Digital Download Sellers on FreshBooks pay $43/month — $516/year. Over three years, that's $1,548. Nexa is $279 once. Break-even runs about 6.5 months. The median digital download seller earns $22,000/year, so FreshBooks's annual cost is roughly 2.3% of typical revenue — every year, forever.
That's $1,548 gone. And you don't own anything. Stop paying, lose access.
You're not the only one who's had enough.
Digital Download Sellers face unique challenges: Etsy fees on digital products feel especially painful since there's no COGS. Tracking revenue across Etsy, Gumroad, Shopify, and Creative Market. Refund abuse on digital products. Time spent creating products is the only real cost but it's never tracked. On top of all that, FreshBooks charges $43/month ($516/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median digital download seller earns $22,000/year. Software at $516/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your Design software (Canva Pro, Adobe, Procreate) 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 | — | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
| Price | $43/mo forever | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Cost | $1,548 | $279 |
| Stop paying? | Lose everything | Keep everything forever |
Most digital download sellers are fully switched before the weekend.
Go to Settings → Export Data. Download clients, invoices, expenses, and time entries.
15-minute setup. Import your client list and expenses from CSV.
Run both for 1-2 weeks. Re-create unpaid and recurring invoices in Nexa; keep the FreshBooks export as your invoice history.
Cancel subscription. Download a final data export for your records.
I sell printable planners, digital art prints and Canva templates, and my morning starts with the overnight Etsy orders, which deliver automatically, and the messages that don't. One buyer can't find the download in her account, so I send a walkthrough screenshot; another bought an A4 planner and needs US Letter, so I send the other file. Then I work on the custom branded Canva template pack for a coach: twenty Instagram post templates and ten story templates in her brand colors, fonts and logo, and I build them with grids and locked elements so she can't break the layout. I test the share link as template-only so she gets a copy, not edit access to my original. After lunch I make new listings: design a weekly planner page, export at 300 DPI as PDF, make five mockup images and a video preview, and write a title and thirteen tags with the search terms buyers actually use. I upload the same product to Gumroad and Creative Market with different cover images. In the afternoon I deal with a refund request from someone who downloaded the files and says it wasn't what she expected, which on digital files means I've lost the product and the fee either way, and I reword the listing to prevent it. In the evening I look at views and sales per listing across each shop, deactivate listings that never sell, renew the ones that do, and try to work out which products earned back the hours I spent making them.
Real digital download sellers near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a digital download seller? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every digital download seller on Nexa →
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 $43/month — that's $1,548 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 $2,280/year on software — and digital download seller face their own version of that math. ID state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Nampa metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Digital Download Sellers run into with FreshBooks, and what Nexa does instead.
If you want to compare notes or see how other digital download sellers are running their tools, here's where the conversation happens.
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