Cary is home to about 174,000 people. The moderate cost of living means competitive pricing — and every dollar saved on software goes further.
Educational Therapists in North Carolina 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 Carolina has a 4.5% flat income tax. Flat 4.5% income tax (dropping annually — was 5.25% in 2022). No local income taxes. Growing tech economy in Triangle (Raleigh-Durham). Charlotte banking industry. Low cost of living relative to growth.
When evaluating software costs, factor in your effective tax rate. A $888/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 educational therapists in Cary juggle Calendly, Acuity Scheduling, HoneyBook, FreshBooks plus other subscriptions. That's $888/year in SaaS payments. Across five years at today's prices, the total damage is $4,440.
Nexa gives you the ability to exit the subscription trap. Your CRM, invoicing, booking, jobs, time tracking, and financial tools — combined into one app. One move books a client. One move generates an invoice. No switching tabs. No third-party glue. No integration tax. It's a buy once — eliminate recurring fees the moment you switch. For educational therapists in Cary 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.
At 9 I'm across a small table from a 9-year-old doing Woodcock-Johnson achievement subtests: letter-word identification, word attack, passage comprehension, spelling. We take breaks for a snack and a fidget ball so I get her real performance and not her tiredness. By 10:30 I'm scoring by hand, checking standard scores against grade norms, and noting error patterns. She's guessing from the first letter and skipping vowel teams. At noon I sit in on an IEP meeting at the district office as the parents' advocate, asking for specific accommodations and progress-monitoring language in writing. That hour is billable, but it's never at the same time twice. At 2 a 7-year-old comes in for Orton-Gillingham: sound card drill, blending with letter tiles, tapping out syllables, red words traced in sand, then a short decodable reader. It's session three of the four in his package. At 3:30 I write my session notes while they're fresh. At 4 I'm drafting reports for a previous client, and there are two versions: a plain-language one for the parents with things to do at home, and a formal one for the school with scores and recommendations. At 6 I sort out billing, which is never simple. The assessment is billed at one rate, ongoing sessions at another, the IEP hour separately, and the district reimbursement I submitted is now 60 days out with no answer. I finish by sending two intake forms and booking next week's assessment.
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 an educational 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)
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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We build an educational 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 an educational 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.