The invoicing & accounting for freelancers alternative: with your whole back office in one place
FreshBooks is a polished invoicing and light-accounting tool built for freelancers, time tracking straight to invoice, simple books. WorkBOS is the full back office: real double-entry accounting plus projects, CRM, HR and payroll runs and a branded client portal, white-labeled and resold under your brand.
The short version
FreshBooks is one of the smoothest invoicing tools for a freelancer or small service business: time tracking that flows straight into invoices, clean estimates and proposals, and easy bookkeeping for non-accountants. Its ledger is deliberately simplified (double-entry under the hood, invoicing-first on top), payroll is a Gusto add-on, and it has no CRM pipeline, no HR, no branded client portal and no white-label resale. WorkBOS includes real double-entry accounting and adds portfolio PMO, CRM, HR and payroll runs, a resellable client portal and approve-first AI agents. Choose FreshBooks for the simplest freelancer invoicing; choose WorkBOS to run and resell the whole operation, books included.
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Side by side
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| Capability | WorkBOS One workspace | FreshBooks invoicing & accounting for freelancers |
|---|---|---|
| Recoverable delete: full object restored from Trash invoices un-delete from a Deleted list; no documented bin for clients, projects or expenses | Partial | |
| Invoicing & time-to-bill FreshBooks' core strength - our invoicing is full-featured but tracked time does not yet flow onto an invoice | Partial | Stronger here |
| Real double-entry accounting FreshBooks is double-entry under the hood but invoicing-first, with a lighter ledger | Partial | |
| Projects & PMO (task to portfolio) FreshBooks Projects tracks time/profitability, not portfolio PMO | Partial | |
| CRM & sales pipeline | - | |
| HR & payroll payroll only via a Gusto add-on; no HR - ours posts payroll to real journal entries, but you enter deductions: no statutory tax calculation, no filings | Partial | - |
| Branded client portal FreshBooks has invoice/estimate view links, not a full portal | Partial | |
| White-label & resell (multi-tenant) on our White-label partner plan (quoted, not self-serve); custom domains are set up with our team | Partial | - |
| Approve-first AI agents (back office) ships AI agents too; ours are scoped to back-office transactions - ledger, payroll, invoices - under approval with one-click rollback | Partial |
Where each one wins
Pricing at a glance
Free forever for up to 5 seats (includes a metered taste of AI agents), Pro at $12/user/mo, Enterprise at $999/mo flat, and a White-label plan at $2,499/mo for unlimited resold sub-accounts. No card required to start.
FreshBooks prices per plan (roughly $23 Lite, $43 Plus, $70 Premium per month, plus a custom Select tier), single-user by default with extra team seats billed per member and payroll via a paid add-on. Client counts are capped on lower tiers. Pricing as of 2026; check freshbooks.com for current plans.
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