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Recently, FreshBooks, the cloud Finance software service provider for small and medium-sized enterprises (agent bookkeeping, invoice management, cloud accounting) released a free original ipad application, before FreshBooks released the iphone app this August. And the launch of the original ipad application, marking the SME cloud financial applications into the mobile era. The following are some of the apps supported by FreshBooks's ipad:

1. Create and manage invoices, track expenses, and projects

2. A photo of the receipt can be attached to the invoice

3. Tracking the status of receivables

4. Charging service Time

5. Can be used offline (data changes will be synchronized on the next online login).

FreshBooks is intended for small and medium-sized enterprises, freelancers, organizations, and professionals user groups. The goal is to help these companies better carry out invoicing, billing, tracking expenses and managing customer relationships. The software is developed by 2ndSite company headquartered in Canada, Ontario Prov., Toronto. The company now has 5 million users, a figure that doubled in 2011. The company currently employs 100 employees and has paid subscribers in more than 130 countries.

Small and medium enterprise personnel mobility is high, management mobility demand is high, for small and medium enterprises cloud finance service providers have launched mobile version application, FreshBooks's ipad and iphone application also conform to this trend. With the application of mobile finance, FreshBooks users can invoice, manage customer information in real time, and also can register the time and expense of communicating with customers, and can get relevant reports based on this information, which saves a lot of time for customers and greatly improves office efficiency.

Before launching its own mobile apps, FreshBooks also introduced APIs that allow Third-party developers to create invoicing workflows and integration with back-end systems. There are now about 70 to 80 different mobile apps that can collaborate with FreshBooks.

Similar to FreshBooks, there are three mobile finance applications, namely Xero Touch, Kashoo and QuickBooks Mobile.

Xero touch: At the same time support iOS and Android platform, currently has more than 100,000 paid users. Functions are roughly the same as FreshBooks, including invoicing and cost (receipt) management. With a monthly fee of USD 19, Xero also integrates other popular SME applications including PayPal, Freshbooks,37signals highrise and Magento.

Kashoo: The company's ipad app is the top-ranked financial application for the App Store, which has comprehensive financial software capabilities and is very easy-to-use, helping small businesses and freelance professionals manage revenues and expenses easily. The software also generates data graph reports, creates invoices, records, and tracks expenses. Kashoo is also tied to cloud services, and the professional version of the service fee for backing up data is $20 trillion (now it looks like everyone is priced at $20 trillion). Notably, Kashoo supports importing accounts from Quikbooks. (It's strange that the relationship between these companies and software cloud services is so harmonious)

QuickBooks Mobile: A veteran SME financial software leader Intuit. Support for iOS and Android platforms. The desktop version supports secure connections. After a 30-day free trial, the monthly service charge is 9.95 dollars (this is cheaper than the one described above).

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