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FreshBooks vs Calisto Pro
Transfer your invoicing and client data from FreshBooks.
- Graphic Designers & Artists
What replaces it
What runs graphic designers & artists on Calisto
The apps that take over from FreshBooks, each in the words graphic designers & artists businesses use.
- Studio calendarCalisto Bookings
- Client recordsCalisto Registry
- Services & editionsCalisto Purview
- WorkshopsCalisto Tickets
- AutomationsCalisto Automations
- Brand standardsCalisto Blueprint
- Team capacityCalisto Workforce
- Brief pipelineCalisto Deals
- ProposalsCalisto Proposals
- Payments & retainersCalisto Payments
- Contracts & IPCalisto Sign
- Storefront & checkoutCalisto Sync
What moves
Bringing your data from FreshBooks
Your data is read in your own browser and sent to your Calisto account. Calisto never sees your login for the old system.
From an export file
Export your data from FreshBooks and drop the file in. It is read in your browser and mapped onto Calisto.
Chart of accounts
Your accounts, with their codes and types. Bring these first: everything else names them.
Customers
The people and companies you invoice.
Suppliers
The people and companies who bill you.
Trial balance at your switch date
Every account’s balance on the day your books start in Ledger. It becomes your opening balances.
Unpaid invoices at your switch date
Invoices customers still owe you on the switch date, with what is left to pay. They are already in your trial balance; a payment after the switch clears them.
Unpaid bills at your switch date
Bills you still owe on the switch date, with what is left to pay. They are already in your trial balance; a payment after the switch clears them.
Journal history
Journal lines, if you want your history in Ledger. Lines dated before your switch date are kept for reference (your trial balance already holds them); later ones post.
Learn more
Everything Calisto does here
The pages behind this comparison: the sector, the apps and the guides.
- Creative & MediaCalisto for Graphic Designers & Artists
Brief intake, signed scope, revision limits, timestamped approvals, milestone invoicing, and a handoff package on one project record. The client who never had to chase a file, question a revision count, or wonder about an invoice is the client who sends the next brief.
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- AppCalisto Creators
A creator’s one place: the audience, memberships, drops, courses, podcasts, digital products, live streams and payouts from Direct, merch from Shop, brand deals from Deals and Connect’s inbox, in one app. Included with any app a creator works in, never sold on its own.
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