What lash technicians need from their software, from sources outside Booksy and outside Nexa:
Booksy covers much of what a lash business runs on day to day. Clients can book 24/7 with real-time availability. Deposits, cancellation fees, free SMS reminders and an automated waitlist protect against no-shows, and the 35M+ user marketplace can bring in new clients. Payments include Tap to Pay, a card reader and card on file, and it tracks tips automatically, which matters because a self-employed tech has to record tips as income. Its listed features don't include per-state license tracking (type, expiry, workplace permit). They also don't include fill versus full-set pricing based on time since the last visit or percentage of lashes remaining, or a stored record of each client's agreement to your written policy. That applies to Maryland's temporary license, which expires, can be renewed once, and requires work to be done in a permitted salon or barbershop. Those records will need to live somewhere else.
Nexa covers the booking and back-office side. It has a public booking page with intake forms and reschedule and cancel links, email reminders, and a client pay portal where clients pay by card through your own Stripe account. It also has a CRM, invoices and estimates that clients can sign, and bookkeeping with expenses, profit and loss, and 1099 summaries. It lacks several things a lash business leans on. It has no text messaging, no card reader or point-of-sale, no waitlist, and no marketplace that brings you customers. Its automated emails send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices, and it comes with no hosted support desk or vendor-run onboarding.
Over three years Booksy at $29.99 a month comes to $1,079.64. Nexa is $279 once (or 3 payments of $99), or $458.64 with optional Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month. If you rely on Booksy's marketplace, deposits, text reminders or card reader, stay, because Nexa has no equivalent. If you already have a steady client base, take payments elsewhere and mainly want booking, invoicing and bookkeeping you own, Nexa is the cheaper option, and you would have to accept email-only reminders that send while the app is open. Either way, keep your license and policy-agreement records in a separate system.
Our read for lash technicians: Stay with Booksy if no-show deposits, text reminders, tip tracking and marketplace bookings drive your lash business, since Nexa has no text messaging, card reader, waitlist or marketplace.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Booksy costs lash technicians $359.88/year at today's list price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking and accounting in one suite — so after 9.3 months it has cost less than Booksy, 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 Booksy 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 lash technicians: Stay with Booksy 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 $1,079.64 for Booksy 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. Booksy solves some of it. So does Nexa. The difference is what you are left holding in three years.
Today's list price is $29.99/month — $359.88 a year, from Booksy'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 $800.64 less.
If Booksy 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 | Booksy | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✗ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✓ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✗ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
| Price | $29.99/mo | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Total | $1,079.64 | $279 |
| You own it? | No — stop paying, lose access | Yes — forever |
✓ and ✗ for Booksy come from its own published feature list. — means the feature isn't in that list, which is not the same as Booksy lacking it: check with them. Three years is at today's price.
Straight from Booksy's own feature set. If one of these is the reason you pay them, that reason does not disappear because Nexa is cheaper.
Booksy is the better call if you need strong consumer marketplace (35m+ users) specifically, or if your team is large enough that per-seat pricing still beats buying software outright.
Booksy's business site says it is for independent beauty and barber professionals and for salon and barbershop owners, including barbers, hair stylists, nail techs, brow and lash artists, braiders, massage and spas. It also says it supports multi-staff businesses. (biz.booksy.com)
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 lash tech: 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 lash tech'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.
Booksy plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median lash tech earns $32,000/year. At $359.88/year, Booksy 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 lash technicians. You own it like you own your Isolation tweezers and application tweezers.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small lash technicians 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.
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A full set of classic lashes takes me two hours, and a volume set closer to three, with the client lying still under my lamp the whole time. Every appointment starts with a consultation: the look they want, their eye shape, allergies, and whether their natural lashes are healthy enough for what they're asking. Then prep: cleansing, pads to protect the lower lashes, and isolating one natural lash at a time with tweezers so each extension bonds to a single lash and nothing sticks together. Adhesive is temperamental; the humidity and temperature in the room change how fast it cures, so I watch both. Fills every two to three weeks are the backbone of my book, and my aftercare instructions decide whether they come back with half their lashes or most of them. Sanitation between clients is strict: tweezers disinfected, fresh disposables, a clean bed. Late arrivals wreck a schedule built on long appointments, so I take deposits and charge for no-shows. I'm always practising new techniques and posting my work, because that's where new clients find me.
Real lash technicians near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a lash tech? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every lash tech 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 lash tech'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 lash tech — 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 lash technicians and small teams, yes. invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting — all for $279 once. Booksy may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
Booksy has features like Strong consumer marketplace (35M+ users) and Mobile-first design that some businesses rely on. For most solo lash technicians, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $29.99/month, Nexa pays for itself in 9.3 months. After that: $359.88 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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