PPC Specialists 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 PPC Specialist 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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PPC Specialists face unique challenges: A client's daily budget gets blown by 9 a.m. on a broad-match term that snuck in, and I have to explain the wasted spend before they even see the report. Quality Score tanks on a high-volume ad group and CPCs creep up, so I'm rewriting ad copy and rebuilding landing-page relevance under deadline. Stitching together conversion data across Google Ads, GA4, and the client's CRM when their pixel fired twice and ROAS looks inflated. Justifying my management fee when a client only sees the platform spend and thinks the campaigns 'run themselves'. On top of all that, QuickBooks charges $55/month ($660/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median PPC Specialist 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 Google Ads 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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I open Google Ads before coffee because overnight is when search-term reports surprise you. First pass: scan yesterday's spend across five accounts, pull the search-query report, and add negative keywords for the junk that slipped past broad match. One account spent forty percent of its daily budget on 'free' modifiers, so I tighten match types and pause two ad groups. Mid-morning is bid work: a roofing client's cost-per-lead crept above target, so I shift budget toward the campaigns converting on mobile and rewrite two responsive search ads to lift Quality Score. I check Microsoft Advertising for the B2B account because Bing's older demographic converts cheaper there. After lunch I build the weekly Looker Studio report, but the GA4 conversion count doesn't match the Ads interface again, so I spend an hour reconciling attribution windows before I trust the ROAS number I'm about to send. Late afternoon is the client call where I defend the management fee against the platform spend they can see in their own login. I close by setting tomorrow's bid adjustments and noting which landing pages need the dev to fix before the next push. Every account is a separate login, a separate budget pacing curve, and a separate person waiting on a number.
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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 $2,112/year on software — and PPC Specialist face their own version of that math. GA state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Augusta metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps PPC Specialists run into with QuickBooks, and what Nexa does instead.
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