Tumbler Makers 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 tumbler maker earns $24,000/year, so Square's annual cost is roughly 1.5% 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.
Tumbler Makers face unique challenges: Per-tumbler cost math is invisible: a single 30oz cup quietly eats a blank, three epoxy coats, glitter, a vinyl decal, sandpaper, gloves, and a torch fill, and most makers price off a vibe instead of the real landed cost. Custom orders multiply into chaos, where a single buyer wants four cups, three name spellings, two glitter colors, and a logo, and the spec lives across DMs, a screenshot, and memory until something gets made wrong. Trademarked-design requests (Stanley dupes, Disney, team logos, band art) arrive daily, and saying yes risks a takedown while saying no risks losing the sale, with no clean line drawn in advance. Curing time is the real bottleneck, not labor, since three coats at 8 to 12 hours each plus a 72-hour pre-ship rest means a 20-cup bulk order can occupy every turner arm for over a week before a single box ships. On top of all that, Square charges $29/month ($348/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median tumbler maker earns $24,000/year. Software at $348/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your Single- or dual-arm cup turner (motorized spinner that rotates blanks while epoxy self-levels) 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 tumbler makers 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.
The day starts at the turner, lifting last night's cups to check for lint, dimples, or a soft spot that means the ratio was off and the cup gets sanded back. Blanks for today's batch get washed, dried, and taped at the rim and base so the epoxy line is clean. Vinyl comes next: a name cut, weeded letter by letter, transfer-taped, and burnished onto the curved wall without a wrinkle, which never goes fast on a tapered 40oz. Then glitter and the first epoxy pour, mixed by weight, spread with a gloved finger, and chased with the torch as bubbles rise, before the cup goes back on the arm to spin for hours. While those turn, it's the office shift: pricing a wedding order of twelve, fielding a DM asking for a copyrighted character, photographing yesterday's finished cups in the lightbox, and wrapping the cured ones in bubble wrap and tissue. Afternoons mean second coats, troubleshooting a cup that's curing tacky or cloudy, and re-taping for the next pour. Nothing about the rhythm is fast, because every cup is gated by hours of spinning and a hard 72-hour rest before it can be packed, so the real craft is sequencing the queue so the turner is never empty and no order ships before it's truly cured.
Real tumbler makers near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a tumbler maker? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every tumbler maker 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 $2,160/year on software — and tumbler maker face their own version of that math. KS state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Kansas City metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Tumbler Makers run into with Square, and what Nexa does instead.
If you want to compare notes or see how other tumbler makers are running their tools, here's where the conversation happens.
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