What pressure washers need from their software, from sources outside Housecall Pro and outside Nexa:
Housecall Pro covers the operating side of a pressure-washing business well. It has scheduling and dispatch, estimates, a price book, online booking, invoicing, online payments, vehicle GPS and 'On My Way' texts. Its support is live by phone and chat. Its plans add checklist automations, photo reports and QuickBooks Online sync. A wash-water record is mostly per-job notes on chemicals, containment, disposal route and the owner's permission to dispose of water, and photos back that up. Checklists and photo reports are the closest fit. Nothing in its feature list is built for wash-water records, discharge authorizations or licence status by state or city, so you would track those in job notes or checklists. The same goes for licensing, such as whether you may advertise 'Pressure Washing' at all. That is one practitioner's 2017 account and may be outdated, so check your own state.
Nexa covers quoting and invoicing well. Quotes and proposals convert to invoices, so containment and cleanup can be priced as line items. Jobs carry costing and profit, and before, after and progress photos are kept with the job record. Clients can pay by card through your own Stripe account. It also has a CRM, a booking page, time tracking, bookkeeping, and an offline-capable Spanish interface. It has limits that matter here. Checklists and notes link to a client, not to a job, so a per-job water-handling checklist is not possible. Photos stay inside the job and no photo report goes to the customer. It has no text messages, no GPS or dispatch board, no QuickBooks sync, and no hosted support. Its automated emails send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices.
Over three years Housecall Pro at $79 a month costs $2,844 ($948 a year). Nexa is $279 once, or 3 payments of $99, and runs on one device. With optional Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month the three-year total is $458.64. A solo washer who works from one phone, quotes, invoices and photographs jobs, and keeps compliance notes elsewhere, could save a lot with Nexa. A business with a crew, routes, customer texts or QuickBooks needs should stay with Housecall Pro. Those are things Nexa does not have.
Our read for pressure washers: Stay with Housecall Pro if you run crews or rely on texts, GPS or QuickBooks; only a solo, single-device operator saves enough on Nexa to justify switching.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Housecall Pro costs pressure washers $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 pressure washers: 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, 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 pressure washer: 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 pressure washer'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 pressure washer earns $45,000/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 pressure washers. You own it like you own your Pressure washer units (hot and cold).
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small pressure washers 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.
Local rates and saturation vary widely — price for the city you serve, not a national average.
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.
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Open on Reddit →Scheduling, 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.
Most of my jobs are driveways, house siding, decks and fences, and knowing when not to use pressure is the skill. Siding and roofs get a soft wash: low pressure with a cleaning solution that kills the mildew and algae, rinsed carefully so I don't force water behind the siding or strip paint. Concrete gets a surface cleaner at high pressure for an even finish without stripes, with a degreaser on oil stains first. Wood decks are delicate; too much pressure raises the grain and leaves marks, so I clean gently and often recommend sealing afterwards as a second job. Before I start I'm walking the property, covering plants, taping outlets and lights, and pointing out anything that's already damaged so nobody blames me for it. I haul my own water tank for houses where the supply is weak. Chemicals have to be mixed, stored and disposed of properly. The season is spring through fall, so I'm booking regulars for annual cleans and adding commercial work, storefronts, dumpster pads and gas stations, to keep busy.
Real pressure washers near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a pressure washer? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every pressure washer on Nexa →
The tools of the trade — each a one-time buy that earns its keep for years.
Here's the bar that matters: you spent $6,810–$27,850 on tools that last for years, and never thought twice. So why should the software cost more than your whole kit — every single year? Hold it to the same standard as a good tool: $279, once.
We build a pressure washer'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 pressure washer — 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 pressure washers 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 pressure washers, 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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