Comments on: Bootstrap brings quarterly tax estimates to FreshBooks

By: Outright.com turns 1 today | Outright Blog

Outright.com turns 1 today | Outright Blog — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:33:40 +0000

[...] 1st, 2008: we launched our first partnership and integration with Freshbooks to allow customers do automatically import invoice and payment information from FreshBooks into Outright. This was an important milestone, as it started to show the promise of what can happen when [...]

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:11:30 +0000

Just to note for people reading this later: Bootstrap became Outright, which is still integrated with FreshBooks – information available in later blog posts and via the Add-Ons page.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:25:12 +0000

Awesome, can’t wait to get my hands around this. I’m hoping this saves us from another IRS audit!

By: Sunir Shah

Sunir Shah — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:58:24 +0000

I’m definitely keen on seeing an expenses integration. I’ll look into what we can do at FreshBooks to make that happen.

By: Ben Curren

Ben Curren — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:26:11 +0000

Jake: currently we don’t download your expenses. The FreshBooks api does not currently provide a way for us to do that. We are looking in to a way to export your expenses from FreshBooks in a CSV file and then importing them into GoBootstrap.com. You can then start using GoBootstrap.com to track you no reimbursable expenses.

By: Jake Knight

Jake Knight — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:50:07 +0000

Will bootstrap be able to import my expense that I’ve already submitted through freshbooks?

By: Ben Curren

Ben Curren — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:06:19 +0000

I would love to hear more about the performance issues. We regularly monitor the site and its performance.

My best guess is that the performance issues you are referring to have to do with the FreshBooks invoice download process. We have an item on our todo list to make it run in a background process. That way you won’t have to wait while your account is synchronized with FreshBooks.

Thanks for all of your comments and please let us know specifically the issues you are referring to and we’ll fix them right away. We take performance and reliability very seriously.

Ben Curren
CoFounder
GoBootstrap.com

By: Alex McMillen

Alex McMillen — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:43:12 +0000

Looks like a great service, glad to see useful services pop-up that integrate with Freshbooks. Upon trying it out, it seems like they need better hosting though.

Their application seems to be running into issues scaling and handling requests. It seems that this blog post has caused a digg-like effect… “The Freshbooks Effect” !

Being single-homed to Cogent doesn’t help much either. Also not having SSL is weak for a financial application.

Hope to see some improvements on their end– but looks very impressive for “day one”.

-Alex