Custom T Shirt Makers 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 Custom T-Shirt Maker 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.
Custom T Shirt Makers face unique challenges: Custom team and event orders come in mixed size runs, and getting the count wrong on blanks means either short-shipping the customer or eating boxes of unsold shirts. Pricing has to account for blank cost, transfer or screen setup, and press time, but quoting by gut undercharges multi-color screen jobs that need a screen and a flash per color. Bulk orders for a sports team or a business need specific names and numbers, colors, and a hard deadline, and those details scatter across email, DMs, and a spreadsheet. Blanks are bought in bulk by brand, color, and size to hit a price break, locking up cash in inventory with no clean tie between blanks bought and orders shipped. On top of all that, FreshBooks charges $33/month ($396/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Custom T-Shirt 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 a heat press plus a DTF printer or vinyl cutter for transfers 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 custom t shirt makers are fully switched before the weekend.
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The press warms up first while blanks for today's orders get pulled and lint-rolled. A DTF transfer order goes first: pressing fronts and backs at the right temperature and dwell time, peeling hot or cold depending on the film, and keeping the count straight against the order. A team order is the big job, a mixed size run with names and numbers on the back, so each shirt has to be matched to a name on the roster before it's pressed, and one misread number means a ruined shirt. Screen printing happens in the afternoon for a multi-color logo run: coating and burning a screen for each color, registering them, and flashing between passes, which is slow but the only way to do volume profitably. A business reaches out wanting fifty polos by Friday, so the quote gets built from blank cost, setup, and press time, and the size breakdown gets confirmed before any blanks get ordered. Finished shirts get folded, bagged, and matched to orders for shipping or local pickup. A reorder comes in for a design from three months ago, so the artwork file has to be found. A case of blank tees arrives and goes on the shelf. The day ends reconciling shirts pressed against blanks on hand and pricing the next bulk quote so setup time stops getting buried in the per-shirt number.
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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 $2,040/year on software — and Custom T-Shirt Maker face their own version of that math. AL state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Montgomery metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Custom T Shirt Makers run into with FreshBooks, and what Nexa does instead.
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