Photography Teachers 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 Photography Teacher earns $42,000/year, so Acuity Scheduling's annual cost is roughly 0.9% of typical revenue — every year, forever.
That's $1,329 gone. And you don't own anything. Stop paying, lose access.
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Photography Teachers face unique challenges: Splitting teaching between in-the-field shooting walks and at-the-desk editing — two very different class formats to run and schedule. Students arrive with wildly different gear — phone, entry DSLR, pro mirrorless — and every menu and button is in a different place. Outdoor shoots are at the mercy of weather and golden-hour timing, so workshops get rescheduled when the light or sky doesn't cooperate. Getting students off the green auto box and comfortable in manual, where the exposure triangle finally has to click. On top of all that, Acuity Scheduling charges $33/month ($396/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Photography Teacher earns $42,000/year. Software at $396/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your DSLR or mirrorless body with a couple of prime and zoom lenses 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 teaching splits into two worlds that need two different rhythms: the field and the desk. A morning workshop is a shooting walk timed to golden hour, so you're watching the weather all week, because flat gray light kills a lesson on shadow and contrast and you'll have to reschedule if the sky doesn't deliver. On the walk you've got a student on a phone, one on an entry-level DSLR, and one on a pro mirrorless body, and every camera buries the manual controls in a different menu, so 'just set your aperture to f/8' becomes three separate scavenger hunts. The real work is coaxing them off the green auto box — once someone sees that shutter, aperture, and ISO are three taps of the same scale, the exposure triangle clicks and they never go back. The afternoon is the other world entirely: everyone at laptops in Lightroom, learning that a flat raw file is supposed to look flat and the photo is made in the edit. You walk them through recovering a blown sky and not over-sharpening. You answer a student asking which lens to buy next and steer her toward the fast fifty before the expensive zoom. Between sessions you charge loaner batteries, wipe sensors, and rework next week's golden-hour timing around the forecast. The light runs your calendar more than you do.
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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 $2,352/year on software — and Photography Teacher face their own version of that math. UT state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the West Valley City metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Photography Teachers run into with Acuity Scheduling, and what Nexa does instead.
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