UX 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 UX designer earns $65,000/year, so FreshBooks's annual cost is roughly 0.6% 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.
UX Designers face unique challenges: Scope quietly expands as research surfaces real user needs the original brief never accounted for, so the 'simple checkout redesign' becomes a flow rework no one budgeted for. Fixed-bid projects carry the estimation risk: price the deliverable too low and unbounded revision rounds eat the margin, but hourly billing punishes the speed that experience earned. Selling research findings to stakeholders who already 'know what users want', a founder or marketing lead dismisses interview evidence that contradicts their gut. Lumpy cash flow swinging between feast-and-famine project work and the steadier-but-capped income of a monthly retainer, with milestone payments arriving long after the work is done. On top of all that, FreshBooks charges $33/month ($396/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median UX designer earns $65,000/year. Software at $396/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your Figma (with Dev Mode and FigJam for wireframes, prototypes, and handoff specs) 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 ux designers are fully switched before the weekend.
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The morning often opens with a moderated user interview over Zoom, recording running, discussion guide on the second monitor, probing why a participant abandoned a flow rather than what they clicked. Mid-morning is synthesis: pulling quotes into Dovetail or a Miro board, clustering observations into an affinity diagram until patterns emerge that the client's assumptions missed. By midday the designer is in Figma, translating those patterns into low-fidelity wireframes, then wiring screens into a clickable prototype that simulates the real navigation. Afternoons fill with reviews, a stakeholder call where the product manager weighs business constraints against the research, a design critique where a peer pokes at edge cases, or a tense moment defending a finding a founder doesn't want to hear. Then come revisions, often a second or third round, each one a quiet negotiation about whether it's covered by the contract. Late in the day is handoff work: annotating components in Dev Mode, marking frames ready for dev, exporting assets, and logging the reasoning behind decisions so engineers don't reinvent them. Threaded through all of it: tracking which deliverables a milestone payment is tied to, and which client still hasn't signed off on the last one.
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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.
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The average solo operator there spends about $2,448/year on software — and UX designer face their own version of that math. MT state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Missoula metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps UX Designers run into with FreshBooks, and what Nexa does instead.
If you want to compare notes or see how other ux designers are running their tools, here's where the conversation happens.
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