What animal acupuncturists need from their software, from sources outside Acuity Scheduling and outside Nexa:
Acuity Scheduling covers the scheduling side of this trade well. The $34/month plan is $408 a year. It has custom intake forms, which can collect an owner's details and a referring veterinarian's name at booking. It also has packages, memberships, deposits, cancelation policies, text and email reminders, and Google Calendar sync. It offers a Business Associate Agreement on its Premium tier. Its listed features do not include per-animal records with a referral on file, a way to share records with a referring veterinarian, tracking of an insurance policy, a log of supervised training hours, or reminders for CE hours and license or certification renewals. Those are the things Arizona, Utah and IVAS upkeep require, so you would keep them somewhere else.
Nexa covers a different spread. It has a public booking page with intake forms, reschedule and cancel links, and group-class capacity. It also has a CRM with notes, invoices, payment plans, a client pay portal through your own Stripe account, and photos kept with each job record. Notes can be linked to a client and can be checklists, which could hold referral details or renewal dates. A client record has no street-address field. Nexa has no text messages, no Google Calendar sync (calendar export is an .ics file), no waitlist, and no recurring booking series. Its automated emails, including reminders, send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. You run it yourself, with no hosted support desk or vendor-run onboarding. It has nothing built specifically for referral paperwork, supervised-hours logs or CE tracking.
Over three years, Acuity at $34/month costs $1,224. Nexa is $279 once, or 3 payments of $99. If you add optional Cloud Sync at $4.99/month, three years comes to $458.64. If you already use Acuity's text reminders, calendar sync or waitlist, stay. Nexa's savings don't make up for losing them. Switch only if you want one-time pricing and invoicing and bookkeeping in one place, and you can live without texts and calendar sync. In either case, keep the referral, insurance, supervised-hours and CE records in a dedicated records tool.
Our read for animal acupuncturists: Stay with Acuity Scheduling for its text reminders, Google Calendar sync and waitlist, which Nexa lacks, and keep referral and credential records in a dedicated records tool.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Acuity Scheduling costs animal acupuncturists $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.
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 animal acupuncturists: Stay with Acuity Scheduling if the needs in our read above apply to you. If they don't, Nexa covers the core invoicing, scheduling and books for $279 once against $1,224 for Acuity Scheduling over three years.
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.
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.
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 | Acuity Scheduling | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| 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 access | Yes — 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.
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.
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.
Software doesn't do your clients — it automates the business around it. And that part is the same for every animal acupuncturist: 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 your clients. Tap a step to see what gets automated.
A new client finds you and books a time — no phone tag, no double-booking.
The session itself — with the client history, notes, packages, and add-ons right there instead of in three different places.
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 your clients. (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 animal acupuncturist'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.
Acuity Scheduling plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median animal acupuncturists earns $32,000/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 animal acupuncturists. You own it like you own your Sterile single-use acupuncture needles (multiple gauges).
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small animal acupuncturists 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.
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.
At 9 I drive to a senior Golden Retriever with hip dysplasia, visit four of a six-week cycle. I do the session on her own bed because she settles faster at home, and I check gait and how she rises before I start. I place fine 0.16mm needles at the local hip points and the ones along the bladder meridian, leave them fifteen minutes, then add a little electroacupuncture at low frequency, and the owner tells me she's taking the stairs again. At 10:30 I'm at a vet clinic for a cat with stress alopecia; she's hiding in the carrier, so we go slow and I use only a few points with a towel wrap, and it runs twenty minutes long, which I can't bill. Noon is paperwork and the continuing-education module due this month, and I confirm the supervising vet's sign-off is current, because in this state I work under a veterinarian's referral, not on my own. At 1 I drive out to a barn to treat a horse with a sore back: palpate along the back for reactive points, needle with longer needles, and talk turnout and saddle fit with the owner. At 4 I see a rabbit recovering from GI stasis, handled gently on the floor with the owner there, just a few points and short needle time. At 6 I write up each treatment with points used, response and the recommended interval, send reports to the referring vets, invoice the home visits with their travel fee, and log the clinic visits under the referral split.
Real animal acupuncturists near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you an animal acupuncturist? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every animal acupuncturist on Nexa →
The tools of the trade — each a one-time buy that earns its keep for years.
Here's the bar that matters: you spent $610–$2,900 on tools that last for years, and never thought twice. So why should the software cost more than your whole kit — every single year? Hold it to the same standard as a good tool: $279, once.
We build an animal acupuncturist'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 an animal acupuncturist — 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 animal acupuncturists 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.
Acuity Scheduling has features like Intake forms and Package and subscription billing that some businesses rely on. For most solo animal acupuncturists, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $34/month, Nexa pays for itself in 8.2 months. After that: $408 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.
Own your tools. Stop renting your software.
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