Pet Memorial Makers on Acuity Scheduling pay $33/month — $396/year. Over three years, that's $1,329. Nexa is $279 once. Break-even runs about 8.5 months. The median Pet Memorial Maker earns $32,000/year, so Acuity Scheduling's annual cost is roughly 1.2% of typical revenue — every year, forever.
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Pet Memorial Makers face unique challenges: Working from the one bad phone photo a family has of a pet that's already gone. Handling a small portion of a pet's actual ashes for an infused keepsake without ever losing a grain. Getting the name, spelling, and dates exactly right on something permanent and irreplaceable. Setting turnaround expectations when a grieving customer wants the memorial yesterday but resin and engraving take time. On top of all that, Acuity Scheduling charges $33/month ($396/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Pet Memorial Maker earns $32,000/year. Software at $396/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your Laser engraver for names, dates, and portraits on wood, slate, and metal is yours. You bought it once. Nexa works the same way — $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, and full accounting. All connected. All offline-capable. You own it like you own your tools.
Acuity Scheduling is just one piece. What else are you losing money on?
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| Feature | Acuity Scheduling | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✗ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Price | $33/mo forever | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Cost | $1,329 | $279 |
| Stop paying? | Lose everything | Keep everything forever |
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Your inbox is full of photos people took without knowing they'd be the last ones, blurry, dim, a dog half out of frame. The first real work of the day is editing those into something you can actually engrave or print, salvaging a face out of a bad picture. Then it's production: laying out a slate plaque with a name and two dates, running the laser, sanding and sealing the edges. Some orders involve a pinch of the pet's ashes set into resin, and that part you do slowly and reverently, because there's no replacing what you're working with. You photograph proofs and send them for approval, because the spelling of a name on a permanent memorial is not something you guess at. Between jobs you pour molds, fire ceramic paw prints, and pack finished pieces with a note. The emotional weight is constant; every order is someone's grief made into an object they'll keep on a shelf for the rest of their life. The craft is real, but the harder skill is communication, gently managing a customer who wants it tomorrow when resin needs days to cure, and never once making them feel like their loss is just another order in the queue.
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For solo operators and small teams (1-5), yes. Nexa includes invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting. Acuity Scheduling may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
It's $7.75/month over 3 years. Acuity Scheduling is $33/month — that's $1,329 over 3 years. Which is more? And if you'd rather split it, Nexa is also available as 3 payments of $99.
Yes. Nexa is $279 as a one-time payment, or 3 payments of $99 ($297 total). Either way it's a one-time purchase — no subscription, no recurring fees ever.
30-day money-back guarantee. Full refund. If Nexa doesn't save you $500 in year one, you get every penny back.
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The average solo operator there spends about $1,700/year on software — and Pet Memorial Maker face their own version of that math. Chile requires SII electronic invoicing. IVA at 19%. Requirements vary by country and locality. Check local regulations.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Valparaíso metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Pet Memorial Makers run into with Acuity Scheduling, and what Nexa does instead.
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