visual timelines that show who worked on what, hour by hour.
- 🧠 Tiempo de memoria: Records what you had open all day so you can rebuild lost hours later.
- 🎯 Cronológico: A physical eight-sided die you flip to switch tasks — oddly effective.
Para ver la lista completa, consulte nuestra Alternativas de cosecha guía.
⚔️ Cosecha comparada
Así es como Harvest se compara con cada competidor:
- Cosecha vs Doctor del Tiempo: Harvest wins on invoicing and team trust. Time Doctor wins if you genuinely need surveillance features.
- Cosecha vs. Clockify: Clockify wins on price. Harvest wins on budgets, invoicing, and the reports that follow.
- Cosecha contra Clockit: Clockit is stronger for shift attendance. Harvest is stronger for billable project work.
- Cosecha vs. Toggl: Toggl is faster to start. Harvest handles the whole path from timer to paid invoice.
- Cosecha vs. Tiempo de seguimiento: TrackingTime has prettier timelines. Harvest has deeper budget and profitability reporting.
- Cosecha vs. Memtime: Memtime reconstructs forgotten hours. Harvest is better once your team tracks in real time.
- Cosecha vs. Timeular: Timeular is a tracking gadget. Harvest is the full billing system behind it.
Empiece a usar Harvest ahora
Aprendiste a usar todas las funciones principales de Harvest:
- ✅ Rastreador de tiempo
- ✅ Informes y análisis
- ✅ Rastreador de facturas
- ✅ Integraciones
- ✅ Gerente de proyecto
- ✅ Seguimiento del presupuesto
- ✅ Planificación de equipos
- ✅ Gestión de clientes
- ✅ Gestión de ausencias
Siguiente paso: Elige una función y pruébala ahora.
Most people start with the Time Tracker.
Tarda menos de cinco minutos.
Preguntas frecuentes
¿Para qué se utiliza la aplicación Harvest?
Harvest is used to track time, manage project budgets, invoice clients, and report on team capacity. Teams use it to see where hours go and bill accurately.
¿La aplicación Harvest es gratuita?
Yes. The Free plan costs $0 per seat per month and suits one person with a small number of projects. Pro is $11 and Premium is $14 per seat monthly.
Does Harvest track your screen or take screenshots?
No. Harvest does not capture screenshots, record your screen, or track mouse movement. It only logs the time entries your team starts and saves themselves.
¿Cómo registra el tiempo Harvest?
Two ways: start a timer while you work, or add manual entries afterwards. Both work from desktop, mobile apps, and the browser extension inside other tools.
¿Cuál es la diferencia entre Harvest y Clockify?
Clockify is cheaper and free for unlimited users. Harvest costs more but adds stronger invoicing, project budgets, and capacity reporting for client-billing teams.
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