SOURCE: FreshBooks

June 01, 2007 08:30 ET

FreshBooks Integrates Estimates Into Online Invoicing and Time-Tracking Service

TORONTO--(Marketwire - June 1, 2007) - FreshBooks, which recently surpassed 175,000 happy business users, is rolling out its much anticipated release of estimates as an integrated extension to its industry-leading online invoicing and time-tracking service.

FreshBooks is a painless online invoicing and time-tracking service designed to make its users look as professional as 'Fortune 500' companies. It changes the way businesses manage their books, saving them time, improving their cash flow, enhancing client communications, and streamlining their business processes. Packages range from $14 to $149 per month.

With the new estimates feature, small businesses and independent professionals can now create professional, branded quotes for their clients and prospects. Customers can instantly review all of the information provided in the estimate and send back change requests or simply accept it as-is. Following the completion of the work, the estimate can be converted into an invoice and sent to the customer with one click.

"FreshBooks customers can now use estimates to manage the entire relationship with their clients, from quotes to reporting to billing," said Levi Cooperman CIO of Freshbooks. "Integrating estimates into FreshBooks allows businesses to save even more time to focus on billable work."

FreshBooks is browser-based to make invoicing easy, always accessible, and fast; triggering businesses to change their billing behavior.

Before FreshBooks, businesses used to wait until the end of the month to do their billing, using a combination of complicated spreadsheets or software-based accounting software. Using FreshBooks, the same businesses bill their clients as they complete projects -- allowing them to get paid faster.

Freshbooks customers include legal professionals, PR/marketing firms, advertising agencies, nurses, project managers, contractors, freelancers, consultants, virtual assistants, journalists, technicians, developers, web designers, graphic designers, etc.

Links:
FreshBooks - www.freshbooks.com
FreshBooks Blog - www.freshbooks.com/blog/
FreshBooks Press Centre - www.freshbooks.com/media/
Screenshots - http://tinyurl.com/3dk4ga

Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, FreshBooks, formerly 2ndSite, was introduced on May 1st 2004 and has released 18 new versions since then.

Aside from providing painless online time tracking and billing services, FreshBooks also helps small businesses by driving community-based initiatives such as weekly tele-seminars, daily web log stories with helpful information, and an active, user-driven forum. The company can be reached at 866-303-6061 or info[at]freshbooks.com.