FreshBooks Blog – 2006

Ground Mail Fever

by Daniel Tsang | April 26/2006 | cost of goods sold

We are pretty excited here about our upcoming release, especially, with the new ground mail feature. Sign up for our special Beta release, and get a sneak peek a few weeks before our official release. So what’s so exciting about sending invoice by ground mail? 2ndSite will: Print the invoice. Put the invoice into an …

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FreshBooks in Good Company on ZDnet

by Mike McDerment | April 19/2006 | cost of goods sold

I was rolling through our web stats this morning and I noticed that last week FreshBooks was featured in an article by Dion Hinchcliffe on ZDnet. It’s our first time on the Ziff Davis Network (ZDnet), and I have been an avid reader of Dion’s blog since I discovered it last fall, so this is …

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New Payment Gateway

by Daniel Tsang | April 18/2006 | cost of goods sold

FreshBooks has recently become an E-Commerce Development Partner with Velocity Pay. Velocity Pay is a payment gateway specifically catered to the UK. Payment gateways allow you to accept payment by credit card for your invoices. In addition, Velocity Pay supports our ‘auto-billing’ feature which allows you to automatically charge your client’s credit card on a recurring basis. We will …

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Send Your Invoices by Postal Service In One Click

by Mike McDerment | April 17/2006 | cost of goods sold

Who sends over 1 billion pieces of mail through global postal services? Who counts the world’s largest financial institutions amongst its clients? FreshBooks newest partner, that’s who. We are very pleased to announce that FreshBooks newest release is almost ready for you to use. The big news is that this release will allow you to …

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Insiders Get the Inside Scoop

by Mike McDerment | April 12/2006 | cost of goods sold

Quick note…we have spent a good chunk of today putting the finishing touches on an email to our users about the upcoming release. It’s a rather long email, with lots of juicey details, and it’s an email for everyone who has signed up for 2ndSite. We’ll post excerpts here once the insiders get the first …

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Brand Murder Soon To Be Solved

by Kathy Donoghue | April 10/2006 | cost of goods sold

Just a reminder that the 2ndSite Brand Murder Mystery is winding down. But there is still time to dust off your deerstalker’s hat and win prizes! Have a guess, write an alternative ending, post a comment, or refer some friends. You can also sign-up to have the last chilling episode delivered to your door. Happy …

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One Step Beyond

by Kathy Donoghue | April 6/2006 | cost of goods sold

Part of my job here at 2ndSite is to set up and manage PPC campaigns for our clients. It can be a lengthy process, partly because it takes time to research the client’s web stats, industry, product/service, customers and competition. I do this to get the information needed to develop scenarios of who might be …

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Pixel Perfect Design in the Works

by Daniel Tsang | April 4/2006 | cost of goods sold

Here is a small fix I would like to mention. The buttons on the grey bar were slightly different on FireFox when compared with Internet Explorer. The buttons were nice and centred on IE, but were one pixel higher on FireFox which made them look a little tight. In IE (left). In FireFox (right).

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2ndSite Hits 50,000 Users

by Mike McDerment | April 3/2006 | cost of goods sold

Last Friday 2ndSite crossed the 50,000 users threshold (we still need to update our site to reflect it…sometime today I hope). Thanks to everyone for helping us get here… one of my new year’s predictions was that we would reach 100,000 by the end of 2006, and at the rate we are growing, we are …

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