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Archive
A collection of Wave's past articles, news stories, and guides.
Should I Use a Personal Loan for My Business?
Be careful when you use your personal credit to power your business. You may be hurting your personal credit score without knowing it.
Mega invoicing update!
Check out Wave's invoicing updates with new features and templates to make it easier for you to manage small business.
Zapier and Wave
Say you create a new invoice in Wave for a brand new customer. Now you need to get that customer into your CRM; add them to your email marketing list; send an email to that customer to thank them; maybe even create a follow-up task in your to-do app.
Wave now works with Zapier. Here’s how.
Great news! You can now use Zapier (rhymes with "happier") to connect Wave with potentially hundreds of different applications, and automate your workflows. (See the guest blog post from Zapier's Alison Groves.)
Alternatives to Flint Mobile payment processing
A week or so ago, a mobile payment startup, Flint Mobile, abruptly closed its doors and ceased operations. Though we don't like seeing our tech brethren hit hard times, we also don't like knowing that small business owners have been left in the lurch.
Join us for our latest webinar — Pain Free Payroll (Canada)
Join us for our latest Payroll by Wave webinar for our Canadian customers.
Five milestone moments from our first five years
We've been quietly celebrating our fifth birthday for a couple of months now. First we had cupcakes. Then we moved into a brand new office. Then we launched a huge number of product improvements for our customers.
Why experienced business owners always have an open credit line
Many first-time business owners think about cash flow only when their cash reserves are low. Drake, founder and CEO of a digital marketing agency, didn’t find a funding option until after he already felt the consequences of lumpy cash flow. He watched his cash spike when a client paid, and then dwindle down while he waited on the next client to pay their invoice.
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