Harvest now combines per-seat pricing with usage-based fees, and customers have reported large increases. Clientary's plans are flat and month to month.
Send proposals and contracts, collect e-signatures, invoice, and take payment, with time tracking feeding straight into the invoice.
Clients view invoices, pay, approve estimates, and sign contracts in a portal on your own domain.
Run retainers with running balances, and charge saved cards or bank accounts automatically on a schedule.
As listed on each company's website, October 2026.
| Clientary | Harvest | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat plans that include users | Per seat plus usage-based fees |
| Proposals and contracts with e-signatures | Yes | No |
| Branded client portal | Yes, on your own domain | No |
| Time tracking | Yes, with timers and recurring time | Yes |
| QuickBooks Online | Every plan | Every plan |
| AI assistant connection | Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and more | Claude, ChatGPT, and more |
No tool is right for everyone. Here's where Harvest shines.
Harvest's time tracking has deep app integrations and browser extensions for logging time from other tools.
Harvest offers a free plan for one person on two projects.
Export your contacts from Harvest as a CSV and import them into Clientary, with fields matched for you.
Add your services and rates, pick a document theme with your logo, and connect Stripe, PayPal, or Authorize.Net.
Connect Claude or ChatGPT and ask it to set up clients, projects, and retainers from what you exported.
Freelancers, agencies, and firms run their client work on Clientary. Read their stories.
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Most of the time I'm paid within minutes of sending an invoice because it's so easy for someone to check that task off their list. Obviously I like this software, but most importantly to me - my clients like it.
Robin H.
Freelance Writer
With recurring invoices, custom templates, time tracking, expense tracking, automated invoice reminders, and so much more, the toolkit they offer has kept us organized and hugely simplified our bookkeeping. I can't count how many times our clients have asked about our 'amazing' invoicing system.
Chris M.
Digital Marketer / Founder
When searching for a client management and invoicing system we researched all the tools for SMBs on the market and tested them out, and Clientary was our hands down choice for ease of use and the ability to easily customize client-facing documentation. And of course the very reasonable subscription fee. As they say themselves, "all the functionality we need, and none that we don't."
Brian N.
Consultant / Executive Coach
If you want time tracking plus proposals, contracts, a client portal, retainers, and autopay, at a flat price, yes.
You can import clients and contacts from a CSV file. For time history, many teams keep an export of their old timesheets and start fresh in Clientary, or ask a connected AI assistant to log key entries.
Yes. Start a timer from anywhere in the app, including the header, and see your time by day, week, or month.
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See Pricing and SignupSources. Harvest details were checked on Harvest's website and the pages below in October 2026, and may have changed since: Harvest pricing, Harvest 2026 price changes. Harvest is a trademark of its owner, who is not affiliated with Clientary.
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