Acuity Scheduling vs Nexa The Real Comparison for Boxing Trainers
Acuity Scheduling
$34/mo ($408/yr)
VS
Nexa
$279 once — own forever
or 3 payments of $99
Break even: 8.2 months at Acuity Scheduling's current price.
Does Acuity Scheduling Fit Boxing Trainers? Our Read
What boxing trainers need from their software, from sources outside Acuity Scheduling and outside Nexa:
State rules differ on whether a trainer needs a separate license. Maryland says a licensed manager may act as a second without a second's license, and the original second's applicant must be at least 18. Maryland also requires a manager, trainer or qualified individual to certify to the commission that a boxer is physically competent. A trainer therefore needs a record of each boxer's medical paperwork and certifications, kept by state. (labor.maryland.gov)
BLS reports that many fitness trainers and instructors work variable or part-time schedules, including nights, weekends or holidays. Some travel between gyms or to clients' homes, and some hold other jobs. Personal trainers usually must be certified before working with clients, and most also need CPR, first aid and AED certification. Scheduling therefore needs to handle irregular hours and multiple locations, and certification expiry dates need to be tracked. (bls.gov)
Trainers who work at a gym are often paid as independent contractors, and whether that is correct depends on the IRS test. The IRS weighs three groups of evidence: behavioral control (whether the company controls what the worker does and how), financial control (whether the payer controls the business aspects of the job), and the type of relationship (written contracts, employee-type benefits). A trainer or gym owner needs clear contracts and records of who sets schedules, rates and clients, to support contractor status. (irs.gov)
Acuity Scheduling covers the scheduling side of this trade well. Its $34/month plan handles online booking, class scheduling, packages, subscriptions, intake forms and custom client forms, and it can take payments through Stripe, Square, PayPal or Venmo. It also handles gym-to-gym or home-visit work reasonably well through multiple calendars, automatic time zone conversion and Google Calendar sync, which suits irregular nights-and-weekends hours. It does not track boxer medical paperwork, state-by-state certifications or CPR and AED expiry dates as a records system. Its intake forms can collect that information, but you would be keeping the records yourself. It also does not help you document contractor status for the IRS test.
Nexa covers more of the paperwork around the work. It has a public booking page with intake forms, group-class capacity, and reschedule and cancel links. Its CRM has tags and notes, so you can keep each boxer's file in one place. It also has invoices, recurring invoices, payment plans, a client pay portal through your own Stripe account where clients can sign estimates, time tracking, and bookkeeping that includes 1099 summaries. Its automated emails (sequences, workflows and reminders) send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. It has no text messages, no Google Calendar sync (calendar export is an .ics file), no waitlist, and no recurring booking series. It is software you own and run yourself, with no hosted support desk. Without the optional $4.99/month Cloud Sync it runs on one device.
Over three years Acuity Scheduling's $34/month plan costs $1,224 ($408 a year). Nexa costs $279 once, or 3 payments of $99, and adding Cloud Sync brings it to $458.64 over the same period. If you rely on text reminders, Google Calendar sync, a waitlist or recurring bookings to keep a full schedule of sessions, stay with Acuity Scheduling. If you mainly need invoicing, simple client records, 1099 summaries and bookkeeping, and you can live with email reminders that go out only while Nexa is open, Nexa is the cheaper fit. Neither one tracks state boxing licenses or certification expiry dates, so you would keep that list separately either way.
Our read for boxing trainers: Stay with Acuity Scheduling if you rely on text reminders, Google Calendar sync or a waitlist; consider Nexa only if invoicing and bookkeeping matter more, remembering its automated emails send only while Nexa is open.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Bottom Line
Acuity Scheduling costs boxing trainers $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.
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 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 boxing trainers: 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.
Choose Nexa if:
You're done paying monthly forever
You're a solo operator or small team (1-5)
You need scheduler, connect crm and invoicing in one tool
You're tired of price increases
You want to own your tools like you own your equipment
Choose Acuity Scheduling if:
You have a large team (10+) needing enterprise features
You're deeply invested in Acuity Scheduling's specific workflow
You need a feature Nexa doesn't have yet
Sound Familiar?
I'm at the gym before the first client, wrapping my own hands and checking the mitts for wear. My mornings are private sessions — one-on-one mitt work where I'm calling combinations, slipping their counters, and reading whether they're tired or just lazy. Each client's at a different level: the businessman who wants a workout, the kid with real talent I'm shaping into an amateur. I hold mitts for hours, my shoulders burning, calling 'one-two, slip, three' and barking when their feet get flat. Between sessions I check who's booked and notice an afternoon private just texted to cancel — that's an hour of pay gone with no fill. Midday I run a group fundamentals class on the bags, then it's back to privates. A couple of times a week I oversee sparring, and that's where I'm most on edge: I'm tracking who's cleared to spar, making sure headgear and mouthguards are in, and watching every exchange because if someone gets hurt it's on me and the gym. I've got an amateur with a fight in three weeks, so his sessions are ramping up — more rounds, more conditioning — knowing he'll likely drift after fight night like they always do. End of day I'm sorting out who paid for their session package, who's on the hourly drop-in, and the kid I train cheap because he's got a shot.
My income is mostly private mitt sessions, so a single client canceling last-minute is a real hole in the day
Sparring means I'm tracking who's cleared, who has headgear, and who's ready to get hit — liability rides on me
Fighters prepping for a bout need intense blocks of my time, then disappear after fight night
I split my time between gym members on hourly rates and a couple of amateurs I train for free or cheap
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.
What Acuity Scheduling Actually Costs Boxing Trainers
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.
Three years at today's price
Year 1$408
Year 2$408
Year 3$408
Three years of Acuity Scheduling$1,224
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-by-Feature
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.
What "$279 Once" Does And Doesn't Buy
It buys the software, not a service contract. You install Nexa and it runs on your machine. There is no seat count, and nothing stops working if you stop paying, because there is nothing to stop paying.
Acuity Scheduling's monthly fee is not only rent. It pays for their hosting, their support desk, and their engineers shipping changes every week. If those matter to how you work, that is a real thing you would be giving up.
Cross-device sync is the one optional extra — $4.99/month if you want your data mirrored between machines. Skip it and Nexa still works; you just sync manually.
The honest risk of buying once: you are betting on us still being here to improve it. The honest risk of renting: the price is theirs to raise, and the graveyard section below is a record of tools that did exactly that.
What Acuity Scheduling Does Better
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.
Intake forms
Package and subscription billing
Gift certificates
HIPAA compliance (Powerhouse)
Squarespace integration
A smaller bill up front: plans start at $20/month, against $279 paid once for Nexa.
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.
What Acuity Scheduling Is Built For
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)
The Starter plan costs $16/month billed annually ($20 monthly) and includes 1 calendar, client self-scheduling, email reminders, custom client forms and automatic time zone conversion. (acuityscheduling.com)
Payments run through Stripe, Square, PayPal or Venmo on all plans. The Standard plan ($27/month annual, up to 6 calendars) adds text reminders, an appointment waitlist, memberships and packages, and gift certificates. (acuityscheduling.com)
The Premium plan ($49/month annual, up to 36 calendars) adds an AI Booking Assistant, a Business Associate Agreement for HIPAA compliance, removal of the Acuity logo, multiple time zones for staff or locations, and custom API and CSS access. Unlimited calendars require the Enterprise team. (acuityscheduling.com)
All plans have a 7-day free trial with no credit card required. There is no free plan beyond the trial. (acuityscheduling.com)
The site lists 15 integrations, including Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Stripe, Square, PayPal, QuickBooks, Zoom, Google Meet, Zapier, Mailchimp and Squarespace. (acuityscheduling.com)
Named features include online booking, class scheduling, packages, subscriptions, gift certificates, coupons, deposits, custom intake forms, cancelation policies, a mobile app and a website builder. The site is offered in 6 languages. (acuityscheduling.com)
What people outside Acuity Scheduling and outside Nexa say:
Software Finder shows a 4.5 rating from 25 reviews, with category scores of 9/10 for ease of use, value for money, customer support and functionality. The most-cited strengths are ease of use, integrations, automated email and text reminders that reviewers credit with reducing no-shows, and customizable emails and calendar views. (softwarefinder.com)
Software Finder reviewers also raise drawbacks. Some small businesses find it expensive, and one reported unresolved booking issues and slow support replies. Booking form appearance is limited, and add-ons are checkboxes only, so customers can't choose quantities. Stripe refunds need a separate login to Stripe. One business said it lacked features as its staff and resources grew, and a healthcare reviewer said it isn't suited to HIPAA-regulated practices. (softwarefinder.com)
Secret's page has no user reviews. Its editorial text calls the product user-friendly, customizable and affordable. It also lists as cons that pricing may be expensive for tight budgets, advanced features are limited, and some third-party integrations may be lacking. (joinsecret.com)
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Where business tools fit — for a boxing trainer
Software doesn't do your clients — it automates the business around it. And that part is the same for every boxing trainer: 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.
1
Find the work
Get booked
↓
A new client finds you and books a time — no phone tag, no double-booking.
CRM / contacts
Estimates & proposals
Booking / scheduling
then ↓
2
Manage the work
Deliver the service
↓
The session itself — with the client history, notes, packages, and add-ons right there instead of in three different places.
Job / project tracking
Time tracking
Expenses, materials & add-ons
then ↓
3
Bill for it
Send the bill
↓
The work becomes the invoice — the hours, the add-ons, the materials, the deposit credited — totaled and sent, instead of re-typed at 9pm.
Invoicing
Deposits & credits
then ↓
4
Get paid
Collect payment
↓
Paid by card or link, the deposit credited, and what's overdue chased — without you doing it by hand.
Card / online payments
Automatic reminders
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.)
Calculate Your Full Stack
Acuity Scheduling plus whatever else you're paying for:
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Switching from Acuity Scheduling
1
Export your data — Go to Settings → Export. Download your client list and appointment history.
2
Set up Nexa Scheduler — 15-minute setup. Import clients and recreate your appointment types.
3
Update your links — Replace your Acuity booking link everywhere — website, email, social.
4
Cancel Acuity — Cancel Squarespace subscription. Download a final backup of your data.
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What This Means for Boxing Trainers
The median Boxing Trainer earns $40,000/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 boxing trainers. You own it like you own your Focus mitts and punch mitts.
Is Nexa actually right for a boxing trainer?
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
Right for you if
You run solo or a small team — like the 12,000 boxing trainers in the US who do, and you wear every hat.
You're tired of paying every month for a monthly subscription stack and a pile of apps that don't talk to each other.
You want invoicing, scheduling, and client tracking in one place — not scattered across five apps.
You'd rather own your software once, the way you own your Focus mitts and punch mitts.
Look elsewhere if
You have a large team that needs enterprise seats, granular roles, and dedicated admin staff — Nexa is built for solo and small operators (1–5), and a bigger platform will serve you better.
You need full payroll for a large team or deep, SKU-level inventory — that's not what Nexa is for.
You're genuinely happy paying monthly and don't mind stitching tools together. No tool fixes a workflow you already like.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small boxing trainers 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.
What boxing trainers actually deal with
My income is mostly private mitt sessions, so a single client canceling last-minute is a real hole in the day
Sparring means I'm tracking who's cleared, who has headgear, and who's ready to get hit — liability rides on me
Fighters prepping for a bout need intense blocks of my time, then disappear after fight night
I split my time between gym members on hourly rates and a couple of amateurs I train for free or cheap
A day in the life of a boxing trainer
I'm at the gym before the first client, wrapping my own hands and checking the mitts for wear. My mornings are private sessions — one-on-one mitt work where I'm calling combinations, slipping their counters, and reading whether they're tired or just lazy. Each client's at a different level: the businessman who wants a workout, the kid with real talent I'm shaping into an amateur. I hold mitts for hours, my shoulders burning, calling 'one-two, slip, three' and barking when their feet get flat. Between sessions I check who's booked and notice an afternoon private just texted to cancel — that's an hour of pay gone with no fill. Midday I run a group fundamentals class on the bags, then it's back to privates. A couple of times a week I oversee sparring, and that's where I'm most on edge: I'm tracking who's cleared to spar, making sure headgear and mouthguards are in, and watching every exchange because if someone gets hurt it's on me and the gym. I've got an amateur with a fight in three weeks, so his sessions are ramping up — more rounds, more conditioning — knowing he'll likely drift after fight night like they always do. End of day I'm sorting out who paid for their session package, who's on the hourly drop-in, and the kid I train cheap because he's got a shot.
The tools a working boxing trainer actually owns
Focus mitts and punch mitts
Heavy bag, speed bag, and double-end bag
Hand wraps and training gloves
Headgear and mouthguards for sparring
Round timer and ring bell
Jump ropes and medicine ball
Local boxing trainers on Nexa
Real boxing trainers near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee.
Are you a boxing trainer? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time.
Or browse every boxing trainer on Nexa →
The kit a working boxing trainer owns
The tools of the trade — each a one-time buy that earns its keep for years.
Core kitEssential
Focus mitts and punch mitts
$60–$250
Core kitEssential
Heavy bag and stand
$200–$900
Core kitEssential
Speed bag and platform
$100–$450
Core kitEssential
Double-end bag
$40–$180
Core kitEssential
Gloves and headgear, client sets
$300–$1,200
Core kitEssential
Jump ropes and timer
$60–$250
Core kitEssential
Mats and flooring
$200–$900
Upgrade
Ring or training platform
$3,000–$15,000
The core kit, bought once$960–$4,130
Here's the bar that matters: you spent $960–$4,130 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.
How To Read This Page
We make Nexa. It is one of the two options compared here, so read this with that in mind. We have tried to make Acuity Scheduling's case the way we would want ours made — their strengths above are their own published feature list, not our summary of it.
The prices are Acuity Scheduling's published list prices, checked on the date shown in the sources below. Plans change; check theirs before you decide.
No customer quotes appear on this page because we do not have any from boxing trainers we can verify. For user testimony, read the independent reviews — Acuity Scheduling on G2 and on Capterra — where the reviewers are not selling you anything.
Check the price yourself:Acuity Scheduling's own pricing page is the source for every figure above, read on the date shown in the sources section below.
We are not neutral about subscriptions, and that is the argument, not a hidden assumption: software you pay for once is cheaper over three years than software you rent, unless you need something only the rented one does.
How we put this guide together
We build a boxing trainer'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 boxing trainer — 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.
Where the numbers come from
Vendor pricingAcuity Scheduling $408/yr, Vagaro $600/yr, Square, Calendly $144/yr — taken from each company's published plans, last verified September 2026. Pricing moves; each name above links straight to that vendor’s own pricing page so you can confirm it before you decide.
Income contextThe $40,000 median we cite for the typical boxing trainer is occupational median annual pay from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics), compiled April 2026. We use it only to show software spend as a share of real income — your own numbers will differ.
The field's own bodiesWe anchor what boxing trainers actually need to the people who set the standards — HFA. We don't speak for them; we point you to them so you can weigh this guide against the profession's own.
Three-year mathMulti-year totals are today's list price multiplied by the number of years. No price rise is projected, so the figure can be checked against the vendor's own pricing page; if they raise it, the real cost is higher.
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.
FAQ
Is Nexa really a Acuity Scheduling replacement?
For solo boxing trainers 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.
What does Acuity Scheduling do that Nexa doesn't?
Acuity Scheduling has features like Intake forms and Package and subscription billing that some businesses rely on. For most solo boxing trainers, these aren't dealbreakers.
How fast does Nexa pay for itself?
At $34/month, Nexa pays for itself in 8.2 months. After that: $408 saved every year.
Can I pay in installments?
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.