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Giving thanks in Canada

by Levi Cooperman  |  October 12/2008  | 
Giving thanks in Canada

This Monday October 13th, 2008 the FreshBooks office will be closed for Canadian Thanksgiving. I know it is a little earlier than the same hoilday down south, but hey it’s also usually a little colder here, so we need the turkey sooner to fatten us up! If you need assistance, visit our forum and you …



FreshBooks on Fox Business News

by Saul Colt  |  October 8/2008  | 
FreshBooks on Fox Business News

“Well the tens of thousands of Americans who have recently lost their job as a result of this economic downturn may turn to our next guest to get back on their feet”. These are the words that introduced Mike this morning on the Fox News Business show Money for Breakfast. With all that is going …



Bootstrap brings quarterly tax estimates to FreshBooks

by Sunir Shah  |  October 3/2008  | 
Bootstrap brings quarterly tax estimates to FreshBooks

Many of our customers have wanted help to get a better grip on their business. Sure, they already use FreshBooks to manage a lot of their financial information. They just need tools to help them make sense of it. So, today I’m happy to say you can import your FreshBooks invoices and payments into Bootstrap, …



The beauty of not knowing any better

by Mike McDerment  |  October 2/2008  | 
The beauty of not knowing any better

When you build a business, there are things you make up as you go along. I’ve started an initiative for new FreshBooks hires where I ask them to send me a note at the end of each day. The idea is that they send me a very short note describing their day to help me …



5 Tips for Choosing a Co-Founder

by Mike McDerment  |  September 26/2008  | 
5 Tips for Choosing a Co-Founder

They say choosing your partner is the most important decision you will make in life. I’d say choosing your co-founder(s) is the most important decision you will make in building your company. Here are five tips to help you choose wisely: Demand Passion Starting a company is lonely, thankless and costly. It will test the …



FreshBooks Now Accepts AMEX

by Levi Cooperman  |  September 25/2008  | 
FreshBooks Now Accepts AMEX

I have great news for all you small business owners and operators out there in the world. FreshBooks now accepts AMEX for monthly subscriptions! If you want to start using your AMEX for your FreshBooks account, just login, click Home -> Account Info, and click the ‘Update …



CityFlitz: Building a $1/day car rental service with Web 2.0

by Sunir Shah  |  September 18/2008  | 
CityFlitz: Building a $1/day car rental service with Web 2.0

Recently, FreshBooks had the fortune to be part of a major shake up of the streets of Toronto. There’s a new car rental service in town, and it only costs $1 / day. If you’ve seen some MINI Coopers covered in Yahoo! purple, you’ve seen CityFlitz. ”The


On offering support for free

by Mike McDerment  |  September 17/2008  | 
On offering support for free

At FreshBooks, customer service and support are included for free. To us people are people – we don’t treat them differently if they pay us a monthly fee or not. Traditionally, software providers have charged extra for support and we think this is crap. Support is as valuable to us as it is to the …



Surrender to process

by Mike McDerment  |  September 12/2008  | 
Surrender to process

Joe and I founded FreshBooks, and we learned how to get things done five and a half years ago when it was just two of us talking over the phone working after hours in separate locations. All we had were our ideas and our energy. Honestly, I did not know a thing about design then …



FreshBooks now supports SPF

by Rich Lafferty  |  September 9/2008  | 
FreshBooks now supports SPF

SPF logoOver the last year or so we’ve had conversations with our users in which we’ve heard a need to make FreshBooks work with the SPF mail authentication protocol. SPF, or Sender Policy Framework, is a way to publish a list of what mail servers …




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