What marketplace sellers need from their software, from sources outside Wave and outside Nexa:
We found no sourced list of what marketplace sellers need, so this read rests on what each product says it does. Wave covers the bookkeeping side well. The free Starter plan has unlimited invoices, bills and bookkeeping records. Pro at $19 a month adds automatic bank transaction import, automatic categorizing, receipt capture and late-payment reminders. It is simple enough to run without an accountant, and it has live chat and email support on weekdays. Nothing in Wave's own feature list mentions stock tracking or connecting to a marketplace, so a seller who needs either would not get it from Wave.
Nexa covers more of the business side: invoices and estimates, expenses, bank reconciliation, profit and loss, balance sheet, sales tax tracking, receipt scanning, 1099 summaries, and a simple stock count per product. It does not have full inventory management (no reorder points, valuation or multi-location stock). It has no app marketplace or integration library, no point-of-sale or card reader, and no sync or import with QuickBooks or Xero. Card payments go only through your own Stripe account. Nexa is software you own and run yourself, so there is no hosted support desk or vendor-run onboarding. If you use its automated emails or reminders, they send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices.
Over three years, Wave Pro comes to $684 ($19 a month, or $228 a year). Nexa is $279 once, or 3 payments of $99. With optional Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month, three years comes to $458.64. Without sync it stays at $279 but runs on one device. If Wave's free plan already covers your bookkeeping, stay on it, since it costs less than anything else here. If you pay for Pro mainly for bank import and support, Nexa is cheaper over three years but gives up both. A seller whose main problem is keeping stock counts and orders in step across marketplaces will not find that solved by either product.
Our read for marketplace sellers: Neither product covers multi-channel inventory and order syncing, so look for an inventory and order management tool that connects to your marketplaces, and keep Wave's free plan for the books if it already works.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Wave costs marketplace sellers $228/year at today's list price. Nexa is $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking and accounting in one suite — so after 14.7 months it has cost less than Wave, 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 Wave 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 marketplace sellers: Neither Wave 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 $684 for Wave 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. Wave solves some of it. So does Nexa. The difference is what you are left holding in three years.
Today's list price is $19/month — $228 a year, from Wave'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 $405 less.
If Wave 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 | Wave | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✓ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Works offline | ✗ | ✓ |
| Price | $19/mo | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Total | $684 | $279 |
| You own it? | No — stop paying, lose access | Yes — forever |
✓ and ✗ for Wave come from its own published feature list. — means the feature isn't in that list, which is not the same as Wave lacking it: check with them. Three years is at today's price.
Straight from Wave's own feature set. If one of these is the reason you pay them, that reason does not disappear because Nexa is cheaper.
Wave is the better call if you need free plan covering unlimited invoices and bookkeeping specifically, or if your team is large enough that per-seat pricing still beats buying software outright.
Wave says it is built for small business owners and solopreneurs at every stage, not accountants. Its page names freelancers, contractors and consultants. (waveapps.com)
What people outside Wave 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 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.)
Wave plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median Marketplace Seller earns $32,000/year. At $228/year, Wave 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 marketplace sellers. You own it like you own your Postal scale and tape measure.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small 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.
I start at the shipping table because yesterday's sales need to go out before the carrier pickup. I print labels, weigh each package twice because guessing wrong eats my margin, and update inventory as items leave. The hard part isn't selling, it's knowing what I actually made: the marketplace took a fee, shipping cost more than the buyer paid, and the payout that hit my account doesn't match the sale price, so I keep a spreadsheet to back out the real profit per item. I cross-list the same vintage jacket on three platforms and live in fear of overselling it, because it's one of one and refunding an oversold buyer kills my rating. A 'not as described' return comes in on an item I photographed honestly, and I'll get it back smelling like someone's house and have to relist it. Afternoon I source: estate sales, thrift runs, clearance racks, photographing finds in the lightbox and writing listings that rank. I check which platform's fees ate the most this month. Evening I reprice slow movers and pull the items that have sat too long. Tax is its own headache because each state's marketplace facilitator rules are different, and I never fully trust that what got collected is what I owe.
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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 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 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 marketplace sellers and small teams, yes. invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting — all for $279 once. Wave may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
Wave has features like Free plan covering unlimited invoices and bookkeeping and Bank transaction import on Pro that some businesses rely on. For most solo marketplace sellers, these aren't dealbreakers.
At $19/month, Nexa pays for itself in 14.7 months. After that: $228 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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