FreshBooks review
Cloud accounting built around invoicing and time tracking, so a trade owner can bill customers, log hours, track expenses, and take card payments from one account.
What it costsas of August 2026
- Lite
- $23/mo5 billable clients
- Plus
- $43/mo50 billable clients
- Premium
- $70/moUnlimited billable clients
- Select
- Quote onlyCustom-quoted for larger businesses
Prices are billed monthly in USD and paying yearly takes about 10% off, and FreshBooks regularly runs a promo of 90% off for the first 3 months. Extra team members are $11/mo each.
What FreshBooks does
Pricing & terms
Starts atThe real monthly cost to get in the door, before add-ons.
$23/mo Lite, but that caps you at 5 billable clients
How pricing worksFlat tiers, per user, or per job. This decides how fast the bill grows as you add people.
Flat tiers capped by billable clients; extra team members $11/mo each
Free trial or planCan you try it with your own jobs before paying?
30-day free trial, no card needed to start
ContractMonth-to-month vs a year-plus commitment you can't easily leave.
Month to month; paying yearly takes about 10% off
Fit & support
Ease of useHow hard it is to get a non-technical crew actually using it.
Easiest of the accounting tools for a non-bookkeeper, built around invoices
SupportWhat owners say about reaching a human when something breaks.
Free phone and email plus 24/7 chatbot; dedicated phone line only on Select
What it does
Bank feedsPulls transactions from your bank so the books stay current without typing.
Auto bank and card import on every plan, but reconciling needs Plus or up
Expenses & receiptsSnap a receipt from the truck and have it land in the right place.
Unlimited expenses and mileage on all plans; receipt scanning starts on Plus
Profit & loss reportingSee whether the year is actually making money, by job or overall.
Profit and loss on all plans; balance sheet and ledger need Plus, less depth
Tax prep & filingGets you ready for tax time without a shoebox of paper.
Tax-ready reports and a sales tax summary, but it never files anything for you
Syncs with job softwareTalks to your field-service tool so invoices are not entered twice.
No native job-software link; Jobber or Housecall Pro only through Zapier
Alternatives to FreshBooks
Other tools that do the same job for a trade business. Prices are what each vendor publishes, dated when we checked.
QuickBooks Online
Wave
Xero
FieldEdge
FieldPulse
GorillaDesk
Housecall Pro
JobberHow we research this
Pricing comes from FreshBooks's own pricing pages and is dated at the time we checked it. Features are taken from the vendor's documentation, not from a sales call. We are independent and rank on fit, never on what a tool pays us. See how we review.