Know what you are buying first
November 02, 2023

Know what you are buying first

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with FreshBooks

Our main use for FreshBooks is invoicing and estimates, linking with our credit union is very spotty so not reliable enough to do any actual accounting. We do still use for keeping track of total sales, and categorized sales. We do also utilize their online payment processing and payment logging features.
  • User friendly interface
  • quick reports
  • dashboard
  • Mobile app
  • partial invoicing
  • payments
  • included services
  • mobile card swiper costs extra
  • bank transfers take longer to deposit then what you are told
  • invoicing has issues
In my experience, quickbooks customer service was terrible, and program was very complicated to use. We switched to FreshBooks to simplify day to day use.

Do you think FreshBooks delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with FreshBooks's feature set?

No

Did FreshBooks live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of FreshBooks go as expected?

No

Would you buy FreshBooks again?

No

Part of our move to FreshBooks was the lower monthly cost over quickbooks, but quickly learned to get the same amenities as quickbooks, In my experience, FreshBooks will just nickel and dime you for each little feature and end up costing more.

In my opinion, the mobile app is garbage, basically only good for looking up customer information on the go.

FreshBooks recently changed their bank transfer payment policy to hold onto your money for what they say is 5 business days. They did this with no notice to my knowledge, which was a switch from next day payments. currently it is taking 8 days from the customer paying to us actually getting paid.

Sending invoices through email always causes us issues with customers since, in my experience, FreshBooks makes it always appear that your are invoicing the total amount to the customers, the customer needs to open the invoice to see how much they are actually being invoiced.

FreshBooks Feature Ratings

Accounts payable
Not Rated
Accounts receivable
Not Rated
Expense management
Not Rated
Time tracking
Not Rated
Regulations compliance
Not Rated
Pricing
Not Rated
Order entry
Not Rated
Credit card processing
3
Dashboards
7
Standard reports
7
Not Rated
API for custom integration
Not Rated
Plug-ins
Not Rated
Not Rated
Role-based user permissions
Not Rated