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IAC-EZ brings online bookkeeping to FreshBooksJanuary 6

IAC-EZ balances your books based on business data imported from FreshBooks

Ever wanted to balance your books using FreshBooks? With IAC-EZ, now you can.

When we first heard that long time FreshBooks customers, Heather Villa and Cory Becker, had teamed up to work on a secret project, we were very intrigued and excited. Well after months of feverish work, they have just released their new creation into the world and it brings a new kind of awesome to FreshBooks.

IAC-EZ is their just released online bookkeeping web application built for small business owners like most of the FreshBooks community. It makes balancing the books simple by boiling it down to the familiar daily business transactions like invoices, expenses, and payments. No double entry here!

Once you have your business data in IAC-EZ, you can quickly get useful information like your profit and loss statement, an estimate of your taxes, and your Chart of Accounts.

In fact, IAC-EZ already automatically imports your business data from FreshBooks, so you can continue to manage your daily business in one place. Use IAC-EZ as your accountant-friendly view on top of FreshBooks. Check out the screencast to see h

We’re open sourcing our iPhone time tracking app for MacWorldJanuary 5

Today, we’re open sourcing our iPhone time tracking app.

It’s been hard to build iPhone applications. If you don’t know Objective-C, and you don’t know the iPhone SDK, there is a steep learning curve. I’ve talked to a lot of FreshBooks customers over the past year that want to build iPhone applications, and many of them have gotten stuck because few companies have shared their code.

That kind of sucks.

We decided to give something back to our customers by sharing what we’ve learnt. We want to support our customers that want to make the leap to becoming iPhone developers.

A solid thank you to FreshBooks customer and awesome iPhone developer Dave Grijalva whom we hired to build the iPhone application for us.

It’s about building a community

We hope that our little gift will spur others to follow suit. A healthy development community thrives on sharing code.

We’re grateful for Automattic for taking the lead by open sourcing their free WordPress iPhone application. Since the NDA was

Web apps and cross browser capabilitiesJanuary 5

I remember when we released FreshBooks (then called 2ndSite) in May 2004. Back then the web was different - it was a little less mature, a little less evolved. AJAX was virtually unknown and the term Web 2.0 was a twinkle in Tim O’Reilly’s eye.

When we launched FreshBooks, our application was not cross platform or cross browser compliant. Seems crazy today that a web app would not be Mac compliant, but then - while not ideal - it was fairly common. The truth is we were three PC based developers and did not even have a Mac to test on, so we focused on what we knew and that was that.

It didn’t take long for us to start hearing from Mac users though, and I’m pleased to say by August 2004 were were Mac compliant and we’ve never looked back.

I’m thinking about all this today because Sunir and I (largely Sunir frankly) wrote an article for Mac News World about cross browser compatibility:

Building an application for today’s Web is a balancing act. Potential users use several competing browsers. Yet the user experience must be uniform for everyone, regardless of his/h

Happy holidays and seasonal office hoursDecember 24 2008

Just a little reminder that the FreshBooks office will be closed Thursday, December 25th and Friday, December 26th for Christmas and Boxing Day. If you need assistance, visit our forum or check out our guides.

Happy Holidays, Happy Channukah, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!