Automatic Gate Repair 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 automatic gate technician 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.
Automatic Gate Repair face unique challenges: Intermittent faults are the worst calls: the gate works fine when you arrive and fails for the customer at 6 PM, so diagnosing a board, a loop, or a sensor without the failure happening in front of you eats hours. UL 325 safety entrapment compliance means a repair can't just make the gate move again, it has to make it stop on an obstruction, and a sensor bypassed by a previous hack is a liability you inherit. Buried loop wires get cut by landscapers or crack with the pavement, and tracing a break in a wire under concrete is slow, dirty work the customer doesn't see. Customers expect a flat 'fix the gate' price, but the cause could be a $40 sensor or a $900 operator, and they hear the estimate as a bait-and-switch. On top of all that, Square charges $29/month ($348/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median automatic gate technician 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 Multimeter and clamp meter for the operator circuit 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 automatic gate repair 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.
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First call is an apartment complex gate that residents say sticks open at night, the kind of intermittent fault that's already swinging fine when he pulls up. He puts the multimeter on the operator circuit, wiggles connections, checks the photo-eyes, and watches the board for fault codes, because a problem that won't reproduce is the hardest money he makes. He finds a loose neutral that probably drops the board when the transformer warms up, and that's the kind of thing that would've cost a parts-swapper three visits. Next is a gate that slammed on a car, which means before anything else he's checking UL 325 compliance, the photo-eyes and the safety edge, because the last tech apparently jumpered out a sensor to stop a nuisance trip and left a gate that can crush. He won't sign off on a gate that doesn't reverse on an obstruction. Afternoon is a commercial slide gate dead in the water, and the culprit is a buried loop wire a landscaper's edger sliced; he traces the break, splices it weatherproof, and reseals it. Throughout the day he's explaining to customers why he can't quote a flat 'fix it' price over the phone, because the same symptom could be a cheap sensor or a whole new operator, and he won't know until he meters it.
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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 $2,040/year on software — and automatic gate technician face their own version of that math. TX state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Tyler metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Automatic Gate Repair run into with Square, and what Nexa does instead.
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