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After much deliberation about whether or not to use one of the many fancy online invoicing apps available to make my life that little bit easier, I ended up giving FreshBooks a go…
…and so far I’ve been very impressed, as have the people on the other end of my invoices. But that’s a whole other post I need to write. This one’s just a little one to big-up the boys and girls who work at FreshBooks who listen to what their customers want and act on it – a rare thing indeed.
I was one of the many folks who asked for Google Checkout (the search giant’s answer to the seemingly ubiquitous PayPal) to be supported as an online payment option for the invoices I send via FreshBooks – and the powers that be made it happen.
There were already plenty of other options in there – big names like authorize.net and PayPal etc – but they take a much much larger commission per transaction than Google do, were therefore much less attractive and I never bothered looking into them. Google Checkout still takes a cut, but it’s tiny in comparison and I’m more than happy to sacrifice a few quid in exchange for the convenience of not having to cash as many cheques.
Hey All
I have been using the services of http://www.invoicera.com for quite sometime now and they are coming up with the new Invoicera with features like time-tracking, expense tracking, import function, and much more. Check out their blog at http://www.invoicera.com/blog for updates
Cheers!!!
Freshbooks is a great application. Everything about them seems just perfect. Of course it has some drawbacks also. I myself use it for my business invoicing needs. But for freelancers who are looking for inexpensive online invoicing application I suggest http://www.invoicera.com/. It is free to use and provides the best of features.
Cheers
Amanda
Hi Amanda. I’ll check out invoicera, I haven’t heard of that one before. I looked around at loads of invoicing apps before finally deciding on Freshbooks though, a lot of them totally free too, but they all had more cons than pro’s for me so I decided to pony up the cash and give Freshbooks a try.
:) Hey Rich.
In this case TPTB are me and Grace. We make fools of ourselves daily. :)
http://forum.freshbooks.com/viewtopic.php?pid=16084#p16084
Zach Aysan — Market Intelligence, FreshBooks.com
Aww, shucks. Thanks for giving us props for doing our job! ; ) Honestly, the whole team here just promises to listen to our customers — simple as that. We never know right away whether or not feature requests will be implemented, but the more feedback we get about something, the more obvious it is where we need to place our priorities!
Google Checkout is just one example of this. Thanks to folks like you, we’ve been working on this for a long time. And, we’re so glad there was a happy ending this time!
And, my friend, you know how to hyperlink like the best of them! This is an awesome post. Consider me impressed : )
Rayanne Langdon — Marketing Coordinator, FreshBooks.com
Wow – looks like someone’s using Google Alerts. Either that or you guys personally stalk every one of your customers on-line – which I think would be taking the customer service a little too far :)
Haha. Well, I am a friend to a Google Alert here and there ; ) But, you know, I didn’t actually catch this post that way. Want to know my not-so-secret secret?
I was reading the comments on our blog post about Google Checkout and saw this trackback. Ta da! Heh. I love teh Internetz.