Choosing a Wave Alternative for Your Canadian Business
By Clear Bill · Published · Updated
If you are considering a different invoicing tool, start with the work you need to finish each month. A solo consultant recording e-Transfers may need something different from a business that needs payroll, bank reconciliation, or online card collection. This guide is written by Clear Bill, so it explains where our product fits and gives you a checklist to compare it with other options.
Compare your actual workflow
- Invoice preparation: Try one of your typical invoices, including its currency, applicable taxes, payment terms, and PDF layout.
- Getting paid: Decide whether you need built-in online collection or can record payments received through your existing method.
- Business records: Check expense entry, receipt storage, exports, and what your accountant needs. Ask separately about payroll and bank feeds if you rely on them.
- Total price: Compare the regular price after any promotion, annual commitment, user or client limits, and payment-processing or add-on fees.
- Leaving later: Export sample records during the trial and confirm what remains available if you stop paying.
Check the current plans
Prices, included features, and promotional offers change. These official plan pages were checked on September 12, 2026; use the provider's current terms when making a purchase.
Where Clear Bill fits
Clear Bill focuses on invoices, estimates, recorded payments, and expenses for Canadian small businesses. It includes provincial tax controls, PDF invoices, recurring invoices, money accounts, and report exports. You choose the applicable tax treatment and record payments made through your existing payment method.
Clear Bill does not currently collect card payments from your invoice recipients or provide payroll or automatic bank feeds. Pro starts at $5 per user per month, with a 14-day trial and one included accountant seat. Review the pricing page for plan limits and billing details.
Try it with one invoice
Before moving your business records, test a small example in each tool. Use a fictional customer and an invoice with a final total of $600. Record a $200 payment, then check that the invoice shows $400 still owing and that a reminder requests the remaining $400. Send any test invoice or reminder to an email address you control.
Open the customer-facing invoice on your phone. Check that the amount owing, due date and payment instructions are easy to find, and that you can review the recorded payment in the app.
Export a sample invoice and its payment history during the trial. Check which records and features remain available afterward, including PDF downloads and reminders, and compare the regular price for the workflow you need. Keep these results together so you can compare tools using the same example.
If your existing records need sorting first, start with our one-month bookkeeping checklist. No credit card is required for the Clear Bill trial.