Pedicurists on Vagaro pay $50/month — $600/year. Over three years, that's $2,013. Nexa is $279 once. Break-even runs about 5.6 months. The median Pedicurist earns $35,000/year, so Vagaro's annual cost is roughly 1.7% of typical revenue — every year, forever.
That's $2,013 gone. And you don't own anything. Stop paying, lose access.
You're not the only one who's had enough.
Pedicurists face unique challenges: Spotting fungal infections, diabetic feet, or ingrown nails that need a medical referral, not a polish, and saying so without losing the client. Sanitation liability from pipe-jet foot spas and shared tools that can transmit infection if cleaning is cut short. Clients who soak off polish at home and gouge their own calluses, arriving with damaged feet that make the work harder. Standing, bending, and gripping at foot level all day, which wrecks the lower back and hands over a career. On top of all that, Vagaro charges $50/month ($600/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median Pedicurist earns $35,000/year. Software at $600/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your foot file/rasp and curette for calluses is yours. You bought it once. Nexa works the same way — $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, and full accounting. All connected. All offline-capable. You own it like you own your tools.
Vagaro is just one piece. What else are you losing money on?
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| Feature | Vagaro | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✗ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Price | $50/mo forever | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Cost | $2,013 | $279 |
| Stop paying? | Lose everything | Keep everything forever |
Most pedicurists are fully switched before the weekend.
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She seats the client, starts the warm soak, and the first thing she actually does is look, really look, at the feet, because feet hide things: a yellow thickened nail that screams fungus, a red swollen edge that's an ingrown going bad, the shiny tight skin of a diabetic who shouldn't have a callus aggressively cut. She knows the line she can't cross, she's a pedicurist, not a podiatrist, and part of the job is telling someone kindly that they need a doctor before she'll touch it. For healthy feet she clips and shapes the nails straight across to prevent ingrowns, eases back the cuticles, works the callus softener and rasps the heel smooth without going raw. She scrubs, massages the lower leg, the part clients live for, and lays down a clean polish. All of it from a low stool, bent over someone's feet, her back complaining by the third client. Between clients the real work nobody sees: every tool into disinfectant or the autoclave, the basin scrubbed and the jets flushed because a skipped cleaning is how infections spread and licenses get pulled. She tells the home-pedicure offender, gently, to stop attacking her own heels. She resets the towels, refills the oil, and rolls her shoulders before the next pair of feet.
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For solo operators and small teams (1-5), yes. Nexa includes invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting. Vagaro may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
It's $7.75/month over 3 years. Vagaro is $50/month — that's $2,013 over 3 years. Which is more? And if you'd rather split it, Nexa is also available as 3 payments of $99.
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.
30-day money-back guarantee. Full refund. If Nexa doesn't save you $500 in year one, you get every penny back.
Export your data from Vagaro as CSV, import into Nexa in about 5 minutes.
The average solo operator there spends about $2,352/year on software — and Pedicurist face their own version of that math. UT state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Orem metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Pedicurists run into with Vagaro, and what Nexa does instead.
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