OSHA Consultants 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 OSHA Consultant 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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OSHA Consultants face unique challenges: Helping a client respond to a citation before the 15-working-day contest window closes. Reconstructing a complete OSHA 300/300A injury log a client kept on sticky notes all year. Running and documenting annual respirator fit-tests for a whole shop in one visit. Explaining the difference between a recordable and a first-aid case to an owner who wants to record nothing. On top of all that, FreshBooks charges $33/month ($396/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median OSHA Consultant 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 29 CFR 1910 and 1926 regulation references 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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Much of the work is reactive: an owner gets a citation after an inspection and calls in a panic, and the first job is reading the citation line by line, matching each item to the actual standard cited, and figuring out whether to abate, contest, or request an informal conference before the clock runs out. Other days are proactive mock inspections, walking a plant the way a compliance officer would, opening electrical panels, checking that machine guards are in place, pulling the lockout procedures and asking a maintenance tech to walk through shutting a press down. A recurring task is the OSHA 300 log: sitting with whoever handles injuries and deciding case by case what's recordable, what's first aid, and what was never written down at all, then building a defensible log. Respirator programs eat afternoons, fit-testing person after person, recording the make, model, and size, and noting who failed and needs a different mask. There's noise sampling, hazard communication audits, and a lot of training, from new-hire orientation to refreshers the insurer requires. The consultant is constantly translating dense regulation into plain instructions a busy owner will follow, and documenting everything, because with OSHA the records are half the defense.
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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 $2,208/year on software — and OSHA Consultant face their own version of that math. AL state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Huntsville metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps OSHA Consultants run into with FreshBooks, and what Nexa does instead.
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