Paintless Dent Repair Technicians 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 paintless dent repair technician 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.
Paintless Dent Repair Technicians face unique challenges: Customers expecting any dent to be PDR-able when sharp creases, stretched metal, or cracked paint rule it out. Gaining tool access behind braces, foam, and wiring without pulling half the interior or door skin. Reading the dent under a proper reflection board in a customer's driveway with bad light and no shop. Hail-storm boom-and-bust — feast weeks chasing storms out of state, then dead months at home. On top of all that, Square charges $29/month ($348/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median paintless dent repair technician 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 PDR rod and whale-tail set 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 paintless dent repair technicians 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.
PDR is reading light, not pushing metal. The first thing you do at any car is throw your line board's reflection across the panel and study how the lines bend, because that tells you whether it's a soft round ding you can massage out or a sharp crease where the metal's stretched and the paint will crack if you push it — and that one you have to turn down honestly. If it's a go, the real work is access. You're figuring out how to get a rod behind the dent without destroying the interior — sometimes through a factory hole, sometimes pulling a door panel, a taillight, or a brace, threading the rod past wiring and foam to land the tip exactly on the low spot. Then it's hundreds of tiny, precise pushes, each one watched in the reflection board, working the dent up a hair at a time and knocking down the high spots with a tap. Glue pulling handles the spots you can't reach from behind. A good hail car might have eighty dents and take all day on your knees with a headlamp. Half your year you're chasing hailstorms — you'll caravan three states over for a fat couple of weeks at a dealership or a cat-claim tent, then come home to a slow month doing one door ding at a time. The skill is invisible: done right, there's no trace you were ever there.
Real paintless dent repair technicians near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a paintless dent repair technician? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every paintless dent repair technician 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 paintless dent repair technician face their own version of that math. MI state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Lansing metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Paintless Dent Repair Technicians 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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