Followers of our blog might think we were slacking but in the last months we worked continuously on Cobalt.

We fixed lots of little bugs, improved the database, worked on the usability. Some of the new features:

Cvs export option for contacts, invoices out, invoices in, payments

Quick inline editing of invoices in/expenses

Quick inline editing of payments

Possibility to link multiple invoices to a payment

Internal transfer option in payments section

People ask me all the time what’s the additional value between cobalt and Freshbooks, the leader in the online invoicing market.

Well, there is a big difference on the base. For Cobalt a project is on it’s own. You link an invoice with a project and that’s it. At Freshbooks they have a different approach. For them you work on projects for a client. So if you have an expense (in cobalt that’s ‘invoice in’) then you have the option to assign it to a client, and additionally choose one of the projects you work on for them. That means if you have a project or a product you’re working on that’s not assigned to a specific client you’re in trouble. Freshbooks has more a time tracking approach: you work for a client and sporadically you have expenses for that client.