bug reportBusiness Operations · Finance & AccountingstructuralSAAS ReviewAccountingValidated Complaint

FreshBooks Auto-Zeros Invoice Items and Lacks Address Search

FreshBooks defaults invoice items to $0 and cannot search or batch invoices by address without creating projects.

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