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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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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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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June 08, 2016
Wave Accounting Review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Wave is being used for my entire organization as we use it for the general ledger, A/R and payroll. It automates many tasks saving our organization time and money. With other software we spent considerable time entering payroll, writing cheques to employees and submitting government remittances. Wave has streamlined this process since employees are paid directly to their bank accounts and government remittances are automatically paid.
- The payroll module is fantastic. The entire process is automated and saves considerable time throughout the process.
- The automatic download of bank and credit card transactions into the general ledger saves a considerable amount of time with data entry.
- Allowing customers to pay invoices by credit card directly through Wave allows for faster collection of receivables.
- The reporting features could be more robust as the number of reports are limited and not a flexible as I would like to see them.
- I have run into issues when trying to export general ledger items. There are inconsistencies with the date formats and as a result the information does not export easily.
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- Increased staff efficiencies
- Increased customer service
Wave accounting does not have as many features as Quickbooks or Sage 50 but it holds it's own with the market it serves. I use Wave primarily for the payroll functionality and i have recommended that clients who use Sage 50 or Quickbooks use Wave for it's payroll. The importing of the bank transactions is also a great feature but the other competitors have caught up to Wave on this feature. Overall it is a great tool, but only for the right type of client.
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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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- 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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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
November 11, 2015
Wave Is For the Next Generation of Small Business Owners.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our company has been using Wave Accounting since it first started. It allowed us to fully manage our records on the accrual basis of accounting. We were so impressive that we could email clients invoices, see that they were being viewed or not, and have our clients pay us in real time. In addition, the guest collaborator feature is what allowed us to help other wave users set up their accounts, demonstrate the full double entry features of the platform. Wave accounting addresses the issues small businesses have in keeping their records in real-time. Wave helps dramatically with providing a Balance Sheet and Income Statement, tracking and allocating expenses to the proper categories. Wave helps with payroll for our employees and remitting payroll taxes to the appropriate tax agencies with ease. Wave accounting has changed our business and our lives, and we are eternally grateful for the platform. Go Wave, go!
- Wave allows small business owners to categorize transactions quickly with their bulk categorize features, filter existing transactions painlessly and reconcile your Wave account to your actual bank institution statements.
- Wave's invoicing feature is super powerful. You can create and send invoices. Even more, you can see if your clients have viewed them even though they may say they didn't. Lastly, the recurring invoice feature with the ability to apply credit card payments is simply AWESOME to use. Streamlining receivables is a challenge every business has, and Wave has solved it.
- In the past, the integration of Stripe with the invoice payment feature of Wave caused issues as while wave would mark invoices paid, the deposit from that invoice payment cause a duplication of the invoice payment. But, with the slow release of the new Wave payment we believe this will solve the existing issue.
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- The positive ROI we have had to the support the billing concept that we recur bill and using Wave allows us to not only do that, but manually apply client payments to the recurring invoices. This is crucial for us as collectibility of fees can be a major hangup.
For any small business, Wave accounting is by far the most friendliest solution for those who know little accounting. Easy to use, easy to manage, and easy to share.
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Users and out-sourced accountants.
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General accounting background to understand the mechanics of Wave accounting. No real accounting expense in order to use the platform, but to fully use all features appropriately some accounting experience would be nice.
Yes
Wave Accounting replaced Quickbooks. We wanted a more progressive accounting software that was easy to use and understand.
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- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
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Product usability, primarily the simple user interface and dashboard was a major factor in our decision.
If I had to do it again, I should have considered wave's invoicing feature which is stronger than the easy interface. It would have allowed us to make a faster decision to go with wave.
- Implemented in-house