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Switch from Wave

Wave was free. Now you need more.

Your firm outgrew basic invoicing. You need time tracking, project profitability, team payouts, expense approvals, and 1099 exports. CherryWorks Pro has everything you're missing.

Why firms switch from Wave

Every one of these is something Wave can't do — or doesn't offer at all.

Wave has no time tracking at all

CherryWorks Pro has native time tracking with week, month, and day views, a floating timer widget, and full timesheet approval workflows.

No project management or profitability

Track project budgets, labor cost vs. bill rates, and see profitability per project with built-in reports.

No team management features

CherryWorks Pro manages 1099, W-2, and Corp-to-Corp workers in one platform with smart onboarding that adapts to each worker type.

No expense approval workflow

Full expense management with submit → approve → reimburse lifecycle. Receipt uploads, category tracking, and batch expense reports.

No payout tracking

Automatic payout creation when invoices are sent. Track ACH, Zelle, wire — and export 1099 totals at year-end.

Limited reporting capabilities

CherryWorks Pro includes 19 built-in reports: AR aging, team utilization, project profitability, expense analytics, and more.

Feature comparison

Where CherryWorks Pro wins — and what Wave still offers.

Feature
CherryWorks Pro
Wave

Unlimited users (no per-seat fees)

Native time tracking

Timesheet approval workflow

1099 + W-2 + Corp-to-Corp support

Payout tracking

Auto-reimbursement payouts

Project profitability (labor + expenses)

Client portal with overdue alerts

Expense management with approvals

Import wizard (upload, preview, rollback)

Basic invoicing

Online payments

General ledger accounting

Bank reconciliation

Multi-currency invoicing (33)

Resource planning

Estimates & proposals

Enterprise audit logging

Wave is great for basic bookkeeping. CherryWorks Pro is built for professional services operations.

* Some features require Professional or Business plans. See pricing for details.

Migration timeline

Three steps. Five minutes. Zero downtime.

Step 1

Export from Wave

Export your clients, invoices, and accounting data as CSV files from Wave.

Step 2

Import & preview

Upload CSVs to CherryWorks Pro. Preview every record with dry-run. Fix any issues before committing.

Step 3

Go live

Execute the import with one click. Your team starts working immediately. Roll back anytime if needed.

What you've been missing

Native time tracking

Week, month, and day views with a floating timer widget. Wave doesn't offer this at all.

Expense approvals

Submit, approve, reimburse — with receipt uploads and full audit trail.

Unlimited users

No per-seat fees, ever. Add your entire team on any plan.

Project profitability

Revenue minus labor cost minus expenses per project. See exactly where you're making money.

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Included in Business plan

One more thing no competitor offers

Marketing Hub adds a full prospect-to-client layer on top of CherryWorks Pro — included in the Business plan, with no cross-contamination between marketing and billing records.

Contacts & Companies CRM

Track prospects and companies in their own tables, completely separate from billing clients. Tags, custom fields, activity timeline.

Campaigns & Sequences

Broadcast to a segment, or run multi-step automated outreach. Stops the moment a prospect replies or is promoted to a client.

Prospect / Client Separation

Marketing data lives in dedicated database tables — no foreign keys to your books, no cross-contamination between marketing and billing records.