What electricians need from their software, from sources outside ServiceTitan and outside Nexa:
ServiceTitan covers the operating side of an electrical contractor well. It lists a dispatch board with real-time tracking, a field app, service agreements, purchasing and inventory, job costing, progress billing and WIP reporting, and a Proposal Builder for commercial work. It also has a QuickBooks integration and 70+ pre-built integrations, with Pricebook Pro as an add-on for flat-rate pricing. Its published features don't mention tracking license status, CE hours or renewal dates per license, or keeping CE certificates. Its homepage doesn't describe worker-classification records either. Whichever tool you pick, you will probably need a separate system or checklist for the license side, including the split between a contractor license and individual electrician licenses.
Nexa covers the quoting and billing basics. It has estimates, quotes and proposals that convert to invoices, recurring invoices, and a client pay portal where clients pay by card through your own Stripe account and sign estimates. It also has jobs with costing and profit per job, job assignment to team members with a crew view, time tracking, a payroll CSV of hours x rate, 1099 summaries, expenses and sales tax tracking. It does not have a dispatch board, GPS or route optimization, QuickBooks or Xero sync, progress billing, an integration library, or full inventory management. It doesn't run payroll, so there are no payroll taxes or pay stubs. It has no text messaging and no hosted support or vendor-run onboarding. Its automated emails send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. It has no feature built for license or CE tracking either.
Over three years ServiceTitan at $300 a month comes to $10,800 ($3,600 a year). Nexa is $279 once, or $458.64 with optional Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month. The gap is real, but it only matters if Nexa can do the work you rely on. If you run a crew with a dispatch board, bill commercial jobs by progress, or depend on QuickBooks sync, stay with ServiceTitan. If you do mostly small flat-rate service work, use one device, and keep your books separately, Nexa's invoicing, CRM and job costing could be enough. In that case, track licenses and CE outside both tools.
Our read for electricians: Stay with ServiceTitan if you need dispatch, progress billing or QuickBooks sync, since Nexa has none of them and neither tool is built for license and CE tracking.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
ServiceTitan costs electricians $3,600/year at today's list price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking and accounting in one suite — so after 0.9 months it has cost less than ServiceTitan, 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 ServiceTitan 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 electricians: Stay with ServiceTitan 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 $10,800 for ServiceTitan 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. ServiceTitan solves some of it. So does Nexa. The difference is what you are left holding in three years.
Today's list price is $300/month — $3,600 a year, from ServiceTitan'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 $10,521 less.
If ServiceTitan 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 | ServiceTitan | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✓ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | — | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | — | ✓ |
| Works offline | — | ✓ |
| Price | $300/mo | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Total | $10,800 | $279 |
| You own it? | No — stop paying, lose access | Yes — forever |
✓ and ✗ for ServiceTitan come from its own published feature list. — means the feature isn't in that list, which is not the same as ServiceTitan lacking it: check with them. Three years is at today's price.
Straight from ServiceTitan's own feature set. If one of these is the reason you pay them, that reason does not disappear because Nexa is cheaper.
ServiceTitan is the better call if you need enterprise-grade field service management specifically, or if your team is large enough that per-seat pricing still beats buying software outright.
ServiceTitan says it is built for commercial, construction and residential contracting businesses in the trades. Its page headline reads "Built for the Trades, Built for Your Business." (servicetitan.com)
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 electrician: 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 electrician'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.
ServiceTitan plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median electrician earns $60,240/year. At $3,600/year, ServiceTitan 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 electricians. You own it like you own your Multimeters (Fluke).
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small electricians 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.
Local rates and saturation vary widely — price for the city you serve, not a national average.
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.
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Most of my work is residential service calls and small projects: a dead circuit, a breaker that keeps tripping, adding outlets in a kitchen remodel, a panel upgrade, an EV charger in the garage. Troubleshooting is the real skill; I'm testing circuits, tracing where a fault actually is, and finding the loose connection or the overloaded circuit behind the symptom. Safety is everything. I verify every circuit is dead before touching it, because assuming kills electricians. Anything beyond a simple repair usually needs a permit, which means paperwork before the job and an inspection after, and I plan my schedule around the inspector's availability. Panel upgrades and new circuits start with a load calculation to make sure the service can handle it. I carry the common breakers, devices and wire on the van, but special-order parts can push a job back a week. Quoting is careful work, because opening a wall in an old house can reveal knob-and-tube wiring nobody expected. I keep my licence current with continuing education and invoice every job before I leave the driveway when I can.
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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 $940–$3,600 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 an electrician'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 an electrician — 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 electricians and small teams, yes. invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting — all for $279 once. ServiceTitan may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
ServiceTitan has features like Enterprise-grade field service management and Powerful dispatch board with real-time tracking that some businesses rely on. For most solo electricians, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $300/month, Nexa pays for itself in 0.9 months. After that: $3,600 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.
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