What dietitians need from their software, from sources outside HoneyBook and outside Nexa:
HoneyBook covers the business side of a private-practice dietitian well. It has proposals, contracts, invoices, payments, a client portal, a scheduler, intake lead forms, and unlimited clients on every plan. The $36/month plan that does the core job also includes SMS reminders, a QuickBooks Online integration, and 24/7 email and chat support. None of its listed features addresses what is specific to the trade. Medicare Part B covers medical nutrition therapy only for patients with diabetes or renal disease. It allows three hours in the first year and two in later years, with physician-ordered extras. It also bars MNT and diabetes self-management training on the same date of service. A practice has to track hours used per patient per year, physician orders and same-day conflicts, and HoneyBook's feature list has no way to do that. It also has no licence-renewal tracking, which matters because many states license dietitians and the practice must follow each state where it works.
Nexa also covers the business side. It has invoices, estimates, recurring invoices, payment plans, a client pay portal through your own Stripe account, a CRM with a public lead form, a public booking page with intake forms and reschedule and cancel links, time tracking, and bookkeeping with expenses, profit and loss, and 1099 summaries. Its limits matter for a practice that already runs on HoneyBook. It has no text messages or calls, no QuickBooks or Xero sync, and no Google Calendar sync (calendar export is an .ics file). Card payments go only through your own Stripe account. Its automated emails, which include sequences, workflows and 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. Cloud Sync is optional, and without it Nexa runs on one device.
Over three years HoneyBook at $36/month costs $1,296 ($432 a year). Nexa costs $279 once, or $458.64 with Cloud Sync at $4.99/month. A solo practitioner who needs invoicing and booking and has no need for SMS reminders or QuickBooks can save money with Nexa. Someone who relies on texts, QuickBooks Online or live support should stay on HoneyBook. In both cases, the Medicare hour limits, same-day conflicts and state licence renewals still need a separate tracking system, and neither tool is built to handle them.
Our read for dietitians: Neither tool is built for a dietitian's core compliance need, so look for clinical practice-management software with insurance billing and per-patient hour and licence tracking, and use HoneyBook or Nexa only for the business side.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
HoneyBook costs dietitians $432/year at today's list price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking and accounting in one suite — so after 7.8 months it has cost less than HoneyBook, 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 HoneyBook 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 dietitians: Neither HoneyBook nor Nexa is the main system for this work; start with software built for it. Nexa only makes sense beside it, at $279 once against $1,296 for HoneyBook over three years.
Scheduling, client records, invoicing and time tracking 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. HoneyBook solves some of it. So does Nexa. The difference is what you are left holding in three years.
Today's list price is $36/month — $432 a year, from HoneyBook'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 $1,017 less.
If HoneyBook 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 | HoneyBook | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✓ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | — | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | — | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | — | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
| Price | $36/mo | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Total | $1,296 | $279 |
| You own it? | No — stop paying, lose access | Yes — forever |
✓ and ✗ for HoneyBook come from its own published feature list. — means the feature isn't in that list, which is not the same as HoneyBook lacking it: check with them. Three years is at today's price.
Straight from HoneyBook's own feature set. If one of these is the reason you pay them, that reason does not disappear because Nexa is cheaper.
HoneyBook is the better call if you need beautiful proposals and contracts specifically, or if your team is large enough that per-seat pricing still beats buying software outright.
HoneyBook describes itself as built for anyone with clients, aimed at small businesses that work with clients. Its categories are event services, marketing, design and creative, professional services, personal services, and home and real estate. (honeybook.com)
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Software doesn't do the actual work — it automates the business around it. And that part is the same for every dietitian: 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.
An inquiry becomes a proposal becomes a signed engagement — the terms and the retainer set.
The work you're paid for — with the hours, tasks, and expenses tracked against the engagement instead of reconstructed at month-end.
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 the actual work. (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 dietitian'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.
HoneyBook plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median dietitian earns $50,000/year. At $432/year, HoneyBook 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 dietitians. You own it like you own your Nutrition analysis software.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small dietitians 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.
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Open on Reddit →Scheduling, client records, invoicing and time tracking 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.
Most of my clients come to me with a diagnosis or a goal: diabetes, high blood pressure, digestive problems, pregnancy, weight or an athlete wanting to perform better. The first appointment is an hour of assessment: medical history and lab results, medications, what they actually eat on a normal day, their schedule, budget and cooking skills, because a plan they can't follow is useless. From that I build recommendations and a practical plan, often starting with two or three changes rather than a complete overhaul. Follow-up sessions track progress, adjust the plan and deal with what got in the way. Everything is documented, and for clients with medical conditions I coordinate with their doctor. Many of my clients' visits are covered by insurance, which means verifying benefits, getting referrals where required, submitting claims and handling denials; others pay privately or in packages. I stay current with research and complete continuing-education credits to keep my credential and licence. Some weeks include a workshop for a local employer or a talk at a community centre.
Real dietitians near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a dietitian? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every dietitian 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 dietitian'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 dietitian — 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 dietitians and small teams, yes. invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting — all for $279 once. HoneyBook may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
HoneyBook has features like Beautiful proposals and contracts and Client portal that some businesses rely on. For most solo dietitians, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $36/month, Nexa pays for itself in 7.8 months. After that: $432 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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