What window installers need from their software, from sources outside Housecall Pro and outside Nexa:
Housecall Pro covers the day-to-day running of an install crew well. It has scheduling and dispatching, estimates, a price book, invoicing, online payments, financing, vehicle GPS and 'On My Way' texts. On the Essentials plan and above it adds checklist automations, photo reports and QuickBooks Online sync, and live phone and chat support comes with every plan. Photo reports and checklists are the nearest things it has to a place for lead-safe job records. The material we have doesn't show a build-year flag, a certified-renovator assignment, or three-year record retention built for pre-1978 work. It also doesn't show a deposit for made-to-measure windows kept separate from progress payments, as Queensland requires. The federal window tax credit ended with 2025 work, so it only matters for model and QMID records on past jobs.
Nexa covers quoting and billing: estimates and proposals that convert to invoices, payment plans, a client pay portal on your own Stripe account, a CRM with tags and notes, jobs with costing and profit per job, a crew view, time tracking, and bookkeeping including expenses, profit and loss, and 1099 summaries. A note or tag on a job could hold a build year or a renovator name, but Nexa has no built-in lead-safe workflow, and we can't say it separates a custom-product deposit from later payments. It has no text messaging or calls, no GPS or dispatch board, no QuickBooks or Xero sync, and it doesn't run payroll. If you use its automated emails, they 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's Basic plan at the $79 monthly rate is $2,844, or $948 a year. Nexa is $279 once (or 3 payments of $99), plus $4.99 a month if you want Cloud Sync, which comes to $458.64 over three years. If you already run crews on Housecall Pro with dispatch, texts, GPS or QuickBooks sync, stay: Nexa lacks those, and moving wouldn't improve your compliance records. A solo installer or very small shop that mostly quotes, invoices and tracks job profit, and doesn't need texting or dispatch, can reasonably choose Nexa for the lower cost. Either way, keep the lead-safe paperwork and any Queensland deposit terms in a dedicated, auditable record you control, and check your local rules.
Our read for window installers: Stay with Housecall Pro if you run crews on its dispatch, texting, GPS and QuickBooks sync, which Nexa doesn't have; the lead-safe record-keeping needs its own system either way.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Housecall Pro costs window installers $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 window installers: 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 window installer: 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 window installer'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 window installer 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 window installers. You own it like you own your Pry bar, oscillating multi-tool, demolition saw.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small window installers 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.
Every window job starts with measuring each opening accurately, because windows are made to order and a mistake means waiting weeks for a new one. I measure width and height in three places, check the opening for square, and note the condition of the frame, because rot around an old window needs repairing before a new one goes in. On install day we remove the old sash and stops or the whole frame, depending on whether it's an insert or a full-frame replacement, then set the new window level and plumb with shims, fasten it, and seal it properly: flashing tape layered so water runs out rather than in, low-expansion foam in the gaps, and caulk inside and out. Trim work finishes each window, and it's where the quality shows. Weather matters, since we're opening the house to the outside, so we work one opening at a time and close each one before moving on. Lead times of several weeks mean scheduling carefully. I take a deposit when the order is placed and the balance on completion.
Real window installers near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a window installer? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every window installer 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 $760–$2,060 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 window installer'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 window installer — 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 window installers 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 window installers, 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.
Own your tools. Stop renting your software.
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