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Document capture and extraction

Dext

Receipt and invoice capture for bookkeepers and firms.

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Overview

On a typical morning, your team opens an inbox full of supplier PDFs, a stack of photographed receipts from clients, and a browser tab open to a utility portal. Dext captures all of those, pulls the structured data out of receipts, invoices, and bank statements, and posts the transactions into QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, or Excel. Clients photograph receipts on their phone, a browser extension picks up bills from supplier portals, and a dedicated email address catches PDF invoices as they arrive. Categorisation rules build up from prior postings, so regular suppliers need less correction over time.

Dext works with QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, and Excel. Pricing is no longer published on the Dext site: plans are quoted by sales and structured around the number of users and the volume of documents processed each month, with custom plans for higher-volume or more complex firms. A free trial is available; there is no permanent free tier.

In daily use, Dext saves the most time on clients with high supplier-invoice volumes and varied receipt formats. Categorisation rules learn from previous postings, so repeat suppliers need less correction over time. For clients with fewer than about 50 documents a month, the Hubdoc capture that comes free with most Xero plans may be sufficient.

Compared to AutoEntry, which charges per credit rather than per user, Dext's per-user pricing works out cheaper for firms running many clients through one login. Dext also adds categorisation suggestions and supplier-feed connections that pull bills from utility and telco portals, while AutoEntry focuses on extraction only.

The service runs in the cloud with a mobile app and is available in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and other regions. It fits solo bookkeepers through to mid-sized practices with up to around fifty staff.

See it in action

Dext document capture interface showing invoice data extraction and item details panel
Dext costs inbox with document processing queue and supplier review statuses

Product images courtesy of Dext.

Key facts

Starting price
Custom pricing
Pricing model
Custom
Free trial
Yes
Free tier
No
Deployment
Cloud, Mobile
Geography
US, UK, AU, CA, Global
Founded
2010
Support
Phone, Chat, Email, Knowledge Base
Languages
English, French
Works with
Quickbooks, Xero, Sage, Excel
Last verified
2026-06-29

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Solo bookkeepers and small to mid firms that need receipt and invoice capture into QuickBooks, Xero, or Sage.
  • Practices that want browser-extension and email-forwarding capture alongside a mobile app.
  • Firms with multi-firm portfolios that need line-item invoice extraction across many clients.

Cons

  • Firms with very low capture volume. At low document counts, manual entry can cost less than a Dext subscription.
  • Practices on NetSuite or enterprise ERPs. Dext targets QuickBooks, Xero, and Sage.
  • Firms that want a permanent free tier. Dext offers only a time-limited trial.

Pricing

TierPriceBillingFeatures
CustomCustomQuoted by sales, structured around users and monthly document volumeReceipt and invoice capture, line-item extraction, multi-firm access, and accounting-software sync. Plans are built around the number of users and the volume of documents processed each month.

Frequently asked questions

What does Dext do that Hubdoc doesn't?
Dext offers more accurate extraction on complex line-item invoices, multi-currency document handling, supplier-feed connections to common providers (utility, telco, fuel cards), and a more polished mobile app for receipt capture. Hubdoc is genuinely free with most Xero subscriptions and handles the basic capture-to-ledger workflow well. The gap shows on clients with high-volume document streams (more than around 100 documents per client per month), foreign-language documents, or itemised invoices where the line-by-line extraction matters.
How much does Dext cost?
Dext is priced per firm rather than per client, with tiers based on monthly document volume across all your clients. Entry tiers start around 30 USD per month for low-volume firms, scaling to a few hundred USD per month at higher volumes. Annual contracts get a meaningful discount over monthly. The unbundled per-firm pricing model is genuinely cheaper than per-client capture pricing once a firm has more than 5 active clients pushing documents through the platform.
Is Dext worth paying for if my clients already have Hubdoc free with Xero?
For most clients with under 50 documents per month, no. Hubdoc handles their volume cleanly and Dext's accuracy advantage is invisible at low volume. For clients with 100 or more documents per month, complex line items, multi-currency, or foreign-language documents, the Dext upgrade pays back through fewer manual corrections. Most firms in the UK and Australia run a mix: Hubdoc for small clients, Dext for the larger or more complex ones.
Does Dext work in the US?
Yes. Dext has a substantial US customer base and US support team. The platform handles US-style invoices, multi-currency capture, and integrates with QuickBooks Online and Xero in the US. The original product was UK-built and the deepest integrations remain on the UK and Australian side, but the US functionality is fully production-ready and not a bolt-on.
How accurate is Dext's AI extraction?
On clean PDF supplier invoices, expect 95% or higher accuracy for the standard fields (supplier, date, amount, tax). On photographed paper receipts, expect 85% to 90% depending on photo quality. On handwritten receipts and complex multi-page invoices, accuracy drops below 80% and human review becomes essential. The realistic frame is that Dext gets you to a near-correct draft your team reviews, not a hands-off process.

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