Download files containing all of your transactions, invoices, customers, vendors, bills, receipts, employee information, and pay stubs from your Wave account.
You can also download your chart of accounts, customers, invoices, and products using our Google Sheets integration, Wave Connect.
To download a list of transactions between specific dates, export an Account Transactions report filtered with those dates.
Viewer and Editor user roles do not have access to data export.
What’s included in your files
Data exports only include the information of the business profile you’re currently in.
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Accounting: This export contains four XLS or CSV files:
- Accounting file: Journal entries and transactions
- Bill items file: Bill information
- Customers file: Customer profiles
- Vendors file: Vendor and independent contractor profiles
- Receipts: This export contains a ZIP file with all uploaded receipt images in their original file types.
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Payroll: Available for Canadian businesses only, this export contains two CSV files:
- Employee profiles: Your employees' profile information
- Pay stubs: All employees' pay stubs
To download payroll tax forms, follow the steps in Download payroll tax forms.
Download your data
To download your data:
- Log in at waveapps.com.
- At the top right corner, click your business name, then select Business settings.
- In the Settings menu, scroll down to Other, then click Data Export.
- Select the data file(s) you want to download: Accounting, Receipts or Payroll. You will receive an email at the primary email address of your Wave account.
- In the email you received, click Download data export.
The email link is active for 24 hours. If the link expires, export your data again. If you do not receive the email, check your spam folder and remove any email filters.
You cannot print from the Data Export page. To print your data, download your files, then print from your device.