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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    FreshBooks

    Score9.2 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    FreshBooks is an accounting service for small businesses. The solution enables users to send and manage invoices, track billable time and collect online payments. The vendor’s value proposition this that their solution provides a straightforward service that simplifies the billing process.

    $21

    per month

    UKG Pro

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AUKG delivers cloud-based HCM solutions including UKG Pro that help businesses simplify payroll computations, accelerate talent acquisition, manage time and attendance, and support proactive, strategic talent management on a global level.N/A
    Pricing
    FreshBooksUKG Pro
    Editions & Modules
    Lite
    $21
    per month
    Plus
    $38
    per month
    Premium
    $65
    per month
    Select
    Custom Pricing
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FreshBooksUKG Pro
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details10% discount for annual pricing.—
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    Features
    FreshBooksUKG Pro
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of FreshBooks and UKG Pro
    Feature
    FreshBooks
    9.1
    35 Ratings
    18% above category average
    UKG Pro
    -
    Ratings
    API for custom integration9.330 Ratings00 Ratings
    Plug-ins9.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of FreshBooks and UKG Pro
    Feature
    FreshBooks
    10.0
    41 Ratings
    20% above category average
    UKG Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Single sign-on capability10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions10.041 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of FreshBooks and UKG Pro
    Feature
    FreshBooks
    7.5
    57 Ratings
    4% below category average
    UKG Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards9.057 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports8.855 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports4.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
    Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of FreshBooks and UKG Pro
    Feature
    FreshBooks
    7.5
    56 Ratings
    2% below category average
    UKG Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Accounts payable8.041 Ratings00 Ratings
    Accounts receivable9.455 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cash management7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bank reconciliation7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expense management6.651 Ratings00 Ratings
    Time tracking7.642 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-currency support7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Regulations compliance6.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service portal9.13 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order Management
    Comparison of Order Management features of FreshBooks and UKG Pro
    Feature
    FreshBooks
    9.5
    49 Ratings
    25% above category average
    UKG Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Pricing8.839 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order entry9.337 Ratings00 Ratings
    Credit card processing9.741 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost of goods sold10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Human Resource Management
    Comparison of Human Resource Management features of FreshBooks and UKG Pro
    Feature
    FreshBooks
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.8
    955 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.5865 Ratings
    Employment history00 Ratings8.2890 Ratings
    Job profiles and administration00 Ratings8.0861 Ratings
    Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings7.5842 Ratings
    Organizational charting00 Ratings7.2755 Ratings
    Organization and location management00 Ratings8.0768 Ratings
    Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings7.3606 Ratings
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of FreshBooks and UKG Pro
    Feature
    FreshBooks
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.9
    869 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Pay calculation00 Ratings8.0823 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings7.6414 Ratings
    Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings8.0328 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration00 Ratings7.5739 Ratings
    Direct deposit files00 Ratings8.3809 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings8.1667 Ratings
    Reimbursement management00 Ratings8.057 Ratings
    Leave and Attendance Management
    Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of FreshBooks and UKG Pro
    Feature
    FreshBooks
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.6
    677 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Approval workflow00 Ratings7.5603 Ratings
    Balance details00 Ratings7.6633 Ratings
    Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings7.6524 Ratings
    Employee Self Service
    Comparison of Employee Self Service features of FreshBooks and UKG Pro
    Feature
    FreshBooks
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.8
    922 Ratings
    6% below category average
    View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings8.0889 Ratings
    Update personal information00 Ratings8.2894 Ratings
    View company policy documentation00 Ratings7.7659 Ratings
    Employee recognition00 Ratings7.1346 Ratings
    View job history00 Ratings8.0873 Ratings
    Asset Management
    Comparison of Asset Management features of FreshBooks and UKG Pro
    Feature
    FreshBooks
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.6
    233 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings7.6233 Ratings
    HR Reporting
    Comparison of HR Reporting features of FreshBooks and UKG Pro
    Feature
    FreshBooks
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.0
    857 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Report builder00 Ratings7.2831 Ratings
    Pre-built reports00 Ratings7.2846 Ratings
    Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings6.6590 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of FreshBooks and UKG Pro
    Feature
    FreshBooks
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.8
    651 Ratings
    3% below category average
    New hire portal00 Ratings8.1644 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools00 Ratings7.5523 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of FreshBooks and UKG Pro
    Feature
    FreshBooks
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.4
    443 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Corporate goal setting00 Ratings7.3349 Ratings
    Individual goal setting00 Ratings7.4422 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings7.5303 Ratings
    Performance tracking00 Ratings7.5391 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of FreshBooks and UKG Pro
    Feature
    FreshBooks
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.4
    548 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Performance plans00 Ratings7.5490 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans00 Ratings6.9387 Ratings
    Review status tracking00 Ratings7.6504 Ratings
    Review reminders00 Ratings7.5474 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency00 Ratings7.5398 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of FreshBooks and UKG Pro
    Feature
    FreshBooks
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.1
    239 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings6.8192 Ratings
    Candidate ranking00 Ratings7.3206 Ratings
    Candidate search00 Ratings7.5210 Ratings
    Candidate development00 Ratings7.0190 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of FreshBooks and UKG Pro
    Feature
    FreshBooks
    -
    Ratings
    UKG Pro
    7.4
    537 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Job Requisition Management00 Ratings7.5505 Ratings
    Company Website Posting00 Ratings7.4496 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media00 Ratings7.1393 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings7.3458 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings7.1388 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking00 Ratings7.6493 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings7.5458 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    FreshBooksUKG Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (75 ratings)
    8.0
    (1097 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.6
    (18 ratings)
    10.0
    (197 ratings)
    Usability
    9.6
    (20 ratings)
    7.9
    (334 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (76 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (333 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (11 ratings)
    7.6
    (496 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (88 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (206 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (87 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (78 ratings)
    CPA Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.9
    (68 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (95 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (57 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (50 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FreshBooksUKG Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    FreshBooks
    I recommend FreshBooks to anyone running a service-based business that needs invoicing, time reporting, and accounting tools. FB is adept in all three of these scenarios and isn't overly complicated like similar accounting packages I have used. I love how I can write estimates and proposals, manage the business development process from the software, and quickly convert prospects to invoiced clients.
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    UKG
    I feel UKG Pro has been so horribly rolled out at the City of Houston. I'm amazed that, as a system administrator, it even works at all. In my opinion, the greatest expense the city has budgeted is managed by a shoe-string, janky, bug-ridden mess. I truly hope UKG is bought out for 2 cents and scattered to dust. In my opinion, terrible maintenance and support, the worst consultants money can buy, the sleaziest sales accountants. This system tries my patience as a lead system administrator and I would caution anyone considering bringing in this mess to their business. It's been a year now, and we still have workarounds and bugs daily.
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    Pros
    FreshBooks
    • Invoicing - FreshBooks basically ensures our accountants spend less time on invoices via its automated invoicing system, which sends invoices to our customers and clients alike and also send them regular reminders for them to pay up their bills.
    • Collecting business insights - FreshBooks enable our company analysts measure our business performances via data reports provided by FreshBooks' intuitive dashboard. Allowing us do a comparative analysis of key business metrics of a current month against past months and determine if the business is growing.
    • Expense tracker - We have recently embraced FreshBooks as an expense tracker for teams at our company branch. Thusfar, FreshBooks has performed very well, making our expense management a perfect operation; ensuring teams do not exceed their planned budget and also eliminating the need for tracking expenses on excel spreadsheets.
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    UKG
    • UKG has an amazing support team to reach out to if assistance is needed
    • All add-ons of UKG Pro integrate seamlessly making it a powerful software program
    • UKG Pro is very configurable to meet the specific needs of companies
    • It is easy to use and navigate
    • The mobile app is loved by all employees and provides on-demand access
    • The Ultimate Community is amazing!! On-demand information on all products and how they are used. Connect with other companies that use UKG Pro and learn from each other.
    • The Learning Centre is also amazing!! Learning right at your fingertips anytime, anywhere.
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    Cons
    FreshBooks
    • I can brand invoices with my business logo, but I might like to change colours of the invoices themselves to match the rest of my business documents. That isn't a major point at all, but it's something that I'd like to see.
    • Freshbooks doesn't remember the categories that similar expenses were previously assigned to. It would be nice if Freshbooks would suggest a category for an already saved vendor, to ensure the consistency of expense reporting.
    • The home page of a Freshbooks account has a great graph display of expenses and income, but it only shows the last 6 months. This is still very useful, but I'd like to be able to see this kind of graph for different periods of time.
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    UKG
    • Teachers that are hard functionality. Okay. I would say the most issues that we've had is the admins or the HR department losing their access and it throws us for a loop. It's like, what happened? What's going on? So that's the main thing. And then some of our employees struggle with the hourly employees try to struggle with timekeeping as in clocking in and clocking out. But we got that resolved. Thank you UKG Pro. And our employees are happy again. I would recommend UKG Pro.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    FreshBooks
    At the current needs of our business, FreshBooks suits us perfectly - it allows online access by our accountant to the system for GST purposes, easy input of expenses and tracking of Profit and Loss statements. FreshBooks customer service is great as well - very understanding and accommodating.
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    UKG
    We have been a customer since 2015, we have gone to market and find that UKG Pro product is both user friendly for administrators as well as the employee. The qualify of support and service of UKG team is valued and we trust the product.
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    Usability
    FreshBooks
    FreshBooks is very easy to use even for novices. If you're looking for an online accounting software that is full of features, has great aesthetics and is user-friendly, then this is definitely the software for you. I've been using it for several years now and despite being tempted to switch by other vendors, I like the feel of FreshBooks and it's mobile features.
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    UKG
    It gets the job done, but not with a few deep sighs. Once you know where stuff lives, it's manageable, but the first learning curve is steep, some menus feel buried. However, it's consistent, reliable and doesn't crash on me, which counts for a lot. With a little UI glow up it could push into a 9 zone.
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    Reliability and Availability
    FreshBooks
    FreshBooks is easy to use and always works!
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    UKG
    For the most part UltiPro has been reliable, but it could definitely be better. There have been several notable server issues where we were unable to access the product or unable to utilize some of the features. Customer support is usually quick to respond to questions about these issues, but they do not proactively reach out to customers whose environments have been effected by outages
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    Performance
    FreshBooks
    No answers on this topic
    UKG
    Normally UKG Pro loads quickly. We had been having major issues with reports running in a timely manner but recently they broke out our virtual server to another instance where is wasn't sharing resources and that seems to have helped reporting run more efficiently.
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    Support Rating
    FreshBooks
    I think the support level for FreshBooks is on par with a 6 because the folks behind this application do a fairly good job at providing support for their customer base. I still don't think they are at an elite level when it comes to supporting but are getting there although too slow in my opinion.
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    UKG
    The quality of UKG Support is related directly to the UKG rep. who handles the issue. In some cases you get someone who really is good at supporting the product and others may not have as much experience and it shows
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    In-Person Training
    FreshBooks
    No answers on this topic
    UKG
    I've been to a few in-person (hands on) training sessions and it is very similar to the online classes. You have the same reference material to look back on after the training. So regardless of in person training or online you really get the same thing.
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    Online Training
    FreshBooks
    No answers on this topic
    UKG
    Most of the online training was very generic (to be expected) but we had specific requirements for configuration that could have been better addressed with more individual sessions earlier on from our project team. However, we did finally begin booking training sessions with our implementation team which were recorded, and so provided additional information for how to correctly configure and test the system.
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    Implementation Rating
    FreshBooks
    I haven't changed my mind since my first evaluation. Freshbooks is still meeting my needs, easy to use, etc.
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    UKG
    Make sure you have all of your tax account information with all the states you are registered in available and that you are knowledgeable about the filing status, frequency, etc. We had some unique challenges with our state unemployment tax set up that I was not aware of and needed to be addressed prior to going live. Working with the state unemployment office can be a challenge.
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    Alternatives Considered
    FreshBooks
    FreshBooks does very well in comparison, especially since it is free software for Barclays bank users. Sage software is much worse than FreshBooks. However, Xero and QuickBooks, the market leaders, are still ahead with usability, additional features, reporting, and connection with third-party software providers. We chose FreshBooks as it does everything we require from this type of software.
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    UKG
    We used ADP WFN prior to switching to UKG. We interviewed three different payroll companies to see what our options were. UKG stood out and aligned with our company values. The sales team was very helpful and asked questions about what we were currently doing and how they could assist with simplifying things. I personally had a side meeting with them to see if there were options for a process that we manually process and if UKG could actually eliminate the process. We came to the conclusion that we weren't able to get it 100%, but we could pull 80% of what we needed from UKG, and then we would only need to manipulate 20% of the information. It was also determined from that meeting that we wouldn't need to pay extra to have a special report built. The customer service is what we were sold on. The other companies that we looked at didn't give us the confidence that their customer service would be any better than what we previously had.
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    Scalability
    FreshBooks
    No answers on this topic
    UKG
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    Return on Investment
    FreshBooks
    • In reality, we do not implement all of its use at the moment in order to determine an adequate ROI.
    • In our approach to the use of the system, it seems to us a considerable time saving by achieving the integration of the Mexican subsidiary with its parent located in the US.
    • Financial reports meet the necessary USGAAP requirements.
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    UKG
    • My company acquired another company, and with a UKG partner, we were able to bring them online in UKG within two months of the acquisition date.
    • When COVID sent us remote, we could configure custom fields to track vaccination status.
    • The C-suite can get custom reports done in minutes, or ours, where our previous HRIS would have taken days to accomplish, as data would have had to have been exported to Excel and then manipulated inside Excel.
    • UKG has allowed to go virtual paper free as both a candidate and employee.
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    ScreenShots

    FreshBooks Screenshots

    Screenshot of the dashboardScreenshot of an invoice overviewScreenshot of an example of a customizable invoiceScreenshot of an invoice appearing across devicesScreenshot of expensesScreenshot of time tracking

    UKG Pro Screenshots

    Screenshot of included workforce analytics.Screenshot of the payroll gateway.