Live status & reliability report

Wave status, outages & reliability

Wave is a Toronto-based provider of accounting, invoicing and payments software for small businesses, owned by H&R Block.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated

Over the last 90 days Wave had 99.93% effective uptime across 5 status page incidents (1 partial or major outage), resolving them in 1h 41m on average.

91.1/100Reliability scoreVisit Wave ↗

Is Wave down right now?

No, Wave is up and running.

  • Wave's status page reports all systems operational. Checked .
  • All 2 Wave pages we check are responding. Checked .

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Uptime (90d)99.93%1h 20m weighted downtime
Incidents (90d)50.8 per 30 days
Major / partial outages1
Avg time to resolve1h 41m
Outages we detected0by our independent probes

90-day uptime

Aug 4, 2026 – Aug 7, 2026: no incidentsAug 8, 2026: 98.38% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 9, 2026 – Sep 21, 2026: no incidentsSep 22, 2026: 97.15% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Sep 23, 2026 – Oct 12, 2026: no incidentsOct 13, 2026: 98.87% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 14, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.938% average daily uptimeToday
  • No incidents
  • Degraded
  • Partial outage
  • Major outage
  • No data

Key facts about Wave's reliability

  • Over the past 12 months, Wave published 30 incidents on its status page, 12 of them partial or major outages.
  • Its longest outage on record in that time was “1099-NEC Form Availability for Payroll Subscribers” on Jan 26, 2026, which lasted 2d 21h.
  • The part of Wave most often affected was Payroll (13 of 30 incidents).
  • Wave reported 5 incidents in the last 90 days, down from 7 in the 90 days before.
  • Incidents most often began on a Tuesday (9 of 30, UTC).
  • Wave's 90-day uptime of 99.93% is above the average for accounting software tools (98.51%).
  • It resolves incidents faster than the typical accounting software: 1h 41m on average, against a median of 5h.

Score breakdown

Uptime · 40% weight
94
99.938% effective uptime
Incident frequency · 20% weight
81
0.83 weighted incidents per 30 days
Time to resolve · 20% weight
87
1h 41m average
Transparency · 20% weight
100
No unreported outages detected

How the score is calculated →

Incidents per month

024682 partial outage incidents2Dec1 major outage incident1 partial outage incident3 degraded performance incidents5Jan ’261 degraded performance incident1Feb1 partial outage incident3 degraded performance incidents4Mar2 partial outage incidents3 degraded performance incidents5Apr1 major outage incident2 partial outage incidents1 degraded performance incident4May1 partial outage incident2 degraded performance incidents3Jun1 degraded performance incident1Jul1 degraded performance incident1Aug1 major outage incident1Sep1 degraded performance incident2 informational incidents3OctNov
  • Major outage
  • Partial outage
  • Degraded
  • Informational

Response time

Daily average response time of Wave's public pages, measured by our probes.

Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.

Score trend

Daily reliability score (rolling 90-day window).

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Wave incident history (last 90 days)

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Our independent monitoring

We check these public Wave pages every 5 minutes. An outage is recorded after two consecutive failed checks.

PageLast checkUptime (30d)Avg response
Web appUp 100%657 ms
HomepageUp 100%963 ms

How Wave compares

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Wave status FAQ

Is Wave down right now?

No, Wave is up and running. Wave's status page currently reports all systems operational, and all 2 of the Wave pages we check every five minutes are responding. This page updates automatically when that changes.

How reliable is Wave?

Wave has a reliability score of 91.1 out of 100, ranking #2 of 7 accounting software tools. Over the last 90 days it had 99.93% effective uptime.

How often does Wave have outages?

Wave published 5 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (1 partial or major outage) and 30 in the past 12 months.

How long do Wave outages last?

Wave resolves incidents in 1h 41m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 2d 21h, on Jan 26, 2026.

Does Wave have a status page?

Yes. Wave's official status page is status.waveapps.com. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.