FreshBerry – The FreshBooks BlackBerry Application

[NOTE: This application has been renamed "Book Keeper" and is now available to the public at: http://www.bookkeeperapp.com ]

How’s that for a title, “Fresh” and “Berry” all over the place.  I’m finally venturing into the Micro ISV arena and building a BlackBerry application for FreshBooks.  It’s set to Beta around the end of February with a subset of the final features.

The planned features for version 1 are:

• Enter time for a specific project/task
  • Directly by entering number of hours
  • Using a timer
  • Entering time for any day
• View time for a particular day
• View clients and interact with the device to:
  • Map client addresses
  • Call clients
  • Email clients
• Add clients
• View Invoices and
  • Enter payment
  • Send payment notification

Potential future features include:

• Create invoices (this gets wonky and complicated, but would be useful)
• Send late invoice notifications
• Add alerts for invoices on the BlackBerry calendar (maybe helpful to manage late notices)
• Custom BlackBerry app for clients to view your invoices to them, with your icon on the BlackBerry ribbon.  Not sure if this is even useful, but something I’ve thought about.

To subscribe for more information signup at the FreshBerry site: http://www.freshberryapp.com, or send an email directly to info@freshberryapp.com.  I’d love to hear feature requests or anything else on your mind about this application.

[NOTE: This application has been renamed "Book Keeper" and is now available to the public at:http://www.bookkeeperapp.com]