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FreeAgent

16·Jun·08

I’m really loving the look of FreeAgent, an online application for small businesses and freelancers.

I currently use several separate tools to manage my web design business – Blinksale for invoicing, and Tick for time tracking, for instance. Both great tools, but both separate and discreet. I don’t have any means of drawing the data they produce together, in order to get the big picture of my business finances.

FreeAgent is different – it tries to handle everything – invoicing, time tracking, expenses, tax, VAT calculations, etc. Now I’m normally very wary of anything purporting to do it all – normally a sign of doing none of it very well! However, I’m quite taken with what I’ve seen so far. Certainly having all that data in one place does give you a clear picture of your financial health, all in one place.

Two things currently stop me from signing up and committing whole-heartedly:

• Subcontracters logging into the system to track their time get to see everything.
• It’s not possible to quickly see cool comparison graphs or tables for actual vs budgeted time/money

I’m told by Ed Molyneux, founder and CEO of FreeAgent, that theses features are being worked on as I speak, and will be rolled out during the summer. Excellent! Once that happens, I’ll be signing up as fast as my mouse will let me.

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