What Timely costs, what it does better, when to stay, and what moves if you go.
Timely's cheapest plan that does the core job is $20/month — $240 a year, $720 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 Timely after 14 months. What Nexa is not: software someone hosts for you with a support desk, and it does not do payroll. If Timely's strengths below are why you pay for it, stay.
From Timely's own published feature list:
✓ where Timely's published feature list shows it, ✗ where its record says it is missing, — where its list does not say.
| Timely | Nexa | |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | — | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✓ | ✓ |
| CRM | — | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | — | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | — | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | — | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
Timely: $20/month — the cheapest plan that does the core job, from Timely's pricing page, checked July 2026. That is $240 a year and $720 over 3 years if the price never changes. Nexa: $279 once. The break-even point is 14 months.
Extra users: Priced per user, with tier user caps.
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 Timely's export as your record.
Every import, with templates: Bring your data. Keep Timely running until Nexa checks out.
At $20/month — the cheapest Timely plan that does the core job, per Timely's pricing page in July 2026 — it is $240 a year and $720 over 3 years at today's price. Nexa is $279 once.
Timely's strengths above — built for salons and beauty businesses and online booking and reminders — are the reason you pay for it. Nexa does not match Timely there. You have a team large enough that Timely'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 Timely'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 Timely first and keep it running while you try Nexa.
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· Timely price checked July 2026