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Overview

What is FreeAgent?

FreeAgent is an cloud-based accounting system designed for small businesses and freelancers. FreeAgent supports many core accounting features and bank reconciliation, payroll, tax management, project level accounting, and multiple currency support. It is mobile-accessible, and integrates with many apps.

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Pricing

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FreeAgent

$13.50

Cloud
per month

FreeAgent

$135

Cloud
per year

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.freeagent.com/us/pricing/

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $13.50 per month
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Product Demos

Tony from FreeAgent will be giving us a live demo of FreeAgent Software (episode 8 Tech November)

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FreeAgent - Expenses Demo

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FreeAgent Client Demo

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2 Minute Demo FreeAgent via Iris OpenBooks

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How To File Your Expenses Demo With FreeAgent

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Iris OpenBooks FreeAgent Demo

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Features

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

8.6
Avg 7.5

Customization

This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.

6.5
Avg 7.7

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

8.5
Avg 8.1

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

6.7
Avg 7.7

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting

8.7
Avg 7.6

Inventory Management

The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.

7.4
Avg 7.5

Order Management

The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.

8.1
Avg 7.7
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Product Details

What is FreeAgent?

FreeAgent is an online accounting software designed specifically to meet the needs of small businesses, freelancers and their accountants.


FreeAgent helps businesses take care of their day-to-day admin, from managing expenses and running fully RTI-compliant payroll to creating and sending professional-looking estimates and invoices. It also allows businesses to keep track of their cash flow and profitability, showing who owes them money - and how much!.

FreeAgent also has a personalised ‘Tax Timeline’ of upcoming deadlines and amounts due, as well as the functionality to easily file VAT, RTI payroll and - for sole traders and limited company directors - Self Assessment tax returns directly to HMRC.


The vendor boasts around 100,000 customers currently using FreeAgent to manage their business accounts, with no confusing accounting jargon and with a team of support accountants on hand to help them stay on track.

FreeAgent Features

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting Features

  • Supported: Accounts payable
  • Supported: Accounts receivable
  • Supported: Cash management
  • Supported: Bank reconciliation
  • Supported: Expense management
  • Supported: Time tracking
  • Supported: Multi-currency support
  • Supported: Electronic tax filing

Reporting & Analytics Features

  • Supported: Dashboards
  • Supported: Standard reports

Customization Features

  • Supported: Plug-ins

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FreeAgent Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

FreeAgent is an cloud-based accounting system designed for small businesses and freelancers. FreeAgent supports many core accounting features and bank reconciliation, payroll, tax management, project level accounting, and multiple currency support. It is mobile-accessible, and integrates with many apps.

FreeAgent starts at $13.5.

Zoho Books, Xero, and QuickBooks Online are common alternatives for FreeAgent.

Reviewers rate Electronic tax filing highest, with a score of 9.5.

The most common users of FreeAgent are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

(1-5 of 9)

FreeAgent - my Finance Director!

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 16, 2016
GP
Vetted Review
Verified User
FreeAgent
2 years of experience
As a sole trader FreeAgent is my accounting rock and is used for everything from invoicing to VAT returns.
  • Consolidation of bank accounts. Easy to use and hassle free.
  • Data feed from bank accounts. Easy to get your bank account details into the system.
  • VAT returns are very easy. Just put in your details and Free agent works it all out for you and sends it to HMRC for you too.
Cons
  • If your customer pays you for a number of invoices in one payment it is a bit tricky to sort out. Once you know how it is OK but I did have to use the help desk a couple of times
I strongly recommend FreeAgent - it is so much better for me than other systems I have used in the past.

Free Agent is ace for UK freelancers

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 03, 2016
EM
Vetted Review
Verified User
FreeAgent
2 years of experience
As a freelancer, working on projects and also time based billing, FreeAgent has helped streamline client account management, time billing, invoicing and accounting. It is indispensable to the way my business operates.
  • Accounting! As you'd expect. Makes it much simpler andmore cost effective. In-coming and out-goings are recorded and assigned to projects and accounts. My accountant can access my books and reconcile so much more easily than trawling through spreadsheets.
  • Time billing - time spent on projects/client work is recorded and is ready to be invoiced as required. Saves so much time and prevents inaccuracies.
  • Invoicing - again, it should do this well and it does. Non payment reminders are automatic and clients have no excuses for not knowing the status of their account.
  • Account dashboard - gives me an instant overview of the health of the business (am I on track to meet my yearly targets) and my accounts.
Cons
  • When explaining bank transactions it's necessary to click the 'More Options' to add a receipt number.
  • Perhaps receipt numbering could be automatic.
FreeAgent is particularly suited to freelancers and SMEs that have project and/or time based billing.

Great Invoicing and project time management tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 01, 2015
AS
Vetted Review
Verified User
FreeAgent
2 years of experience
All staff members use FreeAgent to track time, bills and expenses on client projects. On a management level it allows us to keep track of invoices and banking.
  • Great time management features for client projects.
  • Easy quote and invoice production.
Cons
  • Reporting on financials, time tracking and project status is a little poor. It's adequate for what what we need, but would be great to see more advanced features.
  • API is quite closed so cannot integrate with our other project management tools.
FreeAgent is great for all levels of companies to can manage payroll, quotes, invoicing and time allowance for projects. If you are quite a large company, then I would recommend speaking to them to help you set up the account.

Love FreeAgent and the helpful FreeAgent team!!

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 16, 2016
The business problems it addresses are spending too much time managing record keeping and being unsure about how something should be recorded - all things of the past with FreeAgent.
  • Invoicing is a breeze, with some very useful and user-friendly features to help manage late payers.
  • Bank feeds work perfectly, making bank reconciliation incredibly easy.
  • When unsure, and what makes FreeAgent stand well ahead of its competitors, is absolutely amazing support - fast, effective and just plain helpful beyond expectations.
Cons
  • There's very little FreeAgent doesn't do, but if you spot something it can usually be added or there is another way - remittance advices are one area I would like to see added.
  • The newly introduced smartphone app, like most other software provides in this market, is quite restricting. Having a mobile responsive website makes those restrictions disappear.
There are very few examples I can think of where FreeAgent is not THE answer. One client chose not to use it as their payroll currently tracks job costs. I therefore understand the complexities of the client's needs before confirming FreeAgent is my recommendation.

FreeAgent - great bookkeeping software for small businesses

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 31, 2024
MJ
Vetted Review
Verified User
FreeAgent
4 years of experience
I use FreeAgent on a daily basis, reconciling the bank accounts of our clients and keeping the books up to date. It helps me ensuring that I have up to date information about my clients and I don't need to worry about making backups of the data. It helps me also that I can do this work from anywhere in the world, especially when I travel for longer period of time, or when I need to work from home.
  • Bank reconciliation
  • Trade debtors
  • Taking payments from clients
  • Multicurrency support
  • Exporting data to TaxCalc
Cons
  • Multi-level reporting with many subcategories
  • Stock control
  • Purchase orders and approval process of purchase invoices
  • Link with our payroll provider, 12cloudpayroll.com
It is a very good software and free to use for [...] bank customers. It is suitable for most of our small business clients, for both sole traders and limited companies. We are also implementing FreeAgent for landlords and it is very useful in this regard as well. More complex businesses may find the features to be little bit limited.
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