Bend is home to about 100,000 people. The moderate cost of living means competitive pricing — and every dollar you keep from subscriptions matters.
Storyboard Artists in Oregon 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
Oregon has a 4.75-9.9% income tax. Progressive income tax up to 9.9%. No sales tax (major benefit for material-heavy trades). Portland metro has additional taxes. High minimum wage. Transit tax in Portland metro.
When evaluating software costs, factor in your effective tax rate. A $1,356/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 billing, a tool for jobs, or a invoicing system — most storyboard artists in Bend mix and match HoneyBook, FreshBooks, Toggl Track, Harvest and other tools. That's $1,356/year in subscriptions. Within 5 years at today's prices, those subscriptions total $6,780.
With Nexa, you own your business software. Your CRM, billing, appointment management, jobs, time tracking, and financial tools — unified in one tool. A single action books a client. A single action generates an invoice. No copying between apps. No third-party glue. Zero integration overhead. It's a pay once — save money from day one. For storyboard artists in Bend 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 morning starts with the latest script revision dropped in the shared drive overnight, so the first hour is reading the new pages and flagging which sequences changed. By 9:30 the director wants thumbnails for the chase sequence, so you rough small panels fast, blocking eyelines and screen direction before any detail. Mid-morning is a notes call: the director wants the reveal held one beat longer, which means inserting two new panels and renumbering the whole sequence. You work in Storyboard Pro because the timeline lets you slap rough timing under each panel and export an animatic the editor can drop into Premiere. Lunch is at the desk, scrubbing the animatic to check whether the action reads. Afternoon is cleanup on yesterday's approved panels: tightening perspective, adding arrows for camera moves, marking which shots are on ones and which hold. Around four the production coordinator asks for a panel count for the budget, and you realize you've drawn forty more panels than the original quote. You note it to raise on the next invoice. The day ends exporting a fresh PDF of the act, labeled with the date and revision letter so nobody boards off a stale version again.
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 storyboard artist 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)
From October 27, 2024: Early $15 to $20, Growing $42 to $47, Established $78 to $80 a month.
Source: Insightful Accountant
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 storyboard artist'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 storyboard artist — 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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