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October, 2008

Costume Contest: Vote for your favourite

by Jeff Sarmiento  |  October 31/2008  | 
Costume Contest: Vote for your favourite

Here at FreshBooks we’re having our annual Halloween costume contest. Ok, this is actually the first year of the contest and hey, we are all pretty psyched about it. We were going to decide the winner by an internal staff vote at first but then we decided to open it up to the public. So in the words of GaNgSta Grace, time to get your vote on by letting us know who has the illest costume in this shizzle. Simply add a comment below. Don’t be shy, every vote counts.



Happy Hallowe’en! Soon.

by Corey Reid  |  October 27/2008  | 
Happy Hallowe’en! Soon.

Hey folks. Well, it’s not quite Hallowe’en yet, but here at the FreshBooks World Headquarters, we’re getting a jump on the holiday and we thought you’d get a kick out of this. Taavi and I came in on the weekend with a can of spray paint and a defenseless Bondi iMac and today the FreshBooks …



Managing feature requests: Enter the “Big List”

by Corey Reid  |  October 24/2008  | 
Managing feature requests: Enter the “Big List”

If you are a product company, and you have users, feature requests can become overwhelming. Folks write on our forums all the time, coming up with great suggestions for how to improve FreshBooks. It’s a key part of our business to have this sort of consistent ongoing feedback from our customers. But as we’ve grown, …



FreshBooks iPhone application is finally here!

by Sunir Shah  |  October 22/2008  | 
FreshBooks iPhone application is finally here!

Can I get a woot woot? You’ve been asking us for an iPhone application for a while. We were delightfully surprised to learn our free iPod Touch and iPhone Time Tracking application was approved by Apple at midnight last night! (Search for “FreshBooks” in the iTunes App Store.) ”"


FreshBooks golf team 2008

by Mike McDerment  |  October 20/2008  | 
FreshBooks golf team 2008

FreshBooks golf team We went golfing Friday afternoon. To keep things interesting on the course (at least when Grace was not climbing trees) we played “one putt poker”. One putt poker works like this: 1. At the start of the round everyone is dealt two …



Feature tweak: Partial payments

by Mike McDerment  |  October 17/2008  | 
Feature tweak: Partial payments

We’ve long heard about how hard it is to tell which invoices have been partially paid – and how much is outstanding – when you are looking at your list of invoices. Today we’ve added a new status to invoices called “partial” which indicates part …



How to hire the best people

by Mike McDerment  |  October 16/2008  | 
How to hire the best people

Building a company requires great people, but where do you find them, and how do you get them in the door? Whether you are planning on hiring one, two or even twenty people in the next few months, what follows is a little bit of collected wisdom garnered from hiring for Freshbooks. That’s how Zoe …



Industry benchmarks now available quarterly

by Mike McDerment  |  October 14/2008  | 
Industry benchmarks now available quarterly

Today we are announcing the release of quarterly industry benchmarks on an aggregate of all FreshBooks users as well as a handful of the more popular FreshBooks users’ industries. We’re releasing these benchmarks because the professionals that FreshBooks serves do not have access to the kind of performance information most other industries take for granted. …



Giving thanks in Canada

by Levi Cooperman  |  October 12/2008  | 
Giving thanks in Canada

This Monday October 13th, 2008 the FreshBooks office will be closed for Canadian Thanksgiving. I know it is a little earlier than the same hoilday down south, but hey it’s also usually a little colder here, so we need the turkey sooner to fatten us up! If you need assistance, visit our forum and you …



FreshBooks on Fox Business News

by Saul Colt  |  October 8/2008  | 
FreshBooks on Fox Business News

“Well the tens of thousands of Americans who have recently lost their job as a result of this economic downturn may turn to our next guest to get back on their feet”. These are the words that introduced Mike this morning on the Fox News Business show Money for Breakfast. With all that is going …




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