What real estate agents need from their software, from sources outside Follow Up Boss and outside Nexa:
Follow Up Boss covers the lead side of an agent's work well. It has 250+ integrations with lead sources and tools, and new leads are distributed and routed automatically. Calling and texting are unlimited on the Pro and Platform plans, and an add-on on Grow. Calls on its number are recorded with playback from the lead profile. Action Plans and Automations 2.0 handle follow-up that stops when a lead replies. It does not list anything for the record-keeping side of the trade: commission income and self-employment tax records, license renewal and continuing education dates, or transaction files such as earnest money receipts and closing statements. Its appointment triggers are for automation, not for scheduling around client availability.
Nexa covers more of the back office. It has expenses, profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow, 1099 summaries, receipt scanning, invoices and a client pay portal. It also has a CRM with a pipeline board, lead scoring and a public lead form, a public booking page, and notes with checklists linked to a client. It does not have SMS or calls, an app marketplace or integration library, or Google Calendar sync (calendar export is an .ics file). Its email sequences and workflows 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.
Over three years Follow Up Boss at $69 a month is $828 a year, or $2,484. Nexa is $279 once (or 3 payments of $99). With optional Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month, it comes to $458.64 over the same period. An agent who works leads by text and phone, or relies on lead routing and integrations, should stay with Follow Up Boss, since Nexa has no SMS or calls and no integration library. An agent who mainly needs to track income, expenses and 1099s could use Nexa for that. The two are not a like-for-like swap.
Our read for real estate agents: Stay with Follow Up Boss if you work leads by text, calls and routed lead sources, because Nexa has no SMS or calls and no integration library; consider Nexa only as a low-cost add-on for bookkeeping.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Follow Up Boss costs real estate agents $828/year at today's list price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking and accounting in one suite — so after 4.0 months it has cost less than Follow Up Boss, 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 Follow Up Boss 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 Follow Up Boss 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 $2,484 for Follow Up Boss 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. Follow Up Boss solves some of it. So does Nexa. The difference is what you are left holding in three years.
Today's list price is $69/month — $828 a year, from Follow Up Boss'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 $2,205 less.
If Follow Up Boss 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 | Follow Up Boss | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | — | ✓ |
| Scheduling | — | ✓ |
| CRM | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | — | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | — | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | — | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
| Price | $69/mo | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Total | $2,484 | $279 |
| You own it? | No — stop paying, lose access | Yes — forever |
✓ and ✗ for Follow Up Boss come from its own published feature list. — means the feature isn't in that list, which is not the same as Follow Up Boss lacking it: check with them. Three years is at today's price.
Straight from Follow Up Boss's own feature set. If one of these is the reason you pay them, that reason does not disappear because Nexa is cheaper.
Follow Up Boss is the better call if you need their platform specifically, or if your team is large enough that per-seat pricing still beats buying software outright.
Follow Up Boss is a real estate CRM for solo agents, agents on teams, ISAs, and team leads and admins who manage leads across a team. (followupboss.com)
What people outside Follow Up Boss 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 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.
Follow Up Boss plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median real estate agent earns $50,000/year. At $828/year, Follow Up Boss 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. Follow Up Boss may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
Follow Up Boss has a mature ecosystem. For most solo real estate agents, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $69/month, Nexa pays for itself in 4.0 months. After that: $828 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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