Gua Sha Practitioners 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 Gua Sha Practitioner 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.
Gua Sha Practitioners face unique challenges: Therapeutic body gua sha raises red 'sha' that looks alarming, while facial gua sha must never bruise, and clients confuse the two completely. Facial gua sha results are subtle and cumulative, so clients expect dramatic before-and-afters from one session and feel let down. Selling the at-home routine and the right stone is real income that gets lost when there's no easy way to bundle product with the service. TikTok has clients arriving with wild expectations and bad self-scraping technique that has to be gently corrected. On top of all that, Square charges $29/month ($348/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Gua Sha Practitioner 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 Traditional jade, rose quartz, and bian stone gua sha tools 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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Your exact Square cost, full stack total, and what switching saves. 10 seconds.
| 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 gua sha practitioners 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.
Her morning is facial work: a bride-to-be wanting that lifted, de-puffed jawline. She cleanses, applies a slip of oil, and works the jade tool upward and outward along the lymph, light and rhythmic, never hard enough to mark a face. The result is real but quiet, a little less puffiness, a softer jaw, and she manages expectations because the client saw a TikTok promising cheekbones from one pass. She sends her home with a stone and a routine and wishes there were a cleaner way to ring that up with the session. Her afternoon flips to therapeutic body gua sha: a client with a stiff neck and upper back, where she scrapes firmly with the stainless tool until the sha rises, red and blotchy, which is exactly the point but looks frightening to anyone who only knows the facial kind. She explains the difference, again, that this redness is intended and means stagnation released, unlike the gentle face work. Between clients she sanitizes every stone. She corrects a self-taught client who has been scraping her own face too hard, downward, and risking broken capillaries. She ends the day packaging two stones to sell, taking payment for them separately from the sessions, wishing the product and the service lived on one ticket.
Real gua sha practitioners near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a gua sha practitioner? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every gua sha practitioner 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 $2,112/year on software — and Gua Sha Practitioner face their own version of that math. SC state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Rock Hill metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Gua Sha Practitioners 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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