They scattered your business across ten logins. We collapsed it into one.
FreshBooks is beautiful invoicing software. But at $43/month plus 3.5% processing fees, the beauty fades fast. Nexa is $279 once.
Bottom line: FreshBooks Plus costs $516/year plus 3.5% processing fees on every payment. On $5,000/month in revenue, that's an additional $2,100/year in fees. Nexa is a one-time purchase of $279 — no monthly fees, no processing fees. Break-even: 6.5 months. Over 5 years, FreshBooks Plus costs $3,308 (before processing fees). Nexa costs $279.
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FreshBooks Plus: $43/mo = $516/year. Break-even with Nexa: ~6 months.
FreshBooks has the best invoicing UX in the market — bar none. Creating and sending invoices is genuinely pleasant. Their customer support is excellent (actual humans who pick up the phone), and time tracking is built into every plan, not an add-on. For pure invoicing, FreshBooks is hard to beat.
The 3.5% processing fee is higher than Square's 2.6% — and it adds up fast. Every team member costs an extra $11/month. There's no scheduling, no real CRM, and the financial reporting is limited compared to what a growing business needs. You end up bolting on other apps to fill the gaps, and suddenly your "simple invoicing tool" has become a complicated, expensive stack.
Most FreshBooks defectors hit one of four triggers: (1) processing fees are eating their margins, (2) they need scheduling and FreshBooks doesn't have it, (3) team costs are escalating with that $11/mo per person add-on, or (4) they want everything — invoicing, CRM, scheduling, accounting — in one tool instead of three.
In FreshBooks, export your clients, invoices, and expenses as CSV files. Takes about 10 minutes.
15-minute setup. Import your clients, configure services and pricing. The Setup Wizard walks you through everything.
Run both systems for a few days. Enter transactions in both. Make sure everything matches and you're comfortable.
Once you're confident, cancel your FreshBooks subscription. Stop the monthly bleeding.
Yes for solopreneurs. Nexa includes invoicing, expense tracking, P&L, plus CRM and scheduling that FreshBooks doesn't have. The main thing Nexa doesn't have: FreshBooks' phone support team.
Lite $276/yr, Plus $516/yr, Premium $840/yr. Plus 3.5% + $0.30 per payment. Plus $11/mo per team member.
On Plus ($43/mo): $237 year one, $516 every year after. Over 3 years: $1,269.
FreshBooks charges 3.5% + $0.30 per card payment. On $5,000/mo in payments, that's $175/mo or $2,100/yr in fees alone. Nexa doesn't process payments directly — connect your own processor.
Yes. Export clients, invoices, and expenses as CSV from FreshBooks. Import into Nexa.
FreshBooks costs you $516/year + processing fees. Nexa is $279 once.
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FreshBooks is invoicing on a meter — every month, every team member, every payment. Nexa is invoicing, accounting, CRM, scheduling, and 13 other modules for $279 once. FreshBooks is another login, another sync, another place your data can leak. Nexa is a Single Source — 65,000+ workflows, zero walls between them.
One point of truth. Zero points of failure.