What Dotloop costs, what it does better, when to stay, and what moves if you go.
Dotloop's cheapest plan that does the core job is $34.99/month — $419.88 a year, $1,259.64 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 Dotloop after 8 months. What Nexa is not: software someone hosts for you with a support desk, and it does not do payroll. If Dotloop's strengths below are why you pay for it, stay.
From Dotloop's own published feature list:
✓ where Dotloop's published feature list shows it, ✗ where its record says it is missing, — where its list does not say.
| Dotloop | Nexa | |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✗ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | — | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | — | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
Dotloop: $34.99/month — the cheapest plan that does the core job, from Dotloop's pricing page, checked September 2026. That is $419.88 a year and $1,259.64 over 3 years if the price never changes. Nexa: $279 once. The break-even point is 8 months.
Extra users: Premium is per agent ($34.99/mo); Teams and Business+ are custom-quoted.
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 Dotloop's export as your record.
Download all transaction documents before canceling.
12-month minimum. Mark your calendar.
Upload documents to Nexa Vault.
Recreate transaction checklists in Nexa Tasks.
Every import, with templates: Bring your data. Keep Dotloop running until Nexa checks out.
At $34.99/month — the cheapest Dotloop plan that does the core job, per Dotloop's pricing page in September 2026 — it is $419.88 a year and $1,259.64 over 3 years at today's price. Nexa is $279 once.
Dotloop's strengths above — transaction management and e-signatures — are the reason you pay for it. Nexa does not match Dotloop there. You have a team large enough that Dotloop'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 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 Dotloop'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 Dotloop first and keep it running while you try Nexa.
30-day money-back guarantee.
· Dotloop price checked September 2026