Leaving BoomTown?

What BoomTown costs, what it does better, when to stay, and what moves if you go.

Full disclosure: Nexa is our own product, so we have skin in this. That is why this page leads with what BoomTown does better and when you should stay, lists what Nexa does not do, and says plainly that BoomTown does not publish a price, so the figure below is a reported one, with its source linked.

Bottom Line

BoomTown's cheapest plan that does the core job is $1000/month — $12,000 a year, $36,000 over 3 years at today's price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, tasks and accounting in one suite, so it costs less than BoomTown after 1 month. What Nexa is not: software someone hosts for you with a support desk, and it does not run payroll. If BoomTown's strengths below are why you pay for it, stay.

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 BoomTown 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.

What BoomTown Is Built For

Real estate professionals, including agents, brokers and lenders, who use BoomTown's technology to grow their business. (boomtownroi.com)

Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.

Feature by Feature: Does Nexa Have It?

From BoomTown's own published feature list, each with whether Nexa has an equivalent:

When to Stay on BoomTown

What Nexa Does Not Do

Side by Side

✓ where BoomTown's published feature list shows it, ✗ where its record says it is missing, — where its list does not say.

BoomTownNexa
Invoicing✗✓
Scheduling✗✓
CRM✓✓
Time Tracking✗✓
Full Accounting—✓ (SIMPL)
Task Management—✓
Works offline—✓

The Cost, and Where It Comes From

BoomTown: $1000/month — the cheapest plan that does the core job, as reported by capterra.com, checked September 2026. BoomTown does not publish a price, so treat this as an estimate and get a quote from BoomTown before you decide. That is $12,000 a year and $36,000 over 3 years if the price never changes. Nexa: $279 once. The break-even point is 1 month.

Over 3 years, at today's pricesTotal
BoomTown, billed monthly$36,000
Nexa, one device$279
Nexa + Cloud Sync on all your devices$458.64

Even with Cloud Sync, Nexa costs less over 3 years than BoomTown at today's price.

Moving Your Data

These import into Nexa by file: clients and leads (CSV or Excel (.xlsx)); services and price list (CSV or Excel (.xlsx)); jobs (CSV or Excel (.xlsx)); open invoices (CSV or Excel (.xlsx)); open tasks (CSV or Excel (.xlsx)); time entries (CSV or Excel (.xlsx)); expenses (CSV or Excel (.xlsx)); bank and card transactions (CSV, OFX, QFX, QBO); personal contacts (CSV or vCard (.vcf) — the exports from Google Contacts, Outlook and iCloud); calendar events (.ics — the export from Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar, Calendly and most booking tools). Client addresses go in the Notes column for now. You re-enter once: recurring work, online booking. Past invoices and job history stay in BoomTown's export as your record.

Getting it out of BoomTown:

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Export contacts

Admin > Data Export. Download all records.

Every import, with templates: Bring your data. Keep BoomTown running until Nexa checks out.

BoomTown vs Nexa, Trade by Trade

The same comparison worked through for specific trades, with a job example and the numbers for each:

FAQ

How much does BoomTown cost over 3 years?

At $1000/month — the cheapest BoomTown plan that does the core job, as reported by capterra.com in September 2026 (BoomTown does not publish a price) — it is $12,000 a year and $36,000 over 3 years at today's price. Nexa is $279 once.

When should I stay on BoomTown?

BoomTown's strengths above — lead generation and IDX website — are the reason you pay for it, and you like how BoomTown does them. Switching tools costs time; it is not worth it to save money on something that already works for you. Your team is large enough that BoomTown's plans for bigger teams buy you more than owning the software outright. You want software someone else hosts, with a support desk and a roadmap you can ask for features on. Nexa is software you own and run yourself. You run payroll, with taxes and pay stubs, inside the same tool. Nexa stops at the edge of payroll: it hands your payroll app each person's hours, overtime and pay rate — keep a payroll service.

Can I bring my BoomTown data to Nexa?

Partly. Your client list (CSV), expenses (CSV), bank and card history (CSV, OFX, QFX, QBO), contacts and calendar (.ics) import by file. Invoices, jobs and services do not — re-enter the open ones and keep BoomTown's export as your record.

What does Nexa not do?

It does not run payroll. It stops at the edge: each person's hours, overtime and pay rate per pay period, as a sheet to type from or a CSV for your payroll app. Taxes, pay stubs and paying people stay there. It is not hosted for you: your data lives on your device. Syncing across devices is optional Cloud Sync, $4.99/month. Automated emails (drip sequences, booking reminders, review requests) send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. There is no server sending them overnight. No Google Calendar or QuickBooks sync. Calendars move by .ics file. Invoices, jobs and your services list do not import. Clients, expenses, bank history, contacts and calendar do; the rest you re-enter once. No vendor support desk or roadmap to lobby — you buy it once and own it.

What if Nexa does not work for me?

30-day money-back guarantee. Export from BoomTown first and keep it running while you try Nexa.

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· BoomTown price checked September 2026

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