Moving from Harvest to Productive? Most ideas carry over, but some have different names, and Productive adds a few Harvest doesn’t have.
Harvest Terms in Productive
What you want to do | Harvest / Productive |
Start new work for a client | Project / Project |
Add financials to a project | — / Budget |
Sell work at fixed or hourly rates | Task / Service |
Plan your team’s time across projects | Forecast / Resource Planner (bookings) |
Collaborate on a small piece of work | — / Task |
Set up what each person costs (monthly or hourly) | Cost rate / Cost rate |
See what it costs to run your company beyond people’s cost rates | — / Overhead |
📌 A Harvest task is a Productive service. In Productive, a task is a piece of work you assign and collaborate on.
Import Your Harvest Data
Go to Settings > Data import. Under Import from another system, click Import data next to Harvest.
Good to know before you start:
Only projects changed in the last year, and time entries from the last three months, are imported.
People are imported up to the number of seats you have, without login access: invite them afterward.
Companies are imported without their addresses.
You can import from Harvest once. To import again, revert the earlier import first.
👉 For every step, see Importing Data from Harvest to Productive. For how budgets come over, see Mapping Harvest Financials to Productive Budgets.