What offerup sellers need from their software, from sources outside Wave and outside Nexa:
Wave covers the record-keeping side of OfferUp selling reasonably well. Its free plan includes unlimited bookkeeping records, and Pro ($19 a month) adds automatic bank transaction import, categorizing, and receipt capture. That helps with logging every sale so you can reconcile against any 1099-K, and with tracking expenses for a profit-or-loss picture. Wave is built around invoicing, though. Nothing on its feature list is a per-item record of what you paid and what you sold each item for. Nothing flags a sale as hobby or business, and nothing computes net self-employment earnings or prepares Form 8949 or Schedule D. Those parts you'd handle with your own categories or a spreadsheet.
Nexa covers some of the same ground. It has expenses, bank reconciliation, profit and loss, receipt scanning, and sales tracking. Its jobs feature tracks costing and profit per job, and a simple stock count per product could stand in for a rough per-item record. It also doesn't mark hobby versus business, and it doesn't calculate self-employment tax or produce the capital-gains forms. The rest of its feature set (CRM, booking page, crew tools, drip emails) is aimed at service businesses and mostly isn't relevant to casual selling. If you do use its automated emails, they send only while Nexa is open on one of your devices. Nexa also has no vendor-run support desk, and it doesn't import from other accounting tools.
Over three years, Wave Pro at $19 a month comes to $684, and Wave's free plan costs nothing if you can live without bank import. Nexa is $279 once (or 3 payments of $99), or $458.64 over three years if you add Cloud Sync at $4.99 a month. Without Cloud Sync it runs on one device. Nexa is cheaper than Wave Pro over three years, but the gap matters less if the free Wave plan is enough. If you already use Wave and your records are in order, stay put. If you have no accounting tool, don't want a monthly fee, and want per-item or per-job profit in one place, Nexa is a fair choice.
Our read for offerup sellers: Stay with Wave if you already use it, since its free plan, bank import, and hosted support cover the basics. Nexa is a reasonable pick only if you want a one-time purchase and per-job profit tracking.
Read on each linked page in October 2026. Check them again before you decide; vendors change plans often.
Wave costs offerup 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 offerup sellers: Stay with Wave 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 $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 offerup 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.)
This is the connection that makes the rest worth it. A offerup seller'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.
Wave plus whatever else you're paying for:
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The median OfferUp 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 offerup sellers. You own it like you own your Smartphone for listings and in-app chat.
An honest fit check — because the wrong tool is worse than no tool.
The honest fit: if you're a solo or small offerup 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.
OfferUp is local and mostly cash, so my day runs on meetups and the people who flake on them. Morning I answer a stack of messages, half of them lowballs, the other half people who'll arrange a time and disappear. I'm cleaning up a bike I grabbed for twenty, tuning the gears, and I'll list it for ninety if it looks sharp in the photos. Someone offers half my asking with zero negotiation room, and I either counter or let it sit. I line up pickups for the afternoon, picking a busy public lot for the ones that feel off, because meeting strangers is the part of this job that requires a little caution. One buyer no-shows after I held the item all morning, so I message the next person. At handoff I count cash carefully because I've had a counterfeit bill passed before, and if someone claims they sent payment through an app I wait until it actually clears. Late afternoon I deliver a couch I charged extra to haul, gas and time I rarely factor in. Evening I look at what I sold, mostly cash that never gets recorded anywhere, and try to remember what I paid for each item. The margins are probably fine but I'm honestly guessing, because nothing about the local cash hustle tracks itself.
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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 an offerup 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 an offerup 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 offerup 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 offerup 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.
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