How to Upgrade your Waves Creative Access Subscription

Jun 24, 2024

Learn how to upgrade your Waves Creative Access subscription from Waves Essential to Waves Ultimate, or from monthly to annual with just a few clicks on the ‘My Products’ page in your Waves account. Your license will be upgraded immediately.

Log in to your Waves account.
Click on the "My Products" tab. This is what your subscription/s will look like in your account:
Click on the ‘Upgrade’ link on the top-right of the subscription you wish to upgrade.
Choose the new subscription option that you want to upgrade to.
In this example we are looking at a Monthly Waves Essential subscription, so it can be upgraded to Annual Waves Essential, or Monthly or Annual Waves Ultimate.

Selecting any of the upgrade options available will display:

How the difference is calculated (in this example we state “We will simply update the number of days left on your new subscription”).
If there is anything to pay today.
The date and sum of your next payment.

Click on the ‘Upgrade Now’ button at the bottom.
Once you choose an upgrade option, click the ‘Upgrade Now’ button at the bottom of the page.
That’s it! You will see this notice.
As the notice instructs, launch the Waves Central application on your computer and activate the new license.
Full instructions can be found here.

If you only had the plugins included in Waves Essential previously installed, also install the plugins included in Waves Ultimate by following the steps in this article.

Need further assistance? Contact Sales.