What Timebun does

Track time

A timer that starts in two clicks and follows you across the app, plus typed durations added straight onto a day or week view. Set a rounding increment once — six minutes, a quarter hour — and every entry bills by it while the raw time stays untouched.

Bill retainers, pre-paid hours & invoices

Sell a named retainer plan that grants hours on renewal, a pre-paid bundle a client draws down, or a plain hourly rate with an overage price — each tracked against its own balance. Draft invoices from everything unbilled and finalise them as real Stripe invoices: numbered, taxed, and payable online.

Report margin & utilization

Every entry snapshots what it billed at and what it cost, at the time the work happened, so margin is a fact rather than an estimate calculated later. Cost figures sit behind their own permission, so pricing work never exposes anyone's pay rate.

Give every client a portal

Each client gets a branded login to see their own balance, burn-down, and invoices, pay online, and top up hours themselves — without emailing your team to ask where things stand.

What makes Timebun different

Unlimited clients, projects, and invoices — always

Every Timebun plan includes unlimited clients, projects, and invoices. Harvest's per-seat rate only covers a small monthly allowance of each before it bills the overage separately, per unit, on top of your seat cost.

Retainers and pre-paid balances are first-class

Timebun sells named retainer plans and pre-paid hour bundles as real objects, with rollover rules and low-balance alerts. Harvest tracks a project budget in hours or fees — there's no recurring monthly hour grant or rollover balance to sell against.

Every plan includes a client portal

Clients log in to see their balance, pay invoices, and top up hours themselves, on every Timebun plan. Harvest has no client-facing portal at all — clients receive an emailed invoice and a payment link, nothing more.

Pricing stops growing at 14 people

Starter is $15 a seat a month, the better deal up to 13 people. From 14, Unlimited is a flat $199 a month for as many seats as you add — hiring stops touching the bill. Harvest charges per seat forever, with no ceiling, currently $11–$17.50 a seat a month depending on plan.

AI and MCP, built in

Every Timebun plan connects to the AI tools a firm already uses through MCP, so an assistant can check a balance, log time, or pull a report without switching tabs. Harvest offers no equivalent integration.

Harvest pricing and feature comparisons checked against getharvest.com, September 2026 — see the full comparison.

Who uses Timebun

  • Professional services firms that sell time by the hour, retainer, or bundle — law firms, accounting practices, consultancies
  • Agencies billing retainers and project hours for creative, marketing, or development work
  • Fractional teams — CFOs, legal counsel, ops or marketing leads — running several clients on different arrangements at once

The team behind Timebun

Timebun started as a frustration, not a plan. Robin and Gabriel had both worked with — and around — time tracking and billing tools built for every kind of team at once, and none of them felt built for the way agencies, studios, and professional services firms actually sell their time. So they built the tool they wanted to run their own business on.

Timebun is a small, remote team by design — close enough to the people using it every day that a support message can turn into a shipped fix the same week. Robin leads go-to-market and customer success; Gabriel leads product and engineering. Read the full story on the blog.

How Timebun works

Communication

Email and in-app messaging, directly with Robin or Gabriel — no support-ticket queue, no account-rep handoff.

Onboarding

Sign up and start tracking immediately. Teams moving from Harvest can connect an access token and import clients, projects, people, tasks, and time in five guided steps, re-run right up until the day they switch.

Who you'll work with

One of the two co-founders, directly — not a rotating support team.

Key facts

Company Name
Timebun
Type
B2B SaaS — time tracking & billing software
Founded
2026
Founders
Robin Vander Heyden & Gabriel Lecointere
Headquarters
Remote
Website
timebun.com
Core Offering
Time tracking, retainer & pre-paid billing, and a client portal for professional services firms
Pricing
From $15/seat/month (Starter); flat $199/month (Unlimited) from 14 seats; custom Enterprise pricing — see pricing
Contract Terms
Month-to-month, cancel anytime
Services
Time tracking, Stripe invoicing, retainers & pre-paid balances, client portal, margin & burn-down reporting, Harvest import
Communication
Email and in-app messaging, direct with the founding team
Competitors
Harvest
Social
Robin Vander Heyden — LinkedIn, X

Frequently asked questions

Who built Timebun?

Robin Vander Heyden and Gabriel Lecointere, a two-person founding team. Robin leads go-to-market and customer success; Gabriel leads product and engineering.

Is Timebun available now?

Yes. Every new workspace gets a 14-day free trial of Unlimited, with no credit card. Start your trial.

How much does Timebun cost?

Starter is $15 a seat a month (or $12 billed yearly). From 14 people, Unlimited is a flat $199 a month for any number of seats. Full details are on the pricing page.

How is Timebun different from Harvest?

Timebun includes unlimited clients, projects, and invoices, first-class retainers and pre-paid balances, and a client portal on every plan — none of which Harvest offers the same way. See the full Timebun vs. Harvest comparison.

Can I import my data from another tool?

Yes. Connect a Harvest access token and Timebun imports clients, projects, people, tasks, and time in five guided steps — re-run it right up until the day you switch.