PROVIDENCE – BatchBlue Software LLC last week introduced a beta version of a new feature that syncs BatchBook, its communications management software, with third-party products.

The feature currently supports integration with Gmail, MailChimp, Freshbooks and Shoeboxed, according to the three-year-old startup’s Web site.

“So now you can sync your BatchBook contacts with your Gmail contacts, you can track outstanding Freshbooks client invoices from within your BatchBook account, and you can finally do something with all those pesky business cards you have amassed over the past year by sending them into Shoeboxed, then importing the CSV file into BatchBook,” Michelle Riggen-Ransom, BatchBlue’s communications director, wrote on the company’s blog.

Riggen-Ransom said the third-party integration effort is part of a bigger initiative that BatchBlue is calling “the Small Business Web.” She described it as “a way for small businesses to have greater access to and ease of use with their data using all the cool Web apps out there that like-minded, customer-obsessed companies like ours are building for them.”

Riggen-Ransom said more details on the Small Business Web initiative will be released at a later date.

BatchBlue Software LLC is a Providence-based startup focused on developing software-as-a-service products for small businesses. Its first product is an online contact and communications management utility called BatchBook. For more information, visit www.BatchBlue.com.