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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86 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
+98 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?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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Project Accounting
Dashboards, Analytics and Reporting
Expense Management
Integration APIs
Cost Revenue Tracking
General Ledger Chart of Accounts
Accounts Receivable Invoicing
Accounts Payable Purchase Orders
Cash Flow Management
Budgeting Forecasting
Reconciliation
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Ease of Data Integration
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Business Value Created
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Usability and Intuitiveness
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Availability and Quality of Training
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FreshBooks Reviews
Andrew K.
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2022
Excellent to keeping track of a project
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates FreshBooks from other similar products?
The general ledger is quite useful when it comes to bank reconciliation. Excellent when it comes to keeping track of a project's finances. For financial reporting, it's a great tool.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
FreshBooks handles all of your company's financial and accounting needs in an efficient and effective manner. FreshBooks helps me with all of the paperwork that I have to handle for my business as a graphic designer, making it a lot easier to manage my payroll and bills.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It may be easier to use if it were made more user-friendly. I'm a little overwhelmed by the sheer number of options. You may use FreshBooks to manage all elements of your accounting, but there is always opportunity for improvement and upgrading.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
To keep things running smoothly, keep an eye on all invoices and payments. You may count on it if you have a strong team and fast communication. Exceptional at simplifying the administration of job processes. Everything about this app is excellent.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Cons
- Charges for Enhancements
Tawanda S.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Not for Profit
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Apr 2022
Practical and well thought-out accounts solution
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates FreshBooks from other similar products?
Its customer centric and offers friendly terms of purchase. I like that I got an opportunity to test Freshbooks on mobile for my personal business and I loved it.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The cloud repository makes it a bookkeeping solution of the times. You can work from anywhere as long as you have internet connection. I also loved the Frshbook mobile application, It's really great for on the go report viewing. The dashboard is also very intuitive and useful.
What do you dislike most about this product?
That is a little left behind on handling a huge database. I wish it could be scaled up to meet the demands of a growing and multi-regional company
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I will highly recommend for small to medium sized companies. The pricing arrangement is great and affordable by many. From as little as FREE 30 day trial, $15 per user per month (and lots of promotional deals).
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
Tricia C.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Food and Beverage
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2021
A marvelous tool for accounting and billing.
Likeliness to Recommend
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
