What cheerleading coaches need from their software, from sources outside Acuity Scheduling and outside Nexa:
Acuity Scheduling covers the booking side of coaching well. Its Standard plan adds text reminders, an appointment waitlist, memberships and packages, and gift certificates. Its Starter plan includes client self-scheduling, custom client forms and email reminders. It takes payments through Stripe, Square, PayPal or Venmo, and it offers class scheduling, deposits, cancelation policies and intake forms. What it does not do is track the things this trade has to keep on file: background-check dates and renewals, CPR and first-aid certificate expiry, or contractor status. It also does not follow a seasonal, irregular coaching schedule with hours and pay tracking.
Nexa covers more of the paperwork side. It has time tracking, a payroll CSV that totals each employee's hours x rate, 1099 summaries, expenses and invoices, and notes that can be checklists linked to a client or contact. It also has a public booking page with intake forms, group-class capacity, and reschedule and cancel links. It has no dedicated credential or certificate-expiry tracker, so a coach would have to keep those dates in notes. Its reminders, sequences and workflows are automated emails that send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. Nexa has no text messages, no waitlist, no Google Calendar sync (calendar export is an .ics file) and no payroll taxes, pay stubs or direct deposit. Without Cloud Sync it runs on one device, and it comes with no hosted support desk or vendor-run onboarding.
Over three years, Acuity Scheduling at $34 a month is $408 a year, or $1,224. Nexa is $279 once, or $279 plus $4.99 a month for Cloud Sync, which is $458.64 over three years. Stay with Acuity Scheduling if you sell sessions and rely on text reminders, a waitlist or calendar sync. Choose Nexa if tracking hours, pay and 1099s for seasonal and contract help matters more, and you are fine with automated emails going out only while Nexa is open.
Our read for cheerleading coaches: Stay with Acuity Scheduling if you rely on text reminders, a waitlist or calendar sync; Nexa suits coaches who mainly need hours, pay and 1099 records, and 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.
Acuity Scheduling costs cheerleading coaches $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 cheerleading coaches: 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 cheerleading coach: 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 cheerleading coach'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 Cheerleading Coach 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 cheerleading coaches. You own it like you own your Spring floor / cheer mat strips.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small cheerleading coaches 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.
Practice starts with conditioning because a tired base drops a flyer, so we do wall sits and planks until somebody complains. Then I split the room: tumbling line working standing tucks on the strip, stunt groups in the corners. I'm counting heads constantly because if one flyer is at a dance recital, the whole pyramid has to be re-cast on the spot. I run the routine, stop the music at the eight-count where we always bobble the basket toss, and we drill that section until the catch is clean. A base rolls an ankle and I'm icing it while keeping the rest of the squad moving. Halfway through, the tumbling class needs the floor early and I lose ten minutes of my plan. We finish on the full-out, recording it on my phone so the girls can see the timing. After practice I'm answering parents about comp fees, the new uniform order, and whether their daughter made the top of the pyramid. I drive home replaying the routine in my head, knowing I still need to cut the music for the new transition and chase three families for deposits.
Real cheerleading coaches near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a cheerleading coach? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every cheerleading coach 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 cheerleading coach'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 cheerleading coach — 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 cheerleading coaches 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 cheerleading coaches, 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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