Champaign is home to about 88,000 people. The moderate cost of living means competitive pricing — and every dollar you keep from subscriptions matters.
Jugglers 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 $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 jugglers in Champaign patch together HoneyBook, Acuity Scheduling, FreshBooks, Square along with other platforms. That's $1,356/year on recurring software. In half a decade at today's prices, that bill reaches $6,780.
Switching to Nexa lets you break free from monthly fees. Your CRM, billing, appointment management, jobs, time tracking, and financial tools — under one roof in a single tool. One drag books a client. One drag generates an invoice. No manual re-entry. No duct-tape integrations. No sync fees. It's a single payment — keep more revenue right away. For jugglers in Champaign 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 day starts tuning the set to the room. A morning kids' birthday needs the comedy version, lots of audience participation, a kid hauled up to 'help' and inevitably flub a club pass, big reactions, nothing over a few minutes. You pack the lighter clubs and the cigar boxes for that crowd. The gig itself is read-the-room work: you scan the ceiling height the second you walk in, because if it's a low rec-room ceiling your five-club cascade and the high ring pulls are out and you have to lean on contact juggling and ground-level material instead. You run the patter on a wireless mic so the parents can hear the jokes too, work in the drops as bits because recovery is the actual skill, and build to the unicycle finale if there's floor space. The afternoon flips to a corporate mixer that wants polish over slapstick, clean technical juggling, tighter patter, no kids on stage, so it's almost a different act with the same props. Between the two you're hauling the heavy prop case across town, and the schedule has to leave room to load in, warm up the hands, and not arrive cold. The day ends checking clubs for cracks, charging the PA, and re-sorting the case by which show is up next.
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 juggler 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 a juggler'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 juggler — 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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