// September 5th, 2007 // 2 Comments » // Technology, Web
I have been planing on writing this post for some time now but have not got around to it. I am sure the three readers that look at my blog are dying to know what I am about to say.
I try not to endorse applications unless I feel they are truly great and necessary to working more efficiently. Things like the Creative Suite, the must have swiss army knife for any designer (and he/she should be proficient in all the applications). Other great ones for me are FireBug and the Web Developer add-ons for Firefox, I use the Web Developer more. Recently I was turned on to Quicksilver a application/functions launcher, I now hide my toolbar and it is seeing the light of day less and less. There are many more in my arsenal of tricks I keep building on.
So what is this Fresh Books? What fancy thing will it give you? Well as the name might hint to it keeps track of your books. You know that thing you hope to do a few times a month to get some dough in the bank.
“FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional”
It does exactly that; it makes me look more professional. In art school they had us design our own custom invoices, what a waste of time in my opinion. Most designers I have meet in the “real world” use Quickbooks to generate invoices and they use a letter head, sometimes. Who has time to make your own invoice and better yet, who gets paper bills anymore?
Fresh Books allows me to log into my account from any Internet connection and track my hours, bill my clients with a simple email of my invoice, receive payments online, and all my precious financial data is stored for me, and Uncle Sam when the time comes. It makes you take yourself more serious. Another great Web 2.0 application that is doing things right.
I mean what other company takes you to dinner. That’s right. I had the CEO of the small company out of Toronto, Canada give me a call while him and another co-worker where in town. How cool is that. Another star in my book, my fresh book…. aaa ha ha….aaaaa
Ok, they did not tell me to write this and I am getting nothing for writing about them. I honestly think if you are self-employed and need an invoiceing and time tracking tool that is easy to use, you never have to worry about upgrades and is relatively cheap, this is for you.
