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As I wrote on Friday, FreshBooks believes in playing nicely with the other kids on the playground. The whole future of small business software is going to be about making it easy to move data from system to system. To all our sister companies, I’ll say to you that if your service doesn’t plug into …

When I was in kindergarten, I learnt to play well with others. As it turns out, that’s important for more than freeze tag. (Although, nothing is more important than freeze tag!) At FreshBooks, we get that invoicing is only one part of the project life cycle. You have to win a client, manage a project, …

Last night I saw this tweet: Back in 2004 – the year we launched – we used to get a lot of requests from people who wanted to host the FreshBooks service (then called 2ndSite) on their own servers. In fact, we used to get so many that …

FreshBooks will be unavailable for a few minutes at 9:00 am EDT tomorrow (Wednesday, April 15, 2009) while we complete some brief maintenance. We’ll post updates to our Twitter account, which you can also see all together at status.freshbooks.com. We apologize for the inconvenience! Update: Back up at 9:02 — that’s even less than “a …

Hey everybody, just a reminder that the FreshBooks Headquarters will be closed Friday April 10, 2009 as it is a nationwide statutory holiday in Canada (Good Friday). Don’t worry though, we’ll be back fully refreshed from today’s potluck and the long weekend on Monday morning. As always, you can still leave us a message on …

MailChimp makes sending announcements, email newsletters, and autoresponders to your clients painless. You’ve done your part. The work is done and the client is happy. Thanks to FreshBooks, the money is in your bank account and all you have left to do is relax… Wait, what? Of course that’s not all you have to do! …

Rumour: BatchBook and FreshBooks may be dating. If you’re like me, you meet a lot of new people all the time. People who could turn into potential clients. We all know that keeping track of all those people is really difficult. It’s just that life is more difficult if you don’t keep up. Your business …

One of the things I have always underestimated in building our business is the importance of our story. I’m a pretty rational guy, so when I ask myself, “how important can a story be anyway?” I usually tell myself, “well…not all that important”. Turns out I’ve been wrong all these years. I learned my lesson …

We’ve got a saying around the office, and it goes something like this: “It’s Friday, you know what that means…it’s Hack Off time again!” What’s a hack off you ask? In a nutshell it’s a day of unstructured time for our developers where they can work on anything they like. It’s kind of like Google’s …