Champaign is home to about 88,000 people. The moderate cost of living means competitive pricing — and cutting subscription costs makes a real difference.
Sports Nutritionists 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 $636/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 system for jobs, or a invoicing system — most sports nutritionists in Champaign piece together Acuity Scheduling, Vagaro, Square, Calendly and other tools. That's $636/year in subscriptions. Across five years at today's prices, that bill reaches $3,180.
Switching to Nexa lets you exit the subscription trap. Your CRM, billing, scheduling, jobs, time tracking, and financial tools — unified in one system. One move books a client. One move generates an invoice. No switching tabs. No third-party glue. No per-connection charges. It's a pay once — eliminate recurring fees immediately. For sports nutritionists 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.
Your morning starts with reviewing food logs that came in overnight, and the recurring frustration is how incomplete they are, an athlete who skipped logging dinner three days running, another who clearly under-reports the weekend. You read between the lines, because a hungry-all-the-time endurance athlete is usually under-fueling, not overeating. The first consult is a distance runner trying to fix mid-long-run bonking, so you map her carbohydrate intake against her training calendar and build a fueling protocol for the hours before, during, and after her key sessions. You do a sweat-rate calculation with her to dial in hydration, because cramping is often just sodium and water math. Mid-morning is plan-building, the time-eater of the job, individualizing meals around a client's training load, weight goal, budget, and the fact that he hates fish. You message a triathlete's coach to make sure the carb periodization lines up with the coach's hard and easy days, because a nutrition plan that ignores the training is useless. Afternoon brings a body-composition check-in and a hard conversation about a client who's been skipping the recovery shake. You finish by updating fueling plans, sending check-in nudges to the athletes who've gone quiet, and prepping handouts for tomorrow's group session on race-day nutrition.
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 sports nutritionist 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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