Harpoon Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9 out of 10

Score

9 out of 10

Community insights

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Pros

Easy to Use and Set Up: Many users have found Harpoon to be easy to get up and running, even with basic data. They appreciate the simplicity of the tool and its user-friendly interface.

Great Invoicing Features: Several reviewers have praised Harpoon as a great invoicing app that is widely preferred by freelancers. They highlight its features such as time tracking, project scheduling, and budget management, which make creating client invoices simple and non-accountant friendly.

Helpful Visuals: Users particularly enjoy the visuals in Harpoon, especially the dashboard with its large icons for easy access to visuals. The variety of stats and data points available in the tool help them track their business's progress and financial health effectively.

Reviews

2 Reviews

Snagged a nice accounting/bookkeeping/management solution with Harpoon

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 13, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I've been using Harpoon for my business since 2018. There have been moments when I tried other, competing platforms, but I still ended up coming back to Harpoon in the end. It helps with several things at once - bookkeeping, invoicing, project management and profit goal setting.

Pros

Helps define profit goals and with metrics, shows if you are on track to reach them
Invoicing is easy and easy to track with projects and clients
For tax seasons, it easy to pull reports (e.g. expenses, P&Ls, etc.)

Cons

Sometimes expense reporting bring up duplicate transactions, which may be more of a fault of the API that connects my account, which is Plaid
Would be nice if in the future, they can offer ACH as one of the payment options for invoices
There are some redundancies that pop up when setting time frames for client work and the projects attached to them. If they aren't aligned, it can cause inaccurate reporting. If it just sent it once and it took care of both functions, it would be easier

Likelihood to Recommend

I think Harpoon works best for freelancers, consultants, self employed people and smaller companies with less client to bill. For larger enterprises with hundreds or thousands of clients, there are larger, more intricate platforms in the market that are better suited for those needs.

Scott Rosenblum

President/Founder in Professional Services at LEVEL PR (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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For Freelancers, Harpoon Is The Essential Invoice & Financial Management Tool For Success

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 1, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a freelancer, Harpoon is my primary tool for managing invoices, collecting payments, and actualizing my goal progress. With the dashboard and scheduling features, I know how much I've earned, and how that earning will play out over the course of the year.

With my tracked goals, I can easily and quickly compare actuals with the goals and discover if I'm on track or ahead of the game.

With invoicing, they're easy to create and quickly integrates with Stripe for direct deposit into my bank accounts. On late invoices, Harpoon automatically emails my clients and prods them for payment. Very rarely do I need to do anything further to collect payments.

Harpoon also offers reports, expense tracking, and time tracking. As a freelancer or small agency, Harpoon is designed to work with its users in a helpful way. How Harpoon structures the interface and system is just as important than what it does.

Pros

Makes Sending Invoices & Collecting Payment Easy, for Freelancers
Tracking Financial Goals (Monthly & Annual) & Projecting Future Results
Provides Insights On AR, Earned Income, Top Clients, and other helpful but highly relevant data points.

Cons

The automatic expense management is basic. It does sync with banks, but I've had some duplicate entry issues that are being worked out of the system.
I'd like to see additional reports that dive deeper into some of the dashboard widgets.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you're freelancing or running a small marketing agency, I'll steer you strongly towards Harpoon. It's such a terrific fit for this business type. It provides easy invoice management so if that's all you care about, use Harpoon this way. If you want a tool that will guide you towards success, Harpoon helps you do this when launching your account. Know what you want to earn, what it takes to get there, and how you're doing along the way. What financial software for freelancers provides simple project tools? Harpoon.

Jason Montoya

Virtual Chief Growth Officer (CGO) in Customer Service at JasonScottMontoya.com (1-10 employees)

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2 years of experience

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For Freelancers, Harpoon Is The Essential Invoice & Financial Management Tool For Success

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 1, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

With my tracked goals, I can easily and quickly compare actuals with the goals and discover if I'm on track or ahead of the game.

Pros

Makes Sending Invoices & Collecting Payment Easy, for Freelancers
Tracking Financial Goals (Monthly & Annual) & Projecting Future Results
Provides Insights On AR, Earned Income, Top Clients, and other helpful but highly relevant data points.

Cons

The automatic expense management is basic. It does sync with banks, but I've had some duplicate entry issues that are being worked out of the system.
I'd like to see additional reports that dive deeper into some of the dashboard widgets.

Likelihood to Recommend

Jason Montoya

Virtual Chief Growth Officer (CGO) in Customer Service at JasonScottMontoya.com (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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