Energy Auditors on QuickBooks pay $55/month — $660/year. Over three years, that's $2,214. Nexa is $279 once. Break-even runs about 5.1 months. The median Energy Auditor earns $55,000/year, so QuickBooks's annual cost is roughly 1.2% of typical revenue — every year, forever.
That's $2,214 gone. And you don't own anything. Stop paying, lose access.
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Energy Auditors face unique challenges: Writing up a full audit report with the blower-door numbers, photos, and prioritized recommendations after a long day in the field. Homeowners who pay for the audit then never act on the report, so the recommended retrofit work never converts. Program and utility forms that demand specific data fields and photo evidence in a fixed format to qualify the rebate. Explaining a percentage-based payback to a homeowner who wanted a simple yes-or-no on whether to insulate. On top of all that, QuickBooks charges $55/month ($660/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Energy Auditor earns $55,000/year. Software at $660/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your A calibrated blower door and digital manometer for measuring whole-house air leakage 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.
QuickBooks is just one piece. What else are you losing money on?
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| Feature | QuickBooks | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✗ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Price | $55/mo forever | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Cost | $2,214 | $279 |
| Stop paying? | Lose everything | Keep everything forever |
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She arrives, walks the perimeter, and starts with the building shell: age, orientation, window types, and obvious gaps. Inside she sets the blower door and runs the house to fifty pascals, logging the air changes per hour, then walks each room with the thermal camera while it's depressurized so the missing insulation glows on the screen. She tests every combustion appliance with the analyzer, checking draft and CO under worst-case conditions, and runs the duct blaster to see how leaky the system is. She photographs everything, because the report and the rebate both live on evidence. Lunch is in the car, scrolling readings to make sure she didn't miss a field the modeling software will need. The afternoon is a second home across town with a damp basement, where the moisture meter changes her recommendations. Back at the desk the real work begins: feeding numbers into the model, ranking the retrofits by payback, and writing a report a homeowner will actually read. She emails it, then follows up with the two from last week who haven't booked the insulation crew she recommended, knowing the audit only matters if the work happens.
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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. QuickBooks may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
It's $7.75/month over 3 years. QuickBooks is $55/month — that's $2,214 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 $2,352/year on software — and Energy Auditor face their own version of that math. IL state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Aurora metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Energy Auditors run into with QuickBooks, and what Nexa does instead.
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