Powerful restaurant accounting software
Running a restaurant takes time to create great food, great service, and a great atmosphere. Let Wave take accounting off your plate so you can focus on serving up amazing dishes for your guests.
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Whether you specialize in fine dining, authentic ethnic dishes, or fun comfort food, you don’t need to be a financial whiz to improve your business processes and optimize your cash flow. Wave is easy to use and can be customized to your unique requirements.
Wave provides everything from accounting, payroll, invoicing, online payment processing, and more. Wave’s extensive menu of features helps your restaurant run smoothly and efficiently.
My fav tool for invoicing and accounting is Wave. Easy-to-use. And I love the interface!
Dazzle your customers instead of cleaning up the books
Designed for restaurant owners and managers, Wave accounting software is simple to set up and use, and can be easily customized for any size of business. It’s also great for caterers, bakeries, coffee shops, and take-out and delivery services.
Whip up the right features
Create a Wave account and get started right away. It’s easy to choose and use the level of accounting and business features you want, and you can access your finances anywhere with peace of mind, of knowing your information is backed-up and secure.
Serve your business interests
See your daily sales, food, and labor expenses, cash flow, food write-offs, and other important data at a glance with visual graphs and charts. Dive deeper into the numbers by creating customized reports to see which food and beverage items are driving profits, and find out which expenses are affecting your bottom line.
Get your staff in on the action
With the Pro Plan, it’s easy to add limited permissions so members of your restaurant team can use their expertise to help manage your books. You can quickly get your head chef and bar manager up-to-speed to help find efficiencies and make the most of your resources.
More food for thought
Every day you dish up the perfect balance of culinary excellence, great customer service, and business acumen. A flexible accounting system helps you handle it all, while freeing you up to get back to what you do best—creating an outstanding dining experience.
Stay on track
Our expense tracking and business reporting lets you categorize, add notes, and compare menus, food supplies, and more, so you can find opportunities to keep more of your money. You can also monitor the sales tax you charge to ensure you stay compliant with your local jurisdiction.
Increase the money flow
Take advantage of affordable online payment options to help keep revenue flowing in. When you subscribe to our Pro Plan, connect your bank accounts to Wave for automatic transaction reconciliation, taking even more off your plate.
Tax time prep
Wave uses authentic double entry accounting software, so it’s easy to hand off year-end reports to your accountant at tax time. When you're a Pro Plan subscriber you can add your accountant as a limited user so they can securely access the information they need, freeing up even more of your time.
Customers love Wave
4.4 out of 5 stars based on user reviews collected by G2Crowd as of January 2024.
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Powerful, easy-to-use accounting software that has everything you need to confidently run your business.