Acuity Scheduling vs Nexa
The Real Comparison for Web Development Teachers

Acuity Scheduling
$34/mo ($408/yr)
VS
Nexa
$279 once — own forever
or 3 payments of $99
Break even: 8.2 months at Acuity Scheduling's current price.

Bottom Line

Acuity Scheduling costs web development teachers $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.

Can it pay for itself?

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 web development teachers: Acuity Scheduling is solid software, but at $34/month it costs $1,224 over 3 years. Nexa does most of what Acuity Scheduling does for $279 once. For solo web development teachers and small teams, Nexa is the better deal.

Choose Nexa if:

  • You're done paying monthly forever
  • You're a solo operator or small team (1-5)
  • You need scheduler, connect crm and invoicing in one tool
  • You're tired of price increases
  • You want to own your tools like you own your equipment

Choose Acuity Scheduling if:

  • You have a large team (10+) needing enterprise features
  • You're deeply invested in Acuity Scheduling's specific workflow
  • You need a feature Nexa doesn't have yet

Sound Familiar?

I start by reviewing pull requests, because the real teaching happens between lessons. A career-changer pushed her portfolio project overnight and I am leaving comments on her PR, pointing out where she mutated state directly, where a component should have been split, the things that get you past a code interview. The first live session is an absolute beginner who has never seen HTML, so we build a page from nothing, an h1, a paragraph, a link, and watch it appear in the browser, that first hit of making something real. An hour later it is a bootcamp student stuck on why his React form won't update, and we open devtools together over Live Share and trace the stale closure until it clicks. Midday is course maintenance, the unglamorous tax of this trade: the framework released a new version, my old tutorial breaks, and I rewrite it for free because nobody pays you to keep up. Afternoon is a pair-programming hour where a student drives and I navigate, refusing to touch the keyboard so she builds the muscle. The career-changers are the bittersweet ones; they go hard for three months, land the job, and vanish, and I never think to ask the happy ones to send me the next nervous beginner.

Scheduling, client records and invoicing 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.

What Acuity Scheduling Actually Costs Web Development Teachers

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.

Three years at today's price

Year 1$408
Year 2$408
Year 3$408
Three years of Acuity Scheduling$1,224

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-by-Feature

FeatureAcuity SchedulingNexa
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 accessYes — 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.

What "$279 Once" Does And Doesn't Buy

What Acuity Scheduling Does Better

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.

What Acuity Scheduling Is Built For

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.

Where business tools fit — for a web development teacher

Software doesn't do the actual work — it automates the business around it. And that part is the same for every web development teacher: 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 the actual work. Tap a step to see what gets automated.

  1. 1
    Find the work

    Land the client

    ↓

    An inquiry becomes a proposal becomes a signed engagement — the terms and the retainer set.

    • CRM / contacts
    • Estimates & proposals
    • Booking / scheduling
    then ↓
  2. 2

    The work you're paid for — with the hours, tasks, and expenses tracked against the engagement instead of reconstructed at month-end.

    • Job / project tracking
    • Time tracking
    • Expenses, materials & add-ons
    then ↓
  3. 3

    The work becomes the invoice — the hours, the add-ons, the materials, the deposit credited — totaled and sent, instead of re-typed at 9pm.

    • Invoicing
    • Deposits & credits
    then ↓
  4. 4

    Paid by card or link, the deposit credited, and what's overdue chased — without you doing it by hand.

    • Card / online payments
    • Automatic reminders

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 the actual work. (Nexa is built to be the one — but the honest options for each step are above and below.)

Watch a job become an invoice

This is the connection that makes the rest worth it. A web development teacher'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.

The job Beginner web dev tutoring, 8 live sessions
Service Live 1-on-1 session (60 min) 8 × $75 $600
The invoice builds itself
Subtotal$700
Deposit credited−$150
Invoice total$550

You didn't write this invoice — the job did.

Calculate Your Full Stack

Acuity Scheduling plus whatever else you're paying for:

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Switching from Acuity Scheduling

1
Export your data — Go to Settings → Export. Download your client list and appointment history.
2
Set up Nexa Scheduler — 15-minute setup. Import clients and recreate your appointment types.
3
Update your links — Replace your Acuity booking link everywhere — website, email, social.
4
Cancel Acuity — Cancel Squarespace subscription. Download a final backup of your data.
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What This Means for Web Development Teachers

The median Web Development Teacher earns $42,000/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 web development teachers. You own it like you own your VS Code with Live Share for pair-programming with students.

Is Nexa actually right for a web development teacher?

An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.

Right for you if

  • You run solo or a small team — like the 18,000 web development teachers in the US who do, and you wear every hat.
  • You're tired of paying every month for a monthly subscription stack and a pile of apps that don't talk to each other.
  • You want invoicing, scheduling, and client tracking in one place — not scattered across five apps.
  • You'd rather own your software once, the way you own your VS Code with Live Share for pair-programming with students.

Look elsewhere if

  • You have a large team that needs enterprise seats, granular roles, and dedicated admin staff — Nexa is built for solo and small operators (1–5), and a bigger platform will serve you better.
  • You need full payroll for a large team or deep, SKU-level inventory — that's not what Nexa is for.
  • You're genuinely happy paying monthly and don't mind stitching tools together. No tool fixes a workflow you already like.

The honest fit: if you're a solo or small web development teachers 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.

Web Development Teachers by the numbers — by place

Tax & registration where you operate

1-13.3%income tax

Register a business in California →

Noneincome tax

Register a business in Texas →

Noneincome tax

Register a business in Florida →

4-10.9%income tax

Register a business in New York →

Scheduling, client records and invoicing 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.

What web development teachers actually deal with

A day in the life of a web development teacher

I start by reviewing pull requests, because the real teaching happens between lessons. A career-changer pushed her portfolio project overnight and I am leaving comments on her PR, pointing out where she mutated state directly, where a component should have been split, the things that get you past a code interview. The first live session is an absolute beginner who has never seen HTML, so we build a page from nothing, an h1, a paragraph, a link, and watch it appear in the browser, that first hit of making something real. An hour later it is a bootcamp student stuck on why his React form won't update, and we open devtools together over Live Share and trace the stale closure until it clicks. Midday is course maintenance, the unglamorous tax of this trade: the framework released a new version, my old tutorial breaks, and I rewrite it for free because nobody pays you to keep up. Afternoon is a pair-programming hour where a student drives and I navigate, refusing to touch the keyboard so she builds the muscle. The career-changers are the bittersweet ones; they go hard for three months, land the job, and vanish, and I never think to ask the happy ones to send me the next nervous beginner.

The tools a working web development teacher actually owns

Local web development teachers on Nexa

Real web development teachers near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a web development teacher? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every web development teacher on Nexa →

The kit a working web development teacher owns

The tools of the trade — each a one-time buy that earns its keep for years.

VS Code with Live Share for pair-programming with students

A GitHub organization for student repos and code review

A local dev stack (Node, npm) and browser devtools for debugging walkthroughs

Screen-share with a code-readable font size and a second monitor

CodePen or a sandbox for live HTML/CSS/JS demos

A Figma file or wireframes for teaching layout before code

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.

Where Nexa wins for a web development teacher — and where it doesn't

The honest version. Nexa was built to beat the rented stack on the jobs that matter most to a web development teacher — here's where it wins, where the integration wins it anyway, and the things it genuinely doesn't do, with who to use instead. (No tool is best at everything; a guide that pretends otherwise is just an ad.)

Compare the essential business tools for web development teachers

The usual subscriptions vs. Nexa, side by side. Drag the time slider — every year you keep renting, the gap widens. Nexa is $279, one time.

The jobThe usual rentalThe verdict
The whole connected stack 3 subscriptions · ~$900/yr Nexa wins big One tool, $279 once — The student's level, the booked lesson, the off-hour PR review, and the fee flow through one record, so the three commits pushed between sessions get billed in the same place the lesson did. without re-typing. That handoff is the part separate tools can't buy at any price.
Scheduling & booking Calendly → Nexa wins The lessons book in one record while the real teaching happens between them, so the booked hour and the PR comments you leave overnight stay tied to the same student instead of split across a calendar and GitHub.
CRM & clients HubSpot → Nexa wins Students span never-touched-HTML to mid-bootcamp stuck on React state, and that level rides on each record so your prep, which can't be reused lesson to lesson, is ready for exactly who you are about to teach.
Invoicing FreshBooks → Nexa wins The between-session code review on a student's GitHub PRs, real work that falls outside the booked hour, attaches to the session and onto the invoice, so the review nobody pays for finally bills from the same record.
If you run real payroll for a team — Not Nexa Use Gusto → — it's better at that, and we'd rather tell you than pretend.
If you run big email campaigns & automations — Not Nexa Use ConvertKit → — it's better at that, and we'd rather tell you than pretend.

Prefer to own a piece outright instead of renting? Free and open-source tools (GnuCash, Invoice Ninja and the like) each handle one job if you'll self-host them — a real option, listed because it's true.

Competitor pricing verified 2026-06-12.

How To Read This Page

How we put this guide together

We build a web development teacher'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 web development teacher — 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.

Where the numbers come from

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.

FAQ

Is Nexa really a Acuity Scheduling replacement?

For solo web development teachers 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.

What does Acuity Scheduling do that Nexa doesn't?

Acuity Scheduling has features like Intake forms and Package and subscription billing that some businesses rely on. For most solo web development teachers, these aren't dealbreakers.

How fast does Nexa pay for itself?

At $34/month, Nexa pays for itself in 8.2 months. After that: $408 saved every year.

Can I pay in installments?

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.

$1,224 Over 3 Years. Or $279 Once (or 3 × $99).

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