What copywriters need from their software, from sources outside Harvest and outside Nexa:
Harvest covers the core of freelance copywriting well. Copywriters juggle many clients and projects, and Harvest has one-click timers, timesheets, invoices generated from tracked time and expenses, and rates set per project or task type. It also has online client payments, automatic overdue reminders and recurring retainers, which help with chasing payment. Budgets in hours or fees, with over-budget alerts, help when a project scope drifts. QuickBooks, Xero and Stripe integrations are on the $11 per month plan. Harvest does not cover everything. Nothing on its page describes a quarterly estimated-tax tool, kill-fee contract terms, or a configurable deposit or late-fee setup. Its Free plan stops at 2 projects, which is tight for someone with many clients.
Nexa covers a lot on the billing side. It has invoices, estimates, quotes and proposals that convert to invoices, recurring invoices and payment plans. Clients can pay by card through your own Stripe account and sign estimates in a pay portal. A CRM tracks leads, and it has time tracking and bookkeeping (expenses, profit and loss, cash flow, 1099 summaries). It lacks QuickBooks and Xero sync and has no integration library. Its automated emails, including reminders, send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. It is software you own and run yourself, with no hosted support desk. Without the optional Cloud Sync it runs on one device. Like Harvest, it states nothing about kill fees, late fees or quarterly tax estimates.
Over three years Harvest costs $396 at $132 a year. Nexa costs $279 once, or 3 payments of $99, which makes $279 over three years on one device. With Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month it comes to $458.64. If you already use Harvest and rely on its overdue reminders or its QuickBooks or Xero connections, stay put. Reminders that send only when an app is open are a real downgrade for chasing late payers. If you want a one-time price, a CRM and bookkeeping in one tool, and you work from one device, Nexa is a reasonable choice. For quarterly tax estimates and kill-fee terms, you would need a separate tool or template either way.
Our read for copywriters: Stay with Harvest if you depend on its automatic overdue reminders and QuickBooks or Xero connections, which Nexa lacks; consider Nexa only if you want one-time pricing and a built-in CRM and bookkeeping.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Harvest costs copywriters $132/year at today's list price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking and accounting in one suite — so after 25.4 months it has cost less than Harvest, 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 Harvest 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 copywriters: Stay with Harvest 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 $396 for Harvest over three years.
Time tracking, invoicing and client records are the pieces of that day. Some tools rent you each piece separately. A few — Nexa among them — bundle the lot into something you buy once. 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. Harvest solves some of it. So does Nexa. The difference is what you are left holding in three years.
Today's list price is $11/month — $132 a year, from Harvest'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 $117 less.
If Harvest 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 | Harvest | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✗ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Works offline | ✗ | ✓ |
| Price | $11/mo | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Total | $396 | $279 |
| You own it? | No — stop paying, lose access | Yes — forever |
✓ and ✗ for Harvest come from its own published feature list. — means the feature isn't in that list, which is not the same as Harvest lacking it: check with them. Three years is at today's price.
Straight from Harvest's own feature set. If one of these is the reason you pay them, that reason does not disappear because Nexa is cheaper.
Harvest is the better call if you need clean, simple interface specifically, or if your team is large enough that per-seat pricing still beats buying software outright.
Professional services teams that bill clients by the hour, including advertising and marketing, architecture, construction, law, accounting and finance, consulting and IT, design, and software development. The site also says it serves teams of all sizes, types and industries. (getharvest.com)
What people outside Harvest 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 copywriter: 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 copywriter'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.
Harvest plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median copywriter earns $52,000/year. At $132/year, Harvest 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 copywriters. You own it like you own your Laptop and ergonomic desk setup.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small copywriters 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 copy project starts with research, not writing. Before I write a landing page I'm reading the client's reviews, sales calls, support tickets and competitors, looking for the exact words customers use for their problem, because that language converts better than anything I'd invent. Then I pin down one reader, one offer and one action, and build the page around them: a headline that names the problem, proof, objections answered, and a call to action that's hard to miss. Emails are their own craft, subject lines that get opened and sequences that move someone from curious to buying over a week. I write a draft, then cut it by a third. Most clients get two rounds of revisions, and I push back when feedback is about taste rather than results, with the data to back it up. Some of my best work is rewriting pages that already exist and measuring the difference. I price by project, with a deposit up front, and a couple of clients pay me a monthly retainer for ongoing emails and ads.
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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 copywriter'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 copywriter — 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 copywriters and small teams, yes. invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting — all for $279 once. Harvest may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
Harvest has features like Clean, simple interface and Automatic invoice generation from time that some businesses rely on. For most solo copywriters, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $11/month, Nexa pays for itself in 25.4 months. After that: $132 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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