Ann Arbor is home to about 123,000 people. The moderate cost of living means competitive pricing — and software savings hit different on tight margins.
Sports Massage Therapists 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 $828/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 invoicing, a app for jobs, or a invoicing system — most sports massage therapists in Ann Arbor stitch together Vagaro, Acuity Scheduling, Square, HoneyBook and other tools. That's $828/year in monthly software fees. Across five years at today's prices, that stack costs $4,140.
Switching to Nexa lets you exit the subscription trap. Your CRM, invoicing, calendar tool, jobs, time tracking, and financial tools — in a single app. One tap books a client. One tap generates an invoice. No bouncing between tools. No integration hacks. No per-connection charges. It's a one-time purchase — keep more revenue the moment you switch. For sports massage therapists 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.
His morning starts with a marathoner two weeks out who needs a flush, not a beating; go too deep this close to race day and he ruins her legs. He keeps the pressure broad and rhythmic, working the IT band and calves, taping a cranky knee before she leaves. Next is a CrossFitter with a locked-up trap who wants the deep stuff, so he switches gears entirely, scraping adhesions and digging into the rotator cuff. He explains, again, that you do not get a hard deep-tissue session two days before competing. Midday he loads his folding chair and kit into the car for a youth soccer tournament, where he runs ten-minute sideline flushes for a line of teenagers, half of whom forget to bring money and the coach promises to settle up for the whole team later. Back at the studio, an evening client cancels because yesterday's leg day wrecked him. He uses the gap to ice his own forearms and update a runner's training-cycle notes so he remembers she peaks next week and needs maintenance, not depth. He ends the night chasing the soccer coach for the roster payment that was supposed to be one clean invoice and is now twelve guesses.
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 sports massage therapist 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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We build a sports massage therapist'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 sports massage therapist — 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.
Found something out of date? Prices change and we don't catch every move the day it happens. This guide is published and maintained by the Nexa team; if a figure here is wrong, tell us and we'll fix it — getting it right matters more to us than the sale.