
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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89 Likeliness to Recommend
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95 Plan to Renew
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89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
- Product Experience:
- 98%
- Negotiation and Contract:
- 99%
- Conflict Resolution:
- 98%
- Strategy & Innovation:
- 98%
- Service Experience:
- 97%
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
+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
Cost Revenue Tracking
Expense Management
Accounts Payable Purchase Orders
Accounts Receivable Invoicing
General Ledger Chart of Accounts
Reconciliation
Budgeting Forecasting
Project Accounting
Integration APIs
Cash Flow Management
Dashboards, Analytics and Reporting
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Customization
Ease of Implementation
Ease of IT Administration
Usability and Intuitiveness
Business Value Created
Ease of Data Integration
Availability and Quality of Training
Breadth of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Quality of Features
Vendor Support
Wave Reviews

Daniel H.
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Oct 2023
Great accounting and/or invoicing tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Wave from other similar products?
Great pricing options, free invoicing.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Integration with bank
What do you dislike most about this product?
I think the credit card fee is a tad higher than industry average. No sales reports with a breakdown per product.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It is free to sign up!
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy

Mirabel C.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Food and Beverage
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Apr 2025
This is the Accounting APP for SMEs
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Wave from other similar products?
Unlimited invoices to unlimited clients, unlimited transactions, see even paid accounting apps can't beat this software.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The invoicing system (Unlimited invoices to unlimited clients), cashflow management, and it's offered for freee!
What do you dislike most about this product?
No customer support or represetative
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are a small business owner looking for an accounting software to run your business professionally, this is the app for you.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity

Eddie 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