Fraud Examiners on QuickBooks pay $38/month — $456/year. Over three years, that's $1,368. Nexa is $279 once. Break-even runs about 7.3 months. The median Fraud Examiner earns $55,000/year, so QuickBooks's annual cost is roughly 0.8% of typical revenue — every year, forever.
That's $1,368 gone. And you don't own anything. Stop paying, lose access.
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Fraud Examiners face unique challenges: Maintaining clean chain of custody on evidence so an investigation holds up if it goes to prosecution or HR action. Sequencing interviews so witnesses are talked to before the suspect, without tipping off the subject. Tracking which leads, documents, and interviews are done versus pending across a live investigation. Documenting every step to a report standard when the work may end in termination, litigation, or criminal referral. On top of all that, QuickBooks charges $38/month ($456/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Fraud Examiner earns $55,000/year. Software at $456/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your Fraud-risk and red-flag assessment frameworks 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 | ✗ | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
| Price | $38/mo forever | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Cost | $1,368 | $279 |
| Stop paying? | Lose everything | Keep everything forever |
Most fraud examiners are fully switched before the weekend.
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You start most engagements with a suspicion and a pile of transactions. The morning is data work: running the vendor file against the employee file looking for matching addresses, scanning for duplicate invoice numbers and round-dollar payments that don't fit the pattern. Each anomaly becomes a lead, and you track leads obsessively because an investigation that loses the thread loses the case. By late morning you're planning interviews, and sequence is everything; you talk to the periphery first and the subject last, so the suspect doesn't get a chance to align stories or shred records. Midday you're logging evidence into chain of custody, because if this ends in termination or a criminal referral, sloppy custody hands the defense an easy win. Afternoons might be the interview itself, where you build rapport, lay out what the records show, and work toward an admission without ever crossing into coercion. You document constantly, to a professional standard, because the report you write could put someone out of a job or in front of a prosecutor, and it has to be fair and bulletproof. The job is part data analyst, part interviewer, part evidence custodian, and the through-line is documentation so disciplined that the conclusions are unassailable.
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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 $38/month — that's $1,368 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 QuickBooks as CSV, import into Nexa in about 5 minutes.
The average solo operator there spends about $2,040/year on software — and Fraud Examiner face their own version of that math. VA state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Lynchburg metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Fraud Examiners run into with QuickBooks, and what Nexa does instead.
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