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# Wave

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> Accounting solution that helps businesses automate invoicing, payroll management, estimating, invoicing, and bookkeeping tasks.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.4/5** by 1720 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Who Uses Wave?

Wave helps small business owners, freelancers, solopreneurs, and consultants in the US and Canada manage accounting, payroll, invoicing, estimating and other processes.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.4/5** | 1720 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Wave
- **Location**: Toronto, Canada
- **Founded**: 2009

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: US$19.00
- **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free version available) (Free Trial)
- **Pricing Details**: Wave offers a free version under the Starter plan with basic bookkeeping and invoicing features. The Pro plan is available at $19 USD per month with additional features.
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile)
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: Australia, Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, United Kingdom, United States

## Features

- ACH Payment Processing
- Accounting
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Activity Dashboard
- Alerts/Notifications
- Bank Reconciliation
- Billing & Invoicing
- Budgeting/Forecasting
- Cash Management
- Chart of Accounts
- Commission Management
- Customer Statements
- Dashboard
- Data Import/Export
- Direct Deposit
- Expense Tracking
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Management
- Financial Reporting
- Fixed Asset Management
- For Real Estate
- Fund Accounting
- General Ledger
- Income & Balance Sheet
- Invoice Management
- Invoice Processing
- Multi-Currency
- PCI Compliance
- Payroll Management
- Payroll Reporting
- Profit/Loss Statement
- Project Accounting
- Purchase Order Management
- Receipt Management
- Receivables Ledger
- Recurring/Subscription Billing
- Reminders
- Reporting & Statistics
- Reporting/Analytics
- Revenue Recognition
- Tax Compliance
- Tax Management
- Third-Party Integrations
- Time & Expense Tracking
- Transaction Management

## Integrations (6 total)

- Gmail
- Google Sheets
- Microsoft Outlook
- PayPal
- Shoeboxed
- Zapier

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- Chat

## Category

- [PEO Software](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/32442/peo/software)

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## Alternatives

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5. [Abby](https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/1036470/abby) — 4.7/5 (603 reviews)

## Reviews

### "What I am Experiencing with Wave" — 5.0/5

> **Serene** | *14 September 2024* | Retail | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
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> **Pros**: Wave automates over 86% of manual repetitive accounting tasks such as invoicing and billing.
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> **Cons**: I slightly dislike that Wave lack capabilities for global enterprise organizations but it has a robust backend integration capability.

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### "Useful budgeting tool if integrations work." — 4.0/5

> **Alexander** | *5 February 2025* | Media Production | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
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> **Pros**: Helpful cashflow charts and transaction breakdowns
> 
> **Cons**: One of our banks doesn't integrate with Wave, which makes it much less useful.
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> Positive, but some integration issues. It was useful until our bank connection broke.

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### "How I Pave Accounting Way with Wave" — 4.0/5

> **Obi** | *2 September 2024* | Arts & Crafts | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
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> **Pros**: I use Wave as QB alternative on my end. I like that it automates repetitive accounting tasks such as AP, GL, financial management and payment matching.
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> **Cons**: However, Wave lack offline access and accounting capabilities for global enterprises.

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### "Good fo invoicing" — 4.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *24 November 2024* | Nonprofit Organization Management | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
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> **Pros**: Creating invoices for my clients is really easy
> 
> **Cons**: I use another software for accounting and I prefer their fully integrated solution

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### "Brilliant Work load help" — 5.0/5

> **Chloe** | *9 December 2024* | Automotive | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10
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> **Pros**: You can create invoices for jobs you have done for clients and people you work with
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> **Cons**: The amount of editing you have to do on writing
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> Good for small business it gives flexibility to send invoices to get money in return for jobs done

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