Corporate Trainers 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 Corporate Trainer earns $55,000/year, so FreshBooks's annual cost is roughly 0.7% 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.
Corporate Trainers face unique challenges: Customizing off-the-shelf training to a client's actual industry, jargon, and real workplace scenarios so it doesn't feel generic. Proving training ROI to a client whose L&D budget is the first thing finance cuts in a downturn. Delivering the same energy to a virtual cohort half-listening with their cameras off as to a live room. Coordinating with corporate L&D departments through procurement, scheduling, and LMS requirements for every engagement. On top of all that, FreshBooks charges $33/month ($396/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Corporate Trainer earns $55,000/year. Software at $396/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your LMS (Cornerstone, Docebo, or similar) 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 corporate trainers are fully switched before the weekend.
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My day swings between designing training and delivering it, with a corporate client's L&D department on the other end of everything. On a build day I'm customizing a leadership or compliance module for a specific client — taking my proven framework and rewriting the scenarios in their language, with their real situations, because adults tune out the second a role-play feels generic. I'm in Articulate building the e-learning piece and in PowerPoint shaping the live portion, then loading SCORM files into their LMS and testing that the completion tracking actually reports back, because their compliance team lives on that data. On a delivery day I'm leading a cohort, increasingly over Teams or Zoom, which means fighting a wall of black squares and pulling half-disengaged employees into participation through chat, polls, and breakouts. I anchor everything to on-the-job application, because the manager who approved the budget wants behavior change, not a happy sheet. Between sessions I'm dealing with the business side: procurement wants a revised SOW, the L&D coordinator is rescheduling a cohort around a product launch, and finance is questioning the line item. End of engagement I'm pulling assessment scores and evaluation data to build the ROI story, because in a downturn the training budget is the first thing on the chopping block and I have to justify the next contract. It's instructional design, live performance, and enterprise account management braided together.
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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 $2,520/year on software — and Corporate Trainer face their own version of that math. TX state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Frisco metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Corporate Trainers run into with FreshBooks, and what Nexa does instead.
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