What snowboard instructors need from their software, from sources outside Acuity Scheduling and outside Nexa:
Acuity Scheduling handles the booking side of a lesson business well. It has online booking, class scheduling, packages, gift certificates, deposits, custom intake forms, cancelation policies, a mobile app, and Google Calendar and QuickBooks integrations. Payments run through Stripe, Square, PayPal or Venmo. The plan that does the core job is $34/month. The Standard plan, with text reminders, a waitlist, and memberships and packages, is the one an instructor would likely want. Nothing in its feature list covers what this trade has to report. A Forest Service special use permit is tied to a ranger district, and billing depends on service days, client counts and gross revenue per lesson. PSIA-AASI members also need to track their member status, certification level and CEU totals. Intake forms could capture some of that data, but Acuity does not turn it into permit reporting.
Nexa covers the business side of lessons. It has a public booking page with intake forms, group-class capacity, and reschedule and cancel links. It also has a client pay portal through your own Stripe account, invoices and payment plans, a CRM with a public lead form, and jobs with costing and profit per job. Time tracking, expenses, profit and loss, and sales tax tracking are included too. It works offline. It has no text messages, no waitlist, no recurring booking series, no Google Calendar sync (calendar export is an .ics file), and no QuickBooks sync. Its automated emails, including reminders and sequences, send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. It is software you run yourself, with no hosted support desk or vendor-run onboarding. As with Acuity, nothing in its feature list is aimed at permit service-day reporting or CEU tracking.
Over three years Acuity at $34/month comes to $1,224 ($408 a year). Nexa is $279 once, or 3 payments of $99. Adding Cloud Sync at $4.99/month brings the three-year total to $458.64. Without Cloud Sync, Nexa runs on one device. If Acuity's booking, text reminders or waitlist are working for you, keep them, because Nexa would not replace the text messaging or waitlist. If you want to own your software and a single device is enough, Nexa costs much less. Either way, the permit and CEU records are the part of this trade that neither tool is built around. Keep them in a permit and credential compliance tracker, or a well-kept log of service days, client counts, gross revenue and CEUs.
Our read for snowboard instructors: Neither tool is built around the permit service-day and CEU tracking this trade requires, so pair whichever booking tool you prefer with a dedicated permit and credential compliance tracker.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Acuity Scheduling costs snowboard instructors $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 snowboard instructors: 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 snowboard instructor: 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 snowboard instructor 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 snowboard instructors. You own it like you own your AASI instructor certification pin and level credentials.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small snowboard instructors 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.
You're scraping the wax off your demo board in the cold morning light before the lifts even spin, then heading to the meeting spot at the base where your 9 a.m. is already waiting, over-bundled and a little terrified. First thing is fitting them to the right board length and getting the bindings dialed, then the unglamorous part: how to strap in sitting down, how to stand up, how to fall safely so they don't catch a wrist. You spend the first run on the magic carpet just on heel-edge sliding, because toe edge is where beginners eat it and you want them to trust the board first. By mid-morning they're linking awkward turns on the bunny slope and grinning through the snow caked on their goggles. You shuttle straight into a private intermediate lesson, riding the lift up while you talk through where their weight goes in a carve, then chase them down a blue run shouting cues. Lunch is a quick burger with your gloves still half-on. The afternoon group is kids, which is all energy management and games disguised as drills. By last chair your legs are toast, you've logged who's ready to move up, and back in the locker room you're already waxing tomorrow's board.
Real snowboard instructors near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a snowboard instructor? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every snowboard instructor 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 snowboard instructor'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 snowboard instructor — 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 snowboard instructors 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 snowboard instructors, 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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