What reiki masters need from their software, from sources outside Acuity Scheduling and outside Nexa:
Acuity Scheduling covers the booking side of a reiki practice well. It has online booking, custom intake forms, packages and subscriptions, gift certificates, deposits, cancelation policies and card payments through Stripe, Square, PayPal or Venmo. It also offers HIPAA compliance, and its Premium plan includes a Business Associate Agreement. What its feature list does not name is anything for the trade's regulatory needs. Those are recording each practitioner's state and licensing status, keeping reiki separate from massage methods on invoices and notes, and marking paid sessions apart from donated ones. Intake forms and service names could carry some of that, but you would have to build the structure yourself.
Nexa covers the business-records side. It has a public booking page with intake forms and reschedule and cancel links, invoices with payment plans, a client pay portal through your own Stripe account, a CRM with tags and notes, and bookkeeping that includes expenses, profit and loss, and sales tax tracking. Tags, notes and separate line items on invoices could be used to keep service types apart. Nexa has no feature named for state licensing tracking, and it does not claim one. Its automated emails (reminders, sequences, workflows) 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), and no waitlist. It is software you own and run yourself, with no hosted support desk.
Over three years, Acuity Scheduling on the $34/month plan costs $408 a year, or $1,224. Nexa costs $279 once, or 3 payments of $99. With optional Cloud Sync at $4.99/month, three years comes to $458.64. Without sync, Nexa runs on one device. Neither tool is built for per-state licensing records, so a practitioner whose main worry is that compliance trail should look at a records tool designed for it. If you only need booking, reminders and payments, keep Acuity Scheduling if you rely on text reminders or Google Calendar sync. Consider Nexa if you want to own the software, pay less, and handle the invoicing and bookkeeping in one place.
Our read for reiki masters: Neither tool has dedicated fields for state licensing status, reiki-versus-massage service separation or paid-versus-donated records, so a practice-records tool built for those would serve this core need better.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Acuity Scheduling costs reiki masters $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 reiki masters: Neither Acuity Scheduling nor Nexa is the main system for this work; start with software built for it. Nexa only makes sense beside it, at $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 reiki master: 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 reiki master'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 reiki master 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 reiki masters. You own it like you own your Massage table or treatment chair.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small reiki masters 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.
My first session at 10 is distance reiki over video, thirty minutes, for a client in another state. I go over her intake notes first, confirm what she wants to focus on, then work through the hand positions from crown to feet with my camera off and send her a short summary of what I noticed afterward. At 11 I have an in-person session with a sound bath, seventy-five minutes: I clean the table, change the linens, set the singing bowls and the chimes within reach, and talk through her intake about sleep, stress and anything she doesn't want touched. The reiki is hands lightly on or just above the body, and the bowls go in the last twenty minutes while she rests. Afterward I give her water and time to sit before she drives. At 1 I eat over the intake forms for the afternoon. At 2 I do a ninety-minute chakra consult with a new client who also wants tarot, so I explain those are separate services and book the reading for another day. At 4 I drive to a client's new house for an energy clearing, working room by room with sage and a bell, windows open, and I tell her plainly this isn't a substitute for medical or mental-health care when she asks about her anxiety. At 6 I pack the bag, realize I never wrote down the sage and linens I restocked this morning, and send receipts and next-session reminders to today's clients.
Real reiki masters near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a reiki master? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every reiki master 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 reiki master'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 reiki master — 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 reiki masters 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 reiki masters, 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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