Reports
The reports tab displays a graph of your total hours, as well as a breakdown of where exactly those hours came from. The admin can expand this to view to view hours by the person and tasks. You can also switch views between total, billable, non-billable, employee, and contractor.
No surprise, the sub sections allow you to view this week, last week, this month, last month, year-to-date, last year, and select your own customize time frame.
One of the nice features of the reports is the ability to easily print and export to csv, options tick lacks.
Conclusion
I noticed a lot similarities between Tick and Harvest – too many to really make one stand out from the other. Both contain relatively the same features, and sport a clean, easy to operate and understand layout. Harvest seems to be built out a little more then tick is, but tick is still in beta, while Harvest is currently opened to the public. Harvest offers 5 pricing plans, including a free but limited account.
Tick VS Harvest: A Comparison
I’ve broken down a few major categories and rated both Tick and Harvest to see if one service stands our anymore than the other.
Design (Harvest):
Based on first glances, Harvest takes the design category, for it’s ability to get right at the user quickly. Many of ticks features are hidden behind the interface, and you have to dig into the various tabs to expose them. The Harvest design seems to be built up more, even though both contain roughly the same features.
Pricing (Tick):
While ticks pricing remains with TBA status, they have noted that their highest, fully featured account will start at $79/month, while the highest plan at Harvest starts at $99/month. Plus, the free account is rather basic, and you really need the “basic” account or higher ($15/month) to open up the harvest features.
Usability (Tie)
Both sites are extremely easy to navigate, and extremely simple – what a web based app should be. Both remain so straight forward, it’s only fair I call this one a tie.
Features (Slight edge to Harvest):
Features are also extremely hard to decide on one service or the other, but I have to give the slight edge to harvest. It’s basic plan and higher offer included daily backups, which is essential if you are going to be tracking valuable time, especially employees, and have the risk of losing it. But, on the other hand, Tick is rumored to offer integration with Basecamp, but because it’s not their yet (at least if it is, I must have missed it), I give the slight edge to Harvest.
Better Service: N/A
Because both services are so alike, it is impossible to pick a complete winner. It is all up to the users to decide what service they like more.
So who does this help?
So who do services like this help? I can see services such as tick and harvest benefiting companies who spend a lot of time behind the desk. Instead of having a standard time clock, employees can login and clock the work their doing all in a web based interface.
This could also help designers, who just want to log the time they spend on various sites and projects.
