Wave: Small Business Software

In-app purchases
3.5
23K reviews
500K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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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. 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 and stop chasing customers
Access live-person chat and email support
And more!

You’re in good company
Wave’s software has helped more than 2,000,000 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
With Wave’s mobile app, you can easily:
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
Land that dream customer quicker with our estimates feature! Instantly create and send estimates to clients, plus:
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

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

Privacy: https://www.waveapps.com/legal/privacy-policy
Terms of Use: https://www.waveapps.com/legal/terms-of-use
Terms of Service: https://www.waveapps.com/legal/legal-disclosures
Updated on
Feb 29, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.5
22.4K reviews
Christopher O'Keeffe
January 31, 2024
Edit: upgraded from a one star review. I had some prolonged issues with the platform, but eventually got ahold of a team member who owned the problem and helped sort through it. Conclusion is that Wave is fine when everything is working properly, but if there are snags they do not have the support in place to truly serve small business owners. Still, they have some smart and kind people at the company, but it's incredibly difficult to reach them.
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Wave HQ
January 29, 2024
Apologies for the delay in your funds. Your bank rejected the payout due to an issue with your bank account. It's probable your bank has returned the funds a second time, but we haven't been notified yet. Please connect a different bank account or resolve the issue with your bank before the funds are resubmitted.
Amanda Mitrani
January 30, 2024
App now freezes my whole phone when I try to make an invoice. After contacting support to see if it's a glitch, apparently the 'invoice' feature is "no longer available in the app" and they'll send my feature request along... I'm sorry, but doesn't that make the app useless? An invoicing app that can't make invoices. Ridiculous.
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Callie C
December 7, 2023
I thought I was downloading the wave bookkeeping app to help categorize expenses on the go. Apparently not. Does anyone make an app JUST for bookkeeping? It's only use for me is telling me my total income and expenses. Something I see at the website which is where I have to go if I actually want to record transactions, sort and categorize, you know, managing my money. There is zero functionality on this app. I'm uninstalled it. It's literally just taking up space.
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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.