Nov
TSheets & FreshBooks: Now Making the Best-of-the-Best, Even Better
Posted by Matt N in NewsTagged: freshbooks, integration, invoicing, new features, News, the geeks
This is just downright awesome, you heard it, right? TSheets now offers invoicing! We have a fully integrated solution with our newest partner – FreshBooks . Now that’s what we call getting things done!
FreshBooks is an exceptional invoicing software solution aimed primarily at freelance professionals. They’re built on the premise that billing is a pain, and shouldn’t be. They realize you’ve tried other archaic methods and they developed something simple, affordable, and easy to use. Does this philosophy sound familiar? If so, you’ve been reading the “TSheets Story”…
A quick view of our CEO, Matt Rissell’s inbox reveals that TSheets customers have been overwhelmingly requesting invoicing capabilities. TSheets customers have the ability to clock in and out real time through any computer, text message, iPhone, Android and even a phone call! Now, when you add invoicing, it’s like business productivity meets euphoria. Remember, TSheets allows you to track specific job codes, projects, and sub-projects with an actual time stamp and not just simply ‘hours worked’ or elapsed time like a stop watch. A seemingly simple act, but when you’re an employer, you need to know if the employee was at the job at 8:03am vs. just working for 6 hours on a particular day
Brandon Zehm, our CTO, is passionate about the technology involved on the backend of the process because while it’s complicated on the backend the front end is “5th Grade Simple”.
“With over 100 hours of development time, the TSheets / FreshBooks integration wasn’t a small feat. We leveraged the API that FreshBooks provides to both pull information from and send invoice data to FreshBooks. The most challenging aspect of this integration was adding the ability to “lock” timesheets to ensure data integrity is maintained.”
To our valued TSheets customers – you asked, we listened, and together with FreshBooks, we’re delivering. Starting today our Freelancer, Business, and Platinum accounts will now feature the full power of FreshBooks invoicing features for pain free invoicing of any number of clients.
View our screencast below to see our FreshBooks invoicing integration in action:
We see the FreshBooks integration as a way to further our commitment to our customers:
TSheets Philosophy: Make the life of the small business owner simpler, easier, and more productive.
The TSheets Audacious Goal: Empower the world’s business owners.
November 18th, 2008 at 11:25 am
[...] a full breakdown you can check out the TSheets blog or watch the bellow [...]
November 18th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Matt,
You have been in business for about 2 years. If you do not mind sharing some information.. how has your application changed from the first version ? It would be great if you could give a pointer or two about how you have iterated through versions of the tool; things you thought were essential and turned out not to be – or features you learned later your users really needed ?
As a small business owner, i think it is critical to have mentors/heroes and supporters who are also small businesses. Thanks for the leadership you demonstrate silently…
James
November 18th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Fifth grade simple! Awesome!
As for the comment above mine, aww : )
November 19th, 2008 at 10:54 am
James,
I sincerely thank you for the kind remarks in your comment above. And I could not agree more that we all need mentors both in our personal and business lives.
If I listed all the mistakes that I/we have made at TSheets, it would require its own entire blog! :) The secret behind features is to allow them be customer requested vs. “ooohhh… wouldn’t it be cool if…” This will keep your application simple, practical and it will keep your development costs much lower. If you ever need something, shoot me a message on my email at matt@tsheets.com. I wish you the very best success.
March 18th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
[...] own, in-house invoicing. We’ve had invoicing now for quite some time, but you had to have a FreshBooks account to use it. Now you don’t, as you are now able to generate invoices directly from your [...]
November 17th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
FreshBooks was good until I found hostbillapp.com its for download but it changed the way of doing billing I have more options here.