FreeAgent Mobile Accounting 4+

This is a great service and very reasonable price!

My only gripe about how the name/company system works (maybe i've worked it out wrong) but I want to be able to assign multiple people to the same organisation as I get work from different people within larger companies and to be able to see the individuals names listed when I am creating the invoice. Currently, I might have 'client 1 name' in one field and their company in the company field. But when i go to make a new invoice, it lists every 'client' under the same company name - so the list looks like:

Create invoice for:
Smithsons steel works
Smithsons steel works
Smithsons steel works

It doesn't list the name of each client. So i end up making a new invoice, going to the preview of the invoice and checking I got the right person, navigating back and changing via guess until it's correct. I did start putting individuals names in brackets next to the company but then it looks bad on the invoice, which would read like:

Pauline bobson
Smithson steel works (Pauline Bobson)
79 down the lane
New turkeyville
LE45 9TT

Just ends up looking bad.

Its the only minor inconvenience! I love the overall ease for making quick invoices on the go!

(fake names + companies used for example purposes)

Thanks so much for this insight! We're adding this feature request to our backlog. Please feel free to email support@freeagent.com if you have any other feedback or suggestions.

Why has each entry not got a date showing next to it . impossible to find where you are once scrolled ! would be much better to help find entry by date rather than price . especially when many items are the same cost! totally useless as it is ????

Thanks for the reply !! YES the bank lists . they have a month start date but once scrolled you can’t tell where you are date wise I sell lots of the same item . same price . without a date I can’t tell which transaction I am looking at . I need to photograph a proof to explain the transaction but with no date I don’t know which transaction I am dealing with !! very frustrating!

Hi there - just an update to let you know that in our last release (3.0.9) we added a full date to each transaction. Thank you for your feedback around this and we hope this helps with matching receipts to transactions. We are also in the process of building additional functionality to help further with receipt management and matching so keep an eye out for that coming soon! Thank you!

I rate FreeAgent as a service very highly. The app though is another story.

It seems I have misinterpreted the repeated marketing communications we have received recently that a new “replatformed” app was on its way. I assumed this meant one that was much more user friendly and more fully featured. I was wrong. From my perspective the new app is the same as the old and I didn’t get on well with that.

I regularly find myself having to revert to the website for key basic information such as how much is currently owed on various projects. Adding things like mileage takes a couple of goes for it to “stick” and can we please set a minimum increment when time tracking as scrolling by the minute is tedious. The design is very different from the website but not in a helpful way so information is buried.

I would suggest instead just using the mobile website as generally that is significantly better, but the problem is that the mobile site is only mobile on some pages and not others so you constantly switch between full size and mobile suitable.

I hope that when the app is next updated they make user facing and user friendly changes. And please don’t bother telling us you are improving things unless this is the case as all it does is raise our hopes and sorely disappoint us.

Hi there. Thanks for taking the time to feedback on the app.


As you've mentioned, the replatformed app mirrored the old app when it was launched and we are now beginning to build in additional features and functionality. We added some smaller features in a release earlier this week and will continue to add features over the coming weeks - with an initial focus on invoices and estimates. Some information around our longer term plans for the app can be seen towards the end of this article: https://medium.com/@freeagent/how-we-rebuilt-the-freeagent-ios-app-9400efbe22c1

The mileage issue you mentioned should also have been resolved as part of the latest release, if you are still having issues after updating, please could you email us at support@freeagent.com.

I have added your votes to our feature requests board for project balance information and time tracking improvements. We use our feature request boards when setting our future roadmaps so if there are any other features you would like to see added to the app, please let us know by emailing support@freeagent.com.
Thanks