Leaving Aspel?

What Aspel Does Well

From Aspel's own published feature list, each with whether Nexa has an equivalent:

• Legacy desktop ERP — deeply established in Mexico
• CFDI compliant
• Inventory management (SAE module)
  Nexa keeps a simple stock count per product, not full inventory management.
• Payroll (NOI module)
  Nexa totals each employee's hours × rate into a payroll CSV, but does not run payroll: no taxes, pay stubs or payments.
• Offline capability (desktop)

When to Stay on Aspel

• Aspel's strengths above — legacy desktop ERP — deeply established in Mexico and CFDI compliant — are the reason you pay for it, and you like how Aspel does them. Switching tools costs time; it is not worth it to save money on something that already works for you.
• You have a team large enough that Aspel's per-seat pricing still buys you more than owning the software outright.
• You want software someone else hosts, with a support desk and a roadmap you can ask for features on. Nexa is software you own and run yourself.
• You run payroll, with taxes and pay stubs, inside the same tool. Nexa only exports hours × rate per employee as a CSV — keep a payroll service.

What Nexa Does Not Do

• It does not run payroll. It totals hours × rate per employee into a CSV you hand to your payroll service.
• It is not hosted for you: your data lives on your device. Syncing across devices is optional Cloud Sync, $4.99/month.
• Automated emails (drip sequences, booking reminders, review requests) send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. There is no server sending them overnight.
• No Google Calendar or QuickBooks sync. Calendars move by .ics file.
• Invoices, jobs and your services list do not import. Clients, expenses, bank history, contacts and calendar do; the rest you re-enter once.
• No vendor support desk or roadmap to lobby — you buy it once and own it.

Side by Side

✓ where Aspel's published feature list shows it, ✗ where its record says it is missing, — where its list does not say.

The Cost, and Where It Comes From

Aspel: MXN $185 a month + IVA for its ADM Básica plan, from Aspel's own price list, checked October 2026. That is about US$10.21/month, US$123 a year and US$369 over 3 years if the price and the exchange rate never change. Nexa: $279 once. The break-even point is about 28 months. Dollar figures convert MXN at 18.113 per US dollar (Banxico FIX rate, 2026-10-08, source); they move with the exchange rate.

Read that honestly: Aspel costs less over 3 years than Nexa with Cloud Sync. Nexa only comes out ahead if you run it without sync, or keep it longer than 3 years.

Extra users: per-license.

Moving Your Data

These import into Nexa by file: clients and leads (CSV); expenses (CSV); bank and card transactions (CSV, OFX, QFX, QBO); personal contacts (CSV or vCard (.vcf) — the exports from Google Contacts, Outlook and iCloud); calendar events (.ics — the export from Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar, Calendly and most booking tools). Client addresses go in the Notes column for now. You re-enter once: services and price list, open invoices, upcoming jobs and recurring work, open tasks. Past invoices and job history stay in Aspel's export as your record.

Getting it out of Aspel:

Every import, with templates: Bring your data. Keep Aspel running until Nexa checks out.

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