FreshBooks May Be Your Breath of Fresh Air
- FreshBooks is, in general, very user friendly, robust and uncomplicated.
- You have the ability to access FreshBooks via your mobile devices.
- FreshBooks has the ability for you to set up recurring expenses.
- You can track your work with the great timer that you can use online, on your phone or, if you're using a Mac, via a widget.
- Invoicing is very easy and professional.
- Integrates with PayPal for easy payments.
Cons
- FreshBooks isn't a full-service solution for your accounting/bookkeeping needs as it doesn't allow you to easily track income. You have to add in dummy accounts (which takes up client spots and counts against your total number of clients) and then manually add in the information.
- FreshBooks doesn't allow you to have staff members on your account unless you pay them at least $39.95 plus tax per month.
- In order to have no limit on the number of clients you have you have to pay at least $29.95 plus tax per month.
- Doesn't allow you to have your payments deposited into your bank account.
- Easy billing.
- Overall increased efficiency with bookkeeping.
- Great tool for creating estimates and tracking receipts.
- I use it to track all of my income and expenses.
- I use it to efficiently bill my clients.
- I use it to track the time I spend on each project.
- I've been able to use FreshBooks almost like a check register. This way I can see just how much money I'm making and spending.
- I use FreshBooks to also track income from Elance.com.
- I can see me using FreshBooks long-term because of how user-friendly and effective it is.
- If my company grows, so too will my dependence on FreshBooks to keep everything in order. Plus, if I added employees, I could easily do so AND track their time!
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