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Installation Guide

Download from the AppExchange

To begin, follow the link to a free 15-day trial of The Connector and click “Get It Now”.

Select your Salesforce Instance Type

Select the Instance Type

Login to the AppExchange with your Credentials

Login to the AppExchange

Review Information and Agree to Terms

Please read the terms & conditions and check the agree box. Click Install.

Agree to Terms

Install Complete

You should get a confirmation the installation completed.

Install Complete

Add Authentication Fields to the Users Page Layout
  • Go to Setup → Customize → Users → Page Layout
  • Select the Page Layout that you would like to add access to FreshBooks
  • Drag and drop the two FreshBooks API fields onto the page layout.

Add Fields to Users layout

Add the FreshBooks Page to the Account Layout
  • Go to Setup → Customize → Accounts → Page Layout
  • Select the Page Layout that you would like to add access to FreshBooks
  • Using the enhanced page layout editor, select the “Visualforce Pages” link from the top left menu bar
  • Drag and drop a new section anywhere below the Account Information. Use the following as the section settings:

Add Section

  • Drag and drop the FreshBooks Account Page from the Visualforce Pages section and set these settings:

Add Visualforce Page

Save the page. Now navigate to any Account detail page (with a profile that is assigned to the page layout) you will see the FreshBooks Visualforce page.

After using the Connector, you can change the section or page settings, the above are only recommended settings.

Repeat with Contact and Opportunity Page Layouts

Add the Visualforce pages by following the same steps above for the Contact and Opportunity page layouts.

Create the FreshBooks Activity Tab

Go to Setup→Create→Tabs and click the New button the Visualforce Tabs section and adjust the settings like so:

Click Next. Now choose which existing applications where you'd like to add the new tab and click Save. You can always change this setting later.

Setup is now complete!

Before using the FreshBooks API all users should set their API information on the personal information page in Salesforce (Setup → My Personal Information → Personal Information).