Harvest Day Rate Expense Generator

Annoyed with Harvest's awkward work-around for invoicing day rates? This script allows you to track your hours against a project as normal, but generate the daily expenses, as suggested by Harvest, automatically.

It looks at your previous month's time entries, finds those that are non-billable, sums them up per project per day, and creates expenses for any of those that exceed your MIN_HOURS_PER_DAY setting.

Setup

1. Copy .env.example to .env
2. Add an Expense Category for your day rate in Harvest
3. Set HARVEST_EXPENSE_NAME in .env to the Expense Category's name
4. For the projects you wish to generate billing for, set their "Project Type" to "Time & Materials"
5. Set the tasks within those projects that you use to record your time entries to non billable
6. Create a Personal Access Token over at https://id.getharvest.com/developers and add the details to your .env file
7. yarn install
8. Run this script before doing your invoicing: node generate.js