Champaign is home to about 88,000 people. The moderate cost of living means competitive pricing — and cutting subscription costs makes a real difference.
Trivia Hosts 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 $744/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 platform for jobs, or a invoicing system — most trivia hosts in Champaign piece together Wave, FreshBooks, Acuity Scheduling and other monthly services. That's $744/year on recurring software. Over the next 5 years at today's prices, that bill reaches $3,720.
Nexa lets you own your tools. Your CRM, payment tracking, scheduling, jobs, time tracking, and financial tools — under one roof in a single platform. One move books a client. One move generates an invoice. No switching tabs. No third-party glue. No per-connection charges. It's a no subscription — eliminate recurring fees right away. For trivia hosts 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.
Most weeks I run four or five nights at bars and breweries, and every night is a show I wrote. Writing is the real job: seven or eight rounds, general knowledge, a picture round, a music round and a themed round, and every question has to be checked, because one wrong answer and a table full of regulars will let you know about it for a month. I write questions that are fair to a mixed room, hard enough that the winners feel they earned it, and with answers people half-know so they argue about them at the table. On the night I arrive an hour early to set up the speaker and microphone, hand out answer sheets and pencils, and talk to the bar manager about specials and any big tables coming in. Hosting is the performance: reading clearly over the noise, keeping the pace up so the bar sells drinks between rounds, teasing the team names without being mean, and marking sheets fast while the music round plays. Scores go up on a board after every round. At the end I hand out the bar's gift cards to the winners, pack up, and log the scores for the season leaderboard. Each venue pays me a flat fee per night, and a few private bookings, corporate parties and fundraisers, pay much better.
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 trivia host 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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