What domain flippers need from their software, from sources outside QuickBooks and outside Nexa:
QuickBooks covers the accounting side of flipping well. It is the tool accountants know, which helps when the tax treatment of resale names is unsettled and a professional has to decide how to classify them. It also offers bank feed reconciliation, comprehensive reporting, multi-currency support for names bought or sold abroad, and 800+ app integrations. Its classes and locations could tag individual names. Plus caps them at 40, and Advanced removes the cap. What it does not give you is a place to record each name's registrar, the date its registrant details last changed, or whether it is held for resale or used in a business. Those are the facts a seller needs before promising a delivery date, because a registrant change can trigger a 60-day transfer lock, and they decide the tax treatment.
Nexa covers general bookkeeping: expenses, bank reconciliation, profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow, 1099 summaries and receipt scanning. It also has invoices, a client pay portal through your own Stripe account, a CRM and jobs with profit per job, which could stand in for tracking a sale. It has no domain, registrar or transfer-lock tracking, no per-asset register for purchase cost and purpose, no manual journal entries, no investment tracking, and no sync or import with QuickBooks, so you could not move your books across. It is also software you own and run yourself, with no vendor-run onboarding or support desk.
Over three years QuickBooks at $38 a month costs $456 a year, or $1,368 in total. Nexa is $279 once, or $458.64 over three years if you add Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month. Without sync it runs on one device. The price gap does not fix the real problem, because neither tool tracks registrar, registrant-change date, cost basis and purpose for each name. If you already use QuickBooks and your accountant relies on it, stay and keep it for the books. Add a separate per-domain portfolio register to hold the lock dates and purpose records. Switching to Nexa only makes sense if you want a cheaper general bookkeeping tool and will keep that register anyway.
Our read for domain flippers: Neither tool tracks each domain's registrar, registrant-change date, cost and purpose, so a dedicated domain portfolio register is the core need, and QuickBooks stays only as the accounting system your accountant uses.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
QuickBooks costs domain flippers $456/year at today's list price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking and accounting in one suite — so after 7.3 months it has cost less than QuickBooks, 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 QuickBooks 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 domain flippers: Neither QuickBooks nor Nexa is the main system for this work; start with software built for it. Nexa only makes sense beside it, at $279 once against $1,368 for QuickBooks over three years.
The books and job tracking 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. QuickBooks solves some of it. So does Nexa. The difference is what you are left holding in three years.
Today's list price is $38/month — $456 a year, from QuickBooks'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 $1,089 less.
If QuickBooks 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.
Today's sticker price only tells you what a subscription costs today. These are dated changes, each linked to the announcement or report it comes from. Tap one for the numbers.
For renewals on or after February 1, 2026, Pro Plus and Mac Plus went from $999 to $1,149 a year for one user, and each extra seat from $200 to $230.
Source: SWK Technologies, Insightful Accountant (Dec 2, 2025)
From July 1, 2025: Simple Start $35 to $38, Essentials $65 to $75, Plus $99 to $115, Advanced $235 to $275 a month.
Source: Woodard Report (May 27, 2025)
After September 30, 2024, new US customers can no longer buy these Desktop editions. Existing subscribers can keep renewing.
Source: Intuit
Only changes we can link to a vendor announcement or a named publication are listed. Plans, add-ons and discounts vary, so check the vendor's current pricing page before you decide.
| Feature | QuickBooks | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | — | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✓ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
| Price | $38/mo | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Total | $1,368 | $279 |
| You own it? | No — stop paying, lose access | Yes — forever |
✓ and ✗ for QuickBooks come from its own published feature list. — means the feature isn't in that list, which is not the same as QuickBooks lacking it: check with them. Three years is at today's price.
Straight from QuickBooks's own feature set. If one of these is the reason you pay them, that reason does not disappear because Nexa is cheaper.
QuickBooks is the better call if you need industry standard - accountants know it specifically, or if your team is large enough that per-seat pricing still beats buying software outright.
QuickBooks Online is aimed at freelancers and new businesses, small and mid-size businesses, product-based businesses, and nonprofits. Larger or more complex operations are pointed to Desktop Enterprise (up to 40 users) or Intuit Enterprise Suite (multi-entity). (quickbooks.intuit.com)
What people outside QuickBooks 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 domain flipper: 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.)
QuickBooks plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median Domain Flipper earns $32,000/year. At $456/year, QuickBooks 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 domain flippers. You own it like you own your registrar accounts (GoDaddy, Namecheap, Porkbun, Dynadot).
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small domain flippers 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.
The books and job tracking 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 portfolio is the business, and the portfolio never sleeps. Morning is the renewal review: a dozen names expire this month spread across four registrars, and each one is a small decision, renew and keep paying the carry, or let it drop. The flipper checks recent comps to decide which dogs to cut. Then the inbox: an inbound offer came in overnight on a two-word .com through Afternic, lowball but a real human, so the day's negotiation begins. Before countering, the flipper pulls the name's true cost basis, original hand-reg plus six years of renewals, because the floor isn't what feels fair, it's what the name has actually cost. Midday is hunting: scanning the expired-domain drop lists, queuing a few promising names with the drop-catcher, and appraising candidates against past sales. Afternoon brings an escrow that's halfway done, the buyer paid but hasn't confirmed receipt of the transfer, so there's a nudge and a check that the auth code went through clean. A second buyer ghosted after agreeing on price, so that one gets a follow-up and a deadline. The day ends updating the portfolio tracker, marking which names sold, which renewed, which dropped, and totaling the month's carrying cost against the one sale that paid for all of it.
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The tools of the trade — each a one-time buy that earns its keep for years.
Here's the bar that matters: you spent $1,900–$7,000 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 domain flipper'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 domain flipper — 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 domain flippers and small teams, yes. invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting — all for $279 once. QuickBooks may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
QuickBooks has features like Industry standard - accountants know it and 800+ app integrations that some businesses rely on. For most solo domain flippers, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $38/month, Nexa pays for itself in 7.3 months. After that: $456 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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