# FreshBooks

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/freshbooks/  
**Website:** https://www.freshbooks.com  
**APIs profiled:** 13

FreshBooks is a cloud-based accounting and small business management platform offering invoicing, expense tracking, time tracking, project management, payments, estimates, and financial reporting for freelancers, self-employed professionals, and small businesses. The FreshBooks REST API provides access to clients, invoices, expenses, estimates, projects, time entries, payments, and reports using OAuth 2.0 Bearer token authentication.

## Kin Score — 33.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 33.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 55.3 |
| Governance | 11.4 |
| Contract Governance | 11.4 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 33.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 17.1 |
| Access Clarity | 17.1 |

## Agent readiness — 27.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (13)

- **FreshBooks REST API** — REST API for FreshBooks providing CRUD access to clients, invoices, estimates, expenses, projects, time entries, tasks, payments, items, taxes, and accounting reports. Uses OAut...
- **FreshBooks Webhooks (Callbacks API)** — Event delivery surface for the FreshBooks Callbacks API. Subscribers register an HTTPS endpoint, complete a verifier handshake, and then receive HMAC-SHA256 signed POSTs (applic...
- **FreshBooks Auth API** — The Auth API from FreshBooks — 1 operation(s) for auth.
- **FreshBooks Clients API** — The Clients API from FreshBooks — 2 operation(s) for clients.
- **FreshBooks Estimates API** — The Estimates API from FreshBooks — 1 operation(s) for estimates.
- **FreshBooks Expenses API** — The Expenses API from FreshBooks — 2 operation(s) for expenses.
- **FreshBooks Invoices API** — The Invoices API from FreshBooks — 2 operation(s) for invoices.
- **FreshBooks Items API** — The Items API from FreshBooks — 1 operation(s) for items.
- **FreshBooks Payments API** — The Payments API from FreshBooks — 1 operation(s) for payments.
- **FreshBooks Projects API** — The Projects API from FreshBooks — 1 operation(s) for projects.
- **FreshBooks Tasks API** — The Tasks API from FreshBooks — 1 operation(s) for tasks.
- **FreshBooks Taxes API** — The Taxes API from FreshBooks — 1 operation(s) for taxes.
- **FreshBooks TimeEntries API** — The TimeEntries API from FreshBooks — 1 operation(s) for timeentries.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Freshbooks Agentic Access** — 27 operations · 13 acting

## Security (2)

- **Freshbooks Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Freshbooks Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Accounting, Invoicing, Expense Tracking, Time Tracking, Small Business, Bookkeeping

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/freshbooks/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.