Dext
AI bookkeeping software that captures receipts, invoices and expenses, then syncs them to your accounting software
By Dext · 4.6/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Small and medium businesses that want receipts, invoices and bank statements captured and coded automatically
- Accounting and bookkeeping firms processing documents for many client ledgers from one workspace
- Teams claiming employee expenses and mileage with approvals and a digital audit trail
- Businesses already on Xero, QuickBooks, Sage or Zoho that want data published straight into their ledgers
Ideal size: 1–50 people · SMB or accounting practice already running cloud accounting
Not for
- Enterprises needing full ERP, procurement or general ledger functionality
- Businesses with no cloud accounting software or no appetite to change document workflows
- Teams wanting a fully outsourced human bookkeeping service rather than automation software
- Very low document volumes where manual entry is cheaper than a subscription
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
About a week
~7 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$302/yr
Starts at $302 · Business plans priced by documents and users, billed monthly or annually (up to 20% cheaper annually); practice plans priced per client per month
Implementation Friction
2/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Business: 5 users and 250 documents per month baseline; practice plans: 10-client minimum
Add-on costs
- Dext AI Assist custom guidance: $7 per client per month
- Data health & insights add-on: $7.50 per client per month
- Commerce Lite add-on: $7.50 per client per month
- Extra extraction credits for bank statements, line items and supplier statement reconciliation
Company & support
Who is behind Dext, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
- Not recorded
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailPlan not stated
- Live chatPlan not stated
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsAll plans
- Dedicated account managerNot listed
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
- 48 hours median time to first response
Support answers technical questions by chat or email; 250+ tutorials available in the Help Centre; onboarding guidance offered. Phone and in-person support are not documented.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Dext sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
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Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Dext
- Agendrix
- Playroll
- actiTIME
- PayFit
- Azuga
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Dext. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Dext ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Dext markets AI-driven capture, extraction and categorisation of receipts, invoices, bank statements and line items (claimed 99.9% accuracy), plus Dext AI Assist guidance for practices. Core extraction and categorisation are included in plan prices; AI Assist custom guidance is a per-client add-on. The privacy policy names Microsoft Azure (OpenAI) as a generative AI sub-processor.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Never trains on your data
- Runs on
- Not recorded
- AI pricing
- Included in the plan
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
AI bookkeeping automation: Dext captures receipts, invoices and bank statements by mobile app, email or auto-fetch, extracts line items with claimed 99.9% accuracy, applies categorisation rules, and publishes to 36+ accounting platforms including Xero, QuickBooks and Sage. Employee expenses, mileage and a ten-year document vault are included. A 14-day free trial needs no card; business plans start at about $302 per year for 5 users and 250 documents a month, while practices pay per client.
Frequently asked questions
How long does it take to get value from Dext?
Most teams connect Dext to their accounting software during the 14-day free trial (no credit card required) and start capturing documents from the mobile app, email or auto-fetch within days. Published items sync into the ledger, so the first clean month-end typically follows the first subscription cycle.
What does Dext cost for a mid-sized business?
The business plan shown on the pricing page is $25.21 per month billed annually ($302.50 a year, excluding tax), covering 250 documents a month and 5 users, with sliders to raise both allowances. Accounting practices price per client per month with a 10-client minimum, and optional add-ons such as Data health & insights and Commerce Lite cost $7.50 per client per month.
Is our financial data secure and compliant?
Dext states it is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and is GDPR compliant. Data is encrypted in transit with TLS 1.2+ and at rest with AES-256, hosted on AWS across multiple availability zones, with annual third-party penetration tests, SSO/2FA on production access and documents retained for at least ten years.
Does Dext replace our accounting software?
No. Dext is a pre-accounting and bookkeeping automation layer that syncs your chart of accounts, suppliers, customers, tracking categories and payment methods with 36+ platforms such as Xero, QuickBooks, Sage and Zoho, then publishes coded documents and expenses into those ledgers.
What support is available?
Dext support answers technical questions by chat or email, with a stated median of 48 hours to first response, plus 250+ tutorials in the Help Centre and onboarding guidance. Enterprise-style phone support and named account managers are not documented on the pages reviewed.
How does Dext handle customer data with AI?
Dext's privacy policy states that third-party generative AI tool providers used in its services, named as Microsoft Azure (OpenAI), are not allowed to use customer data to train their models. Dext presents extraction and categorisation accuracy as a headline product claim rather than a guarantee.