Collectible Dealers on FreshBooks 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 collectible dealer earns $32,000/year, so FreshBooks's annual cost is roughly 1.2% of typical revenue — every year, forever.
That's $1,329 gone. And you don't own anything. Stop paying, lose access.
You're not the only one who's had enough.
Collectible Dealers face unique challenges: Tracking cost basis across thousands of single-card SKUs, what you paid on a bulk collection buy vs. what each card is worth, so you actually know your margin instead of guessing. Grading-submission turnaround and fees, float on PSA/CGC bulk orders tied up for months, plus deciding which cards clear the grading-cost-vs-value threshold. Consignment accounting, tracking whose cards are whose, the agreed split per item, and cutting accurate payouts after marketplace fees. Multi-state sales-tax compliance and marketplace-fee drag, collecting and remitting tax for every show state while eBay/COMC/PayPal/show fees quietly eat 12-15% of each sale. On top of all that, FreshBooks charges $33/month ($396/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median collectible dealer 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 PSA/CGC/BGS grading submission supplies (Card Saver semi-rigids, submission forms, bubble mailers) 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.
FreshBooks is just one piece. What else are you losing money on?
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| Feature | FreshBooks | 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 |
Most collectible dealers are fully switched before the weekend.
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The day often starts before the shop is open, scrolling Facebook groups and answering a 'what's this worth' text with a photo of someone's grandfather's coin album. Mid-morning is a buy: a guy walks in with three shoeboxes of late-'80s and '90s commons, and you're pricing the whole lot in your head, paying for the handful of rookies and stars while the rest is bulk. Then it's sorting and triage, pulling anything worth slabbing into a stack for the next PSA bulk submission and noting which raw cards to list. Afternoons disappear into photographing and listing, front and back scans, condition notes, comps pulled from recently-sold. You pack the day's eBay sales into toploaders and bubble mailers, print labels, and reconcile which consignors got paid. Weekends are the real grind: load the car at 5 a.m., set up the booth, lay out the showcases, and spend ten hours trading, haggling, and watching for the deal that walks up to your table. By the end you're counting cash, logging show sales, and trying to remember which sale needs tax collected for that state.
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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. FreshBooks may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
It's $7.75/month over 3 years. FreshBooks 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.
Export your data from FreshBooks as CSV, import into Nexa in about 5 minutes.
The average solo operator there spends about $2,112/year on software — and collectible dealer face their own version of that math. MI state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Kalamazoo metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Collectible Dealers run into with FreshBooks, and what Nexa does instead.
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