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Midsize organizations count on Emburse Professional to deliver intuitive travel and expense management solutions with configurable spend controls and a user-friendly experience.
Wave has helped more than 300,000 small business owners, freelancers, solopreneurs, and consultants in the US and Canada manage their money.
Super easy to use, outstanding customer service, not expensive at all, extremely customizable, makes life easier for our sales reps. They have been so helpful throughout the implementation process.
There was fraud on the associated credit card, so it declined. Certify took it upon themselves to change billing to the 1st, thereby double-charging for the 1st-18th of the month changed.
The best part is we can manage and generate our travel invoice and booking. Very easy to use and an awesome product.
There were a few times where it seemed as thought the system "froze" and I lost all of my information and I had to retake and load pics of the receipts.
It is the best solution for Intuitive expense management, travel management and accounts payable automation solutions if desired as it has in built to complement your organization's growth to deal.
The document archive location vs the individual expense reports is confusing. Unsure where receipts need to be submitted.
I love how simple this software is. I use it both on my phone and on a PC, the sync is simple and the expense reports are super easy to submit.
You need to upload receipts one by one, but they don't filter into the same report. It's very manual and I dread creating expense reports at the end of any trip because it just takes me forever.
The best thing about Wave is that a lot of things it does are free. What you do have to pay for is a good price and well worth it.
The mistakes were fixed for the most part, but now my profit and loss report for 2020 is all jacked up and practically useless.
In conclusion, Wave Accounting is a great option for small businesses looking for a reliable and affordable online accounting solution.
But there is no proof that these changes are made yes or no, because the software is unable to remember its categorizations.
It has a great user interface with everything organized appropriately. The site is reliable and I have never seen a time when it was down.
For the fact that the benefits of wave accounting software are outrageous and cannot be overemphasized, the base challenge I currently have with Wave is that they have stop data integration.
As mentioned, I have used their paid and their free offerings and feel both are an excellent value. I think Wave offers a great way to save on a monthly subscription fee.
It was disappointing when UK bank syncing stopped. Would prefer more options on personal designs for Invoices and Receipts.
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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