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December, 2008

Happy holidays and seasonal office hours

by Levi Cooperman  |  December 24/2008  | 
Happy holidays and seasonal office hours

Just a little reminder that the FreshBooks office will be closed Thursday, December 25th and Friday, December 26th for Christmas and Boxing Day. If you need assistance, visit our forum or check out our guides. Happy Holidays, Happy Channukah, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!


Giving Back to Toronto – #hohoto

by Corey Reid  |  December 19/2008  | 
Giving Back to Toronto – #hohoto

This past Monday FreshBooks was honoured to be a sponsor of a landmark event here in Toronto: HoHoTO Starting out as a single Twitter message, this rapidly turned into a discussion that turned into a planning committee that turned into one of the biggest third-party …



Scheduled Maintenance: Wed Night

by Corey Reid  |  December 17/2008  | 
Scheduled Maintenance: Wed Night

Just a heads-up that FreshBooks will be unavailable tonight starting at 10:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. We plan to be back up and running around 10:15. You can follow the developments from the FreshBooks status blog if you’d like more information. So again, please make sure you’re not in the middle of anything at 10. …



Server upgrade Sunday

by Rich Lafferty  |  December 12/2008  | 
Server upgrade Sunday

On this Sunday, Dec 14 2008 at 10:00 PM EST (Monday Dec 15 3:00 AM UTC), FreshBooks will be unavailable for a short period while we relocate the application onto new servers. We expect the application to be unavailable for only a few minutes. These new servers will enable us to better provide you with …



New feature: Received invoices

by Mike McDerment  |  December 10/2008  | 
New feature: Received invoices

What’s New? Now you can accept invoices from other FreshBooks users inside your account. We added this capability because we had requests from customers who were receiving invoices from other FreshBooks users and wanted a way to get organized. So we implemented this feature and it’s available from your invoices tab: ”"


FreshBooks named one of the “Top 10 International Products of 2008″

by Mike McDerment  |  December 9/2008  | 
FreshBooks named one of the “Top 10 International Products of 2008″

A quick note of thanks to the folks at ReadWriteWeb, who have recognized FreshBooks as one of the Top 10 International [Web] Products of 2008: FreshBooks, the Canadian online invoicing, time and expense tracking service for individuals and small companies, has been showing steady growth over the …



Random pop culture challenge

by Saul Colt  |  December 8/2008  | 
Random pop culture challenge

Did you know that FreshBooks has a monthly newsletter called the FreshBooks Supper Club? If you read November’s Supper Club and watch the all the videos, you will see that two of the three videos are connected in some not so obvious pop culture way…if you think you think you know how they are connected, …



Canadian business legend Ted Rogers has died

by Mike McDerment  |  December 2/2008  | 
Canadian business legend Ted Rogers has died

Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press Ted Rogers, indisputably one of Canada’s most legendary business figures, died yesterday at home, surrounded by loved ones. Successful, pioneering and visionary, Ted built a media empire by making big bets. There were times when no one believed Rogers would crawl out from …



Fun with SparkLines

by Sunir Shah  |  December 1/2008  | 
Fun with SparkLines

If you have never heard of a sparkline, they are what Edward Tufte describes as “word sized graphics.” Said another way, they are little charts that you can use in the middle of a paragraph. Said yet another way, they are really cool. Colin Ramsay, who runs Plastiscenic, and is a customer of ours, has …




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