What home organizers need from their software, from sources outside Acuity Scheduling and outside Nexa:
Acuity Scheduling covers the booking side of an organizer's work well. Clients can self-schedule, fill in intake forms before a session, and get reminders. You can take deposits, sell packages and gift certificates, and set cancelation policies. It connects to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, QuickBooks, Stripe, Square and PayPal. It also has a mobile app, which suits someone who is in clients' homes most of the day. It does not do the rest of what the trade needs. It has no estimates or invoices that list an hourly fee and expenses separately, which NAPO's Code of Ethics expects you to tell clients in advance. It has no record of unbillable time, no mileage log (the IRS rate changed mid-year, so each trip needs a date) and no home office records. Nothing in its feature list describes access controls for confidential client files and photos.
Nexa covers more of the business around the booking. It has estimates and quotes that convert to invoices, a client pay portal where clients pay by card through your own Stripe account and sign estimates, and time tracking. Jobs show costing and profit per job, and phone-camera before and after photos are kept with the job record. Expenses and profit and loss reports are included. It also has a public booking page with intake forms and reschedule and cancel links, and a CRM with notes and tags. Its limits matter for this trade. It has no text messages, no Google Calendar sync (calendar export is an .ics file), no sync with QuickBooks or Xero, no waitlist, and no hosted support desk. Its automated emails, including booking reminders, send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices.
Over three years Acuity at $34 a month costs $1,224 ($408 a year). Nexa is $279 once, or $458.64 over three years if you add Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month, so it costs less either way. If clients rely on text reminders, your calendar lives in Google Calendar, or your books run through QuickBooks, stay with Acuity and keep invoicing elsewhere. If you want estimates, hourly invoices, job photos and expenses in one tool you own, and you can leave Nexa open for reminders, Nexa fits better and costs less.
Our read for home organizers: Stay with Acuity Scheduling if you depend on its calendar and QuickBooks connections; choose Nexa if you want estimates, invoices and job records in one tool you own at a lower three-year cost.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Acuity Scheduling costs home organizers $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 home organizers: Either can do the job, for the reasons in our read above. On price alone, that is $279 once against $1,224 for Acuity Scheduling over three years.
Scheduling, client records, invoicing and job tracking 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 the actual work — it automates the business around it. And that part is the same for every home organizer: 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 the actual work. Tap a step to see what gets automated.
A lead, a call, a referral — and a quote or estimate that turns it into a booked job.
The part you actually get paid for — with the time, materials, add-ons, and tasks tracked as you go, not guessed at later.
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 the actual work. (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 home organizer'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 home organizer earns $42,000/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 home organizers. You own it like you own your Label maker and organizing supplies.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small home organizers business that owns its tools and is sick of renting software, Nexa replaces your whole stack for $279 once. If you're scaling past a handful of crews, a fleet platform may fit better — and we'd rather tell you that now than sell you the wrong thing.
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Open on Reddit →Scheduling, client records, invoicing and job tracking 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.
Most of my clients call me when a room has beaten them: a garage nobody can walk into, a kitchen where nothing has a place, or a whole house before a move or after a death in the family. The first visit is a walkthrough and a conversation about how they actually live, because a system that doesn't fit their habits won't last a month. On working days I take everything out of the space, sort it into keep, donate, sell and discard, and the decisions belong to the client; my job is to make each one easier and keep the pace up. Then I design the space around how it's used: zones, containers measured to fit, labels, and the things used daily within easy reach. Emotional items slow everything down, and some sessions are more listening than sorting. I haul donations away at the end of each session so they don't creep back in. I charge by the hour with a minimum session, plus the cost of any products, and many clients book follow-up visits to keep the system working.
Real home organizers near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a home organizer? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every home organizer 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 home organizer'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 home organizer — 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 home organizers 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 home organizers, 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.
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