Wave (via Apideck)

Access Wave through Apideck's Accounting unified API — one of 34 Accounting connectors that share the same method surface. Code you write here ports to Access Financials, Acumatica, banqUP and 30 other Accounting connectors by changing a single serviceId string. Apideck handles auth, pagination, rate limiting, and retries so you don't write per-tenant Wave plumbing.

Beta connector. Wave is currently in beta on Apideck. Expect partial resource coverage and occasional mapping gaps. Always verify coverage (see below) and fall back to the Proxy API for unsupported operations.

Quick facts

• Apideck serviceId: wave
• Unified API: Accounting
• Auth type: oauth2
• Status: beta
• Apideck setup guide: Connection guide
• Gotchas: page
• Wave docs: https://developer.waveapps.com
• Homepage: https://www.waveapps.com/

At a glance

• Implementation difficulty: moderate — Self-Service OAuth App + Wave Approval Required to Distribute
• Vendor partnership required: no
• Apideck-managed credentials: not available — Register your own Wave application and add its Client ID and Secret to Apideck.
• Account type required: A Wave business in the US or Canada with an active Pro or Advisors subscription. Testing your own app against your own account needs neither.
• Consumer access level: Any user with access to the business can authorise the connection; Wave publishes no role requirement.
• Sandbox: not available — A free Starter account is a sufficient test environment and exposes the same API surface as Pro; Wave runs no sandbox.
• Costs: Wave charges no API access fees and commits to advance notice before introducing any. The subscription requirement sits on the connecting business, not you.
• Rate limits: Wave publishes no rate limits; its documented error codes include no throttling or rate-limit code.
• Authentication: Authorization Code flow. Wave's API is GraphQL-only, and each connection also needs the consumer's Wave Business ID.
• Webhooks: No webhooks — none surfaced by this connector, so poll for changes.

Important to know:

• A live connection can break with nothing changing on your side. If a connected business's Wave Pro or Advisors subscription lapses, the next token refresh returns 403 and the integration stops working until the subscription is reactivated.
• Distributing your integration to other Wave businesses requires Wave's approval. Creating the application and testing it against your own account is self-service, but Wave's Permitted Use policy covers any integration that is not direct-to-your-own-business.
• Wave serves the US and Canada only, and signup from elsewhere is geo-blocked. The block sticks to the email address on the first failed attempt, so a European team cannot simply retry behind a VPN.
• Connecting is not purely one-click. Alongside the OAuth authorisation, each consumer must supply their Wave Business ID — a base64 string taken from the business's Wave app URL — so your onboarding needs a step that tells them where to find it.

Facts synced from Apideck's connector metadata API — GET /connector/connectors/wave (overview field) is the live, authoritative version.

When to use this skill

Activate this skill when the user explicitly wants to work with Wave — for example, "create an invoice in Wave" or "reconcile payments in Wave". This skill teaches the agent:

1. Which Apideck unified API covers Wave (Accounting)
2. The correct serviceId to pass on every call (wave)
3. Wave-specific auth and coverage caveats

For the full method surface (parameters, pagination, filtering), use your language SDK skill:

• apideck-node, apideck-python, apideck-dotnet, apideck-java, apideck-go, apideck-php, or apideck-rest

For the raw OpenAPI spec:

• Accounting: https://specs.apideck.com/accounting.yml · API Explorer

Minimal example (TypeScript)

import { Apideck } from "@apideck/unify";

const apideck = new Apideck({
  apiKey: process.env.APIDECK_API_KEY,
  appId: process.env.APIDECK_APP_ID,
  consumerId: "your-consumer-id",
});

// List invoices in Wave
const { data } = await apideck.accounting.invoices.list({
  serviceId: "wave",
});

Portable across 34 Accounting connectors

The Apideck Accounting unified API exposes the same methods for every connector in its catalog. Switching from Wave to another Accounting connector is a one-string change — no rewrite, no new SDK.

// Today — Wave
await apideck.accounting.invoices.list({ serviceId: "wave" });

// Tomorrow — same code, different connector
await apideck.accounting.invoices.list({ serviceId: "access-financials" });
await apideck.accounting.invoices.list({ serviceId: "acumatica" });

This is the compounding advantage of using Apideck over integrating Wave directly: code against the unified Accounting API once, gain access to every connector in it. New connectors Apideck adds become available to your app without code changes.

Wave via Apideck Accounting

Wave is a free US/CA accounting platform popular with small businesses and freelancers. Coverage is read-oriented for reporting, and invoicing is the primary write path.

Entity mapping

Coverage highlights

• ✅ Invoices (CRUD)
• ✅ Customers, suppliers, products
• ✅ Tax rates and chart of accounts
• ✅ Financial reports (P&L, Balance Sheet)
• ✅ Bank feed statements
• ⚠️ Bill / expense management — limited; use Proxy for Wave's specific bill endpoints
• ❌ Payroll — Wave Payroll is a separate product surface
• ❌ Receipt scanning — Wave-specific feature

Auth notes

• Type: OAuth 2.0, managed by Apideck Vault
• Business binding: one Wave business per connection. Multi-business users need separate connections.
• GraphQL upstream: Wave's API is GraphQL; Apideck translates unified REST calls into GraphQL queries. For complex reads, the Proxy API forwards raw GraphQL.

Example: list customers with contact details

const { data } = await apideck.accounting.customers.list({
  serviceId: "wave",
  fields: "id,display_name,email,phone,addresses",
});

Escape hatch: Proxy API

When an endpoint isn't covered by the Accounting unified API, use Apideck's Proxy to call Wave directly — Apideck injects auth headers and handles token refresh. Set x-apideck-downstream-url to the target endpoint on Wave's own API:

curl 'https://unify.apideck.com/proxy' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${APIDECK_API_KEY}" \
  -H "x-apideck-app-id: ${APIDECK_APP_ID}" \
  -H "x-apideck-consumer-id: ${CONSUMER_ID}" \
  -H "x-apideck-service-id: wave" \
  -H "x-apideck-downstream-url: <target endpoint on Wave>" \
  -H "x-apideck-downstream-method: GET"

See Wave's API docs for available endpoints.

Sibling connectors

Other Accounting connectors that share this unified API surface (same method signatures, just change serviceId):

access-financials (beta), acumatica (beta), banqup (beta), campfire (beta), clearbooks-uk (beta), digits (beta), dualentry, exact-online, and 25 more.

See also

• Apideck connection guide for Wave
• Accounting OpenAPI spec · API Explorer
• apideck-connector-coverage — programmatic coverage checks
• apideck-best-practices — architecture, Vault, pagination, error handling
• apideck-node — TypeScript / Node SDK patterns
• Wave official docs