Derek Calloway
Controller · 11-50
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★★★★★
Free core accounting that doesn't feel cheap. That's the short version. About a year ago, I pushed for Wave when we were a scrappy 15-person team trying to cut overhead without cutting corners. The pitch to leadership was simple: invoicing, bank reconciliation, and expense tracking at no cost for the base tier. It held up. We run payroll through the paid add-on, which costs real money, but even bundled together the bill stays well below what comparable tools charge. For a startup watching every line item, that matters a lot.
The one gripe I'll flag is that Wave's receipt capture on mobile can be finicky. Sometimes it just refuses to parse a receipt correctly and I end up entering it manually, which defeats the point. Customer support is also mostly self-serve docs, so if you hit a weird edge case, expect to dig around for a while. But for the value delivered at this price point, those are minor complaints. Most of my peers running finance at small startups are overpaying for software they're using at 30% capacity. Wave is the honest alternative.
