Pet Waste Removal 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 Pet Waste Removal Technician 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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Pet Waste Removal face unique challenges: The whole business is weekly recurring routes, so a single missed yard or a route run out of order cascades into complaints and wasted fuel for the rest of the week. A locked gate, a dog left out in the yard, or a 'we forgot to mention the new puppy' surprise means a wasted drive with nothing to bill. Customers churn quietly over winter and seasonal pauses, and remembering who paused versus who cancelled versus who owes for last month is a mess. Pricing scales by number of dogs and yard size and frequency, so quoting a new yard accurately over the phone without seeing it leads to underpriced stops. On top of all that, Wave charges $16/month ($192/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Pet Waste Removal Technician 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 Long-handled steel scooper and rake set 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 pet waste removal are fully switched before the weekend.
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The route is everything, and the day is built around hitting twenty to thirty yards in the right order so the truck is not crisscrossing the same neighborhood twice. Each stop is fast in theory: open the gate, scan the yard in a grid so nothing gets missed, bag and bucket the waste, latch the gate exactly as it was found, and spray the boots before the next house to avoid carrying anything between yards. In practice every stop has a variable. One gate is padlocked and the customer never left a code. One yard has a dog out that was supposed to be inside, so it is a knock, a wait, or a skip. A new puppy means double the work for the same price until the account gets updated. Weather turns a routine week into a slog when snow hides everything. The mental load is the recurring billing, because almost every customer is on a weekly or twice-weekly plan, and keeping track of who paused for vacation, who is past due, and who just signed up midweek is the part that does not happen with a scooper. By the end of the day the truck smells like the job and the real work waiting at home is making sure every completed yard got marked done and every monthly invoice actually went out.
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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.
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The average solo operator there spends about $2,832/year on software — and Pet Waste Removal Technician face their own version of that math. CA state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Escondido metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Pet Waste Removal run into with Wave, and what Nexa does instead.
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