What community managers need from their software, from sources outside Alegra and outside Nexa:
Alegra covers the bookkeeping side of this trade reasonably well. It has automatic bank reconciliation, a free accountant user on all plans, a public API, and 24/7 support with a migration guide. Its headline strengths, DIAN e-invoicing in Colombia and SAT CFDI in Mexico, do nothing for a Florida manager. Nothing in its feature list covers the work that sets this trade apart: tracking a manager's licence and a firm's licence on separate September 30 cycles, logging continuing-education hours, retaining official records and meeting the owner-access deadline, or scheduling website postings for each association. Those duties carry real discipline exposure, including per-count fines.
Nexa has real bookkeeping: expenses, bank reconciliation, profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow and receipt scanning. It also has a CRM, recurring jobs, notes that can be checklists tied to a client, a client pay portal through your own Stripe account, and a Spanish interface. It has no manual journal entries, which matters if you need tightly auditable books for each association. Its automated emails and reminders send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices, so they are a weak basis for posting or notice deadlines. It is software you own and run yourself, with no hosted support desk or vendor-run onboarding.
Over three years Alegra at $40 a month costs $480 a year, or $1,440. Nexa is $279 once, or 3 payments of $99, and runs on one device. Adding Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month brings three years to $458.64. A manager who only needs simple books for a few associations will pay less with Nexa. Neither tool tracks the licensing, records and posting duties that define the work. Keep whichever one you already use for the books, and add a purpose-built system for those duties.
Our read for community managers: Neither tool is built around licence and continuing-education tracking, records retention or per-association posting schedules, so look for community association management software and keep your current bookkeeping tool alongside it.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Alegra costs community managers $480/year at today's list price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking and accounting in one suite — so after 7.0 months it has cost less than Alegra, 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 Alegra 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 community managers: Neither Alegra 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 $1,440 for Alegra over three years.
Invoicing, client records, time tracking and scheduling 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. Alegra solves some of it. So does Nexa. The difference is what you are left holding in three years.
Today's list price is $40/month — $480 a year, from Alegra'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 $1,161 less.
If Alegra 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 | Alegra | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | — | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Works offline | ✗ | ✓ |
| Price | $40/mo | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Total | $1,440 | $279 |
| You own it? | No — stop paying, lose access | Yes — forever |
✓ and ✗ for Alegra come from its own published feature list. — means the feature isn't in that list, which is not the same as Alegra lacking it: check with them. Three years is at today's price.
Straight from Alegra's own feature set. If one of these is the reason you pay them, that reason does not disappear because Nexa is cheaper.
Alegra is the better call if you need market leader in colombia and 12 latam countries specifically, or if your team is large enough that per-seat pricing still beats buying software outright.
Alegra says it is for entrepreneurs and small and medium businesses that need to organise sales, expenses, customers and inventory. It also names retail and restaurant businesses, growing teams, accountants and accounting firms, e-commerce, workshops and warehouses, and the health sector. (alegra.com)
What people outside Alegra 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 creative work — it automates the business around it. And that part is the same for every community manager: 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 creative work. Tap a step to see what gets automated.
An inquiry becomes a proposal becomes a signed project — with the scope and the deposit locked in.
The work itself — tracked against the project: hours, milestones, revisions, and expenses, so nothing bills late or goes uncounted.
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 creative 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 community manager'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.
Alegra plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median community manager earns $18,000/year. At $480/year, Alegra 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 community managers. You own it like you own your computadora.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small community managers 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.
Invoicing, client records, time tracking and scheduling 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.
I start at 8 by checking notifications for five clients across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and TikTok, answering overnight comments and DMs, hiding spam, and flagging a complaint about a late order to the bakery owner so she can answer herself. Then I schedule the week's posts: captions, hashtags, alt text, and the right crop for each placement, 4:5 for the feed and 9:16 for Reels and Stories. Late morning is content creation, so I go to the yoga studio to film a thirty-second Reel of the new class, edit it on my phone with captions and a trending sound, and shoot stills for the carousel. After lunch I write the month's content calendar for the restaurant client on their two-platform monthly package, and I send it for approval. The client asks for a sixth revision to one caption and a new promo that isn't in the scope, so I write back what's included and quote the extra post. In the afternoon I jump into a live comment thread on a giveaway post, pick a winner and DM them, and reply to a creator about a collab. In the evening I check the stories performing, answer comments in the peak hour, and record how long I spent on each client today, since two are billed hourly. Friday I pull reach, engagement and follower growth from each platform's insights into a monthly report, write a paragraph on what worked, and send invoices, one of them in euros for my client in Madrid.
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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 community manager'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 community manager — 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 community managers and small teams, yes. invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting — all for $279 once. Alegra may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
Alegra has features like Market leader in Colombia and 12 LATAM countries and DIAN-authorized electronic invoicing (Colombia) that some businesses rely on. For most solo community managers, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $40/month, Nexa pays for itself in 7.0 months. After that: $480 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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