You need to read the “Starting from” text on their pricing page right before those prices you see.

> There’s also a “flex” plan which costs $12.65/mo… but that plan now skims an additional 2% on top of the usual ~3% card transaction fees.

Indeed, if aphyr billed $5000 a month, just to use a conservative figure if it's a small but significant part of business, that would be $12.65/mo + $100/mo. Oh, that would actually be cheaper. That hike is a doozy. And I think I went way too conservative on the figure.

Funny how nobody gets that the joke here is losing 3% of every invoice even on ACH

But hey please tell me again how the US banking system is so advanced

I think it's including pay for usage. From the pricing page, beneath both Teams and Enterprise:

> Your base rate includes core features. As your team grows, additional invoices, projects, clients, and tasks are billed based on what you use, so you're never overpaying.

That's a bit bewildering, lol. Especially since they have annual plans.

This clarifies it:

> On Flex billing your first (sign-up) invoice usually covers seats only, because no projects, tasks, clients, or invoices have been tracked yet. Usage-based charges are calculated from the previous billing period, so they first appear at your renewal — not at sign-up. This is why a bill can jump (e.g. from a seats-only $44 to $404 once usage is added).

https://support.getharvest.com/hc/en-us/articles/31447072608...

You're right something doesn't ad up, and seems fishy (to me, bizarre even). But that isn't the author, it's Harvest after the Bending Spoons aquisition.

Those are seat fees, which do not include the new usage fees. I got this email:

> “Looking at your account, you're currently on the Basic plan at $40.00/month with 5 seats, and you're scheduled to renew … on the Enterprise Unlimited plan at $586.50/month…”

So, from $40 to $586.50 for “unlimited” use. Same product. I think the goal was to force everyone onto usage based plans. I dropped spare seats and shifted off unlimited, and its about $75/mo per seat.

But if someone wanted to take over angry Harvest customers, it would probably be a good little business. Guess I just need to rip the bandaid off, and let a prompt run overnight.

Or you're just wrong.