Recommended by a friend - do any HNers use FreeAgent Online Accounting Software?

http://www.freeagent.com/?referrer=42fdjm42

by ColinWright • 14 years ago

8 7 14 years ago

FreeAgent is fantastic. I have been using it as my sole accounting software for 3 years. If you need to track time and send out invoices (for a multitude of clients), and do general accounting work (tracking income vs. expenses), it's hard to do better than FreeAgent IMHO.

citricsquid2• 14 years ago

what's with submitting an affiliate link without clearly labeling it, doesn't that break the internet code of honor?

ColinWright2• 14 years ago

You might find this hard to believe, but I don't actually know what an "affiliate link" is, and nor do I know the implications of having submitted one, assuming (as I infer from your comment) that this is one. All I did was use the bookmarklet to submit to HN the page I was looking at.

Added in edit: I've just gone to look up and read about affiliate links, but to be completely honest, I really don't have time now to try to decrypt all the crap returned to me by the Google search, and all the pages high on the marketing Ginger Factor. Suffice to say I'm clueless about web marketing/tracking crap, and I really do not have the time now to learn about stuff that's so foreign to me.

Should I delete this and resubmit it? It's possible to edit the title, but not the URL, and I can't add any text to the title because of length restrictions.

What would you propose?

Added in further edit: I've submitted a version without the tracking code - I just hope people see that one so I get the comments I was looking for. Thanks for the responses.

citricsquid2• 14 years ago

oh, I see. Well, whomever linked you to the page had a referral link attached. Reddit has the problem quite frequently, people will submit referral links under the guise of the content being "interesting" or having some value to users and then it becomes a game of "is this person genuine or are they looking to make money?". Ultimately it doesn't really matter that much and you're a long standing HN user (didn't notice it was you who submitted this...) so deleting it would probably be overkill, just might make a few people apprehensive about being gamed.

People share their blog entries and companies and products here all the time to make money and that's fine but I figure that's because it's transparent whereas referral links (where the person intentionally used it) are trying to make money without admitting it. "I made this product..." vs. "This product looks amazing, what do you think?" the latter is misleading when (intentional) referral links are involved, because I don't assume by default the person presenting it is in it for the money.

unsquare• 14 years ago

"Affiliate links" are just a commission based referral program.

Nonetheless , i was looking for an online accounting solution , so thank you sir.

samstokes• 14 years ago

FYI, the link has a referral tracking code.

Assuming this is a genuine inquiry: I used FreeAgent a couple of years ago when I was freelance. As a first-time business owner, I found it extremely valuable. Its design goal of "accountant-speak as the backend, layman's terms as the frontend" was very effective at simultaneously making bookkeeping easy and teaching me the fundamentals of accounting.

ColinWright2• 14 years ago

See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4828392

Recommended by a friend - do any HNers use FreeAgent Online Accounting Software?

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