10 Best Alternatives To Freshbooks and Zoho Invoice

We have been using Freshbooks and Zoho Invoice for time tracking and invoicing respectively of clients for over a year now, but we are finding their pricing a bit high and also we require some more features which Freshbooks and Zoho Invoice don’t offer. So for this, we have taken a look at some of Freshbooks and Zoho Invoice main alternatives that are similar and in some cases, cheaper and judged each service accordingly.

Some of the best alternatives of Freshbooks and Zoho Invoice are:

1. Invoicera

Pros:
- Invoicera supports 20 global payment gateways and languages, supports more payment gateways than others.
- Incredible time and expense tracking feature.
- Online transactions are secured with 256-bit SSL.
- Supports Invoice scheduling,partial payment option,late fees payment which other don’t offer.
- You can create estimates. Upon Client approval, you can convert them into invoices, hassle free.
- You can get your Invoice/Estimate template customized as per your business needs by their expert designers.
- Supports Recurring Billing.Get paid automatically once an invoice is sent out from a recurring profile using the client credit card details.

Cons:
- No option to apply one payment to more than once invoice at a time.
- Cannot send invoices via standard mail.

2. Harvest Invoice

Pros:
- Well designed dashboard and iphone widgets for time tracking.
- Offers time sheet approval which allows an administrator to approve staff time sheets
- Offers the ability to track expenses and re bill them to clients.

Cons:
- Recurring invoices is not as nice as Invoicera as you cannot search or sort recurring invoices. This would be very problematic for someone who has a lot of recurring invoices.
- Does not have the ability to tie in directly to any major payment gateways other than Paypal.
- No support tickets or issue tracking.
- No ability to create estimates.

3. Blinksale

Pros:
- Offers Time sheet approval which allows an administrator to approve staff time sheets.
- When you receive an invoice from another Blinksale subscriber, you can add it to your Purchases page.
- Pretty invoices and thank-you messages.

Cons:
- No integrated time tracking or project management.
- Does not have the ability to create estimates.
- No ability to customize the back-end to the look and feel of your organization
- Does not have the ability to tie in directly to any major payment gateways other than Paypal.

4.Curdbee

Pros:
- Provides unlimited invoices and clients for a reasonably-priced monthly subscription
- You can create a credit on a client account.
- Reminders and acknowledgements can be sent.

Cons:
- No way to approve staff time sheets.
- Emails for invoices, estimates or support tickets sent to your clients are very generic and boring.
- The dashboard isn’t particularly informative or useful.
-The estimates module costs extra and does not have a time billing module.

5. Invoice Machine

Pros:
- The Invoice Machine is extremely simplistic and works with Basecamp.
- Easy way to manage, create and send their invoices

Cons:
- They provide few invoice customization features and they do not respond to email queries.
- No option to customize invoices/estimates.
- Only supports PayPal payment gateway.

6.Smart Invoice

Pros:
- This product has time tracking, recurring billing and can create estimates.
- Track time and expenses as they happen efficiently.

Cons:
- It does not have an inventory module and they offer limited online support.
- Does not provide different invoice/estimates templates
- No support for service/product/item.

7. Easy-Bill

Pros:
- Gorgeous estimate, proposal and invoice templates. Fully customizable. Fantastic looking front-end for your services.
- Offers iPhone and Android apps, works with Basecamp and has customer portals.

Cons:
- Invoice design is so dazzling it can take a minute to figure out where the $ totals are
- This service does not provide a time billing module and they respond inconsistently to emails.
- You host the data yourself so you better be diligent about back-ups and securing your machines and gadgets

8. Xero

Pros:
-Gorgeous interface with groovy interactive graphs and charts.
-Most popular system with (the few) forward-thinking accountants online.

Cons:
-Expensive if you need multi-currency option.
-Customer support not so active in solving queries
-Payment options are limited.

9. InvoiceMore

Pros:
- InvoiceMore is well-priced and they have unlimited invoicing plan available.
- Accept and record online payments with ease.

Cons:
- This service offers few invoice customization options and limited customer support.
- No option to send invoices to multiple email addresses.
- Does not creates estimates or quotes.

10. Ballpark

Pros:
-iPhone and Mac tools are available and it has some collaboration tools.
-Provides multiple invoice templates.

Cons:
- It’s pretty simplistic and only works with PayPal.
- No option to customize invoices/estimates.
- No option to send invoices via standard mail