Migrating to FreeAgent

Posted by Jay on Thursday, August 6th, 2009 at 3:33 pm

As Jigowatt is still in it’s infancy we’ve been acutely aware of tracking time and money to ensure that the business runs as smoothly, efficiently and profitably as possible. To do this we’ve been using an online time tracking app the same way many other small businesses do. However after our first year we came to realise that the current system didn’t really suit our way of working and so began searching for an alternative.

There are literally hundreds of choices out there and we trawled through them all before finding FreeAgent. FreeAgent appeared to fulfill all of our requirements and after a quick look around the back-end control panel we were sold.

FreeAgent conveniently offers a 30 day trial period so we could really put the app through it’s paces and discover all of its many features. We were treated to an indepth demonstration by one of the FreeAgent staff who showed us the basics and even helped us with migrating a lot of the data from our previous system (something we envisaged would be a nightmare).

Some of our favorite FreeAgent features so far are;

• Gorgeous admin panel – You simply can’t underestimate how important this is… when it comes to adding timesheets the last thing you want to be doing is trudging through a clunky interface. FreeAgent makes adding time sheets a piece of cake and, care I say an enjoyable task?
• Integration – Everything in FreeAgent is connected, from the clients contact details to the estimates relating to their projects to the freelancers who’ve dedicated time to it, right through to the invoicing, everything is generated and integrated automatically
• Professional – As I said previously, with everything being integrated FreeAgent has an extremely professional feel to it, not only the way we use it but the way clients do too. Quotes and Invoices are all built on a templated system (with built in reminders) so everything is handled in the most professional way possible.
• Tax – Nobody enjoys it (well, accountants do I suppose) but FreeAgent makes preparing for that time of the year a whole lot easier by calculating all of your income, expenses, VAT and generating detailed reports for your accountant to use.

Really there are far too many features to list here so we would encourage you to check out the FreeAgent features page to see for yourself. As an added bonus if you sign-up by following this link you will be entitled to a 10% discount .

So to reiterate; FreeAgent – it’s awesome – go sign up right now!

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