Wave
Free accounting and invoicing software for very early-stage small businesses, monetized through payment processing rather than subscription.
This is where the depth lives — everything below is evidence-graded
How the product is positioned
Free accounting and invoicing software for very early-stage small businesses, monetized through payment processing rather than subscription.
Our summary of the vendor’s positioning — verbatim claim not yet recordedWhat we found
Level 1 · assistive
Seeded at the rubric default. No independent evidence of end-to-end task completion has been reviewed yet, so the lowest grade applies until it is.
Any human checkpoint here is a product setting, not a regulatory requirement — confirm how it is configured for your deployment.
Graded 2026-08-01 · re-check 2026-11-01
Procurement detail
- Deployment
- saasvendor documentation
- Compliance
- None recorded
- Integrations
- Stripe-based payments claim unverified
- Pricing
- free-tierStarter plan genuinely free with unlimited invoicing and accounting, no time limit; Pro plan $19/mo adds recurring invoicing and receipt OCR.
- Human checkpoint
- Requiredproduct setting
Will they still be here?
- Funding
- Acquired by H&R Block (2019)
- Founded
- 2009
- HQ
- Toronto, Canada
- Ownership
- Acquired by H&R Block (2019)
Sources
Logo retrieved 2026-08-01from the vendor’s own site · trademark of Wave (H&R Block)
- checkthat.aiIndependent · retrieved 2026-08-01
- cashflowy.aiIndependent · retrieved 2026-08-01
Where it’s weak
Lags on AI-native features versus Xero/QuickBooks; best suited to businesses under ~$50K revenue, not a long-term platform for growing SMBs.
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