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Posted on Friday 26 February 2010 by Roan Lavery – Comments (7)

Since we launched, our referral programme has been hugely successful for us.

Welcome to the new site

Posted on Monday 22 February 2010 by Roan Lavery – Comments (1)

It’s been a year since we last refreshed the FreeAgent website, and a lot has changed in that time, so the time was right for another update.

Project Profitability

Posted on Tuesday 16 February 2010 by Roan Lavery – Comments (12)

In this month’s release we’ve implemented a slew of feature requests, as well as introducing some new views on project data and profitability.

Multi-currency arrives

Posted on Thursday 14 January 2010 by Roan Lavery – Comments (3)

You can now produce foreign-currency estimates and send foreign-currency invoices.

New Year, new developer

Posted on Wednesday 06 January 2010 by Roan Lavery – Comments (5)

After a suitably refreshing and snowy break, we’re kicking off the
new year with lots of good news.

VAT tips for 2010

Posted on Friday 11 December 2009 by Roan Lavery – Comments (2)

The standard rate of VAT changes from 15% back to 17.5% on 1st January 2010. Here’s what that’ll mean for you and your business.

Multi-currency invoicing coming next

Posted on Wednesday 04 November 2009 by Roan Lavery – Comments (6)

Support for multi-currency invoicing has been one of the most common, and loudest, feature requests from our users over the past year or so.

Invoice reminder and thank you emails

Posted on Tuesday 27 October 2009 by Roan Lavery – Comments (2)

Clients eh? Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em. Can’t even leave threatening chalk scrawls on the pavement outside their house. Apparently. But what you can now do is automate the process of gently reminding them that invoices are due or overdue.

Software Satisfaction Awards Win!

Posted on Thursday 15 October 2009 by Roan Lavery – Comments (4)

With details of our recent Best Newcomer award at the Software Satisfaction Awards 2009.

Onwards and upwards

Posted on Wednesday 30 September 2009 by Roan Lavery – Comments (10)

Our current team has made FreeAgent what it is today by working long and hard over the past two years. In the last year we’ve grown from a core team of 3 working remotely, to 5 of us working from a new office, and we’re poised to move into an even bigger one later this week.

Changes to API Access

Posted on Wednesday 02 September 2009 by Roan Lavery – Comments (1)

In this week’s FreeAgent update we introduced a few changes to the API and Feeds
settings page which may affect you if you’re using a 3rd-party application which integrates with
FreeAgent, such as Javelin CRM,

Multi-language invoicing & estimates

Posted on Tuesday 01 September 2009 by Roan Lavery – Comments (3)

Some exciting news this week as you can now send invoices and estimates in 5 different languages and log in to your account using OpenID. Sacré bleu!

FreeAgent, Bank Interest and the VAT Flat Rate Scheme

Posted on Monday 03 August 2009 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

You only need to read this if you’re a FreeAgent user in the UK, registered for the UK VAT Flat Rate Scheme, and have received bank interest after the 1st April 2009. And even then only if you’re really keen…

Freelancer Report 2009 released

Posted on Thursday 16 July 2009 by Roan Lavery – Comments (0)

It’s been a while coming, but today we publish the findings of our Freelancer Report 2009 survey: a look into the financial lives and attitudes of freelancers and small businesses, and in particular how they are coping during the recession.


The report throws up some very interesting findings, and

FreeAgent Update - Bills, Banking & Payroll

Posted on Thursday 07 May 2009 by Roan Lavery – Comments (4)

This weeks’ release of FreeAgent sees more improvements to Bills, Banking and Payroll set up.

Calling all Freelancers: the Finance Report 2009

Posted on Thursday 30 April 2009 by Roan Lavery – Comments (0)

Today we announce the first annual Freelancer Report Survey aimed at understand freelancer’s attitudes towards their finances, and how they manage their money, in the current economic climate.

Spring Cleaning

Posted on Friday 10 April 2009 by Roan Lavery – Comments (2)

The last few releases have seen some major changes to FreeAgent but we’re also spending time spring cleaning.

FreeAgent Update - Estimates have landed

Posted on Tuesday 07 April 2009 by Roan Lavery – Comments (4)

The long-awaited arrival of Estimates is here, helping make FreeAgent the most complete money management application for freelancers and small businesses.

Growing

Posted on Wednesday 25 March 2009 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (5)

Wow. What a great start to the year.

We’ve seen a 40% increase in both new signups and new subscribers each month since December, and we’re starting to see the results of our work to get friendly with even more accounting partners.

The all new FreeAgent

Posted on Thursday 12 February 2009 by Roan Lavery – Comments (1)

Some huge announcements this week, with a completely redesigned website and refreshed application that’s easier to use and paves the way for some exciting new features.

FreeAgent Update - Snappier Service, More Improvements

Posted on Thursday 15 January 2009 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

If you’re in the UK, you’ll be experiencing the annual delight that is the tax-return season. Here’s hoping you have found that using FreeAgent has made things quite a bit easier for you. We’re pretty confident that next year will be even easier still…

FreeAgent Update - Merry Christmas, Easy Tax Returns

Posted on Wednesday 24 December 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

About 2008, the Future, and what’s new in Release ‘Eggnog’...

FreeAgent Update - Getting Friendly, Accessing Locked Items

Posted on Wednesday 17 December 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

More product updates and information on C and S Finance, our latest FreeAgent friendly partner.

FreeAgent Update - New VAT Rates, Improved Invoice Emailing

Posted on Monday 01 December 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

In ‘Pouilly-Fuissé’ we’ve updated FreeAgent to handle the recent UK VAT rate changes which are effective as of today, and made some improvements to Invoice Emailing.

Short Notice VAT Change? No problem!

Posted on Tuesday 25 November 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

In yesterday’s Pre-Budget Report, seen as historic by many, UK Chancellor Alastair Darling announced widespread changes to many areas of the public finances.

FreeAgent - Now with added Bills Tracking goodness!

Posted on Friday 03 October 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (1)

You can now use FreeAgent to track Bills from your Suppliers as well as your own Invoices to Clients.

FreeAgent Update - Do More with Attachments

Posted on Friday 19 September 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (2)

A few small improvements this week – we’ve also been busy laying the groundwork for some very cool stuff coming soon.

FreeAgent and New UK Tax Codes

Posted on Sunday 07 September 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

A minor addition overlooked in last week’s release Anjou release announcement was the ability to update an existing payroll with revised tax code.

FreeAgent Update - Attach Receipts, Lock VAT Returns, and more...

Posted on Friday 05 September 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

What’s new in Release ‘Anjou’?

FreeAgent Update - Pouilly-Fume, Ask an Expert, Going Solo Leeds

Posted on Friday 22 August 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

We’re really pleased to be launching our ‘Ask an Expert’ service, hosted on our existing customer service site GetSatisfaction, but backed up by the knowledge and experience of our friends at Quay Accounting.

FreeAgent Update - Release Copertino

Posted on Friday 08 August 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (2)


Here’s what’s new:


Gye cannie ‘One Accounting’ amang the FreeAgent-Friendly the noo!


One

We’re happy to announce

Timepost integration

Posted on Tuesday 05 August 2008 by Roan Lavery – Comments (1)

FreeAgent now integrates with Timepost, a desktop time tracker available for both Windows and Mac.

FreeAgent Update - Release Gattinara

Posted on Friday 25 July 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (2)

Back from our Hols!

OK, so probably we should have let you know we we’re planning to take a short break from our normal release schedule.

FreeAgent Update: Release Taurasi

Posted on Thursday 26 June 2008 by Roan Lavery – Comments (1)

This week we’ve been busy adding a couple of much-requested features to FreeAgent. Read on to find out more…

FreeAgent Update: Release Botticino

Posted on Thursday 19 June 2008 by Roan Lavery – Comments (1)

This week we’ve added some further polish to our time tracking area, introduced some new accounting goodies, and Ed has been packing his bags. For a well-deserved holiday, that is.

FreeAgent Update - Release Pollino

Posted on Thursday 12 June 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

More industrial-strength accounting goodness this week, with the addition of support for Accounting Journal entries. And more besides. Read on.

FreeAgent Update - Improved Depreciation and more...

Posted on Thursday 05 June 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (1)



The accounting engine under the hood of FreeAgent took another big step forward this week, with the introduction of a much better model for Depreciation.


We’re seriously thinking of a n

FreeAgent Update - Second Sales Tax! Inline Timeslip Edit! More!

Posted on Friday 23 May 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (1)


This week brings the post-prandial relaxation of release ‘Vin Santo’.


Cantucci, anyone?


Universal Accounts: Second Sales Tax


We thought it was about time our Canadian cousins got a little attention.


We now support a second sales tax, s

FreeAgent Update - Mini-P&L, More Friendliness

Posted on Wednesday 14 May 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)


Yesterday we updated the FreeAgent software to Release ‘Montepulciano’.


Of course, we’d just as soon be relaxing with a glass of red wine by the hillside terrace pool in the rea

FreeAgent Update - Release Barbaresco

Posted on Thursday 08 May 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)


Just few small changes this week, but we thought we’d let you know what’s coming up in the next month or so too.


Read on…




Altering an Invoice Write-off Date


Previously the date that the invoice was considered written-off, for account

FreeAgent Update - Find a Friendly Accountant!

Posted on Wednesday 30 April 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (1)

Getting Friendly

Ever since we launched FreeAgent last year, we’ve been receiving regular requests from users to help them find a better accountant.


We’ve spent a little while getting to know some of the best accounting practices in the UK, especially those who are focussed on freelancers, contractors an

FreeAgent Update - Release Barolo

Posted on Friday 25 April 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)


This Week


Hi there.

FreeAgent Update - Release Frascati

Posted on Thursday 17 April 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (2)

This Week

Hi.

FreeAgent Update - Release Côte de Beaune

Posted on Tuesday 18 March 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

What and Why?

It’s been a hive of activity here at FreeAgent Central Towers. Here’s why:




Beta Developers’ API


We’re finally exposing the first part of our beta Application Programming Interface with this release. If you don’t know what that means, relax.

Creating your own custom invoices

Posted on Friday 14 March 2008 by Roan Lavery – Comments (0)

One of the most requested features we’ve had of late is the ability to customise invoice templates. This has always been on our radar, but it’s a pretty busy radar at the minute and new features don’t always get implemented as quickly as we’d like.

FreeAgent sponsoring the Highland Fling 2008

Posted on Saturday 08 March 2008 by Roan Lavery – Comments (0)

We’re pleased to announce that FreeAgent will, once again, be sponsoring the upcoming Highland Fling 2008 conference, to be held in Edinburgh on the 3rd of April.

FreeAgent Update - Release Morgon

Posted on Wednesday 05 March 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

What We’re Up To


We’ve been busy building stuff under the covers this week, so just a few tweaks to report.

FreeAgent Update - Release Fleurie

Posted on Wednesday 27 February 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (2)

What’s in Fleurie?

Lots to tell you about this week, and even more great stuff to come.

FreeAgent Update - Release Chablis

Posted on Wednesday 20 February 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

We just released ‘Chablis’, our latest version of FreeAgent.

Firstly, to our new Universal users: welcome! We’ve been
getting some great feedback over the last week since our launch
and we’re working really hard to make FreeAgent even better for you.

If you’ve got an issue and you haven’t raised it wi

FreeAgent Update - Release Pauillac

Posted on Thursday 14 February 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (2)

Our focus this week has been on getting a solid Universal release out the door.

On 'The Register'

Posted on Monday 11 February 2008 by Roan Lavery – Comments (0)

Last week, we gave a briefing to Dale Vile of analyst group Freeform Dynamics.

FreeAgent Update - Release St Emilion

Posted on Tuesday 29 January 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

Here’s what we’ve improved this week:

Awaiting VAT Registration

We’ve improved the display of ‘Interim VAT’ invoices by adding a
VAT Registration Applied For’ message to the invoice and correcting
the way the items are displayed.

As before, once your VAT Registration details are updated, the

FreeAgent Update - Release Margaux

Posted on Wednesday 23 January 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

Here’s what we’ve improved in this week’s update – ‘Margaux’:

Sensitive Data Encryption

We already take great pains to maintain the security of your data:

  • All data that is passed between your web browser and our FreeAgent servers is encrypted using the same technology as the online banks

FreeAgent Update - Release Sauternes

Posted on Tuesday 15 January 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

A few small changes this week in Release ‘Sauternes’:

VAT on non-UK Invoices

FreeAgent now correctly handles VAT on invoices to non-UK clients.

FreeAgent Update - Release Pomerol

Posted on Wednesday 09 January 2008 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

Happy New Year!

Today we deployed the first of our weekly FreeAgent software updates for this year: Release ‘Pomerol’.

Here’s what we’ve changed:

New Settings Screens, Customizable Date Format

We’ve tidied up the way you setup your company details, dates and preferences – you now ac

FreeAgent Update - Release 'Venezuelan Beaver Cheese'

Posted on Friday 21 December 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

Our last software update of 2007. We’ve come a long way, baby.

This is Release ‘Venezuelan Beaver Cheese’.

VAT Fuel Scale Charge

We’ve added support for the VAT Fuel Scale Charge.

FreeAgent Update - Release Ricotta

Posted on Thursday 13 December 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

Some small but welcome improvements to FreeAgent this week.

This is Release ‘Ricotta’ and, yes, we are finally running out of cheese names.

FreeAgent Update - Release Dubliner

Posted on Tuesday 13 November 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

Here’s a brief update on what’s new with FreeAgent this week…

Handling Partner Discounts

We’re really excited to have our two initial partners on board – the Professional Contractors’ Group and Quay Accounting.

FreeAgent Update - Release Paneer

Posted on Tuesday 06 November 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (2)

Create Invoice from Timeslips by Date

Now you can also build an invoice from timeslips according to date: an invoice item is created for each date that you had timeslips entered, and the relevant task names are listed in each item.

Finding Projects in Lists

It’s now less painful to find the p

FreeAgent Update - Release Mozzarella

Posted on Tuesday 30 October 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

Working out Simple Payroll

We hold our hands up: if you want to run your own payroll for you as a Director or for your employees, and your situation is remotely complex, you’ll need the services of an accountant or payroll service.

For most it’s pretty simple, though, and we’ve now added better support for

FreeAgent Update - Release Gorgonzola

Posted on Tuesday 23 October 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

Lots to tell you about this week:

Totals for Assets and Liabilities on Home Page

By popular request, we now display a total value for the Asset and Liability boxes on the Home Page.

FreeAgent Update - Release Saint Agur

Posted on Monday 15 October 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (1)

Yet more improvements from the team at FreeAgent Central:


Waiting for VAT Registration



We now correctly handle the all-too-frequent situation where you're waiting for your VAT Registration to come
through.

FreeAgent Update - Release Comte

Posted on Tuesday 09 October 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

New this week – internal changes and bug fixes, plus much-requested additions to support buying The Big Stuff.

Capital Purchases – New Asset List, Out-of-Pocket Asset Purchases

A little while back we introduced Capital Asset Purchase as an explanation type, and took account of
Depreciation (or at least

FreeAgent Update - Release Leerdammer

Posted on Monday 24 September 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

A few small post-launch bug-fixes this week – lots going on under the covers again, though…

Rebilling Mileage with VAT

Previously, the numbers weren’t quite right when you rebilled mileage to a client if you are VAT-registered.

Hey, FreeAgent Central!

Posted on Thursday 20 September 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

It’s really important to us that we have a real and ongoing conversation with our users, so that we can make FreeAgent even better as time goes by.

For a while we’ve been looking for the best way to do this, and experimented internally with email, blogs, wikis, forums, you name it.

Blast Off!

Posted on Wednesday 19 September 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

Blimey. We’re there.

We’ve been working on FreeAgent, from it’s early prototype days, for over a year now.

FreeAgent Update - Release Gruyere

Posted on Tuesday 18 September 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

Last changes before our official UK launch! Quite a few changes behind the scenes (think of a graceful
swan and all that furious paddling going on under the water…).

Interview with Ed on Podleaders

Posted on Tuesday 11 September 2007 by Roan Lavery – Comments (2)

Tom Raferty, the brains behins the Thought Leader podcast, recently interviewed our CEO Ed Molyneux on FreeAgent and how we think we can help small businesses manage their finances better.

FreeAgent Update - Release Dolcelatte

Posted on Monday 03 September 2007 by Olly Headey – Comments (3)

With just two weeks to go before our official launch we’ve been hard at work on the internals of FreeAgent, but we have found the time to make a small change to our vehicle mileage support.

FreeAgent Launching 18th September

Posted on Monday 27 August 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

We’ve been super-busy over the last few months and had loads of great feedback from our Beta Testers, and we’re nearly ready to launch our service.

FreeAgent Update: Release Roquefort

Posted on Monday 27 August 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

We’re building up the momentum towards our launch date (more on this in another post today) and there’s a lot of improvements in this week’s update. Check it out:

FreeAgent Update: Release Red Leicester

Posted on Monday 20 August 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

More updates from the latest release of FreeAgent

FreeAgent Update - Release Manchego

Posted on Monday 13 August 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

More new stuff and tweaks of the week.

FreeAgent Update - Release Cheddar

Posted on Monday 06 August 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (3)

Some quite large changes this week.

FreeAgent Update: Double Gloucester

Posted on Monday 30 July 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (2)

A few small changes this week:

Due Invoices on the Overview Page

Some of our beta testers send lots of invoices, so the list of due and overdue ones on the overview page can be very long.

FreeAgent Update - Release Brie

Posted on Monday 23 July 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

This we we introduce our first support for uploading CSV statements from Cater Allen and Abbey Business, plus some small changes to Invoice Items and PAYE/NI calculations…

FreeAgent Update: Camembert

Posted on Monday 16 July 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

This week’s updates allow you to send invoices via email from FreeAgent, and provide handling for tracking balances from initial debtors and creditors…

FreeAgent Update: Cheshire

Posted on Monday 02 July 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

Here’s what we’ve been up to this week…

FreeAgent Update: Wensleydale

Posted on Monday 25 June 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (0)

The latest update to FreeAgent – ‘Wensleydale’ – fixes some bugs as well as adding some features our beta testers have requested in the past few weeks, including support for Director Loan Accounts and Credit Notes.

FreeAgent Update: As Gouda As Gold

Posted on Sunday 17 June 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (2)

This week’s updates see improvements to Invoices, Timeslips and Mileage VAT Calcs.

Alas, the cheese puns have also started and are forecast to continue for some time.

FreeAgent Update: Codename 'Edam'

Posted on Sunday 10 June 2007 by Ed Molyneux – Comments (2)

Thanks loads to all of you for your feedback so far. More bug squishing has been going on, and we’re really starting to get a feel for what we need to get done before we launch publicly.

We’re now aiming at producing weekly releases of updates to FreeAgent from now onwards. The first is codenamed ‘Edam’...

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