What post construction cleaners need from their software, from sources outside Housecall Pro and outside Nexa:
Housecall Pro covers the day-to-day running of a crew well. It has scheduling and dispatching, estimates, invoicing, online payments, time tracking, payroll, job costing, vehicle GPS and "On My Way" texts. The Essentials plan adds photo reports, checklist automations, employee GPS tracking and QuickBooks Online sync. Photo reports matter for post-construction work, where a general contractor often wants proof of the finished clean. What it does not list is anything built for this trade's paperwork. Nothing in its feature list mentions retainage held back and released by job, or records of HEPA vacuums, dust-control training and safety procedures. I did not confirm how it handles either, so check before relying on it. On the $79 plan, you would likely track those outside the software.
Nexa covers a lot of the office side: invoices, estimates and proposals that convert to invoices, payment plans, a client pay portal through your own Stripe account, job costing with profit per job, job photos kept with the job record, checklist notes tied to a client, a payroll CSV of hours times rate, and full bookkeeping with expenses, reconciliation and 1099 summaries. It does not have QuickBooks or Xero sync, GPS, route optimization or a dispatch board, text messages, payroll runs with taxes or pay stubs, or any way to send a photo report to the customer. 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 Housecall Pro at $79 a month comes to $2,844. Nexa is $279 once, or 3 payments of $99. With the optional $4.99 a month Cloud Sync for three years, it comes to $458.64. A solo cleaner or very small crew that mostly needs invoices, job costing and bookkeeping, and that does not need dispatch, QuickBooks sync or customer-facing photo reports, can save real money with Nexa. A crew that dispatches several people, sends photo reports to contractors, syncs with QuickBooks, or runs payroll and wants live support should stay on Housecall Pro. If retainage and equipment records are your biggest gap, neither tool is a clear answer from what is listed.
Our read for post construction cleaners: Stay with Housecall Pro if you dispatch crews, send photo reports or sync with QuickBooks; consider Nexa only if you work solo and mostly need invoicing and bookkeeping.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Housecall Pro costs post construction cleaners $948/year at today's list price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking and accounting in one suite — so after 3.5 months it has cost less than Housecall Pro, 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 Housecall Pro 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 post construction cleaners: Stay with Housecall Pro 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 $2,844 for Housecall Pro over three years.
Scheduling, job 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 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. Housecall Pro solves some of it. So does Nexa. The difference is what you are left holding in three years.
Today's list price is $79/month — $948 a year, from Housecall Pro'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 $2,565 less.
If Housecall Pro 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 | Housecall Pro | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✓ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | — | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | — | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | — | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
| Price | $79/mo | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Total | $2,844 | $279 |
| You own it? | No — stop paying, lose access | Yes — forever |
✓ and ✗ for Housecall Pro come from its own published feature list. — means the feature isn't in that list, which is not the same as Housecall Pro lacking it: check with them. Three years is at today's price.
Straight from Housecall Pro's own feature set. If one of these is the reason you pay them, that reason does not disappear because Nexa is cheaper.
Housecall Pro is the better call if you need online booking for home services specifically, or if your team is large enough that per-seat pricing still beats buying software outright.
Housecall Pro describes itself as 'Tailored for teams of 1 to 100+' and aimed at home service pros across 50+ industries, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, cleaning, lawn care and pest control. (housecallpro.com)
What people outside Housecall Pro 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 post construction cleaner: 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.
A lead, a call, a referral — and a quote or estimate that turns it into a booked job.
The part you actually get paid for — with the time, materials, add-ons, and tasks tracked as you go, not guessed at later.
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 post construction cleaner'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.
Housecall Pro plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median Post Construction Cleaner earns $38,000/year. At $948/year, Housecall Pro 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 post construction cleaners. You own it like you own your Industrial HEPA vacuum and air scrubber for fine drywall and silica dust.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small post construction cleaners business that owns its tools and is sick of renting software, Nexa replaces your whole stack for $279 once. If you're scaling past a handful of crews, a fleet platform may fit better — and we'd rather tell you that now than sell you the wrong thing.
Year-round construction in SoCal. Fire season (June-November) drives restoration demand. Drought impacts landscaping. Earthquake retrofitting is ongoing market.
Extreme summer heat drives HVAC demand. Hurricane risk on Gulf Coast. Year-round construction. Rapid population growth in DFW, Austin, Houston, San Antonio creates sustained demand. Freeze events (like 2021) create emergency plumbing/HVAC surge.
Hurricane season June-November creates massive restoration demand. Snowbird season November-March boosts service volume 30-40%. Year-round construction. Pool service is year-round industry. Pest control peaks in summer humidity.
Harsh winters in upstate, moderate in NYC. Construction limited in winter upstate. NYC market is enormous but hypercompetitive. Brownstone/pre-war building maintenance is specialized trade. NYC licensing is notoriously complex.
Your people are already online — swapping real numbers, tool picks, and war stories. Here's where to find them.
Scheduling, job 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 and carry their own booking link, with no per-appointment cut. The sections below price both routes honestly.
Post-construction is the dirtiest, most physical clean there is, and the enemy is dust that never quits. Drywall sanding throws a fine powder that coats everything and, worse, hangs in the air and re-settles for hours, so I run air scrubbers and HEPA vacuums and accept that one wipe is never enough, the room hazes back over before the builder's walkthrough. I work in phases: rough clean to haul debris and knock down the heavy dust, then the detail pass where I razor paint specks and stickers off every window, pull grout haze off new tile, and wipe down inside cabinets, ducts, and fixtures. The hazard is real, silica dust and a respirator all day, sharp offcuts, ladders for high glass. The frustration is that the site is rarely actually finished; I clean a room and a trim carpenter walks in to cut, or a painter does a touch-up, and now it's dirty again on a job I'm billing as final. And every surface is brand-new and unforgiving, so the wrong scraper angle on a window, a buffer on unsealed stone, or the wrong haze remover on the wrong tile is damage to materials I didn't install and can't cheaply fix. I document the scope phase, shoot the finished rooms, and confirm what 'clean' meant before I hand it back.
Real post construction cleaners near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a post construction cleaner? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every post construction cleaner 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 post construction cleaner'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 post construction cleaner — 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 post construction cleaners and small teams, yes. invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting — all for $279 once. Housecall Pro may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
Housecall Pro has features like Online booking for home services and GPS tracking that some businesses rely on. For most solo post construction cleaners, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $79/month, Nexa pays for itself in 3.5 months. After that: $948 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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