Concrete Polishing 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 concrete polisher 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.
Concrete Polishing face unique challenges: Existing slabs hide their hardness and their history, so a floor that grinds beautifully in one corner reveals power-troweled hard spots and old mastic in the next, blowing the grit schedule and the bid. Customers see a glossy showroom photo and expect mirror polish on a forty-year-old garage slab full of cracks and cold joints that no amount of grinding will hide. Silica dust control is non-negotiable under the exposure rules, and a single uncontained pass coats a client's adjacent finished space. Quoting square footage flat ignores that the diamond grit progression and densifier coats are where the real labor and material cost live. On top of all that, Square charges $29/month ($348/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median concrete polisher 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 Planetary floor grinder with multiple heads 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 concrete polishing 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 walks the slab before he ever fires up the grinder, because the floor decides the job, not the bid. This one's an old warehouse the client wants turned into a polished showroom, and a moisture test plus a few test passes tell him whether the surface will take a high polish or fight him the whole way. He hooks the dust shroud to the HEPA extractor first, because silica dust is the thing that shuts a job down and the office space next door is occupied. Then it's the grind: metal-bond diamonds to open the floor and flatten the trowel ridges, head after head, working the grit progression up while the planetary heads chatter across the slab. He sprays the lithium densifier and lets it react, hardening the surface so it'll take the polish. The afternoon is the resin grits, finer and finer, the floor slowly going from dull gray to a deepening sheen. A patch near the old loading door has hardened cold joints and a crack he warned them about, and sure enough the client points right at it expecting magic. He runs the gloss meter to show he hit the spec they agreed to. Cleanup is vacuuming the fine dust the shroud didn't catch and pulling tooling to check the wear before tomorrow's continuation.
Real concrete polishing near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a concrete polisher? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every concrete polisher on Nexa →
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 $3,240/year on software — and concrete polisher face their own version of that math. CA state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Long Beach metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Concrete Polishing 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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