FreshBooks
Online invoicing and accounting software for small businesses and freelancers
- Also known as
- freshbooks
Available worldwide
What is FreshBooks?
A web-based accounting platform that streamlines invoicing, payment collection, expense tracking, and financial reporting for small businesses and independent professionals.
FreshBooks pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $2.30/mo (introductory) or $23.00/mo (regular). Free 30-day trial.
Lite
- billable_clients
- 5
- Track and organize client info
- 5 billable clients
- Automated recurring invoices
Plus
Most Popular
- billable_clients
- 50
- Track and organize client info
- 50 billable clients
- Automated recurring invoices
- Client payment options
- Email receipts to account
Premium
- billable_clients
- Unlimited
- Track and organize client info
- Unlimited billable clients
- Automated recurring invoices
- Client payment options
- Email receipts to account
What FreshBooks does
The capabilities that matter for accounting software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Double-entry GL
- ✓
- Multi-entity
- -
- Multi-currency
- -
- Bank feeds
- Manual import
- AP automation
- -
- AR / invoicing
- ✓
- Inventory
- -
- Fixed assets
- -
- Project accounting
- -
- Tax compliance
- Automatic tax calculation on invoices and payroll
- Accountant collaboration
- ✓
- Payments capture
- ✓
- API access
- Full
- Deployment
- Cloud
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (9)
Independently observed- Pidj
- NiceJob
- Acuity Scheduling
- ReviewNudger
- EasyCSV
- AvaTax
- Trophy Jar
- Paystorm: Chase Late Payments
- InvoiceSherpa
FreshBooks FAQ
Common questions about FreshBooks, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is FreshBooks?
A web-based accounting platform that streamlines invoicing, payment collection, expense tracking, and financial reporting for small businesses and independent professionals. It is indexed under Accounting Software.
How much does FreshBooks cost?
FreshBooks is a paid product; published pricing starts at $2.30 per month. It is sold across 3 plans (Lite, Plus and Premium). There is no free tier. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does FreshBooks support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to FreshBooks. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Can FreshBooks be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for FreshBooks, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
What does FreshBooks integrate with?
We have confirmed 9 integrations for FreshBooks, including Pidj, NiceJob, Acuity Scheduling, ReviewNudger, EasyCSV, AvaTax, Trophy Jar and Paystorm: Chase Late Payments, plus 1 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.freshbooks.com
What security certifications does FreshBooks have?
We have independently confirmed GDPR for FreshBooks. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as FreshBooks not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://www.freshbooks.com/policies/security-safeguards
FreshBooks alternatives
Other accounting software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- XeroUnified accounting platform for small businesses combining invoicing, payroll, and tax compliancemedium · 74%
- Zoho Booksmedium · 73%
- QuickBooks OnlineCloud-based accounting software that automates bookkeeping and manages business finances across all devicesmedium · 66%
- MoneybirdCloud-based accounting software with automated tax filing and business software integrationsmedium · 63%
- FreeAgentCloud-based accounting and tax management platform for small business ownersmedium · 64%
- MYOBCloud-based accounting and business management software designed to help small businesses handle finances, payroll, and tax compliancemedium · 73%
Compare FreshBooks
Side by side against other accounting software, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for FreshBooks, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price level | 80 | 0.10 | 8.4 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 75 | 0.09 | 7.1 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.06 | 3.2 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 0.04 | 2.9 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 58 | 0.05 | 2.8 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 25 | 0.04 | 1.1 | ✓ |
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Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Api access: full · Bank feeds: manual_import · Deployment: cloud · Ar invoicing: Yes · Tax compliance: Automatic tax calculation on invoices and payroll · Double entry gl: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-04 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | mediumsource · 2026-09-04 · 50% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Security
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