Font 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 Font 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.
Font Sellers face unique challenges: Selling fonts means selling licenses, not files, and tracking who bought desktop versus web versus extended commercial rights, and chasing those who exceed their tier, is a legal mess with no clean ledger. A single typeface is months of drawing, spacing, and kerning every glyph plus OpenType features, so the upfront labor is enormous against a low per-license price. Buyers email asking why a ligature isn't showing, how to install the font, or whether their use is covered, so a downloadable product still carries constant licensing and tech support. Fonts are pirated and shared on free-download sites the moment they sell, and tracking unauthorized commercial use, especially by businesses on logos and products, is nearly impossible alone. On top of all that, Wave charges $16/month ($192/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Font 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 Glyphs or FontLab for drawing and spacing the typeface 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 font sellers are fully switched before the weekend.
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The work is slow and exacting, mostly in Glyphs. The morning is drawing: refining the lowercase 'a' for the fifth time so its curve matches the 'e', then spacing the new glyphs because a beautiful letter is worthless if it doesn't sit right next to its neighbors. Kerning pairs get tuned by eye, the AV and the To and the dozens of awkward combinations, then proofed in a test document at body size and display size. OpenType features are the afternoon's headache: programming the ligatures and stylistic alternates so the swash caps trigger correctly, then testing them in Illustrator and InDesign to confirm they actually fire. The inbox is licensing and support: a buyer asks whether their desktop license covers putting the font on their website, another can't get the ligatures to show in Canva, a business wants an extended license for product packaging and needs a custom quote. Each license tier has to be tracked, because someone who bought a single-user desktop license is now clearly using the font across a ten-person studio. A pirated copy of last year's release shows up on a free-fonts site, prompting a takedown. The day ends specing the next weight in the family and reconciling license sales across three marketplaces, each with different fee structures, knowing the real exposure is the commercial use happening with no license at all.
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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 $2,880/year on software — and Font Seller face their own version of that math. NJ state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Edison metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Font Sellers run into with Wave, and what Nexa does instead.
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