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How did I ever live before Software as a Service?

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Now that I’m working on freelance projects again, the first administrative tasks that came up were setting up new Basecamp and Freshbooks accounts. I guess that I always knew I relied on these two applications, but it’s funny how central they are to any project work I contemplate.  So how did I live before SaaS?  As I recall — and it’s been a few years — there used to be a lot of email attachments and reminding team members which version of which project plan / requirements / invoice was current.

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  • Steve Lionais

    How’s Freshbooks? I use Quickbooks Pro for Mac and it’s been sufficient, but not wonderful.

  • Aaron Whitman

    I’m a big fan of Freshbooks, and have used it for about four years now. You organize clients, estimates, and projects as objects to create invoices for. On the project side they have really good time tracking, including a widget for Mac Dashboard and and iPhone app. Invoices are sent via email or snail mail (FB sends for you, you just have to buy “stamps” from them) with your logo and other info. One feature I wish they would add (and I have asked them to add in their forums) is budgeted hours for a project, so it’s easier to report on status in one place. For freelance work I use FB to send the invoices to clients, but at Optio we sent all invoices to our book keeper who entered in Quickbooks, then send invoices herself. You can get a free account to try, so you might as well. Set me up as a client and send me an invoice. I’ll contest it to show you that functionality :P