Asbestos Inspectors on Square pay $29/month — $348/year. Over three years, that's $1,168. Nexa is $279 once. Break-even runs about 9.6 months. The median Asbestos Inspector earns $55,000/year, so Square's annual cost is roughly 0.6% of typical revenue — every year, forever.
That's $1,168 gone. And you don't own anything. Stop paying, lose access.
You're not the only one who's had enough.
Asbestos Inspectors face unique challenges: AHERA/NESHAP regulatory exposure - as a licensed inspector, a missed suspect material or a botched sample protocol can void an abatement permit and pull you into a regulatory or liability action. Accredited-lab turnaround gating every job - you can't issue a report until PLM/TEM results come back, so clients sitting on a stalled demolition or renovation lean on you for an answer the lab hasn't given. Sampling old, occupied, or hidden materials - finding every suspect ACM behind walls, under floors, in transite pipe and old mastic, without disturbing fibers or missing a layer, in homes with people living in them. Renovation/demo deadlines colliding with required pre-work surveys - contractors want to start tearing out and legally can't until the survey clears, so you're the bottleneck holding up a six-figure project. On top of all that, Square charges $29/month ($348/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Asbestos Inspector earns $55,000/year. Software at $348/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your Bulk sample collection tools - knife, corer, and resealable sample bags 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.
Square is just one piece. What else are you losing money on?
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| Feature | Square | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✗ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Price | $29/mo forever | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Cost | $1,168 | $279 |
| Stop paying? | Lose everything | Keep everything forever |
Most asbestos inspectors are fully switched before the weekend.
Go to Square Dashboard → Customers → Export. Also export transactions and item library.
15-minute setup. Import your customer list and service/product catalog.
Run both for 1-2 weeks. Test invoicing and booking through Nexa.
Cancel paid subscriptions. Keep free account for records access.
Morning is a pre-renovation survey on a 1960s house the contractor is itching to gut. I suit up before I disturb anything, because the whole point is not to release fibers, and I work room by room with the floor plan, identifying suspect materials - popcorn ceiling, 9x9 floor tile and its black mastic, the transite flue, pipe wrap in the basement, joint compound on the drywall. Each suspect material gets wetted, sampled into a labeled bag with its own knife pass to avoid cross-contamination, and photographed in place with a location note, because the lab and the regulator both trace back to where it came from. The homeowners are still living here, so I'm careful and I clean up every sample point. I collect enough samples per homogeneous area to satisfy AHERA protocol - undersample and the result doesn't legally cover the material. Back in the truck I fill out the chain-of-custody and run the cooler to the accredited lab, because nothing I report is real until PLM comes back. Afternoon is a clearance air test at an abatement that just finished - pumps running the required volume, cassettes labeled, and I won't release the space until results clear. The contractor on the morning job is already texting for the report he can't legally start without. End of day is drafting two survey reports around pending lab results, logging the chain-of-custody, invoicing, and scheduling tomorrow's clearance.
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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. Square may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
It's $7.75/month over 3 years. Square is $29/month — that's $1,168 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 Square as CSV, import into Nexa in about 5 minutes.
The average solo operator there spends about $1,400/year on software — and Asbestos Inspector face their own version of that math. Chile requires SII electronic invoicing. IVA at 19%. Requirements vary by country and locality. Check local regulations.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Temuco metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Asbestos Inspectors run into with Square, and what Nexa does instead.
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