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Wave’s mobile app is an integrated, on-the-go solution for small business owners, creators, freelancers, consultants, and contractors in the US and Canada and the perfect companion to your desktop experience. Send customized, professional invoices and estimates and keep track of your business expenses in one place! Add optional online credit card and bank payment processing to get paid even faster. Plus, subscribe to our Pro Plan to access even more bookkeeping and invoicing features.
Our receipts feature is included for free in the Pro Plan or easy to add-on to the Starter Plan. You can capture unlimited receipts with optical character recognition to track your business expenses.
Bookkeep better with the Pro Plan
Want to look more polished, save more time, and conquer cash flow? With our Pro Plan, you get access to the following features:
Capture unlimited receipts and track expenses at no additional cost
Option to accept online payments* at a discounted rate
Auto-import bank transactions**
Auto-merge and categorize bank transactions
Add additional users to your account
Automate late payment reminders
Access live-person chat and email support
And more!
You’re in good company
Wave’s software has helped more than 300K North American small business owners manage their money, so you know we’ve got your back.
Dashboard
Easily monitor what’s going on in your business with Wave’s intuitive dashboard, which includes:
At-a-glance business insights, like profit and loss statements
Quick access to invoicing metrics, like amounts overdue and upcoming payments
Access to accounting reports for understanding your business, filing taxes, and more
Mobile invoicing
Create and send professional, customized invoices with your logo
Receive notifications when you've been paid
Check invoice status (sent, viewed, overdue, paid)
Record payments
Send invoice reminders and payment receipts
Get paid even faster with Wave’s online payments feature to accept credit cards and bank payments
Synchronize instantly with your Wave account on desktop
Estimates
Instantly create and send estimates and land that dream customer quicker
Convert an estimate into an invoice in seconds
Customize estimates with your brand colors and logo
Access your estimates from anywhere, anytime
Designed to get you paid faster
Wave invoice templates and email messages are designed to help you get paid faster
Sending professional easy-to-read invoices inspires confidence from your clients, encouraging prompt payment and repeat business
Receipt scanning
Organize and manage your receipts in one place with Wave’s subscription-based mobile receipts feature
Don’t waste time manually managing your expenses—let our app capture receipt details in seconds using OCR technology
Get peace of mind and breeze through tax season with updated books and reports, synced with our accounting feature
Upload receipts from your desktop or via email
Manage and categorize transactions on-the-go or on desktop—everything stays synced!
Accept online payments in seconds
Wave’s invoicing software works seamlessly to accept online payments via direct integration with our online payments feature: Getting started is as easy as a few clicks*. You’ll be able to select the invoices where you want to accept all major credit cards (Visa®, MasterCard®, American Express®, Discover®) for a competitive, per transaction fee. Most Wave invoices paid by credit card and bank payment get paid in 2 days or less!
Create your Wave account right in the Wave mobile app, or visit waveapps.com.
*Approval is subject to eligibility criteria, including identity verification and credit review.
**Not all financial institutions are supported. Learn more here: https://support.waveapps.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005541303-Understanding-bank-connections
Privacy: https://www.waveapps.com/legal/privacy-policy
Terms of Use: https://www.waveapps.com/legal/terms-of-use
Terms of Service: https://www.waveapps.com/legal/legal-disclosures
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Deep-Dive FAQs
What is Wave: Small Business Software?
Wave: Small Business Software is a digital product or tool described as: Wave Financial Inc
Where did Wave: Small Business Software originate?
Data for Wave: Small Business Software was aggregated directly from the Apple App Store community ecosystem, representing raw developer and early-adopter sentiment.
When was Wave: Small Business Software publicly launched?
The initial public indexing or launch date for Wave: Small Business Software within our tracked developer communities was recorded on June 19, 2014.
How popular is Wave: Small Business Software?
Wave: Small Business Software has achieved measurable traction, logging over 6,539 reviews and facilitating 4 recorded discussions or engagements.
Which technical categories define Wave: Small Business Software?
Based on metadata extraction, Wave: Small Business Software is categorized under topics such as: Business, Finance.
What are some commercial alternatives to Wave: Small Business Software?
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How does the creator describe Wave: Small Business Software?
The original author or development team describes the product as follows: "Wave’s mobile app is an integrated, on-the-go solution for small business owners, creators, freelancers, consultants, and contractors in the US and Canada and the perfect companion to your desktop ..."
Community Voice & Feedback
We have used this app for a few years now and absolutely love it for our customers. It keeps track of what they owe. I can send estimates. I can add PDFs to the invoices.
I only use wave to create invoices and track income as a freelance creative professional. I refuse to use their online payment systems as the fees and holding times are ridiculous. I recently closed a bank account that was by default connected to the wave app, and connected a new one just in case. Wave decides to TURN BACK ON the online payment system retroactively on an invoice, leading to my money currently being held hostage as I have bills to pay today.
I am a pro subscriber to Wave accounting and there is no way to submit a support request to a human being. All I get is AI slop.
I am writing this review in the hope that someone at wave will reach out to me.
I am writing this review in the hope that someone at wave will reach out to me.
Great platform for a small business setup. Simple, not overly complex, and straightforward. Only improvement I would like to see is to include mileage tracking. Even manual would be great!! Just hat having to need a separate app for that…
I would give Wave zero stars if I could. My experience has been a Kafkaesque nightmare of "customer service" and technical irony.
One day after opening an account, they suspended it because I used Apple Private Email Relay to protect my privacy. They claimed they couldn’t support an "anonymized third-party service." The punchline? Wave uses Apple Private Email Relay for their own marketing and support emails. They literally told me they couldn’t help me via the very service they were using to send the message. It is beyond moronic; it’s an insulting double standard.
The "Pro" Trap: Since they suspended my account, I am now locked out and unable to log in to cancel my paid "Pro" subscription. I have been trying for nearly a month to get a resolution. I received one single "we're looking into it" response on March 4th and have been ghosted ever since.
While they claim they "can't support" my email for account access, they have absolutely no problem using it to hit me with relentless marketing spam.
Bottom line: If you value your time, your money, or basic logic, stay far away from Wave. They will take your subscription fee, lock you out of your own data for exercising basic privacy rights, and then ignore your pleas for help.
One day after opening an account, they suspended it because I used Apple Private Email Relay to protect my privacy. They claimed they couldn’t support an "anonymized third-party service." The punchline? Wave uses Apple Private Email Relay for their own marketing and support emails. They literally told me they couldn’t help me via the very service they were using to send the message. It is beyond moronic; it’s an insulting double standard.
The "Pro" Trap: Since they suspended my account, I am now locked out and unable to log in to cancel my paid "Pro" subscription. I have been trying for nearly a month to get a resolution. I received one single "we're looking into it" response on March 4th and have been ghosted ever since.
While they claim they "can't support" my email for account access, they have absolutely no problem using it to hit me with relentless marketing spam.
Bottom line: If you value your time, your money, or basic logic, stay far away from Wave. They will take your subscription fee, lock you out of your own data for exercising basic privacy rights, and then ignore your pleas for help.
This system is a joke. They do not offer half of the things that you need. I’m trying to finish my books for the end of the year and you can’t even run the reports correctly because it doesn’t show half of the information, mind you there’s not an actual phone number for you to call to get a hold of them. You have to wait on a chat system and the last time I had to talk to someone in order to file my 1099‘s which spoiler alert you can’t file anymore on here. I had to wait five hours on a chat and if you don’t answer the chat in enough time, you don’t get to talk to someone don’t waste your time to have to change your books over again for this system.
Been trying to cancel for months.
The app is pretty easy to use. Invoices look nice. Let customers know to check their spam filters. Biggest issue is the insane amount of time it takes to process payments.
Been using the free version of Wave on my desktop web browser for almost a year. The app makes you subscribe to do almost anything, including free browser features. Scammy
I used Wave in the past for other businesses and it was absolutely exceptional for the options that it offered for free. Started a new business and now at least 50%, if not more of all of the futures we used to use are behind a pay wall, including use of the app.
No phone number and no customer service. After authenticator app secondary verification was installed into this app. First phone was not able to access the app. then my lap top. And now my IPad. Leaving me with more than $15,000 in open invoices. All are welcome to contact me to confirm my claim.. small business beware.
Worked great, after testing for 2 weeks was going to upgrade to the paid service but my account was suspended with no notification, no communication. I have no clue what happened, whether i did something incorrectly etc. the only way to contact support is if you have a paid account, otherwise you can only talk to an ai chat bot and then only if you are signed in. So i have no access to any support whatsoever, not even an ai chatbot. I guess all my invoices are dead, gotta go remake them, be wary if you use this program.
Edit: 4 days later i have been informed i was banned for using bitcoin. For the record, i have never used bitcoin in my life, they have given me no further responses, and cannot provide me any context as to what the transaction was, the date of it etc. So after spending hours getting everything setup, I’m banned for nothing (i seriously have never associated with bitcoin nor would i know how to receive a bitcoin payment), and i have no recourse, my files, invoices, estimates, receipts are all gone now.
Edit2: A week later I have been informed it was not a bitcoin issue, their automated system improperly flagged my account and had it banned. Ridiculous that I had to be locked out of my account for 1.5 weeks, I will no longer be using this software, ymmv.
Edit: 4 days later i have been informed i was banned for using bitcoin. For the record, i have never used bitcoin in my life, they have given me no further responses, and cannot provide me any context as to what the transaction was, the date of it etc. So after spending hours getting everything setup, I’m banned for nothing (i seriously have never associated with bitcoin nor would i know how to receive a bitcoin payment), and i have no recourse, my files, invoices, estimates, receipts are all gone now.
Edit2: A week later I have been informed it was not a bitcoin issue, their automated system improperly flagged my account and had it banned. Ridiculous that I had to be locked out of my account for 1.5 weeks, I will no longer be using this software, ymmv.
If you’re looking to take payments as a part of your business, do not use this app. They will flag reasonable amounts and cancel your transactions.
Been using this app over a year everything was absolutely perfect until transactions stopped importing from my bank and I can't seem to get a hold of anyone to help me reconcile this, which is very frustrating of course because I pay for the pro plan and never had an issue before this. Hoping this will help me get some resolution.
If you’re using the free version don’t even both downloading this app it’s completely useless. You can’t see any of your transaction or even pull up a simple report from the app
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