Harvest alternative
The flat-fee alternative to Harvest.
Replace the Harvest + PM tool subscription stack with one flat-fee workspace. Time tracking, kanban, client CRM, and invoicing: no seat tax.
Common questions answered
What is Melororium?
Melororium is a modular team workspace that unifies task management, time tracking, client CRM, and financial reporting in one application. One flat monthly fee for your whole team: from $29/mo. No seat tax, no per-user billing.
How does Melororium replace Harvest pricing?
Unlike Harvest's recurring per-seat billing, Melororium charges one flat monthly fee for your whole team: Starter $29/mo (4 users), Agency $59/mo (15 users), Studio $119/mo (25 users). Add team members and your price doesn't change. No seat tax, no hidden costs.
Is Melororium a good alternative to Harvest?
Yes. Melororium is a strong Harvest alternative for digital agencies, small teams, and studios that need fast project management, built-in time tracking, and financial visibility: without paying per-seat subscription fees.
Is Harvest solving only half of your team's problem?
Harvest excels at time tracking and invoicing: but it's not a project management tool. Most Harvest users also subscribe to Asana or ClickUp for tasks, meaning two subscriptions for one team's workflow.
Two subscriptions for one team
Harvest handles time and billing. You still need a separate PM tool for tasks and kanban boards. Most teams run Harvest + Asana or Harvest + ClickUp: two bills every month.
No client CRM
Harvest tracks time per project but has no client relationship management. You can't see full client history, track payment records, or manage the relationship from the billing tool.
Combined stack costs add up
Harvest Pro: $10.80/user/month ($1,296/year for 10 users). Add Asana Advanced ($25/user/month) for the same team: $3,000/year more. Combined: $4,296/year for both tools.
Why teams are leaving Harvest for Melororium.
Time tracking + invoicing only: tasks require a second subscription.
No client CRM: billing and client management are separate.
$1,296+/year for Harvest alone, before adding a PM tool.
Tasks + kanban + time tracking + invoicing in one workspace.
Client CRM with full history, payments, and project tracking.
$59/mo for 15 users (Agency): replaces both Harvest and your PM tool.
Head-to-head feature breakdown.
See exactly how we compare against Harvest on what matters.
What is Harvest? A complete overview for 2026.
Harvest is a time tracking and invoicing tool founded in 2006 in New York by Danny Wen and Shawn Liu. Designed specifically for service businesses that bill clients by the hour, Harvest offers accurate time tracking with one-click timers, browser extensions, mobile apps, and idle detection. Project budget monitoring tracks time and cost against project caps, sending automatic alerts when a project approaches its budget limit. The Pro plan costs $10.80/user/month billed annually. Harvest's core strength: precision time capture: is also its limitation: it is a single-purpose tool. Teams using Harvest for agency work still need separate project management software for task boards and a separate tool or Harvest's own module for invoicing.
What Harvest does well
Best-in-class time tracking precision with one-click timers accessible from a desktop app, browser extension, mobile app, and integrations with Asana, ClickUp, and GitHub. Harvest's timer ecosystem makes accurate time capture effortless: reducing the common problem of teams reconstructing hours from memory at the end of the week.
Project budget monitoring with automatic alerts when a project approaches its time or cost cap. Harvest sends email notifications at 75% and 100% of budget, giving project managers early warning before scope issues become billing problems. Budget tracking integrates directly with billable rate configuration per team member.
Professional invoice generation that pulls directly from tracked and approved time entries. Harvest eliminates the manual step of compiling hours and building invoices: one click converts approved time entries into a formatted invoice sent directly to the client from Harvest's interface.
Who Harvest is best for
Agencies and consultants with 2–20 people that need high-precision billable hours capture, automatic budget alerts, and professional invoice generation: and already have a separate project management tool they're satisfied with. Harvest delivers maximum value as a single-purpose time and billing tool for teams where time tracking accuracy is the critical business function.
Where it falls short
Two subscriptions for one team: Harvest handles time and billing. You still need a separate PM tool for tasks and kanban boards. Most teams run Harvest + Asana or Harvest + ClickUp: two bills every month.
No client CRM: Harvest tracks time per project but has no client relationship management. You can't see full client history, track payment records, or manage the relationship from the billing tool.
Combined stack costs add up: Harvest Pro: $10.80/user/month ($1,296/year for 10 users). Add Asana Advanced ($25/user/month) for the same team: $3,000/year more. Combined: $4,296/year for both tools.
Harvest pricing in 2026: the real cost for teams.
Before choosing a tool, it's important to calculate the full cost, not only the monthly sticker price, but what your team will spend over 2, 3, and 5 years of continued subscription.
Harvest · subscription cost
Harvest Pro costs $10.80/user/month billed annually ($129.60/user/year). For 10 users: $1,296/year. Adding Asana for project management ($25/user/month, $3,000/year for 10 users): combined stack is $4,296/year for PM and time tracking alone: not including CRM, which adds another $1,200–$3,600/year.
$6,480 for 10 users on Harvest Pro over 5 years: before project management, CRM, and additional tools.
Melororium · flat fee
$29
4 people · flat
$59
15 people · flat
$119
25 people · flat
Agencies switch from Harvest combined with a separate PM tool to Melororium when managing two tools, two logins, and two monthly invoices for functions that belong in the same workspace becomes unsustainable. Melororium replaces Harvest and the PM tool together for $59/mo flat: one workspace, one payment, one place for tasks, time, clients, and invoices.
What Harvest doesn't do after the time is logged
Budget Guardian · Agency+
Budget burn tracking connected to live time entries. Harvest shows hours. Budget Guardian converts them to cost, compares against the project budget, and sends the 80% warning before damage is done.
Project Alerts · Agency+
Automated deadline risk, bottleneck detection, idle project flags, and morning digests. Harvest reports on what happened: these alerts catch problems before they happen.
Proposals · Studio
Send a /p/[token] proposal with multi-currency support. Client accepts online: project created automatically in Melororium. Harvest starts tracking after the deal is signed.
Recurring Projects · Starter+
Auto-clone project structures on a schedule for retainer clients. Harvest tracks time per project: it doesn't auto-create the next monthly project when the cycle resets.
How to switch from Harvest to Melororium.
Most teams complete the migration in 5–7 days. Here's the process that minimizes disruption while getting your team fully operational on Melororium.
Step 1
Export your data from Harvest
Export your existing projects, tasks, client contacts, and historical time data from Harvest as CSV or Excel files. Most project management and billing tools support data export from the Account Settings or Admin panel. Check Harvest's Help Center for the exact export path: typically found under Settings → Data → Export. Save the exported files as a backup regardless of whether you proceed with the migration.
Step 2
Start the Melororium 14-day free demo
Sign up for the Melororium free demo at crm.melororium.com: no credit card required. You get full Agency plan access for 14 days (15 users, all modules): task tracker, kanban boards, time tracking, client CRM, invoicing, work reports, and the full team workspace. Use the demo to explore the interface and confirm Melororium covers your team's workflow before purchasing.
Step 3
Configure your workspace structure
Set up your client list, project templates, team member profiles, and billing rates in Melororium. Most teams complete the initial workspace setup in 2–4 hours. Import client contacts and project names from the CSV files you exported in Step 1. Configure the modules included with your plan to match your team's specific workflow: kanban boards, time tracking, CRM, and invoicing are ready to use out of the box.
Step 4
Run both tools in parallel for one week
Keep Harvest active while your team tests Melororium on a live project for one week. This parallel-run period is the most important step: it lets your team build confidence in the new tool without the pressure of a hard cutover, and ensures no in-flight project work gets lost during the transition. Track time in Melororium, manage tasks in Melororium, and let the team ask questions before fully switching over.
Step 5
Purchase Melororium and cancel Harvest
Once the team is comfortable with the Melororium workspace after the parallel-run week, purchase your plan: from $29/mo (Starter, 4 users) to $59/mo (Agency, 15 users) to $119/mo (Studio, 25 users). Log into Harvest and cancel your subscription to stop the recurring charge. The migration is complete: your team now runs on Melororium: one flat monthly fee, no seat tax, no price increase as the team grows.
Frequently
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Melororium is the best Harvest alternative for agencies that need project management alongside time tracking and invoicing. Harvest Pro costs $10.80/user/month ($1,296/year for 10 users): but has no kanban boards, no client CRM, and no task management. Melororium includes all of these for $59/mo flat (15 users). One tool instead of two or three.
Yes: Melororium. Harvest has no kanban boards or structured project management. Most Harvest users also subscribe to Asana ($3,000/year for 10 users) or ClickUp ($1,440/year) for tasks. Melororium replaces both: time tracking + project management + invoicing: for $59/mo flat.
Yes. Melororium includes everything Harvest does (time tracking, project budgets, invoice generation) and adds kanban project management, client CRM, and work reports. The combined Harvest + PM tool cost is typically $2,500–$4,300/year for 10 users. Melororium replaces that entire stack for $59/mo flat.
Harvest Pro costs $10.80/user/month billed annually ($129.60/user/year). For 10 users: $1,296/year, every year. Over 5 years on Pro for 10 users: $6,480: before adding a PM tool. Melororium Agency covers 15 users for $59/mo flat and replaces both Harvest and your PM subscription.
Yes. One flat monthly fee covers your whole team: Starter $29/mo (4 users), Agency $59/mo (15 users), Studio $119/mo (25 users). Add a new team member and your price doesn't change. No seat tax, no per-user billing.
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