Waste Haulers 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 Waste Hauler 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.
Waste Haulers face unique challenges: My money is in route density, so a new commercial account three miles off the line costs more to service than it pays unless I can re-sequence the whole route. Contracts are recurring monthly with negotiated pickup frequencies, so it's a subscription business where a missed pickup means an angry call and a service credit. Contamination ruins a recycling load, so when a customer throws garbage in the recycle dumpster the whole truckload gets charged as trash at the landfill. Tipping fees rise every year and contracts are locked, so margin gets squeezed unless I track tonnage per account and price the renewal right. On top of all that, Square charges $29/month ($348/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Waste Hauler 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 Rear or front-load garbage truck with packer blade 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 waste haulers 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.
This is a route-density business before it's anything else: the truck runs the same line three or four days a week, and every account either tightens the route or loosens it, so a customer three miles off the path costs me more in fuel and time than their monthly bill pays. Most of my revenue is recurring contracts, commercial dumpsters and cart routes on negotiated frequencies, which makes it a subscription business where the product is showing up reliably, and a single missed pickup is an angry call and a service credit that erases the day's margin. At the transfer station every load gets weighed, and tipping fees climb every year while my contracts are locked, so the only way I keep margin is tracking tonnage per account and pricing renewals against what they actually throw away. The thing that ruins a good day is contamination: one customer tosses a bag of garbage into the recycling dumpster and the whole truckload gets rejected and billed as trash, wiping out the recycling rebate for everyone on the route. I service the line, tip the dumpsters, watch for overfilled cans that mean someone upgraded their volume without upgrading their contract, and bring back the scale tickets. The whole business is reliability times density, and the office work is keeping both honest.
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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 $3,000/year on software — and Waste Hauler face their own version of that math. MA flat 5% income tax plus 4% surtax on income over $1M. No local income tax but high property taxes statewide. Massachusetts requires trade-specific licensing through the Division of Professional Licensure. Boston requires a business certificate filed with City Hall.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Boston metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Waste Haulers run into with Square, and what Nexa does instead.
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