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  • Hello everyone, I am new here. I have been using Wave for a couple of months now. I need help with adding Liability. I took a loan from someone. I do not know how to add full amount of the loan. It is necessary that I know how much loan i have paid and how much is left to paid. I created an account for that but I am not able to add full loan amo…
    Dawood 31 views 1 comment Most recent by Mikeg August 8, 2020 11:31AM
  • Hi, I’m new to the waveapps and still learning how to use it. I can add a new liability account and assign expenses against it. But I’m specifically interested in adding a liability account for, let’s say, a bank loan of $50k and assigning an interest of, say, $250 and principle of $1,000. These amounts could change every month. So ideally, …
    Smsf 61 views 1 comment Most recent by CallieP August 7, 2020 5:35PM
  • Just moving everything to Wave and awaiting the arrival of Wave Money. Live in Easton Pa
    Jonathan_S 1 view 0 comments Started by Jonathan_S August 6, 2020 9:12PM
  • new to wave and setting up new business account. Have following questions, would appreciate any help: * How I can export detailed expense transactions along with Categories? * Which report I should use to see expenses (category and all transactions within the category)? * How funds transfer between same business account are handled? (as these are…
    ADDS 11 views 1 comment Most recent by Mikeg July 24, 2020 8:29PM
  • I'm looking for Wave guidance around the following two receipt scenarios. Practically speaking, these seem to me to be relatively common situations, but I haven't been able to find any conclusive guidance on how this can or should be accomplished: One Transaction, - Multiple Receipts: For example, you generally get two pieces of paper. The bill s…
    DaveB 681 views 7 comments Most recent by kennyCKPL July 23, 2020 9:59AM
  • I transferred money from one payment account to another within Wave. I manually entered that transaction. A day or two later, when Wave sync'd with my bank, Wave downloaded the transaction. (For some reason, it downloaded the transaction moving $$ out of an account but didn't download the transaction moving $$ into the other account, but that's no…
    KJIsaacson 51 views 3 comments Most recent by CallieP July 22, 2020 6:31PM
  • Let's connect. Trying out for cities seemed futile
    mohsinmkg7 282 views 3 comments Most recent by mhammadlatifACCA July 18, 2020 8:03AM
  • Hello :) I get a 20% discount from my vendor. This allows me to charge my clients the recommended retail price while still marking it up with 20%. How do/can I add the discount to vendor products that I resell to clients? The client mustn't see the discount. I need to capture the supplier invoice, add line items to project number and/or client in…
    liezl 21 views 1 comment Most recent by Barsin July 15, 2020 8:25PM
  • Buongiorno, sono nuovo in Wave e stò provando a vedere se il vs servizio può fare al mio caso. Io sono Italiano e vorrei stampare le fatture, le ricevute e l'invio mail in italiano, così come è possibile fare per modificare le colonne delle fattture. Non riesco a modificare subtotal e total. Inoltre l'indirizzo del cliente appare come numero civic…
    Rossano 31 views 3 comments Most recent by JordanD July 15, 2020 6:34PM
  • I have 2 organizations that have prepaid expenses and income that are for the following year events. How and where would I categorize them? IO know I would have to transfer them into the income/expense account on Jan 1 of each year. My guess is a prepaid account but not sure.
    Alpacamom 41 views 2 comments Most recent by Alpacamom July 12, 2020 3:12PM
  • Greetings from the dry heat of the Old Pueblo. I'm a new business owner and I went through using Quickbooks, Sage, and Xero then came across Wave. There is definitely a good amount that could be built out in Wave, but I'm SUPER happy with the platform so far and have high hopes of its future potential. Anyway, if any users come up in Tucson and w…
    Spoonhandle 11 views 0 comments Started by Spoonhandle July 11, 2020 8:40AM
  • From Reports>Transactions>Export>.csv all my values are exported as text, not numbers. I must be doing something wrong. Help!
    Graybuck 11 views 3 comments Most recent by Mikeg July 8, 2020 2:08PM
  • wave accounting software is not often used in INDIA. Any person using this software in INDIA?
    rkk_777 111 views 4 comments Most recent by vishnuvi July 8, 2020 12:10PM
  • Anyone else from Australia using Wave? I'm based in Perth
    Leaf_Marketing 31 views 3 comments Most recent by murray July 2, 2020 4:38AM
  • Hey guys, I'm a newbie here .. I already used this wave accounting since January 2020. This is my first time recording my accountant properly. so today I just want to go to the next part of my accounting which is tracking my loan bank. I already made this loan since 2015. So should I go back record my accounting based on the timeline of my old loa…
    Afiq 21 views 1 comment Most recent by CallieP June 30, 2020 9:30PM
  • importing my chase csv file ... gives me swapped values in waveapp ... for instance "credit" entries are black and debit entires are green ... in csv file . all payments to merchants are -ve and payment to the card is +ve how to fix it
    badrulv 11 views 1 comment Most recent by CallieP June 30, 2020 9:23PM
  • Hi all ... I have a customer who paid for an invoice using 50% as cash, 30% was a deposit into the bank account and 20% was via PayPal. How do I split this payment in order to balance with my bank statement?
    TheCoffeeTree_1507 211 views 2 comments Most recent by TheCoffeeTree_1507 June 26, 2020 8:26AM
  • I procure products on behalf of my customers as follows: 1. I identify the product that the customer wants to purchase. 2. I put a deposit of $2,000 to hold the product. 3. The customer buys the product from the seller. I don't get any money in this transaction. 4. I send an invoice to the customer for $7,000. 5. The customer pays me $7,000. Out o…
    WhataGreatDay 11 views 1 comment Most recent by Barsin June 24, 2020 6:57PM
  • How do I see my account ledger and more importantly how do I see my daily account balance?
    Wave_is_confusing 12 views 1 comment Most recent by Barsin June 24, 2020 4:56PM
  • Hi Wave team, This might be something to pass onto your CX or web developers but the current experience for existing users is painful if they accidentally click on the wrong google account when signing into wave. Trying to sign in with the wrong google account forces you into an onboarding flow that you can't get out of easily. Clicking on 'Your…
    momotofoo 61 views 1 comment Most recent by CallieP June 12, 2020 5:58PM
  • Dear community, I am already with Wave since 2018 but due to severe handicaps and half year of homelessness I have never been able to consolidate my information in Wave from previous platforms and such. Brief background info 1. Went from Paypal -> N26 -> Transferwise (And now using Wave to consolidate payments across those 3). * Expendit…
    NoodzakelijkOnline 31 views 2 comments Most recent by NoodzakelijkOnline June 10, 2020 2:59AM
  • Is there anyway to set up some sort of customer loyalty rewards points system in Wave? I am toying with the idea of offering that as I have a lot of repeat business customers.
    StaciWied 51 views 1 comment Most recent by Barsin June 5, 2020 8:29PM
  • Hello, I am new here and I have the following questions. 1. How long the data in accounting system will be stored in the free version? Will it be deleted after a certain period? 2. Is there a limitation for number of transactions in the free version?
    QLan 41 views 1 comment Most recent by ConnorM May 29, 2020 6:22PM
  • Hi. I am new to the forum and not sure where to ask this questions. Sometimes when I try to upload a receipt on the web, I get an error: "Error Uploading Receipt". This happens randomly. The receipt that I am using is a downloaded PDF from my cellphone provider. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
    JMDesign 101 views 3 comments Most recent by ConnorM May 28, 2020 5:40PM
  • How do i categorize money withdrawn from business to pay shareholders
    namoonga 11 views 1 comment Most recent by ConnorM May 26, 2020 6:53PM
  • My partner and I split the cost of a new rake for our farm. How do I split the accounts to show half came from my owner investment account and half came form his?
    Farmer_Frank 11 views 2 comments Most recent by Mikeg May 25, 2020 11:04PM
  • I am busy setting up my chart of accounts but am concerned that I don't know where to recover accounts that I erroneously archived?
    PeterB 11 views 2 comments Most recent by PeterB May 20, 2020 7:28AM
  • Hi! Did you ever want a blank slate student to teach and mold so that they'd be an excellent, successful professional without any faults or flaws, then you found him! Where do I start? My wife and I have a background in medicine and are starting a subscription based medical concierge service. We also have real estate that I'd like to receipt tr…
    Ardenb64 31 views 0 comments Started by Ardenb64 May 20, 2020 2:35AM
  • I just entered some checks today and they aren't showing up on my deposits. Also, how do I find old invoices?
    JodyWVDECA 21 views 1 comment Most recent by Barsin May 19, 2020 9:17PM
  • When someone emails me a bill - can I then email it to Wave so that it goes into my "Bills" please?
    Carter44 81 views 1 comment Most recent by Barsin May 19, 2020 7:53PM