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What’s the difference between an employee and a contractor?
What’s the difference between an employee and a contractor, from harvest’s perspective? Is this documented anywhere? I can’t seem to find any info about this.
Specifically, I’m curious whether contractors can be project managers. What can’t a contractor access (or do) that an employee can do?
@JimKring I posted the answer here, hope it’s helpful:
http://forum.getharvest.com/forums/feature-requ…
“@JimKring The only difference is that a contractor cannot be a project manager or an administrator; an employee can. There are no other functional differences.”
Hi Karen. Thanks for the answer.
Here’s some feedback:
Based on my use cases, there’s no reason that a contractor should not be a project manager — in my case, I’ve hired a contractor to do project management?
What I’d like to see are some features around keeping track of payments to contractors (having bill rates to customers for the contractor’s work and pay rates for compensating contractors for their hourly work).
@Jim Just FYI, we’ve definitely noted that you’d like to see a way to track both internal and external rates for contractors.
Not sure if this has been revisited elsewhere, but is there currently anyway to manage outstanding invoices to contractors as well? Something as simple as marking timesheets from contractors as ‘paid’ or ‘unpaid’ would be hugely helpful.
My process is one where contractors work by the hour, I collect their timesheets and generate an invoice. When invoices are paid, they get marked paid on harvest, but there is no further step to then pay the contractor.
Again, if that’s answered elsewhere, please let me know.
Hi @jollyscience- Thanks for getting in touch! Actually, there’s not a way to do this in Harvest right now, but having a way for contractors to bill through Harvest is on our feature request list, and I’ve added your name to the list of people who have asked for this.
@KAREN: Different billing rates for internal and external use would be great. (I know you heard that before, but it’s just so essential to business.)
@henning: there’s been a bit of discussion of internal vs. external bill rates. Here’s one such thread: http://forum.getharvest.com/forums/feature-requ... — you might want to add your +1 there, too :)