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KidKare Food Program vs Wave: Which is a better fit?

Updated on February 9th, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 6,174 reviews from Accounting users.
% Fit
Missing features
Feature ratings
Chart of Accounts
NA
Income & Balance Sheet
NA
Document Management
NA
Financial Reporting
NA
Financial Management
NA
% Fit
Missing features
Feature ratings
Chart of Accounts
NA
Income & Balance Sheet
4.5
Document Management
NA
Financial Reporting
4.5
Financial Management
4.0
User satisfaction
4.7
User reviews387
Ease of use
4.6
Functionality
4.6
Value for money
4.6
Customer support
4.6
4.4
User reviews1,663
Ease of use
4.5
Functionality
4.2
Value for money
4.6
Customer support
4.0
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Designed for childcare providers, childcare centers, state agencies, CACFP sponsors, and family childcare providers, the tool helps manage food programs, claims, and operations.

Wave helps small business owners, freelancers, solopreneurs, and consultants in the US and Canada manage accounting, payroll, invoicing, estimating and other processes.

User reviews
pros & cons
1 / 4
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Video reviews
Jennifer J
Provider
5.0

Jennifer J.: Hi, my name is Jennifer and I'm an education provider and I did give KidKare five rating and for more [inaudible 00:00:07]. I switched to KidKare because it's more convenient because I used before system from [inaudible 00:00:17] department and it was too slow or sometime they don't have the flexibility to our children to get out and use. It wasn't convenient for me so that's why I switched to KidKare. I decided at the end to try KidKare and then I stay with it for more than five years now because it's more convenient for me. It's easy to use, it a lot of tools that I can improve my system with my all the children that I have and it's great. It's work easy and convenient for me. To start KidKare first I, when I knew this, it was through my agency and it's super easy. So if you download the application on your computer, you go to the website and they give you a tour, how to use everything. So you're not going to be lost. So it's quicker to learn it and it's very easy. I will advise all my colleagues maybe to switch if they're looking for something convenient, easy, and not a headache to use because we have a lot of software out there. But when you find something that it go with the job that you do it's a lot better because everything is clear. And if you don't know something there was always assistant online, so they can help you with anything that you maybe don't get. But everything's pretty clear so I would advise them to get KidKare for sure.

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Matthew C
CEO
5.0

Matthew: My name's Matthew. My title is CEO/Founder. Company of one, and for rating for Wave Accounting, I would give it five stars. I really like it. For Wave, it's specifically for accounting and invoices and payroll. I had tried to do all of that stuff manually, but I had never used any other software before. So that's the first and only one that I've used. Basically, it was a recommendation from a former coworker that he had used it for his consulting business in the past and basically said you should look at it because it's a good value, it's good for small businesses, it's good to keep track of payments and invoices, and it doesn't really cost of a lot, so it's something you should research. And based off that research, I went ahead and signed up and I've been using it ever since. For me, it was pretty easy. I don't think there was anything too complicated. I guess it really just depends on what you're looking to get out of it. Like I said, I use mine for invoices primarily and keeping track of payments from clients. So there's a few other different features that you can utilize on there, but because those are my two main priorities, it was really easy just to get everything set up with the account, play around with all the different features, and at least get a few invoices written up. So I would say pretty easy. I would say if you're a small, medium business, it's definitely something that you should look into. It might not make sense for large corporate clients because maybe you have a lot more users or something like that. But for small, medium business, it's definitely something to look into. I mean, I would say especially also, the other thing is if you're not necessarily very knowledgeable about accounting practices or managing your books or keeping track of the ledger and invoices and stuff like that, payroll, this is a good way to help with that because they are able to walk you through each step-by-step part of the process. So I found that part to be helpful as well. So yeah, I would say it doesn't hurt for a small and medium business size owner to look at that and just consider it. But I've really enjoyed using it so far and I don't anticipate changing anytime soon.

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KidKare Food Program

13/43
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Approval Process Control
  • Audit Trail
  • Bank Reconciliation
  • Budgeting/Forecasting
  • Cash Flow Management
  • Chart of Accounts
  • Currency Conversion
  • Data Security
  • Document Management
  • Encryption
  • Financial Consolidation & Close Management
  • Financial Management
  • Financial Reporting
  • Fixed Asset Management
  • Fund Accounting
  • General Ledger
  • Income & Balance Sheet
  • Multi-Currency
  • Multi-Location
  • Payroll Management
  • Project Accounting
  • Purchase Order Management
  • Quotes/Estimates
  • Reminders
  • Sales Tax Management
  • Status Tracking
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Workflow Management
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Accounts Payable
  • Accounts Receivable
  • API
  • Audit Management
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Compliance Management
  • Expense Tracking
  • Mobile Access
  • Payment Processing
  • Receipt Management
  • Recurring/Subscription Billing
  • Tax Management
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KidKare Food Program
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Wave
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
KidKare Food Program
  • By Minute Menu Systems
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 1993
Wave
  • By Wave
  • Located in Canada
  • Founded in 2009
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