Mobile Beauty Techs 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 Mobile Beauty Tech 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.
Mobile Beauty Techs face unique challenges: Drive time and parking between appointments eating unpaid hours that the per-service price never accounts for. Showing up to a client's home with no proper outlet, no good light, a pet, or kids underfoot and having to make it work. No-shows and cancellations that waste a thirty-minute drive and a packed car with nothing to fill the gap. Lugging a full station up apartment stairs and setting up and breaking down at every single stop. On top of all that, Square charges $29/month ($348/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Mobile Beauty Tech 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 folding portable massage/treatment bed 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 mobile beauty techs 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 salon is her car. She loads the folding bed, the rolling kit, the ring light, towels, and a power strip because she's learned never to trust a client's outlets, and maps the day not by appointment times but by drive times, because the thirty minutes between the suburb and downtown is unpaid and invisible on her price list. At the first home she hauls everything up two flights, scopes the room for the one decent outlet and a spot near a window, moves a coffee table, shoos a curious dog, and builds a professional setup in someone's living room in ten minutes flat. She does the service, lash set or facial or makeup, in conditions she doesn't fully control, lighting that's never quite right, a toddler peeking in. Then she breaks it all down, reloads the car, and drives across town, eating a granola bar at a red light. A client texts to cancel as she's pulling onto their street, and there's nothing to backfill a forty-minute hole in the middle of nowhere. She tracks her mileage in her head and forgets half of it. The skill is the same as any salon tech, but the job is really logistics: the setup, the teardown, the driving, the gas, the wear on the car, all the cost that hides behind 'mobile' convenience.
Real mobile beauty techs near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a mobile beauty tech? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every mobile beauty tech 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 $2,040/year on software — and Mobile Beauty Tech face their own version of that math. IL state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Peoria metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Mobile Beauty Techs 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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