What resellers need from their software, from sources outside QuickBooks and outside Nexa:
QuickBooks covers much of what a reseller relies on. Inventory tracking is on its Plus plan, which costs more than the $38/month figure. It also has bank feed reconciliation, comprehensive reporting, and 800+ app integrations, which matters when you need marketplace sales reports kept apart from other channels. Accountants know it, which helps with inventory, cost of goods sold, and multi-year record-keeping. The material we have doesn't show either product building state-compliant resale certificates, flagging tax-free purchases later kept for personal use, or proving that a marketplace is collecting tax for you. Plan to handle those with your accountant or a dedicated compliance tool, whichever software you use.
Nexa covers bookkeeping basics: expenses, bank reconciliation, profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow, sales tax tracking, purchase orders, receipt scanning, and 1099 summaries. It also has a simple stock count per product. It does not have full inventory management: no reorder points, no valuation, and no multi-location stock. It has no app marketplace or integration library, so it can't pull in marketplace sales reports. It can't sync with or import from QuickBooks, so moving over means starting your books fresh. Those gaps hit resellers hardest, because inventory valuation and marketplace separation are core to the trade. Nexa's strengths (invoicing, CRM, booking, jobs) mostly serve service businesses.
Over three years, QuickBooks at the $38/month figure comes to $456 a year, or $1,368. Nexa is $279 once, or $458.64 if you add Cloud Sync at $4.99/month for the same period. Nexa is cheaper, but it doesn't do what a stock-based reseller needs most. If you buy and resell goods, especially across marketplaces, stay with QuickBooks and use a higher plan if you need inventory tracking. Consider Nexa only if your reselling is a small sideline, a simple stock count is enough, and you're comfortable owning and running the software yourself with no vendor support desk.
Our read for resellers: Stay with QuickBooks: it has inventory tracking and marketplace-friendly integrations that Nexa lacks, and those are the core of reselling.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
QuickBooks costs resellers $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 resellers: 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, invoicing and time 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 reseller: 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 reseller earns $38,000/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 resellers. You own it like you own your Smartphone with camera.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small resellers 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, invoicing and time 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 inventory comes from everywhere: thrift stores, estate sales, garage sales, clearance racks and liquidation lots. Sourcing is the skill; I'm checking sold listings on my phone in the aisle, because the only price that matters is what something has actually sold for, not what people are asking. Back home, every item gets inspected, cleaned or repaired, measured, and photographed on a plain background, several angles plus flaws. Listing is the grind: a title with the words buyers search, condition notes that prevent returns, and the right price for a fast sale or a patient one. I list the same stock across several marketplaces and have to delist it everywhere the moment it sells, or I'll oversell and take a hit on my seller rating. Every morning I'm packing yesterday's sales and printing labels, and the post office run is part of the routine. The numbers I watch are cost per item, days to sell, fees and shipping, because a $40 sale can net me $12. Dead stock that won't move gets bundled, discounted or donated so it stops eating shelf space.
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The tools of the trade — each a one-time buy that earns its keep for years.
You paid for these once because good tools last. That's the bar your software should clear too — priced like a tool you own, $279 once, not a subscription that costs more than your kit every year.
We build a reseller'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 reseller — 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 resellers 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 resellers, 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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