What BoomTown costs, what it does better, when to stay, and what moves if you go.
BoomTown's cheapest plan that does the core job is $1000/month — $12,000 a year, $36,000 over 3 years at today's price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, tasks and accounting in one suite, so it costs less than BoomTown after 1 month. What Nexa is not: software someone hosts for you with a support desk, and it does not do payroll. If BoomTown's strengths below are why you pay for it, stay.
From BoomTown's own published feature list:
✓ where BoomTown's published feature list shows it, ✗ where its record says it is missing, — where its list does not say.
| BoomTown | Nexa | |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✗ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | — | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | — | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
BoomTown: $1000/month — the cheapest plan that does the core job, from BoomTown's pricing page, checked September 2026. That is $12,000 a year and $36,000 over 3 years if the price never changes. Nexa: $279 once. The break-even point is 1 month.
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 BoomTown's export as your record.
Admin > Data Export. Download all records.
Review contract terms for early termination fees.
CRM > Import. Map all fields from export.
Set up follow-up sequences in Nexa tasks.
Every import, with templates: Bring your data. Keep BoomTown running until Nexa checks out.
The same comparison worked through for specific trades, with a job example and the numbers for each:
At $1000/month — the cheapest BoomTown plan that does the core job, per BoomTown's pricing page in September 2026 — it is $12,000 a year and $36,000 over 3 years at today's price. Nexa is $279 once.
BoomTown's strengths above — lead generation and idx website — are the reason you pay for it. Nexa does not match BoomTown there. Your team is large enough that BoomTown's plans for bigger teams buy 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 inside the same tool. Nexa does not do payroll — keep a payroll service.
Partly. Your client list (CSV), expenses (CSV), bank and card history (CSV, OFX, QFX, QBO), contacts and calendar (.ics) import by file. Invoices, jobs and services do not — re-enter the open ones and keep BoomTown's export as your record.
No payroll. Keep a payroll service alongside it. It is not hosted for you: your data lives on your device. Syncing across devices is optional Cloud Sync, $4.99/month. 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.
30-day money-back guarantee. Export from BoomTown first and keep it running while you try Nexa.
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· BoomTown price checked September 2026