UI Artists 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 UI Artist 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.
UI Artists face unique challenges: Game studios want diegetic, animated, multi-state HUD elements but brief them as 'just some menu screens,' so the real production scope only emerges once you ask about hover, pressed, and disabled states. Every screen needs assets exported at multiple resolutions and densities for different target devices, and the export grind is invisible labor folded into a flat per-screen rate. Stakeholders request 'one small tweak' to a shared component, not realizing it ripples through every screen that uses it, turning a five-minute ask into a half-day re-export. Localization adds languages with longer strings that break carefully tuned layouts, and the relayout work is never anticipated in the original quote. On top of all that, FreshBooks charges $33/month ($396/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median UI Artist 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 with auto-layout and component libraries 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 ui artists are fully switched before the weekend.
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You open Figma to the game's inventory screen, which the client described as 'simple,' and immediately the questions start: what does a slot look like when it's empty, hovered, selected, locked, or holding a stacked item? You build the component with all its states because that's the actual job, even though the brief only pictured one. Mid-morning is the icon set, drawing a consistent family of inventory icons in Illustrator at a base grid so they stay crisp when scaled down to the in-game size. The art director asks to 'just make the gold a little warmer,' which lives in a shared color style, so the change ripples through every screen and you check each one. Afternoon is motion: a quick After Effects mockup showing how the panel slides and the items settle, because static screens never communicate feel. Around three the producer mentions the game is shipping in five languages, and you realize the German strings will blow out the button widths, so you flag the relayout. Late day is asset export, slicing every element at the densities the engine needs, naming files to the engine's convention, and updating your tracker with the localization relayout and the multi-state component work so the per-screen quote reflects the states that actually got built.
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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 $2,160/year on software — and UI Artist face their own version of that math. ND state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Bismarck metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps UI Artists run into with FreshBooks, and what Nexa does instead.
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