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Harpoon

Mission control for your business’ billing & finances.

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Harpoon is a web-based financial planning, time-tracking, invoicing, and budgeting platform for freelancers, studios, and agencies. It addresses the challenge of managing business finances across separate tools by combining goal setting, revenue forecasting, project budgeting, time tracking, invoicing, and expense tracking in one place. The platform is hosted online and accessed through a web browser, with no software to install.

Key features include financial goal tracking, real-time revenue forecasting based on team project activity, predictive project budgeting for hourly or fixed-fee work, time tracking with cost and profit insights, automated invoicing with scheduling, recurring invoices, credit card and ACH auto-billing, and overdue invoice follow-ups. Expense budgeting, customizable dashboards and reporting, team management with roles and permissions, internal cost rates, and capacity tracking are also included. Harpoon integrates with hundreds of apps through Zapier and its flexible API, and supports custom currency and date formatting, multi-language invoicing, and global payments.

Harpoon is designed for freelancers, studios, and agencies of varying sizes. It offers a 14-day free trial with full feature access and no credit card required. Paid plans are seat-based and tiered by team size: Starter for one user with up to three clients, Freelancer for two users, Studio for eight users, and Agency for 20+ users, with additional users billed per seat. Monthly and yearly billing options are available, with a discount for annual plans.

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