FreshBooks Rocks!

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.

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