# freshbooks-mcp MCP Server

FreshBooks invoicing for Claude — invoices, clients, estimates, and payments

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@chrischall/freshbooks-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

### Most discussed

### Auto-review follow-ups for PR #23: test: cover both hasRotated branches, in the established store-test style

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Tracking auto-review follow-ups for #23 (verdict: **warn**).

### 🟡 Nits
- [ ] tests/auth.test.ts: 'false' case test for hasRotated uses a .then() chain instead of async/await, inconsistent with all 17 other tests in the file

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Checklist regenerated from the auto-review of `a56273a` ([run](https://github.com/chrischall/freshbooks-mcp/actions/runs/33336558834)). Ticks survive later rounds, but a round that reviewed an older commit can still re-list somethin

[Read the thread](https://github.com/chrischall/freshbooks-mcp/issues/24) · 2026-08-30 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### Auto-review follow-ups for PR #20: feat: add freshbooks_healthcheck

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Tracking auto-review follow-ups for #20 (verdict: **warn**).

### 🟡 Nits
- [ ] tests/healthcheck.test.ts: hasRotated test only covers the null branch, not the true/false rotation-comparison branches, and uses require()/dynamic import with no temp-dir cleanup unlike tests/auth.test.ts's established pattern

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Checklist regenerated from the auto-review of `49dc9f3` ([run](https://github.com/chrischall/freshbooks-mcp/actions/runs/33336361767)). Ticks survive l

[Read the thread](https://github.com/chrischall/freshbooks-mcp/issues/21) · 2026-08-30 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### Auto-review follow-ups for PR #6: feat: add estimate write tools (accept, update, send)

Tracking auto-review follow-ups for #6 (verdict: **warn**).

### 🟡 Nits
- [x] src/tools/estimates.ts:81 — freshbooks_accept_estimate returns a hardcoded `accepted: true` instead of deriving it from the re-fetched record, so a 200 that moves nothing replies {accepted: true, changed: false, after.accepted: false}; use the existing isAccepted() predicate on the after object — fixed in `58c28ea`, with a test driving a stand-in whose PUT returns 200 and leaves the record unaccepted
- [x] src/tools/es

[Read the thread](https://github.com/chrischall/freshbooks-mcp/issues/8) · 2026-08-13 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Auto-review follow-ups for PR #6: feat: add estimate write tools (accept, update, send)

Tracking auto-review follow-ups for #6 (verdict: **fail**).

### 🔴 Important
- [x] `verify()` in src/tools/estimates.ts computes `changed` only over STATE_KEYS (accepted/status/display_status/ui_status/invoiced), so a successful freshbooks_update_estimate of notes/terms/lines always returns `changed: false` — diff the sent fields or rename the flag, and add a test asserting it — fixed in `ad832eb`: `verify()` watches the status projection plus the keys the write sent and returns `changedFields`;

[Read the thread](https://github.com/chrischall/freshbooks-mcp/issues/7) · 2026-08-13 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### Auto-review follow-ups for PR #2: feat: expand API coverage to expenses, projects, time tracking and the accounting long tail

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Tracking auto-review follow-ups for #2 (verdict: **warn**).

### 🟡 Nits
- [ ] docs/FRESHBOOKS-API.md:165 and skills/freshbooks-curl/references/recipes.md:132 still claim zero rows with total > 0 always means a permission boundary, but withVisibilityNote now also requires the page to be in range
- [ ] freshbooks_get_record's description (src/tools/records.ts:50) says "numeric id" while its schema (:54) accepts a string, making the string branch effectively unre

[Read the thread](https://github.com/chrischall/freshbooks-mcp/issues/3) · 2026-08-12 · closed · external user · 0 comments

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