OneBookPlus vs Wave:
the Australian all-in-one alternative

Yes, Wave's free Starter plan is genuinely free, and it's generous: you can send unlimited estimates and invoices, record bills, and keep double-entry bookkeeping at $0/month (see waveapps.com/pricing). Credit where it's due. OneBookPlus also has a $0 plan, but it's capped at 10 invoices a month and 250 contacts. The difference isn't 'free vs paid', both have a free tier. The difference is what each free tier is built for: Wave is North-America-first accounting, while OneBookPlus is an Australian all-in-one platform with bookings, CRM, jobs, marketing and an AI layer included. If all you need is unlimited free invoices and basic books, and you don't need AU payments or BAS, Wave is a legitimately strong free choice.

Partly. You can use Wave's free invoicing and bookkeeping in Australia by setting your country and currency at sign-up. But Wave's revenue-generating features are North-America-only: Wave Payments (card/online payments) is US and Canada only, Wave Payroll is US and Canada only, and automatic bank-connection feeds are restricted outside the US and Canada, Wave's own Help Centre directs users outside those regions elsewhere. Wave also has no ATO lodgement and its tax handling is generic sales-tax tracking, not AU-native GST. So in Australia you get the free invoicing and the ledger, but not the paid layer that makes Wave compelling in North America.

Yes, and it covers the gaps Wave leaves in Australia. OneBookPlus handles GST-compliant invoicing, expense tracking, profit-and-loss reports and BAS-ready summaries, built for Australian tax from the ground up rather than retrofitted. On top of the accounting you get CRM, online bookings, job management, email marketing, POS, review requests and an AI Companion, plus in-app card and BECS payments that Wave doesn't offer here. Spending goes in by scanning the receipt or supplier invoice, with the AI reading the supplier, date, GST and total. If you've been using Wave for free invoices but reaching for separate tools to take payments or lodge BAS in Australia, OneBookPlus folds all of that into one Australian platform.

Wave's Starter plan is free; its Pro plan is USD $19/month, which adds auto-import and auto-categorisation of bank transactions, discounted card processing, receipt capture, late-payment reminders and branded invoicing (see waveapps.com/pricing). Note that Pro's headline upgrades, bank import and discounted payments, lean on features that are US/Canada-centric, and Wave bills in USD. OneBookPlus is priced and billed in AUD inc. GST: a free plan, then $29/month (Starter), $49/month (Plus) and $69/month (Growth), each bundling invoicing, CRM, bookings, marketing and accounting in one subscription. So the real comparison isn't dollar-for-dollar on the ledger, it's whether you also want bookings, CRM, jobs, marketing, AU payments and BAS in the same price. The AI Receptionist is a $79/mo add-on and it needs the AI Companion ($25/mo, included free on Growth), so budget about $104 a month on top of your plan, or $79/mo on Growth.

No. Wave supports generic sales-tax tracking, but it isn't tailored to Australian GST, and it offers no direct ATO lodgement, Australian users export reports and hand them to a registered BAS agent or accountant for submission. Wave's tax-exclusive pricing model is also a poor fit for Australia, where consumer pricing is usually tax-inclusive. OneBookPlus calculates 10% GST automatically on invoices and quotes, validates ABNs via the Australian Business Register, tracks GST collected and paid, and produces ATO-ready BAS summaries, because it's an Australian product built for Australian tax compliance.

For Australian businesses that liked Wave's free invoicing but hit its limits here, OneBookPlus is the closest all-in-one Australian alternative. Where Wave gives you free invoicing and a ledger but no AU payments, no AU bank feeds, no AU payroll and no BAS, OneBookPlus is Australian-built with GST, ABN and BAS support, in-app payments, receipt and supplier-invoice scanning, and a free plan, plus CRM, bookings, jobs, marketing, POS and AI that Wave doesn't ship at all. Bank feeds are the exception: ours are withdrawn while we replace the provider. If you specifically want a free, no-frills North-American accounting tool and you don't need the AU-specific or all-in-one features, Wave itself is still a fine pick.

Yes. OneBookPlus imports your customer list via CSV export from Wave during onboarding, so you keep your contacts without re-typing them. Your historical invoices and books stay in Wave as a record, while new invoices, quotes, bookings and payments happen in OneBookPlus. You can export your OneBookPlus data at any time, so you are never locked in.

Yes, and it is the sensible way to move. Wave's free Starter plan costs nothing to keep open, so most switchers pick a cut-over date (usually the start of a BAS quarter), raise every new quote and invoice in OneBookPlus from that day, and keep Wave as a read-only archive until the last open period is finalised with their accountant. There is no need to migrate historical transactions, and because both tools have a free tier, running the overlap costs nothing. Just avoid issuing invoices from both systems in the same period, which makes the GST figures harder to reconcile.