SaaS Micro-Founders 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 SaaS Micro-Founder 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.
SaaS Micro-Founders face unique challenges: Watching MRR, churn, and failed-payment dunning closely enough that a quiet leak doesn't become a death spiral. Wearing every hat, shipping code, answering support, and chasing failed Stripe charges, with no one to hand off to. Handling dunning and involuntary churn from expired cards so revenue isn't lost to a billing hiccup. Pricing tiers and trials so the product converts free users without leaving obvious money on the table. On top of all that, Wave charges $16/month ($192/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median SaaS Micro-Founder 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 code editor and Git host (VS Code + GitHub) 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 saas micro-founders are fully switched before the weekend.
Go to Settings → Data Export. Download customers, invoices, transactions, and accounts.
15-minute setup. Import your client list and chart of accounts from CSV.
Run both for 1-2 weeks. Verify bank connections and recurring invoices work.
Cancel paid features. Your free account data stays accessible for records.
One person, a whole company. The morning starts with the metrics dashboard, because for a micro-SaaS, MRR and churn are vital signs: three new trials converted overnight, but two paid accounts cancelled, and a handful of charges failed on expired cards, which means involuntary churn to claw back through dunning. Then the support inbox, where a customer hit a bug at 2 AM and another is asking for a feature that's actually a configuration they missed, so one gets a code fix queued and the other gets a help-doc link. Midday is heads-down development, shipping a small fix and a feature that three customers requested, while keeping one eye on Sentry in case the deploy throws errors. The founder also reviews failed payments in Stripe and manually nudges two customers whose cards bounced, because each recovered charge is real money that nearly vanished silently. Afternoon is the business side: a question about whether the middle pricing tier is leaving money on the table, a half-drafted changelog post to announce the new feature, and a sales-tax question for the quarter that the founder keeps putting off. A prospect from the trial list replied with a buying question, so that gets a careful answer. The day ends triaging tomorrow's list, customer bugs first, then the feature work, then the unglamorous billing and tax housekeeping that no one else will do.
Real saas micro-founders near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a saas micro-founder? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every saas micro-founder on Nexa →
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 SaaS Micro-Founder face their own version of that math. CA state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Chula Vista metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps SaaS Micro-Founders run into with Wave, and what Nexa does instead.
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