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SideTrack vs Harvest
Harvest tracks time. SideTrack tracks whether the job was worth it.
Harvest is strong when timers, timesheets, billable hours, and project budgets are the center of the workflow. SideTrack is built for small operators who need a simple job record: price, payment, costs, hours, notes, status, and profit.
TIME TRACKING
SideTrack tracks hours as part of the job, not as a separate timesheet system.
Based on the app Add sale and All sales screens: Time tracked (hours), price, costs, profit, hourly value, status, customer, and due date stay connected to the work.
Time Tracker
Track hours against the actual job so every time log rolls into profit and effective hourly rate.
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Website audit · Cleaning Co.
July 4, 2026Started 6:00 PM
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Across active jobs
Profit divided by hours
Time logs
| Job | Client | Date | Time logged | Rate signal | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Website audit | Cleaning Co. | July 4 | 2.25 hrs | $95.00/hr | Active |
| Security Policy Page Update | Parker Auto | July 8 | 2.50 hrs | $60.57/hr | Paid |
| Home page redesign | Maddox Lawn | July 7 | 1.75 hrs | $65.00/hr | Completed |
Different tools
Not every job starts with a timer.
Everything about the job in one place
Track time, status, price, payment, costs, hours, notes, and profit around the actual job.
Time tracking and project reporting
Track billable time, budgets, team utilization, timesheets, and time-based invoicing.
Full comparison
SideTrack is built around job profit. Harvest is built around time.
If your business sells hours, Harvest may be the better fit. If you need a simple view of whether each job actually made money after costs, payments, and time, SideTrack is the cleaner lane.
| Criteria | SideTrack | Harvest |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | Track active jobs, payments, costs, hours, notes, due dates, and job profit in one lightweight workspace. | Track time, manage timesheets, invoice billable hours, and report on team utilization and project budgets. |
| Best user fit | Freelancers, solo operators, side businesses, and small service teams that need fast job-level profit clarity. | Agencies, consultants, and teams where billable time, approvals, budgets, and time reports are the main workflow. |
| Daily workflow | Update job status, see who owes money, log costs, capture hours, and decide which jobs are worth repeating. | Start timers, submit timesheets, review billable hours, compare time against budgets, and create invoices from time. |
| Job profitability | Connects revenue, costs, payments, and hours around the job so profit is visible without building a reporting model. | Strong for time and budget visibility, but non-time costs and simple job payment status may need separate workflow decisions. |
| Learning curve | Intentionally narrow and approachable, built around small paid jobs from lead to paid. | More structured around time tracking, team settings, client/project setup, budget rules, and reporting. |
| Payments and status | Keeps payment status close to each job so unpaid work does not disappear in a timer or report. | Can support invoicing from tracked time, but the center of gravity is time capture and project reporting. |
| When it feels too heavy | Better when you need a simple operating record for price, payment, costs, hours, notes, and profit. | Can feel like too much if you do not need timesheets, timers, approvals, utilization, or budget reporting. |
You need a simple place to run jobs profitably.
- You price jobs, gigs, or services and want to know what actually made money.
- You need costs, payments, hours, job notes, and status together in one simple place.
- You do not want your business tracking system to feel like a team timesheet process.
You need time tracking, team reporting, and billable-hour workflows.
- Billable time is the main product you sell and timers/timesheets are central to the workflow.
- You manage teams, approvals, project budgets, utilization, or time-based reporting.
- You want invoices and reports built primarily from tracked hours.
The SideTrack lane
A job can move from lead to paid without becoming a timesheet project.
SideTrack keeps the operating details together so pricing, payment, and profit decisions stay visible.
Capture the job and expected price before it becomes another note or text thread.
Track status, due date, costs, hours, notes, and payment details while work is happening.
Close the loop with payment status and job profit so pricing decisions improve next time.
Use Harvest when time tracking is the product. Use SideTrack when job profit is the question.
SideTrack helps small service businesses understand what is active, what is paid, what it cost, and which work is worth repeating.
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