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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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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…

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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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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 7.5

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 8.2

Reporting & Analytics

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

6.7
Avg 7.8

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

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

8.7
Avg 7.7

Inventory Management

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

7.4
Avg 7.2

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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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.

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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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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fantastic software

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 11, 2015
CC
Vetted Review
Verified User
FreeAgent
1 year of experience
FreeAgent is used by everyone. Most have limited access and can only raise invoices.
  • Very easy to raise an invoice. Even one of my staff who hates IT can do it.
  • All my bank transactions are downloaded automatically. Makes checking banking very easy.
Cons
  • Not really found any yet. I'm most happy so far. Any problems - their help system is amazing.
FreeAgent is great for small outfits. I think larger companies might think twice.

Awesome accounting software for awesome people!

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 27, 2016
TE
Vetted Review
Verified User
FreeAgent
1 year of experience
I use FreeAgent every day to produce estimates, create invoices and follow the payment through to my bank account. I process VAT, payroll and all my expenses through it as well and have been really impressed with it. I have used it ever since I started my company and couldn't see myself running the business as I do at the moment without it. My accountant also has access to the back-end data and can produce all the necessary reports straight out of the software without me having to worry about it.
  • Producing estimates/proposals and allowing you to easily convert them into invoices and then follow it all through to payment.
  • Keeping tabs of all my expenses and payments.
  • Producing the necessary documentation for VAT returns and Self Assesements.
Cons
  • I am looking forward to the Android app being launched.
  • Being able to produce more in depth proposals which aren't just itemised accounts would be great.
Its great for a business where you quote and then invoice on a job-by-job basis which is why it works well for me.

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.

Accounting software for people that don't like acocunts

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 04, 2015
ND
Vetted Review
Verified User
FreeAgent
4 years of experience

I work through a limited company, VAT registered and I do my own PAYE to keep accountant costs down and to allow me to have a good handle on what's going on.

I do occasionally have other people helping me out with the work and they will also go on the payroll for a limited period of time.
  • VAT returns are filed electronically, after prompts and auto generated
  • RTI returns filed automatically for payroll
  • Prompts or future bills such as corporation tax, VAT payments etc
Cons
  • Investments such as stocks and shares or commodities
  • Sometimes it will guess account entries incorrectly and will always assume it knows which way you want to take money out of the company (dividend/expense/salary)
I'm a busy IT contractor and I'm disinterested in spending time on my accounts. FreeAgent allows you to upload your bank statements, it has a best guess at applying it to the accounts, you then attach scanned receipts and that's about all you need to do to keep things going.

You can file your payroll and your VAT returns electronically. I can give permission to my accountant to download accounts annually. Dividends and expenses are handled as well as reminders for both overdue invoices and filing returns and additionally it will forecast corporation tax and other bills.

There are limits, such as investments and subsidiaries, but it will do the vast bulk of work with ease.

The support, although only by email, is prompt and helpful.

If you don't know much about accounts and don't like spending time on them I think most independent consultants can benefit substantially by using these guys.

FreeAgent - great software for micro businesses and sole traders.

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 29, 2024
DJ
Vetted Review
Verified User
FreeAgent
4 years of experience
We use FreeAgent on a daily basis for our practice and for our clients. It offers live cloud accounting solutions, that produces statutory accounts and HMRC tax returns for limited companies and for sole traders. It links with various bank accounts and imports bank transactions on a daily basis, that then can be easily categorised by FreeAgent. For an accountant it gives nice reminders and warnings if the client data is not up to scratch. Great incentive to use it is a free subscription for Mettle customers.
  • Bank feed
  • Auto categorisation of bank transactions
  • Produces accounts and tax returns
  • Multiple clients on one page
Cons
  • Unusual transactions can be tricky to categorise
  • Non-allowable capital allowances require quite a workaround
  • Trial balance could be more flexible, especially balance sheet
For micro and small business it is a great solution. The new requirements for MTD for landlords could also be met with this software. Groups and more complex businesses could not use the accounts and tax returns features, however they still could use it for bookkeeping and then export the data to other tax and accounts production software.
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