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How to Add Your RSS Feed to a Feed Reader

by Jeff Sarmiento  |  August 23/2006  | 

New in version 3.4 is the ability for you to receive your recent activity updates in an RSS feed. For those new to the world of RSS, here is a little guide to adding your RSS feed to a feed reader. In the example below I will be using a feed reader recommended by FreshBooks called Feedreader.

1. From within your FreshBooks account, browse to the “Home” tab and click on the feed icon link.

Feed icon

2. Right click on the your RSS feed URL and select “Copy Shortcut”.

copy feed

3. In your RSS reader select a button or link that allows you to add a new feed. When asked for the URL to your feed, paste in your FreshBooks feed URL. In Feedreader, simply click on the “New” feed button and paste the URL in the address field.

paste URL

4. When adding a secure feed you will need to specify a username and password or login credentials. Enter your FreshBooks login information. In Feedreader you will receive a popup like the one below.

username and password

Simple as that! Now you should receive recent activity updates in your RSS reader. Please note that only an RSS reader that supports RSS authentication is supported.


  • Brad

    Any way this could work with the API key? This won’t work in any of my preferred readers which makes it useless.

    And does it need SSL? The source information isn’t protected by SSL… maybe this is just all too secure to be useful.

    Why not ditch the user authentication and allow an API key to be passed in for authentication?

  • Soul

    Obviously this RRS feature is poorly implemented.
    Hope the freshbooks folks take note

    FYI, Google Reader user here
    and Apple Mail as well


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