FreshBooks vs. Square Invoices Comparison


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About Make invoicing and billing painless for your small business with FreshBooks. A top-rated invoice and accounting software for self-employed professionals and small businesses, FreshBooks offers a fast, easy, and secure way of crunching numbers so companies can focus on doing the work they love. It offers a wealth of powerful features that includes invoicing, expense tracking, time tracking, project management, payment processing, and reporting. FreshBooks also lets users work from anywhere with the Freshworks mobile app.		About Square Invoices is a web-based software made for online invoices. It allows invoices to be made and sent in a few steps and provides tools to customize invoices to make them look more professional. Customers benefit thanks to easy credit and debit card payments with no extra fees. Furthermore, businesses can access their dashboard on the web or in any mobile device to keep track of their invoices and get insight on how they are performing.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook		Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience Self employed professionals, agencies, firms, and consultancies.		Audience Small to large businesses that need an invoicing solution
Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online		Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online
API Offers API		API Offers API
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Pricing $6.30/month Get 70% off for 3 month offer now! Lite - $21 per month. Send unlimited invoices to up to 5 clients Plus - $38 per month. Send unlimited invoices to up to 50 clients Premium - $65 per month. Send unlimited invoices to an unlimited amount of clients Free Version Free Trial		Pricing $0.01 Free Version Free Trial
Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.8 / 5 ease 4.6 / 5 features 4.7 / 5 design 4.8 / 5 support 4.7 / 5 Read all reviews		Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.5 / 5 ease 5.0 / 5 features 4.5 / 5 design 5.0 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews
Pros from Real Users Pros The software offers a simple and intuitive user interface that makes it easy to create and manage invoices, track payments, and manage clients. The mobile app makes it easy to access the software from anywhere, and the integration with other popular business apps, such as PayPal and Stripe, makes it even more convenient. Freshbooks also offers a range of accounting features, such as tracking expenses, generating reports, and managing taxes. The platform is very simple and easy to use, all its features and tools are very intuitive. They handle a large amount of information without the need to present any kind of blocking in the system. The price is incredible, Freshbooks fits what it offers. The best CDFi option is included and projects are handled much better. The best finance software for streamlining invoicing process for clients and time tracking. It is highly reliable in completing complex financial processes and automating tasks. FreshBooks have managed to bed down the Quote to Cash (Proposals - Invoice - Receipt - Report) process in a very elegant and concise way, hats off to them. We adopted FreshBooks after extensive evaluation and despite the price, the value they provide makes it worth it. Proposal are a definite win though it would be nice if we could customize/personalize the sending domain name. Freshbooks works with high-performance financial analytics, from which you can create advanced statistics showing the billing and closing cycles of all dates booked in the system, so you can access the information as often as needed. Freshbooks quickly manages file exports. First, I like the ease of implementation of FreshBooks. It helps us in executing our accounting duties with ease. For instance, we are able to manage our invoices perfectly using FreshBooks. Moreover, with FreshBooks, we track time and manage invoices easily. It is a great platform for us. FreshBooks is a great tool for invoicing clients either for one-time or recurring payments. There are several integrations, including my favorite one which is HubSpot CRM for tracking clients in their sales cycle. This invoicing and accounting software is a great step toward automation. We switched from using Excel and Word to using FreshBooks and have been very pleased. #1- The billing portal is easy to customize and allows to add a business logo. #2- Automatic payment processing and quick bill generator. #3- Auto Tax calculation for every invoice. Very easy to use and organizes your information well. It allows your customers to save their info and bill easily.		Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros Square Invoice is currently the best way to send all kinds of receipts and invoices to your customers, this application will help you to carry out all kinds of business in a much more fluid way, it will also allow your client to have a detailed report of what is are paying in your company, I greatly admire this platform, for allowing me to obtain a system which helps me day after day to enhance my negotiation system, this platform is key to doing all kinds of business with clients. One of the main features that I like about this platform is the automated mechanism that it has when it comes to sending notifications and Reminders when the payment of an invoice has been delayed, for example, if we have previously sent an invoice to our clients by email. or in a physical way, this platform sends a reminder to the client when they have not yet paid the invoice, the reminder is sent approximately five days after the initial invoice, this mechanism is very useful to obtain payments in a timely manner. Another thing that I like about this platform is the ease and the way in which it offers me to create personalized invoices, this platform offers me a wide variety of templates for each of my invoices, I can modify the template to my liking, incorporate the logo of my company, insert the services that the client has obtained and many other things, the template is totally modifiable and has a design that is quite adequate for my company. Below, I will mention the things that most positively caught my attention about this platform. * The Reminders system is essential within this platform, it is the function that I liked the most and which has allowed our clients to pay the corresponding invoice at the correct time, these reminders can be personalized, you can configure every few days Reminders will be sent to your customers, this is a perfect mechanism to send automated reminders. * I love the way in which I can customize the design of each of the invoices, I can use a specific design for my invoices but this platform offers me a list and a fairly extensive library of pre-designed templates with an optimal design, sometimes, I use those templates to give my invoices a better design. * This integrated platform or system in which you can make the corresponding impressions of your invoices, has a synchronization and media is with your printer, so you can send all these invoices by email but you can also print them in a matter of seconds. * This platform also provides you with a much broader and more personalized view of pending invoices and paid invoices, from the main panel you can view the invoices that have already been canceled within your company, as well as view all the invoices in real time. invoices that are pending to be paid by customers, this complete display functionality helps to better understand the invoices that are paid on time and the pending invoices. Square makes it easy to add/send invoices to customers/clients with just a name and email address. The invoice software integrates tightly with the rest of the Square platform which is great for reporting. Cons One of the main negative things that this platform has is that it charges you a commission for each invoice that you have previously made, that means that each invoice that you make within the platform will charge you an additional fee that you will have to pay immediately and it will be billed to your account immediately, I have previously used other applications that have allowed me to create invoices online, and none had charged me an additional commission for each of my invoices, it is important to note that the commission within this platform is completely low , it doesn't really affect your budget, but I think there shouldn't be any additional fees charged for each invoice made, since I currently pay a monthly subscription. Another of the negative characteristics of this platform is that it has a predetermined size for the logo that you can insert inside the invoice, that means that if your main objective is to make the logo look bigger inside the invoice, you will not be able to do it, Currently the templates that are used within this platform have a predetermined size for each of the objects and texts that are inserted, so you will not be able to modify the size of your company's logo. Finally, I have also noticed that the notifications for each payment of the invoice are received late in the email, I have noticed that the real-time monitoring of the invoices works perfectly, I can see the status of the payment in real time From each of them, however, I have noticed that some clients pay the invoices and after a few hours or minutes I receive a notification to my email. Square allows you to enter payments made through non-square sources, but doesn't currently have any other solutions/integrations like ACH processing or instant transfers like Venmo. Since the transaction are not "Card Present" transaction since they are entered by the customer/client the cost is higher than if charging in person. That being said, it is cheaper than charging a "card on file" transaction. I'd like to also see the ability to create bulk invoices either through an interface or uploading a csv file.
Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person		Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person
Company Information FreshBooks Founded: 2004 Canada www.freshbooks.com/		Company Information Block Founded: 2009 United States squareup.com/us/en/invoices
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Billing and Invoicing Features Billing Portal Contact Database Contingency Billing Customer Portal Customizable Invoices Dunning Management Hourly Billing Invoice History Mobile Payments Multi-Currency Online Invoicing Online Payments Payment Processing Project Billing Recurring/Subscription Billing Service Ticket Billing Tax Calculator Show More Features Accounting Features Accounts Payable Accounts Receivable Bank Reconciliation Billing & Invoicing Cash Management CPA Firms Cryptocurrency Support Expense Tracking Fixed Asset Management Fund Accounting General Ledger Government Multi-Currency Nonprofits Payroll Management Project Accounting Purchase Orders Tax Management Accounts Receivable Features ACH Payment Processing Billing & Invoicing Check Processing Collections Management Online Payment Processing Overpayment Processing Partial Payments Receivables Ledger Recurring Billing Bookkeeping Features Accounts Payable Accounts Receivable Bank Reconciliation Billing & Invoicing Cash Management Collections Expense Tracking Fixed Asset Management General Ledger Payroll Revenue Recognition Spend Management Tax Management Construction Accounting Features Accounts Payable Accounts Receivable Billing & Invoicing Budgeting & Forecasting Cash Management Construction Breakdowns General Ledger Job Costing Overrun Projections Payroll Management Purchase Order Management Quotes / Estimates Expense Report Features Approval Process Control Invoice Management Multi-Currency Receipt Management Reimbursement Management Spend Control Time Tracking Workflow Management Legal Billing Features Accounting Management Automatic Billing Calendar Management Case Management Client Portal Document Management Expense Tracking Time Tracking Payment Processing Features ACH Check Transactions Bitcoin Compatible Debit Card Support Gift Card Management Mobile Payments Online Payments POS Transactions Receipt Printing Recurring Billing Signature Capture Payroll Features 401(k) Tracking Attendance Management Benefits Management Check Printing Compensation Management Deductions Management Direct Deposit Multi-Country Multi-State Reporting/Analytics Self Service Portal Tax Compliance Vacation / Leave Tracking W-2 and 1099 Preparation Wage Garnishment Recurring Billing Features Customer Portal Deferred Billing Discount Management Dunning Management Invoice History Multi-Currency Multi-Period Recurring Billing Payment Processing Recurring Donations Subscription Billing Time Clock Features Biometric Recognition Hourly Employee Tracking Messaging Mobile Access Online Punch Card Payroll Management Punch card Reporting/Analytics Salaried Employee Tracking Sick Leave Tracking Vacation / Leave Tracking Workstation Tracking Time Tracking Features Automatic Time Capture Billable & Non-Billable Hours Billing & Invoicing Employee Database Expense Tracking Mobile Time Tracking Multiple Billing Rates Offline Time Tracking Online Time Tracking Overtime Calculation Time per Project Reporting Timesheet Management Vacation / Leave Tracking Time and Expense Features Activity Tracking Billable Hours Tracking Billing Rate Management Expense Tracking Invoice Processing Multiple Billing Rates Project Tracking Reimbursement Management Time Tracking by Client Time Tracking by Project		Billing and Invoicing Features Billing Portal Contact Database Contingency Billing Customer Portal Customizable Invoices Dunning Management Hourly Billing Invoice History Mobile Payments Multi-Currency Online Invoicing Online Payments Payment Processing Project Billing Recurring/Subscription Billing Service Ticket Billing Tax Calculator
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