Course Creators on Wave pay $16/month — $192/year. Over three years, that's $644. Nexa is $279 once. Break-even runs about 17.4 months. The median Course Creator earns $32,000/year, so Wave's annual cost is roughly 0.6% of typical revenue — every year, forever.
That's $644 gone. And you don't own anything. Stop paying, lose access.
See the full history of Wave price changes in the SaaS Graveyard →
You're not the only one who's had enough.
Course Creators face unique challenges: Refund requests and chargebacks after a student binge-watches the whole course inside the guarantee window. Launch-cohort cash spikes followed by months of flat evergreen sales that wreck cash-flow planning. Tracking student progress to trigger upsells, certificates, and 'finished the course' testimonials. Affiliate and joint-venture commission payouts to the partners who promoted the launch. On top of all that, Wave charges $16/month ($192/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Course Creator earns $32,000/year. Software at $192/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your Screen recording software (Camtasia or ScreenFlow) 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.
Wave is just one piece. What else are you losing money on?
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| Feature | Wave | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✗ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Price | $16/mo forever | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Cost | $644 | $279 |
| Stop paying? | Lose everything | Keep everything forever |
Most course creators are fully switched before the weekend.
Go to Settings → Data Export. Download customers, invoices, transactions, and accounts.
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Today is a record day, which means I lock the door and put a sign on it. I'm filming module four, screen-share with my face in the corner, and I redo the third lesson twice because I tripped over the explanation and beginners won't forgive a confusing minute. Between takes I check the dashboard: two refund requests overnight, and one of them watched eighty percent of the course before asking for their money back inside the guarantee window. I approve the legit one and flag the other. A joint-venture partner who promoted my last launch emails about their commission, and I owe them thirty percent of the sales their link drove, which I have to pull from the platform's affiliate report. I batch-edit the morning's footage, upload to the course platform, and draft the email that drips to students when they hit lesson five, nudging them toward the advanced bundle. Evergreen sales trickled three units today, a far cry from launch week when I did three hundred. I update the launch calendar for next quarter, sketch the webinar funnel, and remind myself to ask the students who actually finished for a testimonial. I keep a spreadsheet of who promoted what and what I owe them, and it's a mess.
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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. Wave may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
It's $7.75/month over 3 years. Wave is $16/month — that's $644 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 Wave as CSV, import into Nexa in about 5 minutes.
The average solo operator there spends about $2,280/year on software — and Course Creator face their own version of that math. CA state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Visalia metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Course Creators run into with Wave, and what Nexa does instead.
$644 over 3 years. Or $279 once (or 3 × $99). Own your tools.
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