What is Wave?
Wave makes it easy to be your own boss. Focus on what you love, and lean on Wave's intuitive online software to manage your financial and organizational needs. Wave Apps makes your money-related tasks easy with: • Unlimited invoicing, 100% free! • Unlimited accounting, 100% free!
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
96 Plan to Renew
88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+98 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Wave?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Accounts Payable Purchase Orders
Expense Management
Cost Revenue Tracking
Reconciliation
Budgeting Forecasting
Accounts Receivable Invoicing
Cash Flow Management
General Ledger Chart of Accounts
Project Accounting
Dashboards, Analytics and Reporting
Integration APIs
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Implementation
Business Value Created
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Customization
Usability and Intuitiveness
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Quality of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Availability and Quality of Training
Vendor Support
Breadth of Features
Wave Reviews
Edidiong E.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Transportation
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2025
Simple,Efficient,Game-Changer for small businesses
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Wave from other similar products?
Wave has a user friendly and intuitive interface, it is also easy to adapt and use.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It is cost effective and very suitable for small businesses.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Absence of built-in third party integrations
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Enhanced customer support service for users across all plans. It should be a enhanced to allow third party integrations.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Shawn S.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Oct 2024
Great for a small business without costing a fort.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Wave from other similar products?
Open source
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Easy invoicing
What do you dislike most about this product?
Inability to upload documents
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It is great for a small business. My draw back is you can’t upload receipts so that everything is in one place.
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Client Friendly Policies
- Fair
- Altruistic
Thomas B S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2024
Great accounting platform to get started on!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Wave from other similar products?
Free starter program to get you hooked!
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I love the expense tracking and reporting features
What do you dislike most about this product?
It takes a little getting used to when coming from another platform, but we've found everything we need so far. Integrations with 3rd party software solutions may be a little limited compared to some of the "big dogs" in the market.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It's definitely worth adding to your short list of accounting platforms to check out!
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
