Land Clearers 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 Land Clearer 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.
Land Clearers face unique challenges: Clearing scope lives and dies on the property survey and wetland setbacks, and pushing trees three feet over a flagged line is an environmental fine and a furious neighbor. Debris disposal is a hidden cost, because burn permits, hauling, or chipping a whole treeline of slash can equal the cost of the clearing itself. I'm quoting acreage I can't fully walk, so a lot that looks like brush hides a creek, a rock shelf, or buried construction trash that wrecks the bid. Erosion and stormwater rules kick in the moment I strip cover, so silt fence and permits are part of the job whether the customer budgeted them or not. On top of all that, Square charges $29/month ($348/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Land Clearer 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 Excavator or skid-steer with a brush grapple and root rake 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 land clearers 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.
Land clearing is heavy-iron work where the most expensive mistakes happen before a tree comes down, in the survey and the permits. The first thing on any new lot is the boundary: I want the survey pins and the flagging right, because pushing a treeline three feet onto a neighbor's parcel or into a flagged wetland buffer is an environmental fine that dwarfs the whole job. I walk what I can, but a wooded acre hides things, a seasonal creek, a rock shelf the dozer can't push, an old dump of buried construction trash, and any of those can blow a bid I made off a windshield look. The machine work itself is satisfying: grapple the brush, rake the roots, push and stack, then grade the ground so it drains. The cost nobody outside the trade respects is the debris, because once you've felled a treeline you've got a mountain of slash, and burning needs a permit and a watch, hauling needs trailers, and chipping needs time, and that disposal can run as much as the clearing. The moment I strip the cover, stormwater rules wake up, so silt fence and an erosion plan are part of the job whether or not the customer thought to budget for them. I track hours on the iron and document the line before and after.
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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 $1,700/year on software — and Land Clearer face their own version of that math. Oklahoma income tax up to 4.75%. OKC has no city income tax. Overall tax burden is below national average. Oklahoma requires contractor licensing through the CIB for projects over $50,000. OKC requires a general business license.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Oklahoma City metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Land Clearers run into with Square, and what Nexa does instead.
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