What rv detailer need from their software, from sources outside QuickBooks and outside Nexa:
QuickBooks covers the bookkeeping side of this trade well. It has bank feed reconciliation, comprehensive reporting, and 800+ app integrations, and it is the tool most accountants already know. That matters when sales tax differs by state: in Missouri, mobile detailing is not a taxable service, but the detailer still pays tax on soaps, waxes and coatings it buys. An accountant who knows your books will handle that well. Plus adds project profitability and inventory tracking, and phone support comes with any paid plan. The listed features say nothing about the trade's field needs. These are storing wash-water permit notes, tracking catch-system equipment per job, and keeping resale-exemption paperwork for dealer customers such as the Arkansas GR-53 kind. You would have to handle those with notes, attachments or a separate system.
Nexa covers more of the day-to-day work. It has jobs with costing and profit per job, recurring jobs, crew assignment, today's stops sent to Google Maps in time order, a booking page, invoices and estimates, a client pay portal through your own Stripe account, and a CRM with notes and tags. Its bookkeeping includes expenses, bank reconciliation, profit and loss, and sales tax tracking. Notes and tags can hold compliance details and dealer-exemption status, but Nexa has no dedicated wash-water or exemption feature, and a client record has no street-address field, which is awkward for mobile work. Nexa does not sync or import with QuickBooks, does not run payroll, has no integration library, and has no hosted support desk. Its automated emails, such as reminders and sequences, send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices.
Over three years QuickBooks at $38 a month costs $1,368 ($456 a year). Nexa is $279 once, or $458.64 over three years with optional Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month. Without sync it stays at $279 but runs on one device. If you have an accountant working in QuickBooks, want phone support, or need integrations, stay. A solo or small crew that mostly needs scheduling, job costing, invoicing and simple books, and can run its own software, can reasonably switch. Because there is no QuickBooks import, a switch means starting fresh.
Our read for rv detailer: Stay with QuickBooks if your accountant, phone support or integrations matter to you; Nexa fits a small crew that wants jobs, invoicing and simple books for $279 once instead of $1,368 over three years.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
QuickBooks costs rv detailer $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 rv detailer: Either can do the job, for the reasons in our read above. On price alone, that is $279 once against $1,368 for QuickBooks over three years.
Invoicing, time tracking, 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. 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 rv detailer: 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 RV Detailer earns $48,000/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 rv detailer. You own it like you own your Extension-pole brushes and foam cannon for tall walls and high roofs.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small rv detailer 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.
Invoicing, time tracking, 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.
An RV is the biggest single thing I'll detail, sometimes more surface area than a small house, so a full job can eat a day or two. Most of the fight is up high and on big flat panels: the fiberglass sidewalls oxidize chalky in the sun, and bringing them back means compounding and waxing from a ladder, working the extension poles for the parts I can't reach, panel by panel down a forty-foot coach. Black streaks are the signature RV problem, dark runoff dripping from every seam, awning rail, and vent, and I can scrub them off, but I tell owners they'll come right back unless we deal with the source. That takes me to the roof, which is where the real value is: I'm walking a rubber or fiberglass roof inspecting seams, checking the sealant around vents and the AC, and resealing with self-leveling lap sealant before a tiny gap lets water into the walls and rots the whole rig. Down below it's bug-blasted front caps, wheel wells, and slide-out seals. It's physical, ladder-heavy work in the sun, and the size scares off a lot of detailers. When an owner pulls a chalky, streaked rig in and drives out with it glossy and sealed up tight for the season, that's a job worth the sweat.
Real rv detailer near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a rv detailer? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every rv detailer 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 $1,160–$4,400 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 rv detailer'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 rv detailer — 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 rv detailer 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 rv detailer, 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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