Ann Arbor is home to about 123,000 people. The moderate cost of living means competitive pricing — and every dollar saved on software goes further.
Collectible Dealers in Michigan need a Business License. Requirements vary — contact your city or county business licensing office for current details.
Insurance: $500K-$1M general liability
Continuing Education: Check with state licensing board
Michigan has a 4.25% flat income tax. Flat 4.25% income tax. Detroit and Grand Rapids are primary markets. Auto industry decline created transition economy. Low cost of living outside metro areas.
When evaluating software costs, factor in your effective tax rate. A $684/year software expense is partially deductible — but Nexa at $279 once is a one-time deduction that eliminates the recurring expense entirely.
Whether you call it invoice management, a solution for jobs, or a invoicing system — most collectible dealers in Ann Arbor string together QuickBooks, Wave, FreshBooks, Square and other tools. That's $684/year in monthly software fees. Across five years at today's prices, that stack costs $3,420.
Switching to Nexa lets you exit the subscription trap. Your CRM, invoice management, booking, jobs, time tracking, and financial tools — in a single solution. A single action books a client. A single action generates an invoice. No bouncing between tools. No middleware. No per-connection charges. It's a one-time purchase — cut costs the moment you switch. For collectible dealers in Ann Arbor weighing the switch, the 30-day money-back guarantee covers the migration window — you can run Nexa in parallel with your existing subscriptions, verify the workflow handles your real client load, and only cancel the monthly tools once you are confident the data and processes have settled in.
The day often starts before the shop is open, scrolling Facebook groups and answering a 'what's this worth' text with a photo of someone's grandfather's coin album. Mid-morning is a buy: a guy walks in with three shoeboxes of late-'80s and '90s commons, and you're pricing the whole lot in your head, paying for the handful of rookies and stars while the rest is bulk. Then it's sorting and triage, pulling anything worth slabbing into a stack for the next PSA bulk submission and noting which raw cards to list. Afternoons disappear into photographing and listing, front and back scans, condition notes, comps pulled from recently-sold. You pack the day's eBay sales into toploaders and bubble mailers, print labels, and reconcile which consignors got paid. Weekends are the real grind: load the car at 5 a.m., set up the booth, lay out the showcases, and spend ten hours trading, haggling, and watching for the deal that walks up to your table. By the end you're counting cash, logging show sales, and trying to remember which sale needs tax collected for that state.
That is the work Nexa is built around: the job, the client, the hours and the invoice live in one place, so the paperwork side of the day doesn't need a second shift.
Every one of those was bought once and earns its keep for years. Nexa is priced the same way: $279 once, and it keeps working whether business is busy or slow.
Dated changes to the subscriptions a collectible dealer might rent. Each one links the announcement or report it comes from. Tap one for the numbers.
For renewals on or after February 1, 2026, Pro Plus and Mac Plus went from $999 to $1,149 a year for one user, and each extra seat from $200 to $230.
Source: SWK Technologies, Insightful Accountant (Dec 2, 2025)
From July 1, 2025: Simple Start $35 to $38, Essentials $65 to $75, Plus $99 to $115, Advanced $235 to $275 a month.
Source: Woodard Report (May 27, 2025)
Only changes we can link to a vendor announcement or a named publication are listed. Plans, add-ons and discounts vary, so check the vendor's current pricing page before you decide.
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Ann Arbor collectible dealers: exit the subscription trap.
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We build a collectible dealer's guide the same way every time, and we'd rather you trust it than take it on faith. Nexa is our product, so the test we hold ourselves to is simple: a tool only "wins" a job here when it genuinely does that job better for a collectible dealer — and where something free, open-source, or buy-once does it better, we say so and link you to it. Where Nexa falls short (payroll is the honest example), we name the alternative outright.
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