Blinksale review

Blinksale

Probably the most well-known name amongst the 7 finalists, Blinksale has a clean interface, is simple to use and competitively priced.  Unfortunately, despite scoring 78% against our requirements, it just doesn’t have the features we need – and can get elsewhere:

1. No expense management – Despite the appearance of the Purchases tab above, this only enables the tracking of other Blinksale invoices received from other Blinksale users.  A nice feature if you only ever have clients using Blinksale to issue their invoices – but close to useless for us.
2. No payment gateways – PayPal is the only option and, for the same reasons cited when reviewing Zoho and Acuinvoice, PayPal isn’t a viable payment gateway for our use.
3. No import/export – Not strictly true because Blinksale does have an API to 37 Signals Basecamp application – it’s just that we don’t use it – so it’s of no value to us.

Conclusion

Despite being the heavyweight in terms of brand recognition, Blinksale was another early casualty for us because of the three points noted above.

Next step: A review of Free Agent Central

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