Beekeepers 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 Beekeeper earns $35,000/year, so Square's annual cost is roughly 1.0% 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.
Beekeepers face unique challenges: Hives need inspection on a schedule across scattered apiary yards, and a missed varroa-mite check can collapse a colony before you notice. Revenue comes from several streams (honey, pollination contracts, nucs and queens, beeswax), each billed and timed differently. Pollination growers want hives delivered on exact bloom dates, so the contract scheduling is locked to almond and orchard timing. Winter colony losses are unpredictable, making it hard to project how many hives you'll have to sell or rent come spring. On top of all that, Square charges $29/month ($348/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Beekeeper earns $35,000/year. Software at $348/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your Langstroth hive boxes, frames, and foundation 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 beekeepers 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.
He drives between apiary yards because the bees aren't all in one place, and each hive is on its own inspection clock he's trying to keep in his head. He lights the smoker, suits up, and cracks the first hive with the tool, pulling frames to check the brood pattern, whether the queen's laying, how the stores look, and crucially doing a mite count because varroa will crash a colony quietly if he misses the window. A weak hive gets a feeder, a strong one gets another box. His business isn't just honey: there's a grower who's contracted his hives for almond pollination on a date set by the bloom, an order for two nucs from a new beekeeper, queens he's rearing to sell, and beeswax he renders for candle makers. He logs the inspection in a notebook that's never with him when he needs it. A grower calls to lock pollination delivery and he flips through a calendar trying to remember which yards he promised. Come spring he won't know exactly how many hives survived winter until he opens them, which makes promising nucs and rentals a guess. Evening he's invoicing a pollination contract and a wax order with two different rate structures, and the mite-treatment supply receipts are in the truck.
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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 $1,968/year on software — and Beekeeper face their own version of that math. TX state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Waco metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Beekeepers run into with Square, and what Nexa does instead.
$1,168 over 3 years. Or $279 once (or 3 × $99). Own your tools.
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