Every business has a drawer, a shoebox or a folder full of receipts nobody wants to touch. Dext was built to make that drawer irrelevant. Snap a receipt on your phone, forward an invoice by email, or let it fetch statements automatically — the data is read, categorised and pushed into your accounting software before you have finished your coffee.

The pitch on the Dext homepage is refreshingly specific: receipts, invoices and expenses captured and categorised with 99.9% accuracy, then synced straight through. No manual entry. And the numbers behind it are not small — 700,000 businesses and over 12,000 accounting and bookkeeping firms run on it, processing more than 320 million documents a year.

What Dext is, and where it came from

If the name sounds new, the product is not. Dext is the platform formerly known as Receipt Bank, one of the original receipt-capture tools in the cloud accounting world, and it now trades as Dext by IRIS as part of the IRIS Software Group. More than a decade of processing other people’s paperwork is exactly the kind of history that makes an extraction engine accurate.

What it does, in one line: it sits between the paperwork and the ledger. You feed documents in; clean, categorised, coded transactions come out the other side and land in Xero, QuickBooks, Sage or whatever you already use.

The five-step workflow: Capture, Extract, Process, Store, Collaborate

The product is organised around five stages, and the clarity of that structure is a big part of why Dext is easy to hand to a non-accountant.

• Capture — mobile scanning, email submission, direct upload, automatic invoice fetching and bank-feed syncing
• Extract — AI pulls the supplier, date, amount, tax and line items with 99.9% accuracy
• Process — the transaction is categorised and coded, ready for reconciliation
• Store — every document is archived with a digital audit trail
• Collaborate — your bookkeeper or accountant works from the same live data, not a carrier bag of paper

The practical effect is that the person holding the receipt does the easy bit — one photo — and the system does everything after that. For employee expenses and mileage the same flow applies, with approvals and real-time visibility instead of email chains.

Dext fits around the accounting software you already have

This is the part that removes most of the objections. Dext connects with 36+ accounting software platforms and e-commerce platforms, plus over 11,500 banks and financial institutions. Nothing to migrate, nothing to relearn — your ledger stays where it is and Dext feeds it.

That matters enormously if you already have an accountant. They keep their workflow, you keep yours, and the handover stops being a monthly negotiation about missing paperwork. It is the same reasoning behind our review of Joiin, which sits on the reporting side of the same stack — good finance tools win by fitting in, not by demanding a rebuild.

Dext AI Assist: automation that learns your chart of accounts

The newest layer is Dext AI Assist, the platform’s bookkeeping AI agent. Every coding decision your team makes gets learned and applied going forward, so the routine transactions — the same supplier, the same category, month after month — stop needing a human at all. What is left on the review screen is the genuinely unusual stuff, which is the only part that deserved attention in the first place.

That is the right shape for AI in accounting: not replacing judgement, but removing the ninety percent of entries that never needed judgement.

Dext Payments: from approved invoice to paid, in one place

You can also pay suppliers and reimburse employee expenses without leaving Dext, with everything staying in sync with the accounting software automatically. Dext Payments is enabled through a partnership with Airwallex (UK) Limited, authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority — a regulated payments partner rather than a home-grown money-movement layer, which is exactly what you want underneath a payments feature.

Dext pricing and the free trial

Pricing is transparent and published on the site rather than hidden behind a sales call, and the current figures are always on the Dext pricing page.

• $25.21 per month (USD, excludes VAT) billed annually at $302.50 — up to 20% cheaper than paying monthly
• Includes 250 documents per month and 5 users, with a slider to increase the allowance
• Free credits included: 10 sheets of bank statement extraction, 5 documents with line-item extraction, 5 supplier statement extractions
• A separate plan tier for accounting and bookkeeping firms, and bespoke pricing beyond 5 business entities
• A 14-day free trial with no credit card required

Region-specific pricing is available for the UK, USA, EU, Ireland, Canada, APAC and South Africa, so you are quoted in your own currency and tax treatment rather than converting from a US list price.

The scale and the ratings behind Dext

Plenty of tools claim traction. Dext publishes the numbers and the review scores side by side, which is easy to verify and hard to fake.

• App Store — 4.8 from 91,110+ ratings
• Google Play — 4.8 from 12,880+ reviews
• Trustpilot — TrustScore 4.7 from 1,949 reviews
• Xero App Store — 4.8 from 1,110+ reviews
• G2 — 4.6 from 380+ reviews · Intuit QuickBooks — 4.4 from 580+ reviews

The awards line up with that: G2 Regional Leader (Spring 2026), G2 Momentum Leader (Summer 2026), Best Expense Software 2025, Small Business App of the Year 2024 in both the UK and the US, and Best Accounting Cloud-Based Software 2023. A 4.8 from ninety thousand mobile ratings is the one that says most — that is the score of an app people actually open every week.

Who Dext is for

• Small and medium businesses that want their own bookkeeping automated and their admin evenings back
• Accounting and bookkeeping firms managing many clients from one set of AI-powered workflows
• Multi-entity businesses and franchises, with bespoke setups beyond five entities
• Sector operators — construction, hospitality and wellness, and professional services all have dedicated guidance
• Teams with employee expenses and mileage to approve, track and reimburse without email chains

Security and compliance are covered too: Dext is GDPR compliant and publishes a Trust Center, which is the right answer when you are asking a business to route every invoice it receives through your platform.

Verdict on Dext

Dext does the least glamorous job in business software and does it extremely well. The extraction is accurate, the integrations mean nothing has to change, the AI layer keeps getting better the more your team uses it, and the pricing is published in plain numbers with a proper free trial. For anyone still typing supplier invoices into a ledger by hand, this is the shortest path to getting those hours back.

The 14-day trial needs no credit card, so the cost of finding out is your receipts and an afternoon — start at dext.com and see how much of last month it clears on its own.

Rating: 4.7 / 5