What travel agents need from their software, from sources outside Dubsado and outside Nexa:
Dubsado covers the client-facing side of a travel agency well. Proposals, contracts with e-signature and invoices can go out together. It also includes payment plans, payment reminders and payment tracking, client portals, and lead capture forms. Those suit deposits and instalments on a booking. What its feature list does not show is anything for the compliance side of the trade. That means a trust account kept apart from operating funds, how long each client deposit has been held, annual seller-of-travel registration renewals per location, or commission and service-fee income logged per booking. Payment tracking and reports help, but they are not a trust ledger. Dubsado's own bookkeeping integration comes only on its higher plan.
Nexa covers more of the money-tracking side than you might expect. It has invoices and payment plans, a client pay portal through your own Stripe account, a CRM with a pipeline and public lead form, and a public booking page. It also has expenses, bank reconciliation, profit and loss, a balance sheet, cash flow and 1099 summaries. Jobs with profit per job could stand in for per-booking commission tracking. It does not have manual journal entries, and it does not sync with QuickBooks or Xero. Nothing in its feature set is described as holding client money in a separate trust account or tracking registration renewals. Nexa is software you own and run yourself, with no hosted support desk or vendor-run onboarding. Cloud Sync across devices is optional, and without it Nexa runs on one device. If you use it for automated emails such as sequences, workflows or reminders, they send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices.
Over three years Dubsado at $35 a month is $420 a year, or $1,260. Nexa is $279 once, or 3 payments of $99. Adding Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month brings it to $458.64 over the same three years. If you mainly need client intake, contracts and invoicing, and you like Dubsado's hosted setup and support, stay. If you want to own the software and pay less, Nexa is a cheaper way to invoice and keep books. Neither one will manage a trust account or registration renewals for you. For that, use a travel-agency back-office tool built around trust-account ledgers and supplier commissions. Keep whichever of these you pick for client-facing work.
Our read for travel agents: Neither tool tracks trust-account funds, registration renewals or per-booking commissions, so a travel-agency back-office tool is the core need, and Dubsado or Nexa would only handle the client-facing and general bookkeeping side.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Dubsado costs travel agents $420/year at today's list price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking and accounting in one suite — so after 8.0 months it has cost less than Dubsado, 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 Dubsado 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 travel agents: Neither Dubsado 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 $1,260 for Dubsado over three years.
Client records, invoicing, scheduling 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. Dubsado solves some of it. So does Nexa. The difference is what you are left holding in three years.
Today's list price is $35/month — $420 a year, from Dubsado'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 $981 less.
If Dubsado 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 | Dubsado | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✓ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | — | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | — | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | — | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
| Price | $35/mo | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Total | $1,260 | $279 |
| You own it? | No — stop paying, lose access | Yes — forever |
✓ and ✗ for Dubsado come from its own published feature list. — means the feature isn't in that list, which is not the same as Dubsado lacking it: check with them. Three years is at today's price.
Straight from Dubsado's own feature set. If one of these is the reason you pay them, that reason does not disappear because Nexa is cheaper.
Dubsado is the better call if you need all-in-one crm for creatives specifically, or if your team is large enough that per-seat pricing still beats buying software outright.
Dubsado says it is for creative, licensed, and event-based businesses. Its homepage names photographers, designers, copywriters, coaches, virtual assistants, accountants, legal professionals, event planners and wedding planners. (dubsado.com)
What people outside Dubsado 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 actual work — it automates the business around it. And that part is the same for every travel 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 travel 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.
Dubsado plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median travel agent earns $40,000/year. At $420/year, Dubsado 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 travel agents. You own it like you own your GDS access (Sabre, Amadeus).
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small travel 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, invoicing, scheduling 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.
Most of my clients come to me for trips that are too complicated or too important to book alone: honeymoons, multi-generation family trips, destination weddings and group tours. It starts with a long conversation about budget, pace, who's travelling and what they actually enjoy, and from that I build an itinerary: flights, hotels, transfers, tours and dinner reservations, with the timing between them worked out. My supplier relationships matter; I know which resorts upgrade my clients and which tour operators actually show up. Once the trip is booked, I'm tracking deposits and final payment deadlines, passports and visas, travel insurance, and documents, then everything changes when an airline moves a flight. When something goes wrong mid-trip, a cancellation or a missed connection, my client calls me, often at odd hours. Most of my income is commission from hotels, cruise lines and tour operators, paid after travel, plus a planning fee for complex itineraries. I stay current with training and site visits, because recommending a place I've seen is worth more than any brochure.
Real travel agents near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a travel agent? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every travel 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 travel 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 travel 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 travel agents and small teams, yes. invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting — all for $279 once. Dubsado may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
Dubsado has features like All-in-one CRM for creatives and Contract and proposal templates that some businesses rely on. For most solo travel agents, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $35/month, Nexa pays for itself in 8.0 months. After that: $420 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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