What real estate agents need from their software, from sources outside BoomTown and outside Nexa:
BoomTown covers the business-getting side of the trade. It offers lead generation, an IDX website, a CRM, PPC management and a Lead Concierge team that watches your database and engages leads at the right time. It also offers peer coaching, a Resource Library and a Success Management service. Its page does not describe tools for the agent's own paperwork: commission income and self-employment tax records, license renewal and continuing education dates, or transaction records kept for state inspection. The "#1 user-rated" claim comes with no source or method, so don't weigh it. The page also doesn't say what the Launch, Core, Grow and Advance packages include or cost.
Nexa covers the back-office side. It has expenses, profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow and 1099 summaries, which help a commission-only sole proprietor keep income and tax records. Its CRM has a pipeline board, lead scoring, tags, notes and a public lead form. It also has a public booking page that suits evening and weekend client meetings, invoices, and a client pay portal that runs through your own Stripe account. It works offline. Nexa has no marketplace that brings you customers, so it manages leads you already have rather than finding new ones. It has no text messaging, no calls, no Google Calendar sync (calendar export is an .ics file) and no QuickBooks or Xero sync. Its automated emails send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. It is software you own and run yourself, with no hosted support desk or vendor-run onboarding.
Over three years BoomTown's core plan costs $1,000 a month, which is $12,000 a year and $36,000 in total. Nexa costs $279 once (or 3 payments of $99). Adding optional Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month brings three years to $458.64. If BoomTown's lead generation and concierge follow-up produce the clients you close, stay with it. Nexa does not replace that work. If you already have your own lead flow and mainly need to track income, expenses and tax records at a low cost, Nexa is the cheaper fit.
Our read for real estate agents: Stay with BoomTown if its lead generation and concierge follow-up bring in your clients, because Nexa has no marketplace that brings you customers; choose Nexa only if you have your own lead flow and want low-cost books.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
BoomTown costs real estate agents $12,000/year at today's list price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking and accounting in one suite — so after 0.3 months it has cost less than BoomTown, 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 BoomTown 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 real estate agents: Stay with BoomTown 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 $36,000 for BoomTown over three years.
Client records, scheduling, 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. BoomTown solves some of it. So does Nexa. The difference is what you are left holding in three years.
Today's list price is $1000/month — $12,000 a year, from BoomTown'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 $35,721 less.
If BoomTown 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 | BoomTown | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✗ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✗ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | — | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
| Price | $1000/mo | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Total | $36,000 | $279 |
| You own it? | No — stop paying, lose access | Yes — forever |
✓ and ✗ for BoomTown come from its own published feature list. — means the feature isn't in that list, which is not the same as BoomTown lacking it: check with them. Three years is at today's price.
Straight from BoomTown's own feature set. If one of these is the reason you pay them, that reason does not disappear because Nexa is cheaper.
BoomTown is the better call if you need lead generation specifically, or if your team is large enough that per-seat pricing still beats buying software outright.
Real estate professionals, including agents, brokers and lenders, who use BoomTown's technology to grow their business. (boomtownroi.com)
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 real estate agent: 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.
An inquiry becomes a proposal becomes a signed engagement — the terms and the retainer set.
The work you're paid for — with the hours, tasks, and expenses tracked against the engagement instead of reconstructed at month-end.
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 real estate agent'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.
BoomTown plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median real estate agent earns $50,000/year. At $12,000/year, BoomTown 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 real estate agents. You own it like you own your Lockbox and key access system.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small real estate agents 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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Open on Reddit →Client records, scheduling, 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.
A listing starts long before the sign goes up. I walk the house with the sellers, pull comparable sales, and set a price we can defend, then line up the photographer, the pre-listing fixes and the staging. Showings mean confirming appointments, lockbox codes, and chasing feedback from buyer agents. On the buyer side I'm setting up searches, touring homes on evenings and weekends, and writing offers that stand out without overpaying: escalation clauses, inspection terms, closing dates that suit the seller. Once we're under contract the real work begins: inspection, repair negotiations, appraisal, the buyer's financing and a string of deadlines that can each sink the deal. I'm the one keeping the lender, the title company, the other agent and two nervous clients moving toward the same closing date. I'm only paid at closing, as a split of the commission with my brokerage, so a deal that falls apart in week five is a month of unpaid work. In between I'm prospecting: past clients, open houses and the sphere of people who send me referrals.
Real real estate agents near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a real estate agent? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every real estate agent 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 real estate agent'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 real estate agent — 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 real estate agents and small teams, yes. invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting — all for $279 once. BoomTown may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
BoomTown has features like Lead generation and IDX website that some businesses rely on. For most solo real estate agents, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $1000/month, Nexa pays for itself in 0.3 months. After that: $12,000 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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