FreshBooks

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Invoice and accounting software tailored to small businesses

About FreshBooks

If you are a service-based business, FreshBooks is designed for you. If you are a designer, a marketing agency, a plumber, an IT professional, a lawyer, an architect, a web professional – if you create value for your customers by applying your time and expertise to other people’s problems – FreshBooks is built specifically for you.

We uphold a longstanding tradition of providing extraordinary customer service and building a product that helps save you time because we know you went into business to pursue your passion and serve your customers – not to learn accounting.


Key benefits of FreshBooks

- Wow your clients with professional looking invoices that take only seconds to create

- Use automatic checks and balances to ensure accuracy and compliance, while financial info helps you make smart business decisions and working with your accountant even easier.

- Wave goodbye to that shoebox of receipts. Easily log and organize expenses in FreshBooks to track every dollar spent so you're always ready for tax time.

- Never forget to bill for another hour. Automatically pull your tracked time onto your invoice so you’re always invoicing for exactly what you’re worth.

- FreshBooks integrates with over 100 great apps to streamline your business,
help you connect with your team and clients, and better understand your business.

- Get paid up to 11 days faster when you accept credit cards online in FreshBooks. Say hello to automatic deposits, and goodbye to chasing clients for checks.

- Wondering if you’re turning a profit or need to switch gears? In FreshBooks, your dashboard shows you, at-a-glance, where you stand so you know where to focus and can run your business like the boss you are.

- Talk to a real live human anytime you have a question, 8am-8pm ET, Mon-Fri.


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Overall rating

4.5 /5
(4,493)
Value for Money
4.3/5
Features
4.3/5
Ease of Use
4.5/5
Customer Support
4.4/5

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Andrey
Andrey
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  • Industry: Banking
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

FreshBooks - Smarter replace of QuickBooks

Reviewed on 2024/01/25

Great experience - using it personally and for business, performs core accounting (General Ledger /...

Great experience - using it personally and for business, performs core accounting (General Ledger / Accounts Payable / Receivable) functions and provides lots of reports and lots of automation and great UX

Pros

Better pricing, better user interface and more functions as compared to QuickBooks (and all same functions are equally good but more intuitive)

Cons

Not much - possibly capturing expense receipts and better AI-driven logic to organize them by expense category could use improvement. Possibly more financial reports

Alternatives Considered

Mint and QuickBooks Enterprise

Reasons for Choosing FreshBooks

Better pricing and better user experience

Switched From

QuickBooks Online

Reasons for Switching to FreshBooks

Better pricing, better user experience, more reporting and customer support
Andrea
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  • Industry: Printing
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Freshbooks software

Reviewed on 2024/07/31

Pros

Ease of use, flexibility and the ability to personalize our templates

Cons

Payment options are limited and the rates are pretty high.

Alternatives Considered

QuickBooks Enterprise

Reasons for Switching to FreshBooks

Pricing was a big factor with regards to why we stayed with Freshbooks.
Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Oil & Energy
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

I had a line of tasks that was easy to perform.

Reviewed on 2024/05/06

It was a 50 and 50 where we saved time and money, we could follow up on an effective timeline where...

It was a 50 and 50 where we saved time and money, we could follow up on an effective timeline where in general we could have details of how much we spent in time and also in money in each process, on the other hand we delayed, we It was too disturbing not to be clear about everything since the situation required that we had to go through many accounting options that we did not use.

Pros

I handled a small part of the billing for the software, and according to this, since it was cheaper to do it that way, at that time I tracked the time of my development tasks since I had compatibility of those projects. This helps keep finances organized and makes it easier to know how much time I was dedicating to each development task. I know it wasn't the best technique to measure exactly what I was doing, but it worked perfectly.

Cons

As basically the program was oriented more towards accounting activities than towards general activities such as measuring the time of our development tasks, we were too disturbed by so many accounting options that we did not understand, which caused us to waste a lot of time and made the work situation difficult for us. long.

Response from FreshBooks

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If there's ever any additional feedback, feature suggestions or workflows you'd like to see in FreshBooks, please feel free to connect with our Support Team. Our Support Team can ensure any feedback is shared on your behalf. You can reach our team via this page: https://www.freshbooks.com/contact ^DM

Christina
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  • Industry: Hospitality
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

FreshBooks is a top-pick tool for invoicing and cash flow management.

Reviewed on 2024/12/18

We are having an incredible run of experience with FreshBooks. It has assisted us to keep our cash...

We are having an incredible run of experience with FreshBooks. It has assisted us to keep our cash flow in check at all times allowing us to know how money gets in and out. FreshBooks has been a key tool to helping us utilize our financial resources efficiently by helping us track our expenses. It also allows us to create incredible invoices for our clients.

Pros

It was easy for us to learn FreshBooks and how to optimumly utilize it to meet our accounting needs. The user interface is simple and the dashboard is clean and easy to navigate. FreshBooks has a powerful invoicing tool that allows us to create invoices and share them with ease. It also offer us financial reports that keep us up to speed with our financial performances. FreshBooks has reliable expenses monitoring tools that assist us in tracking our expenditure to ensure nothing goes beyond the stipulated budget.

Cons

So far, FreshBooks has provided us with everything we need. We have not found anything negative about it.

Lillian
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  • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great invoicing and time logging

Reviewed on 2024/10/24

It's been good. I like the invoicing ability.

It's been good. I like the invoicing ability.

Pros

I like that I can create an invoice from the time log quickly.

Cons

I do not like that I have to pay more for additional users.

Alternatives Considered

Clockify

Reasons for Switching to FreshBooks

Invoices are easier and time loggging is easier to track by client
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FreshBooks FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for FreshBooks.

FreshBooks offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: R 68.00/month
  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

Lite: R68/mth (first 6 mths) Plus: R120/mth (first 6 mths) Premium: R280/mth (first 6 mths)

FreshBooks has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50

FreshBooks supports the following languages:

English

FreshBooks supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

FreshBooks integrates with the following applications:

123FormBuilder, 2Ship, AWeber, ActiveCampaign, Acuity Scheduling, Adobe Commerce, Agile CRM, Apipheny, Approveit, Artichoke, Asana, Autotask PSA, Avalara, Basecamp, Bench, Bidsketch, BigCommerce, BillBjorn, Bitrix24, Braintree, Calendly, Campaign Monitor by Marigold, Capsule, CarbonPay Ctrl, Cash Flow Frog, CashFlowMapper, Chargezoom, Chaser, Checkeeper, Chrometa, ClicData, Clio, CollBox, Conduit, Constant Contact, Corpay, Devart ODBC Drivers, Dext, DocuSend, Dropbox Backup, Employment Hero, Eventbrite, Everhour, Excel Add-ins, Expensify, Expiration Reminder, Forekast, Formstack Forms, Freshdesk, Geckoboard, Gmail, GoSimpleTax, Google Calendar, Google Workspace, Gravity Forms, Gusto, HappyFox Help Desk, Highrise, HoneyBook, HubSpot CRM, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Hurdlr, Insightly, Intervals, Keap, Kissflow, Klips, Lendflow, Link4, LiveChat, MMC Receipt, Mailchimp, Mailform, Microsoft Outlook, MileageWise, MinuteDock, NiceJob, NurseBuddy, Online Check Writer, Partial.ly, PayPal, Payescape, Payment Evolution, Pegasys, Podia, ProWorkflow, Proposify, Prospero, Revamp CRM, RightSignature, Rydoo, Salesforce Sales Cloud, SherpaDesk, Shopify, Signpost, Skyvia, Slack, Solve CRM, Square Payments, Squarespace, Stripe, SurePayroll, Syft Analytics, Teachable, Teamwork.com, Todoist, Toggl Track, Trello, Universe, Viably, WellyBox, WooCommerce, WordPress, Wufoo, Yalla, Yearli, Zapier, Zendesk Suite, ZipRecruiter, Zoom Workplace, authorize.net, noCRM.io

FreshBooks offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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