Add-ons Roundup: Chrometa, GeckoBoard, Easy Insight and ActiveCampaign
Want to improve your business? These 4 new Add-ons for FreshBooks will instantly let you measure your time, give insights into your business, sum up your business results and improve how you stay in touch with your potential and current clients. As your business grows, Add-ons let you connect your FreshBooks account to all sorts of wonderful services to expand your workflow and improve how you run your business.
Here’s a quick look at the latest Add-ons for FreshBooks and how they can help:
Chrometa is a timer that automatically captures the time you’re spending on your work. The timer runs in the background and records what documents you’re working on, what websites you’re researching, and for how long. All of this gets pushed automatically into your Chrometa account, which you can export to FreshBooks as time entries.
GeckoBoard is a status board that helps you keep track of your business in real time. You can put together various dashboard widgets to create the ideal interface to help you run your business. Add a FreshBooks widget to your dashboard to view the number of invoices you’ve created, and how much your clients owe you.
Easy Insight helps you report on how your business is doing. Connect to tools like FreshBooks, choose what metrics to measure, and define what benchmarks you want to measure them against. You can import invoice totals, hours tracked, payments and expenses from FreshBooks for your reports.
Active Campaign lets you easily build email newsletters to stay in touch with your clients. Choose from a list of templates, or build your newsletter from scratch, then drop in your content and you’re ready to go. When you’re ready to send your newsletter, import your client list from FreshBooks to create your mailing list in Active Campaign and send out your newsletter.
Don’t forget that there are tons of other great Add-ons in the Add-on Directory. Have a look and discover how you can get more out of FreshBooks, and if you don’t find what you’re looking for, tell us what Add-ons could really help your business by requesting an Add-on!
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10:12 am
I use GeckoBoard with Freshbooks widgets. I like it but there needs to be another time (Period) option. The current options are today, yesterday, past 7 days and past 30 days. If you have invoices open outside of that period, it doesn’t show. It’s a nice snapshot to see what your 30 day turn is but if you also want to capture the total value of your unpaid invoices, you can’t.
I know people use this information differently but not being able to see the total value of outstanding invoices seems to be an oversight.
Are there any plans for this functionality in the near future?
1:13 pm
Hey Scot,
Thanks for your comments, I agree that it would be useful to see outstanding invoices outside of the 30 day period. Have you tried contacting GeckoBoard with your feedback? They developed the integration with FreshBooks, so they might be able to help you out. You can get in touch with them on their website,
http://support.geckoboard.com/home
Cheers,
Peter
1:39 pm
Hi Scot – Paul from Geckoboard here. Thanks for the suggestion, we’re currently working on a new FreshBooks widget to display the total of all unpaid invoices from all time.
Keep an eye on the Geckoboard blog or tweet stream for details when it drops. In the meantime feel free to drop us a line via the support links on our site.
4:56 am
Scot – just to follow up, this widget is now available on Geckoboard.
It’s a simple widget that just shows the total value of currently outstanding invoices over all time.
Hope it helps and would love to hear your feedback!
11:43 am
At the moment I am constantly traveling and sometimes there’s no internet. I want to be working on my accounts, which I use Freshbooks to do. Is there a way that I can do that and see what I’ve done and where I am without being online? Thanks!
3:35 pm
Hi Julie,
It really depends on what you’re planning on doing in FreshBooks. Have you taken a look at some of our mobile Add-ons?
http://community.freshbooks.com/addons/#33
Add-ons like MiniBooks for the iPhone let you create, and modify, invoices even when you don’t have an internet connection.
-Peter