The typical illustrator pays $51/month for FreshBooks + Toggl Track. That's $612/year — $2,053 over 3 years with SaaS inflation. Nexa includes invoicing as a built-in module for $279 once. Break even in 5.5 months.
That's 30 hours of your work every year — just to pay for software you don't own.
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You own your Drawing tablet (Wacom Cintiq, iPad Pro with Apple Pencil). You bought it once. Why are you renting your invoicing?
$51/month. Every month. Forever. That's not a tool — that's a tax.
Professional invoicing with payment tracking, reminders, and automated follow-ups. Plus scheduling, CRM, task management, and a full QuickBooks-style accounting suite. All connected. All yours. Forever.
The average illustrator pays FreshBooks ($33/mo), Toggl Track ($18/mo) — a total of $51/month or $612 per year. With SaaS prices rising 11.4% annually (five times general inflation), that stack will cost $2,053 over three years and $3,842 over five. Nexa replaces all of it for $279, paid once. You break even in 5.5 months. After that, every dollar your competitors spend on subscriptions is money you keep. At median illustrator earnings, $612/year in software represents 30 hours of work — time spent earning money just to hand it to SaaS companies for tools you never own.
Finish the job, tap the saved service, add any extras, send. The customer pays from the link before you've left the driveway. The longer an invoice sits, the lower the odds it's paid in full — speed is the collection strategy.
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Yes. The invoicing module is designed for illustrators who need to professional invoicing with payment tracking, reminders, and automated follow-ups. Plus you get scheduling, CRM, time tracking, and full accounting — tools most illustrators end up needing anyway. $279 total for everything.
$279 spread over 3 years is $7.75/month. You're currently paying $51/month for FreshBooks + Toggl Track — that's $2,053 over 3 years. Nexa saves you $1,774 over that period. The math isn't close.
30-day money-back guarantee. Full refund, no questions. If Nexa doesn't save you $500 in year one, you get every penny back.
Yes. Export your data as CSV, import into Nexa. Most illustrators are fully switched in 1-2 days. Run both in parallel until you're confident — zero risk.
The median illustrator earns $42,000/year. Software subscriptions at $612/year represent 1.5% of that income — every single year. Nexa at $279 once is 0.66% of annual income, paid one time. The difference compounds every year you operate.
Most illustrators cobble together 3-5 separate apps — one for scheduling, one for invoicing, one for bookkeeping, maybe another for client management. Each one charges monthly. None of them talk to each other. So you end up copying client info between apps, manually reconciling invoices with your books, and losing track of details that fall through the cracks.
For the way a illustrator actually works, Nexa keeps one record instead of five logins. You finish the job and the invoice generates from that same record — no retyping into a second app between calls. The hours feed your P&L automatically, a client who books online lands in your CRM with their history, and the Drawing tablet (Wacom Cintiq, iPad Pro with Apple Pencil) you bought once is finally matched by software you buy once. The "pricing creative work — hourly vs per-piece vs licensing royalties" problem goes away. No Zapier, no CSV exports. $279 once — or $99 today and two more — and the whole integrated system is yours, break-even in 5.5 months. 30-day money-back guarantee. And because there's nothing to renew, a illustrator who switches keeps paying $0/month while competitors keep paying $51/month — that gap compounds every year you own it.
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Pricing verified March 2026. SaaS inflation rate: 11.4% YoY (5x general inflation).