For the last several years, we’ve been working on providing a time tracking feature any developer can add to their app with just a few lines of code. Our goal is simple: let developers focus on the core of their products, and let Harvest handle the nuances of time tracking. This approach has been a win-win for partners like Asana and Flow, who seamlessly integrated a time tracking feature into their apps with the Harvest Button (formerly called the Harvest Platform).

Today, we’re announcing a new way for developers to add time tracking to apps – the Harvest Widget. It’s just as easy to implement as the Button, but it allows for a different user experience. Rather than having to click the Button to open up the Harvest window to track time, that modal window will just live right inside the interface of your app.

Issue management and help desk apps are great candidates for the Widget – they typically have the space on the interface to fit it. Not to mention that starting a timer in the least amount of clicks as possible is key when handling customer issues or tickets. In fact, we recently rebuilt our JIRA and Zendesk integrations to run off of the Harvest Widget:

JIRA Widget for Platform page

Harvest for Zendesk Widget - Marketplace

Now, the Harvest Widget is publicly available for anyone to add to other apps. Point your developers, or product teams at other apps you use, to our new Button & Widget page. We’re here to answer any questions you have!