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Two days in a row I have woken to amazing surprises. Yesterday I learned that Big Audio Dynamite have reunited and will be touring again and this morning the first thing I saw when I turned on my computer was FreshBooks very own John Coates (of the Leeds’ Coates) was interviewed by …

Do you ever get stuck at tax time with not enough cash? FreshBooks CEO and co-founder, Mike McDerment, who was a freelancer, had to take out …

Hooray! It’s New Year! Happy New Year! You know what’s right around the corner? Tax season! Paperwork is so exciting and it just takes minutes to run all your reports. Right? This year, since you used FreshBooks so diligently, you’re going to be done in minutes, assuming all your records are up to date. If …

There are a lot of options when picking an online payment gateway to accept credit cards from your clients. And there are few factors to consider: features, support, or what it integrates with. However, the biggest factor is usually price. When pricing payment gateways, there is some guesswork, but you can easily estimate …

An addition to the original series on FreshBooks and an accounting package. If you’re using FreshBooks to manage your staff’s time sheets and your billing, but use an accounting package (QuickBooks) to run your more complicated back-end bookkeeping, and if you use the cash basis to record your transactions, here are some helpful …

Attention Canadians (and Americans)! FreshBooks now supports the fellow Canadian company and popular gateway, Beanstream. Using Beanstream takes the pain out of getting paid online so you will get paid faster and even automatically by using the magic of FreshBooks recurring billing. …

Transferring your data into a new application is painful. You may have to enter it all into your new account manually. On the bright side, a lot of applications let you import information from other, disparate, applications. These …

Update (Mar. 16, 2011): The user interface in PayPal has changed for this so this post will be updated. If you’ve ever integrated PayPal Standard with another application, you might have noticed the occasional but rare communication hiccup. The most common hiccup for you, a FreshBooks user, might be that your FreshBooks account has stopped …

You may also enjoy Accepting Online Payments: the Ultimate Guide and Online payments: Payment gateway popularity. At FreshBooks, we do a lot of recurring billing transactions which means a ton of data. Specifically, payment gateway response times. This is the time difference between when a customer hits enter payment after filling in …