Dext turns piles of paper and PDFs into clean, coded bookkeeping data — built for accountants who hate data entry.
Dext started life in 2010 as Receipt Bank, a London-built tool designed to stop bookkeepers from typing receipts into ledgers by hand. After a rebrand in 2021, the company consolidated its product line under the Dext name and expanded well beyond simple receipt OCR.
Today, Dext is a two-product platform:
The product is sold in the UK, Australia, the US, France, Canada, and South Africa, and it's used by tens of thousands of accounting firms. For most bookkeepers reading Xero or QuickBooks community threads, "Dext" is the default answer to "how do I stop entering receipts manually?"
Photograph a receipt, email an invoice, or drag in a PDF — Dext reads the document, identifies the supplier, and lifts the line items, tax, and total into a structured record. The verification screen lets bookkeepers confirm or correct before publishing.
Drop a PDF or CSV bank statement and Dext converts the transactions into a format that publishes to your ledger, often used as a precursor to reconciliation in Xero or QBO.
Native integrations with Xero, QuickBooks Online, Sage Business Cloud, Sage 50, MYOB, NetSuite, and dozens of regional ledgers. Documents can also be exported as a CSV for anything else.
iOS and Android apps let clients snap receipts on the go. Auto-enhance cleans up the image, and the document uploads the moment the phone is back online.
Set coding rules per supplier so similar invoices auto-route to the right account, tax code, and class. The rules engine learns as the team processes more documents.
Multi-client dashboards, user roles, client request portals, and the Precision add-on for period-end health checks, benchmarking, and a one-glance client health score.
Dext sells Dext Prepare on tiered monthly or annual subscriptions, with pricing varying by country and currency. As a general guide for 2026:
Annual billing usually delivers a meaningful discount versus paying month-to-month, and a free trial is offered in most regions. Because Dext prices per market, the safest move is to check the current Dext pricing page for your country before you commit.
| Feature | Dext Prepare | Hubdoc | AutoEntry | Expensify |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary audience | Accountants & bookkeepers | Small businesses & practices | Accountants & SMBs | Mobile-first expense teams |
| Receipt OCR | Yes — best-in-class | Yes (now bundled with Xero) | Yes | Yes — strongest on receipts |
| Bank statement extraction | Yes | Yes (for supported banks) | Yes | Limited |
| Practice / multi-client dashboard | Yes (Premium + Precision) | Limited | Yes | Limited |
| Health-check & insights | Yes (Precision add-on) | No | No | No |
| Best ledger fit | Xero, QBO, Sage, MYOB, NetSuite | Xero (owned by Xero) | Sage, Xero, QBO, others | QBO, NetSuite, Xero |
vs Hubdoc: Hubdoc is simpler and free with many Xero plans, but it lacks the practice-grade workflow and the deeper extraction quality Dext offers.
vs AutoEntry: AutoEntry is a credible challenger, especially inside Sage-heavy firms. Dext usually wins on UI polish, mobile app quality, and the Precision add-on.
vs Expensify: Expensify is unbeatable for travel and corporate-card expense workflows, but it's not a replacement for Dext if you also need invoices, statements, and supplier-coded publishing.
Head to dext.com, choose your region, and start a trial of Dext Prepare. Most markets give you 7–14 days or a set document allowance.
From the Integrations tab, link your Xero, QuickBooks Online, or Sage organisation. Dext will ask which chart of accounts and tax codes to use for publishing.
Snap a receipt in the mobile app, forward an invoice from your email, or drag a PDF bank statement into the web inbox. Dext extracts the data within seconds.
Review the extracted fields in the Inbox screen, adjust anything that needs fixing, and click Publish to push the records straight into your ledger.
Add coding rules for your most common suppliers, invite clients via the client portal, and consider layering on Dext Precision once you have a few months of data to analyse.
Most regions offer a free trial, and annual plans typically cost less per month than rolling monthly subscriptions. Head to Dext to confirm pricing in your country.
Get started with Dext →Yes. Receipt Bank rebranded to Dext in 2021. The receipt and invoice OCR functionality you may have used under the Receipt Bank name is now part of Dext Prepare.
Yes. Dext has native, two-way integrations with both Xero and QuickBooks Online, plus Sage, MYOB, NetSuite, and many more — the published list sits at around 70 integrations.
Dext Precision is an add-on for accounting practices. It runs health checks on client ledgers, flags unreconciled balances and missing documents, benchmarks clients against each other, and gives partners a single dashboard view.
In practice, Dext's OCR handles the bulk of receipts and invoices with minimal intervention, but the verification step is still important for edge cases like faded thermal receipts or unusual tax lines. Most users report only a quick sanity check is needed per document.
Yes. Every Dext account gets a unique email address. You can forward PDF invoices, attach images, or set up a rule so receipts scanned by your phone are automatically sent in.
Pricing is tiered and varies by region. In most markets, Starter plans start in the low-tens of dollars/pounds per month with annual billing; Premium and Practice tiers cost more. Check dext.com for current rates in your country.
Dext doesn't market a permanent free tier, but most regions offer a free trial of Dext Prepare so you can test the OCR and integrations before committing.
Yes. You can upload PDF or CSV bank statements and Dext will extract the transactions and publish them into your ledger, ready to be reconciled against the corresponding receipts.
Dext is the rare SaaS tool that has been around long enough to be a little boring — and that is exactly why accountants keep buying it. The OCR is best-in-class, the integrations with Xero, QuickBooks, and Sage are deep, and the move up into practice-grade health checks with Dext Precision gives the platform a clear second act.
If you handle meaningful document volume, Dext will pay for itself in recovered hours within the first month. If you're a sole trader with a single shoebox of receipts, you'll find cheaper alternatives. For everyone in between — practices, finance teams, and growing SMBs — Dext is a confident buy in 2026.
Firms servicing multiple small business clients use Dext to receive and pre-process receipts uniformly, slashing the manual entry time per client and improving data accuracy before syncing to the firm's accounting software.
Agency leaders manage employee expense approvals and capture client project receipts through one system, gaining real-time visibility and a clean audit trail that feeds directly into their books.
Founders with frequent business expenses use the mobile app and email capture to instantly log transactions, ensuring books are always current and reducing month-end closing delays.
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| Feature | Dext |
|---|---|
| Free trial | 14 days |
| Cheapest paid plan | $0/mo |
| Annual discount | Up to 25% |
| Refund window | 30 days |
| Setup time | < 1 hour |
| Best for | Founders |
“Excellent for multi-department expense management”
“No more shoebox of receipts at year-end”
“Halved my time spent on client receipt processing”
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