Bismarck is home to about 74,000 people. The moderate cost of living means competitive pricing — and every dollar you keep from subscriptions matters.
Physical Therapists in North Dakota 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
North Dakota has a 0-2.5% income tax. Very low income tax (effectively 0% for most solopreneurs under new flat rate). Oil economy in west. Low population. Fargo is primary market.
When evaluating software costs, factor in your effective tax rate. A $2,160/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 payment tracking, a tool for jobs, or a invoicing system — most physical therapists in Bismarck mix and match and other monthly services. That's $2,160/year in subscriptions. Over 5 years at today's prices, those subscriptions total $10,800.
Nexa gives you the ability to stop renting software. Your CRM, payment tracking, appointment management, jobs, time tracking, and financial tools — all in one tool. One drag books a client. One drag generates an invoice. No duplicate data entry. No middleware. No sync fees. It's a pay once — eliminate recurring fees right away. For physical therapists in Bismarck 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 schedule is stacked from the first slot, three patients deep on overlapping appointments, so you're constantly moving: starting a post-op knee on the bike to warm up, progressing a rotator-cuff patient's band work two tables over, and re-cueing a balance drill for the older gentleman on the foam pad before he loses his form. You measure range with the goniometer at each re-eval and chart it at the point of care when you can, because if you let notes stack they bury your evening. A new evaluation comes in mid-afternoon, a runner with patellofemoral pain, and you watch her gait, test the hip, and build a plan of care that actually addresses the cause and not just the knee. You hand out home exercise sheets but you know half the battle is whether they do them, so you pick three movements they'll realistically keep up instead of a list of twelve they'll ignore. One patient's authorization is nearly out with two weeks of rehab left, so between treatments you flag it for a re-auth request before the cap cuts him off mid-recovery. The last hour is documentation triage: making sure each note shows skilled intervention and the right modifiers, because a clean note today is the difference between getting paid and a denial you'll be appealing next month.
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 physical 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 physical 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 physical 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.