Forecast 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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User Reviews

Overview

Forecast

4.3

(31)

Pricing

Starting at $6.25 per month

About Forecast

Forecast is a fully integrated scheduling platform that gives you the ability to organize your team's schedule into visual plans that let you map out your upcoming projects and make smarter resourcing decisions.

With Forecast, you'll be able to:

View your team’s schedule in color-coded visual plans that make it easy to see how long a project is scheduled to take, who's working on what, and who's overbooked.
Assign people to projects and view your plans by project or people. Red bars indicate when an employee is overbooked, so you can move projects and deadlines around before they become burnt out. It's also easy to see when someone has the availability to take on a new project and exactly how much time they can devote to it. Share your plans with the entire team so everyone knows what they should be working on, and when.
Integrate Forecast with its sister app Harvest to gain insight into project progress and improve your estimating and scheduling.

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Forecast Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $6.25 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Forecast

$6.25

per user, per month

Plan includes:

Project Scheduling
Team Scheduling
Visual Time Planning
Harvest Integration
Team Permissions
Data Export
Project Health Monitoring

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Forecast Features

Popular features found in Scheduling
Alerts/Notifications
Appointment Scheduling
Automated Scheduling
Calendar Sync
Customer Database
Group Scheduling
Mobile Access
Reminders
Self Service Portal
Timesheet Management
More features of Forecast
Access Controls/Permissions
Assignment Management
Availability Management
Calendar Management
Capacity Management
Collaboration Tools
Data Import/Export
Drag & Drop
Employee Management
Employee Scheduling
Forecasting
Gantt/Timeline View
Multiple Projects
Online Booking
Prioritization
Projections
Project Management
Project Planning
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Reporting
Reporting/Project Tracking
Resource Allocation & Planning
Resource Scheduling
Scheduling
Search/Filter
Task Management
Task Scheduling
Third-Party Integrations
Utilization Reporting

Forecast Integrations

Harvest

Forecast User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

52%

29%

16%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.2

Value for money

3.9

Customer support

4.1

Functionality

4.0

Have you used Forecast and would like to share your experience with others?

Christopher K.

Verified reviewer

Defense & Space

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

Forecast is great if it suits your business structure

I use Forecast to track the resourcing of our employees and subcontractors across projects. It provides visibility of leave, expected burn on projects, and employee assignments. Forecast highlights who is already resourced, who has capacity, and allows us to foresee expected burn and invoicing monthly. It also shows project end dates and drop-off dates for each person so they can be lined up with other projects. Forecast is straightforward to set up and use and interfaces with Harvest for project tracking and finances. Resourcing in Forecast appears against the linked project in Harvest as a projected burn of the project's budget. However, it can only link one instance of Forecast to one instance of Harvest.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like that Forecast is straightforward to set up and use for organizations it suits. It provides clear top-level information about when a person is covered until, and interfaces with Harvest for project tracking and finances. It highlights visibility of leave, expected project burn, and helps track who is working on which project and when. I find it useful that it allows us to foresee expected burn and invoicing month on month, and it makes it easy to see when projects are expected to finish so that people can be lined up for other projects.

Cons:

Forecast only links to one Harvest instance, which doesn't work for organizations that have grown to include multiple business units each with their own Harvest instance. It would be great if it could handle multiple 'organizations' under one tool. Additionally, I wish it could automatically load public holidays, track leave from Harvest or another system, and show this in the Forecast calendar. Also, tracking future engagements or opportunities and future starter people could be improved, as well as resourcing based on a +30-day view instead of manually filling in days between dates.

Brenda C.

Verified reviewer

Construction

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2025

Availability at a Glance

Easy to train people - harder to always get them to cooperate - but the tool works great when utilized correctly.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The visual appearance showing availability of team members was concise and easy to navigate. The ability to see the most important information on one screen & then to filter or drill-down from there makes it a great tool.

Cons:

Getting users to actually use it correctly is challenging in almost any company.

Reasons for switching to Forecast

Not enough capacity and customization available in Google Calendar

Vendor Response

Thanks for your wonderful review! We love hearing how Harvest helps keep work running smoothly. Please feel free to reach out with any Forecast questions or feedback via https://www.getharvest.com/contact.

Replied March 2025

Peter L.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2018

A good (almost brilliant) project management SaaS tool

We use Asana and Forecast to manage time allocation to tasks, and use Forecast to plan out our resource allocation. Harvest Forecast seem to work well for us when planning work schedules over the next few weeks, but we do not seem to successfully use this for longer term project management. We use Harvest Forecast daily - it has become mission critical to the successful running of our business. However we resort to spreadsheets (and Asana) to manage longer term forecasts, and for this have marked it down a star. I suspect that this is not the fault of the software per se, but our work flow process from Asana making this just too clumsy. Still, Harvest Forecast a good, stable, well written piece of software. It is reasonably priced and one of the best methods to properly forecast project-based work.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Forecast is easy to use and does the job as a forecast management tool for us. The ease of use should not be underestimated - we have trialed many other project management tools and they were just too hard to set up. Moreover the integration to our Harvest itself (a time tracker) makes this much more powerful than a classic project management tool. We use it to manage our software development processes, which has a mix of short 1-2 days tasks and longer multi-month projects. Forecast and has some neat features: particularly like the quick way of setting up milestones. Forecast now also allows time planning around weekends so you can accommodate over time and will work in countries where the weekend is not Saturday and Sunday.

Cons:

The integration method to Harvest Forecast is lumpy. You have to manually select which products in Forecast you import, and it is not perfectly linked, so change a name in, say, Asana and you have to manually fill this in. It is hard to include public holidays.

Coey R.

Verified reviewer

Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2025

Forecast and make your life easier

Forecast with all the features it provides such as automation using AI, project and time management, such a helpful tool.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Customer service above the bar. Top notch help when it comes to the support they provide for the business.

Cons:

I have no complaints with this program. The ai features are so helpful of make thing clean and sharpe

Heather K.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2025

Forecast makes project planning easy

Overall forecast is a great tool - I enjoy using it and it helps me in my daily work

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

It’s a great way to visualize what projects are going on in the business and see what you will be working on in the future

Cons:

I have noticed a few connectivity issues lately and it has been slow to load on some occasions which is frustating

Vendor Response

Thanks for these kind words! Our support team is always happy to help troubleshoot any performance issues with you. You can reach them at support@getharvest.com.

Replied January 2025

Alexander D.

Verified reviewer

Real Estate

51-200 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2025

Looks nice but didn’t meet our planning needs

It had potential but didn’t really fit how our team works. We tried to make it work but ended up switching tools.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The interface is clean and modern. It’s easy to jump in and start using without a ton of upfront training.

Cons:

The forecasting logic didn’t match how we track projects. Customization felt limited and hard to work around.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the feedback! While it didn't work out, we still appreciate you taking the time to test Forecast and share your thoughts. P.s. If you needed task-level scheduling, we just released it!

Replied May 2025

Morgan C.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

Intuitive Time Planning Software That Adapts to Any Team Size

The software works like a dream if your organization has the depth of project management/trafficking skill to understand how to balance its functions with the needs of the people captured by the system. This is NOT a great software for agile environments in my opinion.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Forecast (and its partner Harvest) make for a powerful program that can assist in planning any work that requires team effort. The process is easy, the interface readily understandable. Setup is very simple and new projects are easily managed in Forecast. You can be as detailed as you'd like, or very high-level. Perfect for traffic management, not so great for creativity.

Cons:

This isn't a software for agile environments, and it's VERY easy for project managers to get caught in the objective of making red into green (a person is over budgeted time allotments versus a person has time to do the work) rather than thinking about what they're actually splitting or assigning. This can be a big problem in creative environments where team members may need large chunks of time for thinking, creating, or researching.

Chris A.

Verified reviewer

Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2022

Easy to use

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

This tool has made it easy for me to schedule projects and forecast who will be available to do specific job at the company. It's so easily to use and it helps me assign task and distribute the workload.

Cons:

For a large organization like ours having lots of drivers and big teams project visualization can get quite overwhelming.

Gerson C.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

Predict accurately each project

Make precise calculations based on profits and benefits of each project in real time, knowing which of them is the most profitable and how the work team defends itself in each area to know what the strengths and weaknesses are.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The main functionality or where the application is focused is the ability that gives you to correctly forecast and schedule each project in composite with workers as a team, but in which it differentiates to others, which allows you to calculate costs based on time spent , this is the main advantage, you can see the benefit at the time of each project, when it is profitable and when it is not, so you can project the profits, know when a project extends more than it should and how this affects the profits of the company.

Cons:

It lacks some tools based on the management of projects at times may be too simple in excess and this will affect you when you reuyeras complete functionalities for management.

Flavio A.

Verified reviewer

Design

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2019

Bird's Eye View for Project Planning

Forecast is a great little tool for project managers and directors, allowing them to organise and get an overview of upcoming tasks and projects for different teams as well as individual employees.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Forecast was probably the best innovation from Harvest in recent years. Even though the parent tool is in dire need of a refresh, Forecast gives managers a bird's eye view of their upcoming projects, allowing them to individually assign tasks and distribute the workload.

Cons:

Despite the fact that it is a great forecasting tool, project visualisation can get a bit overwhelming on larger organisations with bigger teams.

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