What facebook marketplace sellers need from their software, from sources outside QuickBooks and outside Nexa:
Disclosure first: Nexa is made by the publisher of this page, so weigh this read accordingly. It rests on the published feature lists and the IRS requirements for sellers, not on seller testimonials, and we have none to offer. QuickBooks covers the record-keeping side of Marketplace selling well. It has bank feed reconciliation and comprehensive reporting, and it can track expenses and the platform fee on shipped orders, kept apart from local pickup and cash sales, which carry no such fee. It is also the tool accountants already know, which matters if your own sales records have to be matched against a 1099-K that may not agree with them or may never arrive. Its real advantage for this trade is inventory. Inventory tracking is on the Plus plan, which costs more than the $38/month tier, and it is the feature that supports Schedule C cost of goods sold: what each item cost, what is still unsold at year end, and what you kept for personal use. Nothing we have shows a Facebook Marketplace import in either product, so expect to enter or reconcile sales yourself either way.
Nexa covers the basic books: expenses, bank reconciliation, profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow, receipt scanning, and a simple stock count per product. That is enough to keep the organized income and expense records the IRS looks at when separating a business from a hobby. It is not enough to do the inventory side for you. It has no reorder points, no inventory valuation and no multi-location stock, and it has no manual journal entries. Beginning and ending inventory for cost of goods sold would be largely a manual count and a spreadsheet job. It also cannot import from or sync with QuickBooks. It has no hosted support desk, because it is software you own and run yourself, and without the optional $4.99/month Cloud Sync it runs on one device. Most of its invoicing, CRM, booking and crew features do little for someone listing items on Marketplace. If you use its automated emails at all, they send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices.
Over three years, QuickBooks at $38/month is $456 a year, or $1,368, and that figure is for the lower tier without inventory tracking. Nexa is $279 once (or 3 payments of $99), or $458.64 over three years if you add Cloud Sync. The savings are real, but they come from giving up inventory tracking. A small seller who flips a modest number of items, can count unsold stock by hand, and wants clean expense and profit records can reasonably use Nexa. A seller who buys goods in volume, needs inventory behind a Schedule C cost of goods sold, or works with an accountant who expects QuickBooks should stay with QuickBooks and look at its Plus plan.
Our read for facebook marketplace sellers: Stay with QuickBooks if you buy stock to resell and need inventory and cost-of-goods-sold records; Nexa only suits a small seller who is comfortable counting inventory by hand.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
QuickBooks costs facebook marketplace sellers $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 facebook marketplace sellers: Stay with QuickBooks 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 $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 facebook marketplace seller: 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 Facebook Marketplace Seller 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 facebook marketplace sellers. You own it like you own your Smartphone for listing photos and Messenger.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small facebook marketplace sellers 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.
My phone never stops buzzing because every listing draws ten 'is this still available?' messages and maybe one real buyer. I answer them all anyway because you can't tell the tire-kickers from the closers until pickup. This morning I'm refurbishing a dresser I bought for thirty, cleaning it up, fixing a drawer slide, and I'll list it for one-twenty if it photographs well in the driveway light. A buyer ghosts after I held the item all day, so I message the next person in line. Another offers half my asking price with no shame, and I either hold firm or move it because it's been sitting two weeks. I coordinate three pickups, all wanting to meet at different times, and I pick a public lot for the sketchy-sounding ones because meeting strangers from the internet is the job. At handoff one guy shows me a Zelle screenshot that the money's coming and I make him wait until it actually lands, because I've been burned by a fake before. Evening I load a couch into my truck for a delivery I charged extra for, and when I get home I try to remember what I paid for everything I sold this week. The gas, the cleaning supplies, the hours, none of it gets counted, so I'm never quite sure which flips were worth it.
Real facebook marketplace sellers near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a facebook marketplace seller? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every facebook marketplace seller 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 $420–$1,810 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 facebook marketplace seller'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 facebook marketplace seller — 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 facebook marketplace sellers 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 facebook marketplace sellers, 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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