Wave Accounting
Wave Accounting
Wave Accounting
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What is Wave Accounting?
Wave Accounting is a free, cloud-based accounting platform exclusively for small businesses. It supports double-entry bookkeeping and permits unlimited user access, invoicing, and expense management. Wave Accounting integrates with Wave's invoicing, receipt scanning, payment processing and payroll apps.
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Popular Features
View all 44 features- Accounts receivable (67)6.969%
- Bank reconciliation (63)6.868%
- Standard reports (67)6.767%
- Dashboards (68)6.666%
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- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
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What is Wave Accounting?
Wave Accounting is a fast growing, free, cloud-based accounting platform exclusively for small businesses (less than 9 employees) offered by Wave in Toronto. It supports double-entry bookkeeping and permits unlimited user access to always-available records and reports, as well as unlimited invoicing and expense management. Wave integrates with expense tracking software Shoeboxed. The software is mobile-accessible.
Wave Accounting integrates with Wave's invoicing, receipt scanning, payment processing and payroll apps, into one relatively comprehensive package. However, the automated payments and payroll functionality must be purchased; the payments addition bills per transaction, and the payroll feature bills by number of employees over a flat rate. To support the free platform, Wave integrates advertisements from business partners. Thus these are a necessary facet of the service.
Wave Accounting integrates with Wave's invoicing, receipt scanning, payment processing and payroll apps, into one relatively comprehensive package. However, the automated payments and payroll functionality must be purchased; the payments addition bills per transaction, and the payroll feature bills by number of employees over a flat rate. To support the free platform, Wave integrates advertisements from business partners. Thus these are a necessary facet of the service.
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Wave Accounting is a free, cloud-based accounting platform exclusively for small businesses. It supports double-entry bookkeeping and permits unlimited user access, invoicing, and expense management. Wave Accounting integrates with Wave's invoicing, receipt scanning, payment processing and payroll apps.
Reviewers rate Multi-currency support and Order entry highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of Wave Accounting are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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March 16, 2016
We love WAVE for our Small Business Customers
We use Wave Software for our small business clients who are getting started and need efficient and easy to use accounting software to manage their business finances, process payroll and have support for income tax preparation.
- So easy to use and set up
- Easy to collaborate with our Clients
- Easy to view reports and share information in meetings with clients
- The journal Entry Feature definitely could use improvements by allowing billable expenses to be posted to a Customer account
- Reporting is still very basic and needs enhancement - ability to generate custom reports is needed
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5.0
- Works very well with our small business customers so we are pleased
entry level software - does not yet compare to XERO
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4
Understanding what types of analytics clients need to see in their WAVE account
Setting up bank feeds
customizing Chart of Accounts
POsting Manual Jounals
- Start-ups
- Mobile workforce
- Virtual Teams
- Fractional CFO
- none so far
- more mature companies as WAVE evolves
May 20, 2015
Easy to use for the right client but doesn't not currently work well with large companies.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
I recommend it to many of my clients, set it up, monitor it and, in some cases, handle some of the date categorization. In some cases, clients use only the invoicing feature which provides us with information for revenue entries in our on-site software and information to process sales tax reports.
- It does a wonderful job of invoicing and billing - great for tracking outstanding receivable and payables.
- Love the ability to add my own general ledger accounts.
- Entering journal entries is easy and provides needed flexibility.
- We need to be able to create a template for general journal entries so that we don't have to enter every line on repetitive monthly entries.
- Need the ability to choose cash or accrual for sales tax reporting.
- Re sales tax liabilities, I really don't want a separate liability account for each sales tax jurisdiction. When I pay, I make one payment for multiple jurisdictions.
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I use Simply Accounting for clients with more complicated needs. Wave is great for small businesses with simpler needs. But it does complement very nicely with things like have a client do their own invoicing while we maintain everything else in Simply
April 29, 2015
Wave review
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Sole proprietor that is using it to keep books, send invoices, and prepare financial statements.
- Auto download information from bank and credit cards and prepare financial statements that can be easily managed
- Prepare invoices, send and collect money via credit card
- Easy to understand instructions
- Log in screen is confusing. You may end up creating a second account instead of logging in to your current one. It then takes customer service help to delete the second account.
Low cost, ease of use.
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