Google Apps Marketplace launches with FreshBooks
Now, create and log into FreshBooks accounts from within Google Apps.
We’re pretty excited to be one of the first applications to be listed in the new Google Apps Marketplace, which Google announced last night. The new marketplace will give the 2 million small business customers using Google Apps today an easy way to access some very high quality third party applications.
FreshBooks is honoured to be one of the initial applications Google selected to launch with. And we’re also quite pleased that we’re joined by several of our great integrations partners and fellow members of The Small Business Web, namely
- BatchBook, Capsule, and Tactile CRMs
- MailChimp email marketing
- Shoeboxed receipts and business card scanning service
It’s great that Google has taken this next step forward in our market. Google Apps has certainly done a lot of heavy lifting to build the market by providing usable, accessible, and affordable online business tools in the Cloud that are used by millions. Moreover, they have been a leading supporter of the Open Web, helping such protocols as OpenID and OAuth come to fruition. These protocols are building the foundation of a richer, more deeply connected market of web applications.
As small businesses need to expand their business by moving online, they are looking for online tools to help them. And because businesses relying on these tools to manage their work flows, they want their tools to work smoothly together. The Google Apps Marketplace is a great step forward in not only helping millions of businesses find new online tools, but also in connecting these tools together. FreshBooks is happy to have been part of the Google Apps Marketplace from the beginning and to be supporting it strongly into the future.
Update: I should have been clearer that, right now, the marketplace only works when creating new FreshBooks accounts.
Changing existing accounts to use Google Apps for logging in is a more involved problem. As it’s early days for the Google Apps Marketplace right now, we are waiting to see how the marketplace operates to see if there are any glitches before exposing our existing customers to any risks. We wouldn’t want to inadvertently lock our own customers out of their own accounts – as we are dealing with the cashflow of businesses we are naturally inclined to be conservative. We’ll keep you updated on this integration as it evolves.
Update on April 12, 2010: We now support accessing existing FreshBooks accounts from Google Apps.
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1:53 am
Will instructions be made available for connecting your _existing_ Freshbooks account to a Google Apps account. The Apps Marketplace seems to require that I create a new Freshbooks account.
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It would be great to know the benefits of accessing our Freshbooks account through Google Apps. Can we convert Google contacts to Clients more easily? Are there other benefits? An update to the blog with more information or a screencast would be good. Thanks.
11:01 am
I have the same problem as Daniel. I can’t seem to enable any FreshBooks features without creating a new account. I don’t see any option to use an existing account.
11:02 am
Hey folks, Sunir from FreshBooks here. My apologies. I should have made it clear that right now, at the time the Google Apps Marketplace launched, we are only supporting this for new accounts coming from Google Apps.
Changing existing accounts to use Google Apps for logging in is a more involved problem so we are just waiting to see how the marketplace operates to see if there are any glitches before exposing our existing customers to any risks. Because we are dealing with your cash flow we are naturally conservative!
(So far, things are going very smoothly!)
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Please try it for existing customers!!
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11:56 am
I also wonder what the benefits are for using Google Apps together with FB other than that you get a shortcut from within your apps-account?
3:01 am
Surely it would have been better to have tested the service more thoroughly, and put everyone on the same level? It seems unfair to let new customers take the risk if you’re ‘protecting’ existing ones, no?
9:47 am
They’re just creating a control environment. Creation of the new is always easier to deal with than conversion of the existing in terms of user accounts and access (or complex data structures period, for that matter).
10:05 am
What is the advantage of installing it to the domain other than having a link from within you email app?
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Folks, we have just added support for existing FreshBooks customers.
http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2010/04/12/freshbooks-google-apps-connect-your-existing-account/
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