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Wave is free accounting for very small businesses, which means the owner is the bookkeeper. Hold a key and talk: Typally transcribes and types it into Wave without you touching the keyboard.
This is a vendor guide from the makers of Typally. Anything we say about Wave is worth verifying — third-party features change without notice.None. Memo, description and note fields are typed.
A sole trader doing their own books at the weekend has every incentive to skip the description field. It surfaces a year later as a transaction nobody can categorise and an accountant's query they are paying to answer.
In practice people use it for: Transaction memos, invoice line descriptions, customer notes, and receipt annotations.
There is no Wave extension or add-in involved — Typally behaves like a very fast keyboard:
Grab the build for your platform and create an account.
Make sure Wave has the cursor in the intended field; that is the only thing that decides where words appear.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Some Wave fields are short and truncate. Keep memos to a sentence or two.
Typally types into Wave's memo and description fields in the browser, so the sentence that saves a year-end query costs about eight seconds. For a business with no bookkeeper, removing the typing cost is what makes the habit survive past the first month.
A freelancer speaks a one-line memo on every transaction that is not obviously routine. At year end the accountant's query list is four items rather than thirty, which is a smaller bill.
Describe anything unusual at the moment you record it. That is the only time you know what it was.
Some Wave fields are short and truncate. Keep memos to a sentence or two.
No. All fields are typed.
The memo on unusual transactions. That is what year-end queries are made of.
Yes, and describing the work rather than the hours reduces client questions.
The free plan gives you 100 minutes a month without a card — enough to find out whether talking beats typing for you.
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