Wave: Small Business Software

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About this app

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

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Ratings and reviews

Wanted to upgrade to pro to remove the branding and the new attachment feature, however there is no example anywhere of what an invoice with attachment looks like. Does it show the "attached image" within the invoicePDF? I read it simply adds a link to the sending email. This is how I discovered there is now no phone, email, or chat support to ask anything unless you pay . The chatbot was useless and kept telling me to ask something else. Very frustrating and disappointing at the same time.

Used wave for 2 years and was great. Loved being able to email invoices right threw the app. Now that they have added pro, and I subscribed to the receipts annually on the app I can't upgrade tell December. So now I have to manually send invoices by email or text. I guess it's time to listen to my bookkeeper and switch to quickbooks.

Mostly good, logs out constantly... I don't have any issues with the app in general, it's very good as an invoicing app, and the free functionality works just fine for my small business. However, I get logged out on a daily basis. It's annoying to have to go in and enter my password every time I want to open the app. Maybe I've got something wrong in settings, not sure, but it doesn't seem like the app always did this until recently.

What's new

With this release, we’re waving bye to bugs and hello to stability improvements. Thanks for using Wave to help you stay more in control of your business while on-the-go.