KindaCan Grok Bot build Wave Pro?
It gets most of the way, but you stay in the loop · and here's exactly where.
- Price
- $19/mo
- You'd save
- $228/yr
- Who runs it
- The bot
- Category
- Invoicing & books
Wave's free plan already covers invoicing and basic accounting, so the paid tier is mostly bank-feed imports, receipt scanning and cheaper payment processing. A bot can replace the invoicing half comfortably. It cannot replace the bank feed - that's an agreement with financial institutions, not a feature - and receipt OCR into a real ledger is the kind of thing that works beautifully in a demo and then quietly miscategorises something in March. Same line as everywhere in this category: build the invoicing, don't build the books.
The prompt
Written for a bot that already has a browser, a terminal and your logins · paste it in whole.
You have a computer, a browser, my Stripe account and my email. Build the invoicing half. Leave the books alone. Invoicing: - Clients, line items and invoices in SQLite. Admin page behind a password from the env. - Clean PDF, sequential numbering with no gaps, Stripe payment link, emailed from my domain. - Mark paid automatically when Stripe confirms it. Reconcile nightly and flag anything that doesn't match, with both IDs. Receipts, carefully: - Watch my email for receipts and invoices. Save the PDFs to Dropbox under /receipts/YYYY-MM/, named supplier-date-amount.pdf. - Build me a monthly CSV: date, supplier, amount, and your best guess at a category. - Mark every category as a guess. Never let one flow into an accounting system unreviewed. The demo always works; March is where it bites. What not to do: - No general ledger, no trial balance, no tax computation. - Don't attempt bank imports. Screen-scraping my bank is a bad idea for reasons that go beyond whether it works. - Export a CSV for my accountant and stop there. Running it: put it on a small host under my account (walk me through the signup · wait for me at the payment step), TLS on the host, nightly encrypted backups to my Google Drive. Invoices are records.
The bot will need to sign into: stripe · gmail · dropbox · google-drive
What you lose
- automatic bank import, which is the actual paid feature
- receipt scanning that files itself correctly
- lower card processing rates on the paid tier
- free accounting that already exists and works
The numbers
Pro is $19/mo or $190/yr. The free Starter plan already covers unlimited invoices and bookkeeping; Pro buys bank imports, receipt capture and cheaper processing.
waveapps.com/pricingChecked against the live page on 2026-08-23