Stock Video Sellers 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 Stock Video Seller 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.
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Stock Video Sellers face unique challenges: 4K footage eats terabytes, so storage, backup, and an ingest pipeline are a real ongoing cost that rarely gets counted against the few dollars a clip earns per license. Each clip needs accurate keywording plus the right model or property release, and matching releases to specific clips across a sprawling footage library is a compliance and organization nightmare. Royalties are small and spread across agencies with different per-clip rates and payout thresholds, so knowing the real return on a shoot day, after gear, travel, and storage, is opaque. Agencies reject clips for stabilization, exposure, or codec issues, and oversupply tanks the value of popular subjects, so tracking which clip types and platforms actually pay is guesswork. On top of all that, FreshBooks charges $33/month ($396/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Stock Video Seller 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 mirrorless or cinema camera shooting 4K with log color profiles 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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A shoot day means hauling the gimbal and tripod somewhere with good light, capturing slow, deliberate motion clips, drone-smooth pans, and locked-off establishing shots in 4K log, with every recognizable face and private property covered by a signed release. The bigger battle is back at the desk. Terabytes of footage get ingested onto fast SSDs and backed up, because losing a shoot day is unrecoverable, and the storage bill quietly grows every month. Editing is slow: trimming clips to clean loops, stabilizing the handheld shots, color grading from log to a usable look, and exporting in the codec and resolution each agency demands. Keywording every clip with accurate, searchable tags is the grind that decides whether footage is ever found. Releases get matched to clips, the compliance work that keeps an agency from pulling content months later. Uploads crawl out to Adobe Stock, Shutterstock, and Pond5, each with long review queues. A rejection comes back for micro-jitter on a handheld clip that looked fine in the timeline. The afternoon is reconciling last month's royalties, a few hundred dollars from thousands of seconds of footage, with no clean view of which clips or which platform earned it against the gear, travel, and storage that shoot day cost. The day ends planning the next shoot around proven-selling subjects.
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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 $2,352/year on software — and Stock Video Seller face their own version of that math. KS state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Olathe metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Stock Video Sellers run into with FreshBooks, and what Nexa does instead.
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