Aurora is home to about 180,000 people. The moderate cost of living means competitive pricing — and every dollar saved on software goes further.
Coaches in Illinois 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
Illinois has a 4.95% flat income tax. Flat 4.95% income tax. Chicago has additional taxes and licensing requirements. High property taxes statewide. Cook County has specific contractor requirements.
When evaluating software costs, factor in your effective tax rate. A $2,352/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 program for jobs, or a invoicing system — most coaches in Aurora string together along with other platforms. That's $2,352/year in tool subscriptions. Within 5 years at today's prices, you're looking at $11,760.
Nexa means you own your business software. Your CRM, invoice management, booking, jobs, time tracking, and financial tools — combined into one program. One drag books a client. One drag generates an invoice. No duplicate data entry. No middleware. No integration tax. It's a buy once — eliminate recurring fees starting today. For coaches in Aurora 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.
Her first call is at 7 AM because the client's in another country and that's the only overlap that works, so the day starts with mental time-zone math she does every single morning. The session itself is the easy part: she reviews last week's action items, the client confesses they didn't do two of them, and she coaches them through the resistance without lecturing. The hard part is everything around it. Between calls she's writing up session notes while they're fresh, sending the agreed homework, and trying to keep five clients' goals and histories straight so each call opens warm instead of cold. A discovery call comes in midday, a prospect feeling out whether to commit to a three-month package; she has to sell the program and the pricing without sounding salesy. Two clients are on retainer, one's per-session, and a fourth keeps asking to reschedule, which throws the week. She chases a payment that should have cleared before today's session, because doing the work first and collecting later never ends well. By evening she's blocking next week around three time zones, updating each client's progress so she has something to point to, and reminding herself that the coaching is fulfilling but the admin is what eats the margin.
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 coach 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)
From February 4, 2025: Starter $19 to $36 (89%), Essentials $39 to $59, Premium $79 to $125 a month.
Source: Fstoppers (Jan 24, 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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