Available worldwide · Popular in: US, CA
What is FreshBooks?
All-in-one cloud-based platform for invoicing, expenses, time tracking, payroll, and accounting. Designed for freelancers, solopreneurs, and small businesses to manage clients, billing, and financial reporting.
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. No free tier; 30-day free trial. Premium add-ons from $11/mo per user.
Lite
Essential invoicing and expense tracking
- billable_clients
- 5
- Send invoices to 5 clients
- Track expenses in real time
- Create and send estimates
- Get paid with credit cards, ACH, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Buy Now Pay Later
- Generate tax-time reports
Plus
Enhanced reporting and accountant collaboration
- billable_clients
- 50
- Send invoices to 50 clients
- Track expenses in real time
- Create estimates, proposals, and client retainers
- Get paid with credit cards, ACH, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Buy Now Pay Later
- Generate tax-time reports
- Run financial and accounting reports
- Expense receipt scanning
- Give your accountant access
Premium
Unlimited clients with project profitability and customization
- billable_clients
- unlimited
- Send invoices to unlimited clients
- Track expenses in real time
- Create estimates, proposals, and client retainers
- Get paid with credit cards, ACH, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Buy Now Pay Later
- Generate tax-time reports
- Run financial and accounting reports
- Bill receipt scanning with ability to add line items
- Give your accountant access
- Check project profitability
- Customize your email templates
Select
Contact salesEnterprise plan with dedicated support and included team members
- billable_clients
- unlimited
- included_team_members
- 2
- Send invoices to unlimited clients
- Track expenses in real time
- Create estimates, proposals, and client retainers
- Access lower credit card transaction fees and capped ACH fees
- Generate tax-time reports
- Run financial and accounting reports
- Bill receipt scanning with automatic multi-line item capture
- Give your accountant access
- Check project profitability
- Customize email templates and remove FreshBooks branding
- Import data via Easy Switch
- Dedicated phone support
- 2 Team Member accounts included
Add-ons
- Team Members$11/user/mo
- Advanced Payments$20/mo
- FreshBooks Payroll$40/mo + $6/user/mo
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
- Aggregator
- AP automation
- ✓
- AR / invoicing
- ✓
- Inventory
- ✗
- Fixed assets
- -
- Project accounting
- ✓
- Tax compliance
- Tax-time reports and tax calculation integration
- Accountant collaboration
- ✓
- Payments capture
- ✓
- API access
- Full
- Deployment
- Cloud
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- iOS
- Web
- Android
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (9)
Independently observed- Pidj
- NiceJob
- Acuity Scheduling
- ReviewNudger
- EasyCSV
- AvaTax
- Trophy Jar
- Paystorm: Chase Late Payments
- InvoiceSherpa
FreshBooks alternatives
Other accounting software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- AkauntingFree accounting software for small businesses and freelancerslow · 43%
- Odoo AccountingAccounting made effortlessmedium · 53%
- WaveFree small business accounting, invoicing, and payrolllow · 40%
- Xeromedium · 50%
- MYOBBusiness software you'll never outgrowlow · 48%
- LedgerSMBOpen Source ERP: accounting, invoicing and morelow · 40%
The Vioscale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 81 | 0.15 | 12.3 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 0.12 | 9.4 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 75 | 0.10 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 58 | 0.09 | 5.4 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.07 | 3.5 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"inventory":false,"api_access":"full","bank_feeds":"aggregator","deployment":"cloud","ar_invoicing":true,"ap_automation":true,"tax_compliance":"Tax-time reports and tax calculation integration","double_entry_gl":true,"payments_capture":true,"accountant_collab":true,"project_accounting":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | {"primaryMarkets":["US","CA"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]} | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |