I love
FreshBooks!
FreshBooks is a web-based invoicing/billing application.
It has been a few months since I started using FreshBooks and I really love it. Not that I have done a lot of invoicing -- I have a small number of great clients -- but the invoicing I have done has been a pleasure. Yep, a pleasure.
The other day, I finished a job for a customer and he asked if he could pay -- of course I was happy to accept. While he wrote the cheque out, I logged into FreshBooks, recorded the time and created the invoice. He handed me the cheque and asked if I could send him the invoice. With a huge smile, I said, "It is in your inbox".
The thought of using QuickBooks for my IT consulting business was not something I was excited about. I wanted something simple and something I could run on
Ubuntu. FreshBooks is simple and being Internet based, I can use it on Windows, Mac or Linux machines.
FreshBooks boasts many useful features. Some of the ones I use:
- Easy time tracking (with a timer).
- Email invoicing.
- Automated email reminders to customers.
- Expense tracking
- Customers can pay online
- Down & dirty profit & loss statements
They got me hooked when I tried the free account which allowed me to bill up to three clients.
If you are tired of creating invoices in a word processor and keeping track of them in a spreadsheet, you definitely need to check out
FreshBooks.
For the first time ever, I participated as beta-tester and the sneak peak at a great operating system has been worth the work. I have been getting very excited to roll out the finished product to my clients who are using Ubuntu.
