Everything Wave does for free, plus your clients.
Wave is a popular free way to keep the books, but it stops at accounting and invoicing — there's no client CRM, no pipeline, and no marketing tracking. BuddyWorkflow keeps your bookkeeping free too, and adds the client side and marketing analytics in the same login.
Free books are just the start
Wave gets you free accounting, and so does BuddyWorkflow — but freelancers and small studios also need to track clients, send contracts, and see which marketing actually pays. Wave leaves all of that to other tools. BuddyWorkflow keeps it in one place.
Payments without the markup
Both charge to take card payments, but BuddyWorkflow passes Stripe's real processing cost straight through with zero markup, and bank transfers (ACH) are free — where Wave adds a percentage on ACH (2026 published rates). Pro removes our fee entirely.
One login instead of a stack
Instead of Wave for books and separate apps for clients, contracts and marketing, you run the whole business from one login — a paid invoice updates your books, your CRM and your marketing return automatically.
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Keep your books free. Add your clients and marketing.
Free forever for your books. We pass Stripe's real processing cost straight through — never marking up the rate the way others keep the spread — and Pro removes our fee entirely.
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