Comments on: FreshBooks a go go

By: James

James — Tue, 31 May 2011 06:50:38 +0000

Xero doesn’t get a mention in the accounting addon section anymore? In fact all references to Xero throughout the site have been removed.
Does this mean that Freshbooks is starting to see Xero as more of a competitor?

By: Ashley Hart

Ashley Hart — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:57:56 +0000

@Matt
Hi, I am considering using Harvest for Invoicing.
How you get the data back in to Xero?
Do you do export it in some way?

Cheers Ash

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:32:04 +0000

We tried Freshbooks for 3 months. The integration with Xero is great, but the reporting was surprisingly poor. Also the difficultly of end of month invoicing also lets it down. We moved to Harvest (www.getharvest.com) which offers much better reporting across a number of key metrics, the end of month invoicing is not much better but improvements are supposedly in the pipeline. Harvest is not integrated with Xero, but overall has provided a better solution for tracking time, project ROI and employee productivity.

By: Catherine Walker

Catherine Walker — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:48:35 +0000

@Maury, you’re not missing anything at all. We set up the integration between Xero and FreshBooks as many clients using Xero requested that their invoices be imported into Xero for reporting and accounting purposes. FreshBooks is a great time-tracking and billing/invoicing product whereas Xero is a full online accounting system and part of that does include customer and supplier invoicing. So depending on what you want you can use one or other or both!
Regards, Catherine

By: Maury Cocoa

Maury Cocoa — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:20:43 +0000

I’m confused… why do I even need Freshbooks if Xero has all the same capabilities? Am I missing something?

By: Rod Drury

Rod Drury — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:24:03 +0000

Hi Adrian, Freshbooks does a bunch of other good stuff but yes we will have a different invoices formats in the next few months. This is one of our most requested features and we look forward to getting it out the door.

Rod

By: Adrian Pearson

Adrian Pearson — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:44:27 +0000

I am considering signing-up for Freshbooks mainly because I need to invoice for several different trading styles from Xero (i.e with different logos). In Xero I would have to keep changing the logo file on the Invoice Settings page, which is obviously a real pain.

However, if the ability to have multiple invoice styles is on the Xero roadmap, I will avoid the Freshbooks complication. Are there any plans?

By: Dirk Kelly

Dirk Kelly — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:54:20 +0000

Thanks guys, been looking forward to going back to my pretty Freshbooks invoices.

Great work all around with xero.