Estimate Sub-items

We would like to suggest a minor improvement to the “Estimate” functionality.

We would love to have the ability to break a single line item into multiple sub-items. These sub-items would have a quantity and a unit price and these would be combined to form the line item’s total quantity and unit price. For example, as a web development firm, we would like to split a single line item (e.g.: “Creation of data-driven Blog module”) into two sub-items (e.g.: “Back-end development” and “Front-end design”).

We see this functionality as useful because: (1) is would allow different rates and hours for the different sub-items and (2) provides more detailed information to the client about what exactly they are paying for. We would not want to use the “description” field for this breakdown because we use that field as a high-level summary of the item.

We really enjoy using Harvest, and so far it has provided us with almost everything we’ve needed for invoicing and time tracking. Keep up the good work!