Tile Grout Cleaners 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 Tile and Grout Cleaner earns $38,000/year, so Square's annual cost is roughly 0.9% 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.
Tile Grout Cleaners face unique challenges: Grout that's permanently stained or has color variation no cleaning will even out, so the customer wants color-sealing instead. Using an acidic cleaner on natural stone like marble or travertine and etching it dull. Customers expecting bright-white grout when years of stain mean recoloring is the only real fix. Sealer that's applied over damp grout or wiped too late and dries hazy. On top of all that, Square charges $29/month ($348/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Tile and Grout Cleaner earns $38,000/year. Software at $348/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your Spinner / turbo tile-and-grout cleaning tool driven by a pressure washer 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 tile grout cleaners 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.
First job is a kitchen with dingy grout lines the customer is sure are 'just dirty,' so I do a test patch with the spinner tool and hot-water extraction, and most of it cleans up beautifully, but a few traffic-lane lines stay dark because the stain is set in. I explain that cleaning got it as far as it goes and that color-sealing is what makes the grout uniform again, and I quote that as a separate service. Second stop is a bathroom with a travertine floor, and the trap here is that an acidic cleaner would etch the stone, so I switch to a stone-safe alkaline product and a gentler approach. After lunch I'm sealing a floor I cleaned and let dry yesterday, running the penetrating sealer down each grout line and wiping the excess off the tile face before it hazes, working in small sections so nothing dries on the surface. There's a shower with mineral buildup and a little mildew in the corners, so I hand-scrub the edges the spinner can't reach. The last job is a big open-plan tile floor, an easy efficient run with the turbo tool, vacuuming up the dirty water as I go. I always do a small test area first and walk the customer through what cleaning will and won't fix, because the unhappy ones are the people who expected new-looking grout from a cleaning when their grout needed sealing or recoloring, and I note which floors I've sealed so I know when they're due again.
Real tile grout cleaners near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a tile and grout cleaner? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every tile and grout cleaner 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 $1,800/year on software — and Tile and Grout Cleaner face their own version of that math. Ohio CAT applies. Cleveland imposes a 2.5% municipal income tax with limited credit for taxes paid to other cities. Ohio trade licenses required through the Division of Industrial Compliance. Cleveland requires a vendor's license and may require additional trade permits.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Cleveland metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Tile Grout Cleaners run into with Square, and what Nexa does instead.
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