Why choose Avaza as a FreshBooks alternative?

Yes, if you want project management, approvals and resource scheduling alongside time tracking, expenses, quotes and invoicing. Avaza includes tasks with list, Kanban, Gantt and calendar views, timesheet and expense approvals, a team schedule, profitability reports and team chat on every plan, with unlimited customers on paid plans. Avaza is not accounting software, though: there is no general ledger, bank feed, bank reconciliation or payroll, so most teams pair it with Xero or QuickBooks Online through the native two-way sync. If bookkeeping is the main thing you need, FreshBooks or a dedicated accounting package may suit you better.

As of September 2026, freshbooks.com/pricing lists Lite at $23 per month for up to 5 billable clients, Plus at $43 per month for up to 50 clients, Premium at $70 per month with unlimited clients, and a custom-priced Select plan, all in USD on monthly billing. Yearly plans are 10% cheaper, and FreshBooks runs introductory offers for new customers, such as Lite at $1 a month for the first year and 80% off Plus or Premium for three months. Each additional team member is $11 per month on every plan, Advanced Payments is $20 per month and FreshBooks Payroll is $40 per month plus $6 per user.

Not as of September 2026, according to the FreshBooks help centre. A FreshBooks project has a client, team members, an hour budget, services for time tracking and a Discuss tab for comments and files, but no task lists, Kanban boards or Gantt charts. Managers can review and edit the team's time entries but there is no approval step, and the weekly capacity you can set per team member only feeds the Team Utilization report on the Premium and Select plans. Avaza includes all three on every plan.

Yes. Export your clients, invoices and expenses from FreshBooks as CSV files, run the Time Entry Details report and export it as CSV, then upload the files in Avaza under Settings › Import Data. Projects and timesheet or expense categories that do not exist yet can be created automatically once their companies are in Avaza, and time already billed in FreshBooks can be flagged as invoiced so it is never billed twice. Team members are invited by email rather than imported and need to be members of a project before their time is imported. Paid migration assistance is available from support@avaza.com.

Yes. Every account starts on the Free plan with no credit card required. It includes one Timesheet/Expense user, one Scheduling user, five Chat users, five active projects, ten customers, five invoices and bills a month and unlimited project collaborators. Paid plans start at $11.95 per month with unlimited customers, and additional Timesheet or Admin users are $7 per user per month.

Yes. Project collaborators are unlimited and free on every plan, so clients and contractors can view tasks, comment and share files without costing you a seat, and paid plans have no limit on the number of customers you can invoice. Clients can also approve estimates online, view and pay invoices, and, if you choose, act as timesheet approvers. In FreshBooks, billable clients count towards the plan limit of 5 on Lite and 50 on Plus, and a client added to a project sees only its Discuss tab.

Avaza does not offer a native FreshBooks integration. It connects to thousands of other apps through Zapier and includes a REST API and webhooks, so hand-offs can be automated while you transition. For accounting, Avaza's own native two-way integrations with Xero and QuickBooks Online sync invoices, payments, contacts and taxes (and supplier bills with Xero), so your books stay current without re-keying.

No. Avaza handles the project side of a services business: projects and tasks, timesheets, expenses, quotes, invoices, supplier bills, retainers and 20+ financial reports such as receivables, statements and profit and loss. It does not keep a general ledger, import bank transactions, reconcile bank accounts, run payroll or file taxes. Connect Xero or QuickBooks Online and your invoices and payments flow into your accounting package automatically.