Budget & team
Budget lives in Harvest. Delivery lives in your tracker. That is why a project reaches 94% spent and nobody on the delivery team saw it coming. Connect Harvest and Spectr keeps a read-only copy next to the work: hours and cost, budgeted against spent against remaining, plus a Budget page covering every project. You cannot edit budget in Spectr - Harvest stays the source of truth.
How Harvest fits in
Spectr syncs Harvest read-only. Each time entry is sorted into work, meetings or miscellaneous, and the budget is projected: 208 of 320 hours spent, 64 committed to approved and in-progress stories, 48 left for more. The Budget page shows every project's health, and only admins see cost.
Personal Access Token plus your Harvest Account ID. Both are validated against Harvest before anything is saved.
The budget endpoints require a Harvest Administrator or Manager account. A member-level token connects and can pick a project, but Harvest returns a permission error on the budget itself.
In Harvest, create a Personal Access Token and note your Account ID.
In Spectr, open the project, go to Integrations, choose Harvest, and enter both.
Pick the Harvest project this Spectr project maps to. Budget tracking is one-to-one.
Spectr runs an initial sync. Open the Budget drawer on the project, or the workspace Budget page for every project at once.
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No. Reads are split by role: any member sees health percentage and hours budgeted, spent and left; only admins see money, rates, notes and fees.
No, by design. Harvest owns the budget. Spectr keeps a read-only snapshot, and a failed sync never overwrites the last good numbers - it shows when the sync last succeeded and why the latest attempt did not.
No. Budget tracking is available on every tier, including Free. It is gated by workspace role, not by plan.
Use case
Harvest budget and Forecast hours next to the work they are paying for
