Red Light Therapy 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 Red Light Therapy Technician earns $35,000/year, so Acuity Scheduling's annual cost is roughly 1.1% of typical revenue — every year, forever.
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Red Light Therapy face unique challenges: Educating clients that red light therapy is cumulative and needs consistent repeat sessions (often 3-5x/week early on), then booking that frequency. Selling membership and session packages since the model depends on high-frequency repeat visits, not one-offs. Tracking which protocol a client is on (skin/anti-aging vs pain/recovery use different wavelengths and dwell times) across visits. Keeping short 10-20 minute sessions turning over efficiently so a quick treatment doesn't get eaten by booking friction. On top of all that, Acuity Scheduling charges $33/month ($396/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Red Light Therapy Technician earns $35,000/year. Software at $396/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your Full-body red and near-infrared LED panel bed or standing array 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.
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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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She wipes down the LED panels, checks the irradiance meter to confirm the bed is putting out the dose it should, and lays out fresh eyewear. Red light therapy is a frequency game: the results are cumulative, so her best clients come several times a week, and sessions are short, ten to twenty minutes, which means the schedule has to turn over cleanly or the friction eats the appointment. First in is a client on an anti-aging facial protocol who lies under the panel with the goggles on while she sets the timer for the right dwell. Then an athlete on a recovery protocol who needs near-infrared for deeper tissue, a different setting and time than the skin clients. She coaches a newcomer that one session won't do much, that the magic is in showing up consistently for a few weeks, and steers him toward a package instead of a drop-in. Between sessions she sanitizes the bed, swaps goggles, and checks who's on a membership. A regular texts asking which protocol she's supposed to be on this month, and the tech wishes the answer were one tap away. She keeps the short sessions flowing, books people at the frequency their protocol calls for, and reminds the no-show-prone that the cumulative effect only works if they keep coming.
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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.
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The average solo operator there spends about $2,880/year on software — and Red Light Therapy Technician face their own version of that math. NJ state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Edison metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Red Light Therapy run into with Acuity Scheduling, and what Nexa does instead.
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