Shower Door Installers 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 shower door installer 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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Shower Door Installers face unique challenges: Measuring frameless enclosures to a tile surround that's never perfectly plumb or square, because the tempered glass is ordered to those numbers and can't be trimmed. Drilling into finished tile and stone for hinges without cracking an expensive surround the homeowner just paid for. Lead times on custom-tempered glass that put the install weeks after the tile is done, holding up the whole bathroom. Leak callbacks when a sweep or seal lets water out, and the customer blames the door even when it's a seal or slope issue. On top of all that, QuickBooks charges $55/month ($660/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median shower door installer 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 tempered glass shower panels and a frameless hinge/clamp set 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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You live in the gap between a tile surround that's never truly plumb and a sheet of tempered glass that's ordered to exact numbers and can't be cut on site. The morning measure is a frameless enclosure on a freshly tiled shower, and you check every wall with a level and an angle finder because tile walls lean and the curb pitches, and those deviations have to be designed into the order or the door binds or gaps. You note hinge locations and where the glass lands on the curb. The afternoon install is a frameless door whose custom-tempered panels finally arrived after a multi-week lead time that held up the homeowner finishing their bathroom. The nerve-wracking part is drilling the hinge holes into the finished tile with a diamond bit, slow and cooled, because cracking the tile they just paid thousands for is a disaster. You set the panels with suction lifters, shim them plumb against the out-of-square walls, anchor the hinges, and dial in the door so it swings true and self-closes onto the seal. Then you run a clean silicone bead on the outside and leave the inside able to drain, and you set the sweep so water stays in. You warn the homeowner not to shower for the silicone cure window. The classic callback is a leak, which usually traces to a seal, the sweep, or the curb slope rather than the glass, so you set it carefully and clean the door to a shine before you go.
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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 $2,016/year on software — and shower door installer face their own version of that math. IN state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the South Bend metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Shower Door Installers run into with QuickBooks, and what Nexa does instead.
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