Pitch Deck Designers 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 Pitch Deck Designer earns $45,000/year, so FreshBooks's annual cost is roughly 0.9% 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.
Pitch Deck Designers face unique challenges: Founders show up with a brilliant idea but no coherent story, and I have to be a narrative strategist before I'm a designer. Investors expect the standard 10-12 slide arc (problem, solution, market, traction, ask) and founders want to add eight more 'critical' slides. Designing convincing hockey-stick projection charts without making the financials look like fantasy that a VC will laugh at. Last-minute scrambles when the founder lands a meeting tomorrow and suddenly the whole deck needs a new traction slide. On top of all that, FreshBooks charges $33/month ($396/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Pitch Deck Designer earns $45,000/year. Software at $396/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your Figma 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 pitch deck designers are fully switched before the weekend.
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Every deck starts as therapy. A first-time founder gets on a call and word-vomits their startup for forty minutes, and my job is to find the one-sentence problem and the inevitable-feeling solution buried in there before I ever touch Figma. I map the classic investor arc on paper: problem, solution, why now, market size, product, traction, business model, team, the ask. Then I push back gently when they insist on a deep-dive technical slide that belongs in the data room, not the pitch. By midday I'm in Figma building the story visually, designing the traction slide to make their early numbers feel like momentum, and charting projections that are ambitious but not laughable, because a VC has seen a thousand fake hockey sticks. Afternoon is the market-size slide, where I help them frame TAM honestly instead of the 'if we capture 1% of China' fallacy. Late in the day the founder texts that they just got a warm intro and the meeting moved up, so the deck I planned to refine over the week now ships tomorrow, which means a rushed traction update and a final pass to make sure the ask slide states a clear number. I export a presenter PDF and a separate send-ahead version, because the emailed deck needs to stand alone without them narrating it.
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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 $2,880/year on software — and Pitch Deck Designer face their own version of that math. MD state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Silver Spring metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Pitch Deck Designers run into with FreshBooks, and what Nexa does instead.
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