Wave: Small Business Software

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About this app

For small business owners, creators, freelancers, consultants, and contractors in the US and Canada, Wave’s mobile app is the perfect companion to our desktop experience. Over 300,000 small businesses use Wave's small business software, so you know we’ve got your back.

Once you’ve signed up for Wave online, download and use the app as your on-the-go counterpart for some of your favorite Wave features, specifically:
Invoicing
Estimates
Receipts scanning (with any receipts or Pro Plan subscription)
Dashboard access
Accounting (with any receipts or Pro Plan subscription)

1. Mobile invoicing
Create 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
Synchronize instantly with the desktop version of your Wave account


2. Mobile estimates
Instantly create 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


3. Receipt scanning (with any receipts or Pro Plan subscription)
Our mobile receipts feature is included in Wave’s Pro Plan or easy to add-on to the Starter Plan. You can digitally capture unlimited receipts with optical character recognition to track your expenses.
Manage your receipts in your Wave account and always be organized
Save time by digitally capturing receipt details in seconds using OCR technology
Breeze through tax season with always up-to-date books and reports, because our receipts and accounting features are synced
Manage and categorize transactions on-the-go or on desktop—everything stays synced!


4. Dashboard
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


5. Accounting (with any receipts or Pro Plan subscription)
With any paid subscription, users can now view, add, edit, delete, and categorize all accounting transactions on-the-go—previously only possible on desktop! If you add, edit, delete, or categorize transactions on the mobile app, the changes will automatically sync with desktop, and vice versa.
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

Accept online payments, fast
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 in the Wave mobile app, or visit waveapps.com.

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*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

***Payouts are processed in 1-2 business days for credit card payments and 1-7 business days for bank payments. Deposit times may vary due to processing cutoff times, third party delays, or risk reviews.

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Ratings and reviews

Don't bother with any of their subscription models. I have used wave free version successfully for 3 non profits and now one for profit for years. I recently added the receipts package for the for profit, and let me tell you it works not at all. I've spent a month with support and they have no solutions. it's absolutely worthless, unfortunately

Been using Wave Accounting for years & have always had some issues with Estimates/Invoices going through, have to send multiple times some of the time for them to get through. Paid for the receipt subscription for over a year & it hardly ever worked. Got it back again & now it works Even Less than it did before. I literally cannot upload 1 receipt without an issue, it kicks me out of the app, the receipt upload area or takes forever to upload the document until it finally fails. but they got.

Used it for a year or so, and it worked great. Recently, I was prompted to update the app. Now, when I try to scan receipts, they come out blurry distorted gibberish. I have recipts piling up. I have tried to get help, but the help bot was useless, and emails to the company have been ignored for weeks now. I'm about to cancel my subscription and find another option.

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.