What energy healers need from their software, from sources outside Acuity Scheduling and outside Nexa:
Acuity Scheduling covers the booking side of this trade well. It has custom intake forms, which can ask each client for their state before the first session. It also has packages, subscriptions, gift certificates, deposits and cancelation policies. Payments run through Stripe, Square, PayPal or Venmo on every plan, and it syncs with Google Calendar. Text reminders and a waitlist come on the higher plans, and a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement is available on the top-tier plan. Its feature list does not name anything for tracking licensing rules by client location or for recording which methods were used in a session. It also doesn't say that invoices or receipts name the service, which clients may need if they want to claim a session as a medical expense. Those would have to live in intake answers and your own notes.
Nexa covers the same ground with different tools. It has a public booking page with intake forms, reschedule and cancel links, and email booking and payment reminders. It has invoices that can describe the service, a client pay portal through your own Stripe account, and a CRM with tags and notes. You could use the tags and notes to record a client's state and the methods used in each session. Nexa has no street-address field on a client and no dedicated licensing tracker. It also has no text messages, no Google Calendar sync (calendar export is an .ics file), no waitlist and no recurring booking series. Its automated emails send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. It is software you own and run yourself, so there is no hosted support desk or vendor-run onboarding.
Over three years Acuity Scheduling at $34 a month costs $408 a year, or $1,224. Nexa costs $279 once, or 3 payments of $99. Adding optional Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month brings it to $458.64. Without sync, Nexa runs on one device. If you already use Acuity and rely on its calendar sync, text reminders or waitlist, stay. Someone starting fresh, who wants one low-cost tool and can keep licensing and session-method notes in client records, could reasonably choose Nexa. Whichever you pick, check your state's current Reiki rule yourself, because neither tool does that for you.
Our read for energy healers: Neither tool tracks licensing rules for you, so keep Acuity Scheduling if you use its Google Calendar sync, text reminders or waitlist, and consider Nexa only if you can do without them.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Acuity Scheduling costs energy healers $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 energy healers: 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 energy healer: 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.)
Acuity Scheduling plus whatever else you're paying for:
Email yourself this comparison?
The median Energy Healer earns $35,000/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 energy healers. You own it like you own your Treatment table with a face cradle for hands-on and hands-above work.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small energy healers 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.
He clears the room before the first client, sage and a few notes from a bowl, resetting the space from yesterday's energy. His morning client is a first-timer who booked half-skeptical, so he spends real time explaining what Reiki is and is not before she lies down: he'll work hands-on and hands-above the body, she may feel warmth or tingling or nothing at all, and none of it is a medical treatment. He scans her field, rests his hands at each center, lets the heat build at the spots that feel blocked. Midday he does a distance session, a regular across the country who books a set time for remote Reiki, and afterward he sends his notes on what he felt, because she is not in the room to know it happened. His afternoon is a chronic client three sessions into a six-pack, and he has to thumb back through messages to confirm where she is in the package. Between clients he clears the space again. He ends the day doing the only marketing that works for intangible work: gently following up with a client from last week to ask how she felt afterward, hoping she'll send the kind of testimonial that brings the next skeptic through the door.
Real energy healers near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you an energy healer? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every energy healer 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 $560–$2,330 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 energy healer'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 energy healer — 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 energy healers 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 energy healers, 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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