What storefront glaziers need from their software, from sources outside Housecall Pro and outside Nexa:
Housecall Pro covers the field side of storefront glazing well. It has scheduling and dispatching, estimates, a price book, invoicing, time tracking, job costing, vehicle GPS and 'On My Way' texts. That suits a shop that moves crews between commercial and residential sites. Essentials adds QuickBooks Online sync, and live phone and chat support comes with every plan. It does not settle the compliance questions, and neither does Nexa. The owner still has to decide which license classification covers a job, whether a permit applies, and whether labor, materials and other costs together cross a state's dollar threshold. Those thresholds count the whole job, and work can't be split to stay under them. So the useful test is which tool records the full job total and the permit status on a quote. We can't show that these needs drive buying decisions in a trade this small. They come from contractor licensing boards and federal labor data, not from a survey of glaziers, and Housecall Pro's 4.7-star Capterra rating is its own claim that we haven't verified.
Nexa is made by the publisher of this page, so we have a financial interest and you should weigh this paragraph accordingly. We state only what Nexa's own feature list says. It has estimates, quotes and proposals that convert to invoices. It has jobs with costing and profit per job, assignment of jobs to team members, time tracking, a payroll CSV, bookkeeping, and a client pay portal through your own Stripe account. It also sends each day's job stops to Google Maps in time order. Per-job costing fits the whole-job totals that licensing thresholds depend on. Nexa has no GPS, fleet tracking, route optimization or dispatch board. It has no text messages or calls, no QuickBooks or Xero sync, and it does not run payroll. A client record has no street-address field, which is a real gap for a trade that works at many sites. There is no hosted support desk or vendor-run onboarding. Its automated emails send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices.
Over three years, Housecall Pro's $79 plan costs $948 a year, or $2,844. That plan covers one user. Nexa costs $279 once, or $458.64 over three years with optional Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month. Without Cloud Sync it runs on one device. The savings are real, but they come with fewer tools. A glazing shop with crews at several sites, or one that relies on texting, GPS, QuickBooks sync or a vendor to call, should stay with Housecall Pro. A solo glazier whose real need is quoting, invoicing and job costing, and who is comfortable owning and supporting their own software, could reasonably try Nexa. Check your own state's licensing rules first, because neither tool does that for you.
Our read for storefront glaziers: Stay with Housecall Pro if you run crews across several sites and rely on GPS, texting or QuickBooks sync, which Nexa lacks.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Housecall Pro costs storefront glaziers $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 storefront glaziers: 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.
Time tracking, invoicing, job tracking and the books 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. 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 storefront glazier: 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 storefront glazier'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 storefront glazier earns $55,000/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 storefront glaziers. You own it like you own your Vacuum suction cup lifters (single and double-cup hand cups plus a mechanical glass/vacuum lifter for large lites).
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small storefront glaziers 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.
Time tracking, invoicing, job tracking and the books 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.
The day rarely starts where the schedule says. A 6 a.m. text, a car or a break-in put a 96-by-48 storefront lite on the sidewalk overnight, and the first move is a board-up: cut plywood to the opening, screw it into the aluminum frame, sweep the tempered pebbles, and get the business open by the time staff arrive. Only then does the real work begin: field-measuring the opening with a laser and a template, because the frame is never perfectly square and tempered glass can't be trimmed once it's made. Back at the truck, the glazier phones the fabricator to order the lite, annealed, tempered, or laminated depending on whether it's a vision panel, a door, or a code-required safety location, and confirms lead time and the deposit. The rest of the morning is scheduled installs: setting glass into storefront extrusions with suction cups and a second pair of hands, snugging in setting blocks and gaskets, running structural silicone on a curtain-wall joint, and cleaning up. Between stops there's the constant phone tag, the boarded shop wanting a date, a property manager wanting a quote, a supplier confirming the glass is cut. Most work happens around the tenant's business hours, so doors come out early or late, and everything has to be weather-tight before the crew leaves.
Real storefront glaziers near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a storefront glazier? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every storefront glazier 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 $4,930–$30,700 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 storefront glazier'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 storefront glazier — 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 storefront glaziers 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 storefront glaziers, 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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