Cabinet Installers 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 cabinet installer 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.
Cabinet Installers face unique challenges: Hanging cabinets dead level and plumb on walls and floors that never are, because everything after, doors and counters, telegraphs your error. Coordinating with the countertop fabricator since the template can't happen until the boxes are set, and a delay there stalls the whole kitchen. Scribing fillers and panels to walls that wave and corners that aren't 90 degrees so the gaps disappear. Damaged, mismeasured, or backordered cabinets from the supplier that strand you mid-install waiting on a replacement door or box. On top of all that, Square charges $29/month ($348/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median cabinet installer 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 cordless drill/driver and cabinet screws 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 cabinet installers 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.
Your whole craft is making dead-level cabinets land on a wall and floor that are neither level nor flat. You start a kitchen by finding the high point of the floor and snapping a laser line around the room for the base cabinets, then locating studs and a level reference line for the uppers. You usually hang the uppers first while the floor's clear, shimming each box to the laser, clamping the face frames tight to each other, and screwing into studs so nothing sags over a dishwasher gap. The base cabinets come next, shimmed level despite the sloping floor, because every error here shows up later in a counter that rocks or a backsplash with a wedge gap. The wall waves, so you scribe the end panels and fillers with the track saw to make the gaps vanish. Mid-morning you open a box and find a wall cabinet arrived with a cracked face, which strands that run until the supplier sends a replacement, and you have to keep the rest of the install moving around the hole. The countertop fabricator can't template until your boxes are set and solid, so the granite schedule rides on you finishing clean today. You install the hardware with a jig so every pull lines up, level the lazy Susan, and walk the homeowner through soft-close adjustments. You leave knowing the counter template, and the whole kitchen timeline, depends on the level lines you set this morning.
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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 $1,200/year on software — and cabinet installer face their own version of that math. Peru requires SUNAT electronic invoicing above threshold. IGV at 18%. Requirements vary by country and locality. Check local regulations.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Trujillo metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Cabinet Installers 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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