Hey everyone,
This is a continuation of my old thread at https://www.invoiceninja.com/forums/topic/moving-over-from-freshbooks/
I was using Freshbooks a lot, but I found Invoice Ninja to have more features and, being open source, I could customize it to my needs. Freshbooks was good but some things were lacking - also, their new version offered, IMO, nothing more than a facelift. I was disappointed.
So I decided to move to Invoice Ninja, but I could not simply throw away my data - Freshbooks’ export options were nowhere near complete and useful, and I wasn’t about to re-type 3000+ invoices and payments. I was kinda hopeless, until…
Out of nowhere I stumbled upon a service called Skyvia. They offerered some interesting integration options, including Freshbooks, Quickbooks, Salesforce and others. So, I signed up.
But Skyvia isn’t another Zapier clone. It basically allows you to access your Freshbooks/Quickbooks/Salesforce/etc account like one would access a MySQL database via PhpMyAdmin. And so with this I was able to do a full backup of my Freshbooks account as a complete database, and then download CSV files of every single table (products, invoices, invoice items, payments, etc).
And then, in just a matter or few days, I was able to make some changes to these CSV files, adjust them to the Invoice Ninja database structure, import to my server via PhpMyAdmin and - voilà - a full and almost seamless migration 
So, there you have it: if you want to get your data out - or even in, if you want to - of Freshbooks, Quickbooks, Salesforce and others, check out Skyvia. It saved my life - and my data.
