Comments on: The joys of invoicing – can Freshbooks help? http://www.picnet.net/blog/2008/01/29/the-joys-of-invoicing-%e2%80%93-can-freshbooks-help/ All the PICnet news that's fit to print. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:33:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Ryan Ozimek http://www.picnet.net/blog/2008/01/29/the-joys-of-invoicing-%e2%80%93-can-freshbooks-help/#comment-98999 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:17:56 +0000 http://www.picnet.net/blog/2008/01/29/the-joys-of-invoicing-%e2%80%93-can-freshbooks-help/#comment-98999 @Daniel: thanks for visiting and responding, great to hear right from the Freshbooks team! The API would be critical for our developers to review, and you can be sure we'll be doing so. @Mark: we use Intuit Merchant Service, so I'm going to look into the Online Billing Solutions now too. Thanks for the tips folks! -Ryan @Daniel: thanks for visiting and responding, great to hear right from the Freshbooks team! The API would be critical for our developers to review, and you can be sure we’ll be doing so.

@Mark: we use Intuit Merchant Service, so I’m going to look into the Online Billing Solutions now too.

Thanks for the tips folks!

-Ryan

]]> by: Dante http://www.picnet.net/blog/2008/01/29/the-joys-of-invoicing-%e2%80%93-can-freshbooks-help/#comment-98970 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:53:35 +0000 http://www.picnet.net/blog/2008/01/29/the-joys-of-invoicing-%e2%80%93-can-freshbooks-help/#comment-98970 1. On both your Invoices and Sales Receipts there is feature that allows you to mark the invoice to be e-mailed. 2. Invoices and Sales Receipts in PDF can't get any easier for distribution. Adobe Reader is freely available and nearly everyone has it on their computer. 3. Like Mark says Intuit offers a service called QuickBooks Billing Solutions. It's online and password-protected for your clients and will show their billing history with your company. I recently signed up for an account with FreshBooks to check it out. After reviewing its features I believe it's nice for what it does but ultimately fails to serve the higher purposes of accounting. 1. On both your Invoices and Sales Receipts there is feature that allows you to mark the invoice to be e-mailed.

2. Invoices and Sales Receipts in PDF can’t get any easier for distribution. Adobe Reader is freely available and nearly everyone has it on their computer.

3. Like Mark says Intuit offers a service called QuickBooks Billing Solutions. It’s online and password-protected for your clients and will show their billing history with your company.

I recently signed up for an account with FreshBooks to check it out. After reviewing its features I believe it’s nice for what it does but ultimately fails to serve the higher purposes of accounting.

]]> by: Mark Thompson http://www.picnet.net/blog/2008/01/29/the-joys-of-invoicing-%e2%80%93-can-freshbooks-help/#comment-98895 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:31:34 +0000 http://www.picnet.net/blog/2008/01/29/the-joys-of-invoicing-%e2%80%93-can-freshbooks-help/#comment-98895 There is an available add-on for QuickBooks called Online Billing Solutions that will allow you to send invoices directly from the program. It works well by itself, buut even better with if you combine it with Intuit's Merchant Service. I hope this helps, Mark There is an available add-on for QuickBooks called Online Billing Solutions that will allow you to send invoices directly from the program. It works well by itself, buut even better with if you combine it with Intuit’s Merchant Service.

I hope this helps,

Mark

]]> by: Daniel Tsang http://www.picnet.net/blog/2008/01/29/the-joys-of-invoicing-%e2%80%93-can-freshbooks-help/#comment-98842 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:39:54 +0000 http://www.picnet.net/blog/2008/01/29/the-joys-of-invoicing-%e2%80%93-can-freshbooks-help/#comment-98842 Hi there, This is Daniel from FreshBooks and thanks for asking. If you would like to synchronize invoice information in FreshBooks with QuickBooks, I recommend entering your total billed and received payments into QuickBooks as a single line entry at the end of the month or your billing period. This will help sync both FreshBooks and QuickBooks totals. If your accountants need additional details regarding specific invoice information, they can access them at any time inside FreshBooks. You basically keep your invoice totals in QuickBooks and your Invoice specific details in FreshBooks. You can also export your invoice reports to CSV or EXCEL so you have a soft-copy of your invoices on your computer. This way, your accountant can look at invoices without entering FreshBooks at all. Please also note, that all FreshBooks client and invoice data can be exported at any time to an excel spread sheet or a comma delimited file. For automated solutions, you might also be interested in taking a look at our API which allows you access your FreshBooks data without logging in. http://developers.freshbooks.com/ I hope this helps. Cheers, -Daniel http://www.freshbooks.com/our-team.php#daniel Hi there,

This is Daniel from FreshBooks and thanks for asking.

If you would like to synchronize invoice information in FreshBooks with QuickBooks, I recommend entering your total billed and received payments into QuickBooks as a single line entry at the end of the month or your billing period. This will help sync both FreshBooks and QuickBooks totals.

If your accountants need additional details regarding specific invoice information, they can access them at any time inside FreshBooks. You basically keep your invoice totals in QuickBooks and your Invoice specific details in FreshBooks. You can also export your invoice reports to CSV or EXCEL so you have a soft-copy of your invoices on your computer. This way, your accountant can look at invoices without entering FreshBooks at all.

Please also note, that all FreshBooks client and invoice data can be exported at any time to an excel spread sheet or a comma delimited file.

For automated solutions, you might also be interested in taking a look at our API which allows you access your FreshBooks data without logging in.

http://developers.freshbooks.com/

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

-Daniel
http://www.freshbooks.com/our-team.php#daniel

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