What reiki practitioners need from their software, from sources outside Acuity Scheduling and outside Nexa:
Acuity Scheduling covers the booking side of a reiki practice well. It has online booking, custom intake forms, packages, memberships, gift certificates, deposits and cancelation policies. Payments run through Stripe, Square, PayPal or Venmo, and the Standard plan and up adds text reminders and a waitlist. Intake forms can carry a license-status question, and separate listings can keep reiki-only sessions apart from hands-on massage. That matters because some states, such as Utah, exempt reiki only when massage methods are avoided, and Florida requires a massage license. The 2016 and 2013 rules behind those examples may be out of date, so check the current rule. Its HIPAA support, with a Business Associate Agreement on Premium, helps practitioners who handle health details. Acuity has no tracker for state rules or license status. Its features list names no bookkeeping or tax tools, apart from a QuickBooks integration.
Nexa covers more of the self-employed money side. It has expenses, bank reconciliation, profit and loss, cash flow and invoices, which help in working out income for self-employment tax and quarterly estimated payments. It also has a public booking page with intake forms and reschedule and cancel links, plus notes linked to a client. Clients pay by card through your own Stripe account. Nexa has no text messages or calls, no waitlist, and no Google Calendar sync (calendar export is an .ics file). It has no QuickBooks or Xero sync. Its automated emails, including booking and payment reminders, send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. It is software you own and run yourself, with no hosted support desk or vendor-run onboarding. Like Acuity, it has no state-rule or license tracker.
Over three years, Acuity's $34 per month plan costs $408 a year, or $1,224. Nexa is $279 once, or 3 payments of $99. Adding optional Cloud Sync at $4.99 per month brings three years to $458.64. If clients rely on text reminders, a waitlist or calendar sync, or you want a hosted service, stay with Acuity and keep your license and tax records in a separate record you maintain. If you mainly need low-cost bookings and your own books, and can keep Nexa open for reminders, Nexa is worth a look. Either way, confirm your state's massage-license rule for reiki.
Our read for reiki practitioners: Stay with Acuity Scheduling if you use text reminders, a waitlist or Google Calendar sync, because Nexa has none of them; Nexa suits practitioners who mainly want low-cost booking plus their own books.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Acuity Scheduling costs reiki practitioners $408/year at today's list price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking and accounting in one suite — so after 8.2 months it has cost less than Acuity Scheduling, and you own it after that. What it is not: hosted-for-you software with a support desk and a roadmap you can lobby. That is the trade, and the rest of this page is the detail behind it.
Nexa is $279 once, about $23 a month over its first year. Its Drain Guard reads your expenses (from a linked bank, an imported statement, or ones you type in), finds the charges that repeat, and adds them up by the month. Keep or Cut then walks you through them one at a time. Cancel $23 a month of charges you'd forgotten about and Nexa has paid for itself inside the first year, before you count the Acuity Scheduling bill you'd stop paying.
It depends on what you find and what you cancel, so we don't promise a number. In our demo data, Drain Guard finds 5 subscriptions adding up to $110.13 a month. That is sample data, not a customer's.
The verdict for reiki practitioners: Stay with Acuity Scheduling if the needs in our read above apply to you. If they don't, Nexa covers the core invoicing, scheduling and books for $279 once against $1,224 for Acuity Scheduling over three years.
Scheduling, invoicing and client records are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot and carry their own booking link, with no per-appointment cut. The sections below price both routes honestly.
None of that is a software problem you can buy your way out of in one click — it is why the tool you pick matters more than what it costs. Acuity Scheduling solves some of it. So does Nexa. The difference is what you are left holding in three years.
Today's list price is $34/month — $408 a year, from Acuity Scheduling's own pricing page. Every figure below is that price, multiplied. Nothing is projected.
Nexa: $279 once (or 3 × $99). Over the same three years, that is $945 less.
If Acuity Scheduling raises its price, the three-year cost goes up; if it cuts it, the cost comes down. We don't guess which. Add-ons, extra seats and card-processing fees are not included, on either side.
| Feature | Acuity Scheduling | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✗ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✓ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✗ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
| Price | $34/mo | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Total | $1,224 | $279 |
| You own it? | No — stop paying, lose access | Yes — forever |
✓ and ✗ for Acuity Scheduling come from its own published feature list. — means the feature isn't in that list, which is not the same as Acuity Scheduling lacking it: check with them. Three years is at today's price.
Straight from Acuity Scheduling's own feature set. If one of these is the reason you pay them, that reason does not disappear because Nexa is cheaper.
Acuity Scheduling is the better call if you need intake forms specifically, or if your team is large enough that per-seat pricing still beats buying software outright.
Acuity says it is for "anyone in the business of time," from solo practitioners to multi-location teams. It lists beauty, business services (consulting, coaching), wellness, fitness, visual and performing arts, and education. (acuityscheduling.com)
What people outside Acuity Scheduling and outside Nexa say:
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Software doesn't do your clients — it automates the business around it. And that part is the same for every reiki practitioner: find the work, manage it, bill for it, get paid. Each step has a tool — and the right single tool runs the whole loop, so the handoffs are automatic and you get back to your clients. Tap a step to see what gets automated.
A new client finds you and books a time — no phone tag, no double-booking.
The session itself — with the client history, notes, packages, and add-ons right there instead of in three different places.
The work becomes the invoice — the hours, the add-ons, the materials, the deposit credited — totaled and sent, instead of re-typed at 9pm.
Paid by card or link, the deposit credited, and what's overdue chased — without you doing it by hand.
You can stitch four separate subscriptions across these four steps, or run one tool that does the whole flow so a booking becomes a job becomes an invoice becomes a payment without re-typing. Either way the goal is the same: less time on the business of the business, more on your clients. (Nexa is built to be the one — but the honest options for each step are above and below.)
This is the connection that makes the rest worth it. A reiki practitioner's job already holds the services, the hours, the add-ons, and the materials — so the invoice builds itself from the work instead of you re-typing it at 9pm. Toggle an add-on or nudge the hours and watch it recompute.
You didn't write this invoice — the job did.
Acuity Scheduling plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median Reiki Practitioner earns $35,000/year. At $408/year, Acuity Scheduling is a recurring slice of that — paid again every year, whether the year was good or not. Owning the same jobs outright is $279 once, and the slice stops.
Nexa is $279 once. Invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, accounting — all connected, built for reiki practitioners. You own it like you own your A padded massage table with a memory-foam face cradle.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small reiki practitioners business that owns its tools and is sick of renting software, Nexa replaces your whole stack for $279 once. If you're scaling into a large team with dedicated admin staff, a bigger platform may fit better — and we'd rather tell you that now than sell you the wrong thing.
Scheduling, invoicing and client records are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot and carry their own booking link, with no per-appointment cut. The sections below price both routes honestly.
Her mornings start slow on purpose. She grounds herself first, sages the room, and lays out the crystals before the first client arrives, because she can't pour from an empty cup. The first session is in-person: the client settles on the table under a weighted blanket, she places her hands above each chakra, and works in silence for an hour, noticing where the energy feels stuck. She closes with a singing bowl and gives the client water and a few quiet minutes to come back. Her afternoon is a distance session for someone three time zones away; she confirms the window twice because the math always trips her up, then holds the session over video with the client lying down at home. Between clients she's answering messages from people curious about reiki who aren't sure what to book, texting a no-show from yesterday she's still owed for, and updating her impressions from each session while they're fresh. Money is tight at this income, so a single cancellation stings. She wraps the day clearing the table linens, recharging her stones on the selenite plate, and journaling the threads she's noticing across her regulars' sessions.
Real reiki practitioners near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a reiki practitioner? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every reiki practitioner on Nexa →
The tools of the trade — each a one-time buy that earns its keep for years.
You paid for these once because good tools last. That's the bar your software should clear too — priced like a tool you own, $279 once, not a subscription that costs more than your kit every year.
We build a reiki practitioner'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 reiki practitioner — 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.
For solo reiki practitioners and small teams, yes. invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting — all for $279 once. Acuity Scheduling may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
Acuity Scheduling has features like Intake forms and Package and subscription billing that some businesses rely on. For most solo reiki practitioners, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $34/month, Nexa pays for itself in 8.2 months. After that: $408 saved every year.
Yes. Nexa is $279 as a one-time payment, or 3 payments of $99 ($297 total). Either way it's a one-time purchase — no subscription, no recurring fees ever.
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