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Outgrew Wave?
Keep the books, add the rest.
Vinance reads your Wave CSV exports (no live connection) and rebuilds your chart of accounts, contacts, items, unpaid documents, and opening balances, then gives you inventory, payroll, projects, and multi-currency on the same ledger.
How it works
Detect, plan, review, write.
Vinance imports Wave from its CSV exports, not a live connection. Wave lets you export an accounting transactions report, a customer list, and a products and services list, and it can produce a Trial Balance for your opening position. You export those, Vinance reads them, and you approve before anything is created.
Detect
Point Vinance at your Wave exports: the accounting transactions CSV, the customer and product lists, and the Trial Balance report. It reads Wave column names and works out accounts, contacts, and items.
Plan
Wave keeps a lean chart of accounts; Vinance maps it in and dedupes contacts. Where Wave lumped things together, you can split them out during review.
Review
You see every account, contact, item, and unpaid document it will create, with the Trial Balance staged as one opening journal. Rename or remap anything.
Write
Approve, and it writes in one pass. Unpaid invoices and bills stay unpaid at their current balances, ready to reconcile.
Read from your Wave CSV exports (accounting transactions, customers, products) and the Trial Balance. Nothing is written until you approve.
What carries over
A clean base to build on.
Wave keeps things simple, which makes the import quick: a smaller chart of accounts, a straightforward contact list, and invoices that are either paid or not. Vinance brings all of it across and gives it room to grow.
- Chart of accounts, with account types tidied where Wave was vague
- Customers and vendors, deduped into single contacts
- Products and services with their income accounts
- Unpaid invoices and bills, kept open at their current balances
- Trial Balance posted as one dated opening journal that ties to zero
Wave stops at basic accounting and invoicing. Vinance adds inventory, payroll, projects, and multi-currency on the same ledger, included.
Why people move
You outgrew free, not accounting.
Wave is a fine place to start, and most businesses leave it for the same reason: they need inventory, payroll, projects, purchase approvals, or multi-currency, and Wave does not go there. Vinance picks up your books unchanged and adds those modules on the same ledger, with nothing metered per module.
- Inventory with valuation that flows into cost of goods sold
- Payroll runs and payslips posted to the ledger
- Multi-currency invoicing with automatic FX revaluation
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From lean to complete
What you gain moving off Wave.
The everyday jobs work the same; there is just more of the business you can now run in one place.
| Job | In Wave | In Vinance |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing & payments | Yes | Yes, plus estimates & recurring |
| Bank reconciliation | Basic | Feeds, rules, statement import |
| Inventory | No | Items, warehouses, valuation |
| Payroll | US/Canada paid add-on | Included on the platform |
| Projects & time | No | Budgets and billable time |
| Multi-currency | No | With FX revaluation |
Still a free tier
Vinance has a free plan too, so leaving Wave does not have to mean opening the wallet on day one. See pricing →
A desktop app too
Something Wave never offered: a native Windows app on the same books. See the desktop app →
Try before you commit
Import into a scratch company, check it against your Wave Trial Balance, then run it for real. Clear and retry freely.
Frequently asked questions
How does Vinance read my Wave data?
From file exports, not a live connection. Wave lets you export an accounting transactions report, a customer list, and a products and services list as CSV, plus a Trial Balance. Vinance imports those files after you review the plan.
Wave has a small chart of accounts. Is that a problem?
No. A lean chart makes for a fast import. Vinance brings it across as-is, and where Wave lumped categories together you can split them into proper accounts during review.
I use Wave Payroll. Does that come over?
Payroll history is not part of the accounting export, so it does not migrate as pay runs. Your payroll expense balances arrive through the Trial Balance, and you set up future pay runs in Vinance, where payroll is included on the platform.
Why would I leave Wave if it is free?
Usually because you need inventory, projects, purchase approvals, or multi-currency, which Wave does not offer. Vinance has a free plan too, so you can move without paying on day one. See pricing.
Do my unpaid invoices carry over?
Yes. Unpaid invoices and bills import as open at their current balances and due dates, ready to reconcile against the bank when payment moves.
Move your books off the spreadsheet.
Invoices to bank feeds, payroll to financial statements. One platform, priced by the company and not the seat, on web and desktop.
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