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FreshBooks

Composite Score

7.8 /10

CX Score

8.0 /10

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What is FreshBooks?

FreshBooks is changing the way business owners manage their books. Its owner-first accounting platform, loved by businesses in over 160 countries, takes an easy-to-use approach to managing finances, billing, payments, and client engagement. FreshBooks, known for its 10x Stevie award winning customer support, serves customers of all sizes from offices in Canada, Croatia, Mexico, Netherlands, and the US.

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Awards & Recognition

FreshBooks won the following awards in the Accounting - Midmarket category

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Service Experience
Product Impact
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Latest Award, 2026

5 Top Rated Capabilities

10 Top Rated Features

2025

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Conflict Resolution

2025

6 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact

2024

5 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2023

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Product Impact

2023

5 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

2022

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2022

FreshBooks Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

85 Likeliness to Recommend

2
Since last award

95 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

77 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+96 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love FreshBooks?

5% Negative

2% Neutral

93% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Expense Management

Integration APIs

General Ledger Chart of Accounts

Accounts Receivable Invoicing

Cost Revenue Tracking

Accounts Payable Purchase Orders

Cash Flow Management

Project Accounting

Dashboards, Analytics and Reporting

Reconciliation

Budgeting Forecasting

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

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Score 8.2

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FreshBooks Reviews

Tricia C.

Role: Finance
Industry: Food and Beverage
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Sep 2021

A marvelous tool for accounting and billing.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates FreshBooks from other similar products?

FreshBooks is very important as it accepts online payments. This tool is reliable with processing and managing bills. It's very secure and simple to use.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It's simple to track and manage cash flows. It's easier to create and manage invoices with FreshBooks. It's simple to track time and expenses using this tool. Enables ease of preparing financial accounting reports.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I got nothing to complain as FreshBooks keeps me on top of accounting, billing and invoicing.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I consider FreshBooks as a more convenient tool for accounting, billing and invoicing compared to it's alternatives.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Shalom B.

Role: Finance
Industry: Education
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2021

Perfect interface

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates FreshBooks from other similar products?

It offers a lot more customizations for invoicing.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It is affordable. It has a very user-friendly interface. For service-based businesses, it makes it easier to send proposals, invoices and receive payments.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It lacks inventory management.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It is a great software for small businesses since it is affordable.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy
Unique Features

Samuel B.

Role: Finance
Industry: Education
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2021

Easy to use features

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates FreshBooks from other similar products?

The full invoice customization ability it offers to the users.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It is cloud-based. It is very easy to use especially in our service-based business, it makes it easy to send proposals and invoices, request deposits, collect client retainers, track time on projects, and receive payments.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It doesn't have an inventory management feature.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For anyone who will be looking for easy to use software, I would recommend this product.

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Unique Features
Effective Service

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Awards & Recognition

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

FreshBooks Ratings

85 Likeliness to Recommend

2 Since last award

95 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

77 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

2 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+96 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love FreshBooks?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Expense Management Includes all aspects of expense forms design, completion, submission, limits and compliance, and reporting.

Integration APIs Ability of the software to interface with legacy and other third party applications.

General Ledger Chart of Accounts The general ledger contains the organization’s accounts for recording assets, liabilities, revenue, and expenses.

Accounts Receivable Invoicing Record of claims for payment for goods or services provided. Usually includes a customer invoicing capability

Cost Revenue Tracking The process of recording, classifying, analyzing, summarizing, and allocating costs associated with a process

Accounts Payable Purchase Orders Record of debts owing for an organization. Sometimes includes a purchase order capability

Cash Flow Management Includes income and expense tracking, as well as cash flow monitoring.

Project Accounting Ability to track, report and analyse financial results and implications at an individual project level

Dashboards, Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting, forecasting & easy data extraction for data analysis.

Reconciliation Functionality that ensures that two sets of records (usually the balances of two accounts) are in agreement.

Budgeting Forecasting Functionality allowing users to create and maintain budgets and develop forecasts, “what-if” scenarios, etc

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

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Accounting - Small Business

FreshBooks Reviews

Tricia C.

A marvelous tool for accounting and billing.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Shalom B.

Perfect interface

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Samuel B.

Easy to use features

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Expense Management

Integration APIs

General Ledger Chart of Accounts

Accounts Receivable Invoicing

Cost Revenue Tracking

Accounts Payable Purchase Orders

Cash Flow Management

Project Accounting

Dashboards, Analytics and Reporting

Reconciliation

Budgeting Forecasting

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Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Customization

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Business Value Created

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Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement