Fresh BaseCamping (coming soon)

by Levi Cooperman - February 16/2007

It’s almost here…coming very soon to FreshBooks is a seamless integration with 37 Signals’ Basecamp project management service.

Here is what you can expect from this integration:

Import your Basecamp people into FreshBooks as staff or clients

Import your Basecamp Projects, and To-Do lists into FreshBooks as FB Projects and Tasks for timetracking or invoicing

Automatically check for new To-Do lists on any Basecamp project when logging time in timesheets so you can create new To-Do’s in BaseCamp and they will magically appear in FreshBooks (this happens in real-time and it’s pretty slick….we’re psyched)

Invoice Basecamp hours that have been logged on a project using the Basecamp time tracking service

All of this will allow you to take advantage of Basecamp’s project management excellence, along with FreshBooks’ invoicing and time-tracking genius. We’ve been working hard at this to make sure the workflow will be smooth and un-intrusive.

Using both services, we hope you will have everything you need to manage your projects, communicate better with your clients, bill more and collect faster.

Feb 16/07
6:11 pm

Michael Vu says:

Wow, I am impressed and excited as well. We just recently made the move to ActiveCollab, away from Basecamp, but this just might make us have to move back!

Thanks! Keep up the good work!

Feb 17/07
10:43 am

Barrie North says:

Sounds great!

We are one of those “heavy users” of Basecamp with 100+ projects, AND we use freshbooks.

If you need someone to hammer on it hard to test under load, send an email

Feb 19/07
8:29 am

Chad Pytel says:

You say “almost” – but, any more details on when exactly this will be released? I’m really looking forward to it.

thanks,
-Chad

Feb 19/07
5:54 pm

Tom Elliott says:

We’re thrilled for this integration, and it’s a big part of why we signed up for FB in the first place. Glad it’s coming along.

Now, if you could only find a way to notify us when somebody pays their invoice… like immediate emails sent out…

Feb 20/07
9:28 am

Dominic says:

Ahha, Levi, Mike… I was wondering when this was going to happen. Congrats.

Cheers!
Dom

Feb 27/07
11:19 am

Daniel says:

Question: Will there be a built in way to make sure those of us who already have mirrors of projects/clients/staff profiles in both FB and Basecamp won’t be duplicated?

I really can’t wait for this to go live!

Feb 28/07
10:42 am

Markus Latzel says:

Great!! I saw this one coming

We are currently using our own project management tool, but looking forward to give BaseCamp a try!

Fantastic idea!

- ML

Mar 1/07
9:49 am

Tobias Brown says:

37Signals.com will release a new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform called Highrise “very soon” too…

http://tinyurl.com/2pyusz

Hmm. Wouldn’t Freshbooks invoicing integrate more closely with CRM than a project management application like Basecamp?

Basecamp has no Timer application. So, it will be interesting to see this integration.

Very good developement!

Mar 1/07
9:58 am

Levi Cooperman says:

Thank you for all your comments. The integration is now available in your FreshBooks account. You can read about it here: http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2007/03/01/introducing-basecamp-with-your-freshbooks/

Tobias, CRM is definitely a consideration, thanks for the tip.

Mar 2/07
4:12 am

Plungerman says:

hey levi, that link seems to be broken. can you point us in the right direction? thanks.

Mar 2/07
9:41 am

Hi Plungerman,

Sorry about that, for some reason the post was set to private over night (Mike explained it in his latest post), but the link should work now. Our bad.

- Levi