Website Flippers 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 Website Flipper earns $32,000/year, so Square's annual cost is roughly 1.1% 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.
Website Flippers face unique challenges: Verifying a site's real traffic and revenue during due diligence before wiring a multiple of monthly profit. Tracking per-site P&L across a portfolio when ad and affiliate income posts on different schedules. Documenting trailing-twelve-month earnings cleanly to defend the asking price when it's time to sell. Surviving Google algorithm updates that can erase a content site's traffic, and the deal value, overnight. On top of all that, Square charges $29/month ($348/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Website Flipper earns $32,000/year. Software at $348/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your marketplace accounts (Flippa, Empire Flippers, Motion Invest) 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 website flippers 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 job is part editor, part analyst, part trader. Morning is the dashboards: a flagship content site's AdSense RPM dipped, and Search Console shows a few money keywords slipping, possibly the early edge of an algorithm update, which is the nightmare scenario when you're holding to sell. The flipper checks Ahrefs to see if it's site-specific or a broader shake-up. Midday is due diligence on an acquisition: a Flippa listing claims $2,400/month profit, so the flipper requests screen-share verification of analytics and ad accounts, cross-checks the traffic against third-party estimates, and looks for the tells, traffic spikes that smell like bots, revenue that doesn't reconcile with stated RPM. Then portfolio bookkeeping, where each site's ad income, affiliate commissions, hosting, and writer costs have to be tallied separately so the per-site P&L is honest. Afternoon is operations: assigning two articles to a freelance writer for a site being groomed for sale, because fresh content props up the trailing earnings. A buyer for a different site wants the last twelve months of earnings broken out, so the flipper compiles the P&L and revenue screenshots. The day ends updating the master tracker, every site's monthly profit, its current multiple, and which ones are ready to list versus which need another quarter of clean numbers first.
Real website flippers near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a website flipper? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every website flipper 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 Website Flipper face their own version of that math. TX state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Pasadena metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Website Flippers 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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