Executive Coaches 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 Executive Coach 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.
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Executive Coaches face unique challenges: Keeping highly confidential session notes for senior leaders separate, secure, and never mixed up. Tracking each client's development goals across a six-month engagement so sessions build on each other. Booking standing sessions around executives who travel across time zones and cancel last minute. Showing the sponsoring company a return on the engagement without breaching the coachee's confidentiality. On top of all that, FreshBooks charges $33/month ($396/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Executive Coach 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 360-degree feedback assessment instruments 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 | 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 |
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An executive coach holds confidential, structured conversations with senior leaders, and the day is paced by the calendar of people who control their own calendars least. Sessions often open by revisiting where the client left off, the commitment they made last time, what they tried, what happened, which means the coach has to walk in already holding the thread of a months-long development arc. Early in an engagement the work leans on assessment: debriefing a 360 where the leader hears, sometimes for the first time, how their directs actually experience them, or unpacking a Hogan profile to surface the derailers that show up under stress. The conversations themselves are demanding presence work, asking the question the executive has been avoiding rather than offering advice. Between sessions the coach writes notes that must stay rigorously confidential and never bleed from one leader to another, because the whole relationship rests on trust. Scheduling is its own discipline: executives travel, time zones shift, and a standing Thursday call gets bumped to a hotel lobby in another country. There's also the sponsor relationship, the HR leader or boss who is paying and wants to know it's working, which the coach must satisfy with progress on agreed goals without ever repeating what was said in the room. Evenings are for preparing for tomorrow's leaders and protecting the boundaries the work depends on.
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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.
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The average solo operator there spends about $2,112/year on software — and Executive Coach face their own version of that math. OK state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Broken Arrow metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Executive Coaches run into with FreshBooks, and what Nexa does instead.
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