Can I migrate from my current tool?

Yes. CSV importer for clients, projects, and time entries — most teams migrate in an afternoon.

Can I control what different roles see?

Yes. Permission groups bundle granular keys (view team time, approve timesheets, see project health reports, etc.) and you assign them to staff. Admins can revoke the Dashboard entirely for specific roles, or set a per-user default landing page so contributors jump straight to Timesheet and payroll goes straight to Reports.

Does everyone have to use the dashboard?

No. The Dashboard is a permission — turn it off for a role and those users land directly on their chosen default view after sign-in. Individual gauges adapt too: managers see team-wide utilization, contributors see their own.

Who processes invoice payments?

Your own Stripe account. Payments settle directly to your bank — Tempough never holds funds.

Workspace-level isolation so data never crosses between accounts. Two-factor authentication with backup codes. Scoped tokens for integrations and AI access. Every change recorded in a searchable audit log with configurable retention.

Can I connect Claude, Cursor, or Zed?

Yes. Tempough exposes an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server from Partnership up. Each user mints a personal token in Profile → AI access — the AI client then acts as that user, scoped to their permissions. A contributor's AI sees their own time; a manager's AI sees the team. Per-token rate limits and sustained-abuse auto-cooldown built in.

What if I pick the wrong tier?

Move between tiers any time. Features turn on or off tenant-wide when you switch — data stays put, no migration, no downtime. Individual plans can upgrade to Partnership when a co-founder joins, and Partnership plans can move to Team when the business grows past two people.

Does it work for solo freelancers or partnerships?

Yes to both. Free covers the basics — timer, timesheet, projects, and CSV export — for one user, forever. Individual at $8/mo adds invoicing and QuickBooks export. Partnership at $15/mo adds a second seat for a partner or co-founder. All three plans support unlimited clients and projects; the difference is whether you need to send invoices and how many people are logging time.

Are there any add-on fees or metered usage charges?

No. The monthly price on this page is the full cost. Tempough does not charge per email sent, per API call, per integration, or per any other usage metric. No overage charges, no tiered add-ons, no "starter" features that get unlocked for extra money. If you ever see a surprise line item on your invoice, it's a bug — email us and we'll fix it.

Can I import my Harvest data into Tempough?

Yes. Tempough has a built-in CSV importer that accepts Harvest's standard exports for clients, projects, and time entries. The one extra step: Harvest's time export identifies people by name, but Tempough's importer matches on email, so add a user_email column to the time CSV before uploading (about 5 minutes for a small team). Every import has a Dry-run button that previews exactly what would land before committing.

Is Tempough cheaper than Harvest?

For most service businesses, yes. Tempough Team is $11/seat/mo billed annually with forecasting, cost rates, approvals, and time-off requests included. Harvest Pro is $13.75/seat/mo, plus Harvest Forecast is a separate purchase if you want capacity planning. Harvest is also rolling out usage-based fees on top of seat pricing, so the gap is widening.

How does Tempough's forecasting compare to Harvest Forecast?

Harvest Forecast is a separate product you pay for in addition to Harvest. Tempough's Schedule is built into the Team plan at no extra cost — same Gantt-style drag-to-schedule UI, plus tighter integration since the forecast and the actuals live in the same database. Forecast-vs-actual reports show variance per person and per project without an integration step.

What does Tempough have that Harvest doesn't?

Built-in forecasting and capacity planning (Harvest Forecast is separate). Project profitability with cost rates and margin reports (Harvest has none of this). Org-chart routing for timesheet approvals via a direct-manager field. Overtime tracking with configurable weekly thresholds and OT-aware cost math. Quotes that convert to invoices. Document distribution with optional acknowledgment workflow. A client portal for invoices and project visibility.

What does Harvest have that Tempough doesn't?

A bigger third-party integration marketplace via Zapier, more brand recognition (your CFO has probably heard of Harvest), and a much longer track record. Tempough has direct webhooks and a REST API for integrations, which is enough for most use cases but not the same as a Zapier app store.

Will my reports look the same after switching?

The standard time reports (time by person, time by project, time by client) map one-to-one. Tempough adds report categories Harvest doesn't: Margin (P&L) reports, forecast-vs-actual variance, utilization, project burn, time-flow Sankey, and a custom report builder. Harvest reports you might miss: not many — most have direct equivalents.

How long does the migration take?

For a team of 1–10 people with a year or two of history, plan on 30 minutes to a couple of hours: 5 min to export from Harvest, 5 min to add the email column, 5 min to sign up and invite the team, and 15-30 minutes for the actual imports (clients → projects → time, with a dry-run on each). Larger teams scale linearly — the import is bulk, the work is mostly checking the dry-run output.

Can I keep using QuickBooks for accounting?

Yes — that's the recommended setup. Tempough exports invoices and time as QuickBooks-formatted CSV files. Tempough is not trying to replace your accounting software, just give you better time tracking + invoicing + forecasting that feeds into the QuickBooks you already trust.

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Comparison · Direct competitor

Tempough vs
Harvest

The OG time-tracking-and-invoicing app for consultants and agencies.

TL;DR

Closest head-to-head comparison on this site. Harvest is the safe, known choice; Tempough is the half-the-price, broader-feature-set alternative that most teams reach for once Harvest's usage fees and split-product forecasting start to bite.

Harvest has been the default "time tracking + invoicing" choice for service businesses since 2006. It does the basics extremely well — timer, timesheet, project budgets, invoicing, QuickBooks export — and has the brand recognition and integration breadth that come from two decades of compounding.

Where Harvest wins

●Brand recognition + a long track record. If a CFO has heard of any time-tracking app, it's probably Harvest.
●Larger integrations marketplace via Zapier and a deep partner ecosystem.
●Forecast as a separate product (Harvest Forecast) is more mature for resourcing-heavy agencies.

Where Tempough wins

Forecast + capacity planning is built-in at the Team tier — Harvest splits it into a separate paid product (Harvest Forecast).
Cost rates + margin (P&L) reporting comes standard at Team. Harvest doesn't do margin reporting at all.
Time-flow Sankey, project portfolio matrix, custom report builder — analytics deeper than Harvest's table-shaped reports.
Programmatic access — REST API, webhooks, and an MCP server for AI assistants like Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Zed — all at Partnership. Harvest has none of the AI surface and its older REST API has narrower coverage.

Side by side

Feature	Tempough	Harvest
Time tracking + timer	✓	✓
Weekly timesheet grid	✓	✓
Projects + clients + tasks	✓	✓
Invoicing + online payment (Stripe)	✓	✓
QuickBooks Online export	✓	✓
Approvals workflow	Team+	✓
Time-off requests	Team+	Limited
Forecast / capacity planning	Built-in (Team+)	Add-on / extra (Harvest Forecast)
Cost rates + margin (P&L) reports	Built-in (Team+)	—
Custom report builder	✓	Limited
Webhooks + REST API	Partnership+	Limited
AI assistant access (MCP)	Partnership+	—
White-label app	Enterprise	—

Harvest Pro: $13.75/seat/mo (2026). Tempough Team: $11/seat/mo (billed annually). Pricing snapshots reflect publicly listed plans and can change — see the source's own site for the latest.