Embroidery Sellers 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 Embroidery Seller 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.
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You're not the only one who's had enough.
Embroidery Sellers face unique challenges: Every new logo or design has to be digitized into a stitch file first, and that setup time and skill rarely gets billed, so the first run of a custom order is effectively free labor. Pricing is driven by stitch count and thread changes, not just item count, so quoting by gut undercharges dense or multi-color designs that take far longer to run. Personalized and monogrammed orders surge at the holidays with specific names, fonts, and placements, and getting one name misspelled means a ruined blank and a remake. Blanks like caps, polos, and totes are bought in bulk by size and color, freezing cash in inventory, and there's no clean link between blanks bought and orders fulfilled. On top of all that, Wave charges $16/month ($192/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Embroidery Seller 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 a multi-needle commercial embroidery machine with assorted hoops 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 embroidery sellers are fully switched before the weekend.
Go to Settings → Data Export. Download customers, invoices, transactions, and accounts.
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The day starts at the screen, not the machine: a new customer sent a logo as a low-res JPG, so it has to be cleaned up and digitized into a stitch file, choosing the right underlay and pull compensation so it doesn't pucker on a knit polo. A test stitch-out on scrap confirms the density before any real blank gets hooped. The middle of the day is the machine running: hooping caps with the right stabilizer, loading the design, changing thread cones at each color stop, and trimming jumps while keeping an ear out for a thread break that can ruin a piece. A personalized batch needs attention because each beanie has a different name, and one misspelled monogram means a wasted blank and an unhappy customer. The afternoon brings a rush order, twenty-four polos for a local business, so the math is stitch count times pieces times the hourly machine time, plus the digitizing already done. Backing gets torn or cut away from finished pieces, threads get trimmed clean, and everything gets pressed and folded. Online orders ship out, and a reorder request comes in for a logo digitized months ago, which has to be found. A box of blank totes arrives and goes into inventory. The day ends reconciling blanks used against blanks bought and pricing the next quote so the digitizing time finally stops being free.
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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 $1,600/year on software — and Embroidery Seller face their own version of that math. Colombia requires DIAN-authorized electronic invoicing. IVA applies to most transactions. Requirements vary by country and locality. Check local regulations.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Medellín metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Embroidery Sellers run into with Wave, and what Nexa does instead.
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