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FreshBooks vs. Xero
Looking for an alternative to Xero in the UK? You’ve come to the right place. FreshBooks is ranked the Best Accounting Software for Sole Traders and Small Businesses by PCMag. And we do more than just invoicing and payments – we have award-winning support, are twice as easy to use, and cost half the price.
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| Features |  | Xero |
|---|---|---|
Free Trial | Free 30-Day Trial Included | Free 30-Day Trial Included |
Pricing (monthly) | Starting at £15.00 GBP | Starting at £16.00 GBP |
MTD for VAT Compliant |  |  |
Live human customer support | Stevie Award Winner for Excellent Customer Service | |
Easy-to-use interface | | |
Project Management | | Add-ons available from £5.00/mo/user |
Unlimited invoices & quotes | | Limit of 20 invoices on the lowest plan |
Late Fees | | |
Client communication | | |
Online Payments (Credit Cards) | FreshBooks has the most options to get paid the way you want and the lowest transaction fees with Barclaycard | |
Double-Entry Accounting | | |
Payroll | | |
Business health reports | | |
Customized Chart of Accounts | | |
Expense Tracking | | |
Invite Your Accountant | | |
Business Health Reports | | |
FreshBooks gives you the right tools for your job
Minimize your learning curve
With a user-friendly interface and a smart selection of automated tools, you’ll have more time to build your business (now that you’re not spending it on your paperwork).
Support teams that support you
With expert-level insight and award-winning service, FreshBooks Support teams are here to help you succeed.
Truly collaborate with your Accountant
Once you invite your accountant to your FreshBooks account, they can manage your books right inside the platform, saving you time and ensuring you always get the financial advice you need to grow your business.
The features you need.
All in one place.
Invoicing
Create professional invoices in minutes. Automatically add tracked time and expenses, calculate taxes, and customize your payment options.
Billing and Payments
Bill fast, get paid even faster, and automate the rest with recurring invoices, online payments, and late payment reminders.
Expenses
Keep track of your expenses with mobile receipt scanning, bank account imports, and automated expense categorization.
Accounting
Know where you stand in real-time with double-entry accounting tools, powerful financial reports, and easy access for your accountant.
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Tired of confusing accounting software? FreshBooks is the Xero alternative that’s easy to use.
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Xero has some of the worst customer service we have ever experienced, particularly for a company of their size. Combine this with terrible user experience in some parts of the app, unintuitive subscription models, and bad resources online, and it takes about 20x longer than it should to get anything done. The entire premise of Xero is cloud-based accounting, but it feels like traveling back in time 25 years when trying to get anything done with them.
“One thing about this accounting software – when you have a question their first response is to tell you to have your accountant look at it. I was using this software as a replacement for an accountant, in order to save money, so that advice didn’t help much. When you do a google for help, you run into a problem: Xero seems to be doing accounting software for all the english speaking countries,e.g. new zealand, australia, UK, USA and canada. each of these countries has different business formations/corporations, different taxation rules, etc, as well as meaningfully different accounting vernacular. I would end up mnost of the time getting somewhere only to realize I’d pulled up the UK instructions to solve a problem.”.
I would not recommend XERO. As it turns out, they have a cancelation fee. You are charged an additional month beyond your cancelation date. So either you have to plan to cancel 2 months in advance or you have to plan to pay an additional month of service after you actually cancel.
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