Land Clearers on Housecall Pro pay $99/month — $1,188/year. Over three years, that's $3,986. Nexa is $279 once. Break-even runs about 2.8 months. The median Land Clearer earns $55,000/year, so Housecall Pro's annual cost is roughly 2.2% of typical revenue — every year, forever.
That's $3,986 gone. And you don't own anything. Stop paying, lose access.
You're not the only one who's had enough.
Land Clearers face unique challenges: Clearing scope lives and dies on the property survey and wetland setbacks, and pushing trees three feet over a flagged line is an environmental fine and a furious neighbor. Debris disposal is a hidden cost, because burn permits, hauling, or chipping a whole treeline of slash can equal the cost of the clearing itself. I'm quoting acreage I can't fully walk, so a lot that looks like brush hides a creek, a rock shelf, or buried construction trash that wrecks the bid. Erosion and stormwater rules kick in the moment I strip cover, so silt fence and permits are part of the job whether the customer budgeted them or not. On top of all that, Housecall Pro charges $99/month ($1,188/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Land Clearer earns $55,000/year. Software at $1,188/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your Excavator or skid-steer with a brush grapple and root rake 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.
Housecall Pro is just one piece. What else are you losing money on?
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| Feature | Housecall Pro | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✗ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Price | $99/mo forever | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Cost | $3,986 | $279 |
| Stop paying? | Lose everything | Keep everything forever |
Most land clearers are fully switched before the weekend.
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Land clearing is heavy-iron work where the most expensive mistakes happen before a tree comes down, in the survey and the permits. The first thing on any new lot is the boundary: I want the survey pins and the flagging right, because pushing a treeline three feet onto a neighbor's parcel or into a flagged wetland buffer is an environmental fine that dwarfs the whole job. I walk what I can, but a wooded acre hides things, a seasonal creek, a rock shelf the dozer can't push, an old dump of buried construction trash, and any of those can blow a bid I made off a windshield look. The machine work itself is satisfying: grapple the brush, rake the roots, push and stack, then grade the ground so it drains. The cost nobody outside the trade respects is the debris, because once you've felled a treeline you've got a mountain of slash, and burning needs a permit and a watch, hauling needs trailers, and chipping needs time, and that disposal can run as much as the clearing. The moment I strip the cover, stormwater rules wake up, so silt fence and an erosion plan are part of the job whether or not the customer thought to budget for them. I track hours on the iron and document the line before and after.
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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. Housecall Pro may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
It's $7.75/month over 3 years. Housecall Pro is $99/month — that's $3,986 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 Housecall Pro as CSV, import into Nexa in about 5 minutes.
The average solo operator there spends about $1,700/year on software — and Land Clearer face their own version of that math. Oklahoma income tax up to 4.75%. OKC has no city income tax. Overall tax burden is below national average. Oklahoma requires contractor licensing through the CIB for projects over $50,000. OKC requires a general business license.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Oklahoma City metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Land Clearers run into with Housecall Pro, and what Nexa does instead.
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