I became aware of this product today as an alternative to using Quickbooks. Are any of you familar with it? If so, I would appreciate your opinion and how it compares to QuickBooks.  I always recommend QuickBooks Pro to my startup clients.

@trudy
@deairby 

I haven’t used Quickbooks for about 7 years. I am currently using Freshbooks.

Quickbooks is a much more sophisticated piece of software and offers a lot more features than Freshbooks so I guess it depends on what your needs are.

I’m a freelance front-end web developer and I use Freshbooks to track my time and send out invoices. I can set up clients, projects and contractors. Clients can pay emailed invoices using paypal. Works great for me, but I’m pretty small and don’t need all of Quickbooks features.

You can set up an account for free and take a test dirve. They have an attractive intuitive interface that you can customize with your logo and colors.

cheers!
Jules

@juleswebb Thanks for that info.

As a small business consultant I try to keep abreast of things like this so I can recommend them to my small start up clients.

Are you able to get any financial reports, like Profit and Loss and can it be exported to excel or some other format?   @deairby

I do get P & L , well my accountant did. She could get it simply or complicatedly… not sure about exporting it. @trudy

@deairby - I’m guessing your accountant is not doing this through freshbooks.

@trudy - sounds to me like you’re looking for accounting software like Quickbook. I think Freshbooks is more of a billing and time tracking software. They say say they organize expenses, but I from my perspective that’s about tracking contracting services you outsource to not material items you purchase. 

I haven’t looked, but I be willing to bet there is an addon of some sort that enables you to import your income and “expenses” from freshbooks into quickbooks.