# Dext

> Receipt and invoice capture that codes documents for your ledger

Dext, formerly Receipt Bank, is bookkeeping automation for small businesses and accounting firms. It reads receipts, invoices and statements sent by phone, email, WhatsApp or upload, codes them and publishes them to accounting software such as Xero, QuickBooks or Sage. It also handles employee expense claims and keeps the original documents on file.

- **Category:** Accounting & Invoicing
- **Made by:** Dext Software Limited (since 2010)
- **Website:** https://dext.com/us
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android, Browser extension
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

Dext is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $25.21 per month for up to 250 documents, billed annually ($31.50 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial, no card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Business | $25.21 per month for up to 250 documents, billed annually ($31.50 monthly) | 5 users, capture, extraction and accounting sync. A slider adds users and documents: $48.75 a month billed annually at 10 users and 500 documents. |
| Essentials | $17.70 per client / month, on an annual subscription billed monthly | For accounting and bookkeeping firms, 10-client minimum. Capture and processing for business and self-employed clients; the rate per client varies with the count. |
| Advanced | $19.20 per client / month, on an annual subscription billed monthly | For firms, 10-client minimum. Adds advanced automation, practice insights and controls; the rate per client varies with the count. |

Read from https://dext.com/us/business/pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Dext before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Up to 20% off business plans with yearly billing** (Annual discount): The entry business plan costs $25.21 a month billed annually ($302.50 a year) against $31.50 billed monthly. Source: https://dext.com/us/business/pricing
- **13% off firm plans on an annual subscription** (Annual discount): The pricing page for accounting and bookkeeping firms labels its annual subscription 13% off the monthly rate. Source: https://dext.com/us/partner/pricing

## Key features

- **Capture from phone, email or WhatsApp:** Send receipts, invoices and statements from the mobile app, an email-in address, WhatsApp or an upload, or have Dext fetch invoices from suppliers directly.
- **Data extraction and coding:** Reads supplier, date, amount, tax and line items (Dext states over 99% accuracy), suggests categories and applies supplier rules before publishing.
- **Accounting software sync:** Publishes coded documents to 36+ accounting and e-commerce platforms, including Xero, QuickBooks and Sage, and pulls bank feeds from over 11,500 banks.
- **Employee expenses and mileage:** Staff submit expense claims and mileage in the app, managers approve them, and each claim syncs to the books with an audit trail.
- **AI Assist:** A paid add-on that learns the choices you make on suppliers, categories and splits and proposes automations for you to approve.
- **Vault document storage:** Keeps every original document for at least ten years, tagged and searchable. Free up to 100MB, with more storage from $4 a month.

## Good for

- Small businesses that want receipts and bills coded before they reach the books
- Accounting and bookkeeping firms collecting paperwork from many clients
- Teams with employee expense claims and mileage to approve

## Worth knowing

- Dext is not a ledger: it sends coded documents to accounting software such as Xero, QuickBooks or Sage, which is bought separately.
- After the monthly document allowance is used, uploads wait unread until the next billing date or an upgrade; over 5 business entities needs a quote.
- Line item, supplier statement and bank statement extraction past the free credits cost from $20.50, $20.50 and $13 a month, or $0.50, $0.50 and $0.32 a document.
- Firm plans need at least 10 clients, Data health and insights costs $7.50 per client a month extra, and annual plans need 30 days' notice to cancel.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Dext takes the photo of a receipt or the PDF of a bill, reads it, codes it and sends it on to Xero, QuickBooks or Sage, and its phone app is very well liked. But it isn't accounting software. You still pay for the books it feeds, and $25.21 a month billed yearly covers 250 documents.

- **Value for money: C.** Graded against its own alternatives, since it captures receipts rather than keeping books: $25.21 a month billed yearly ($31.50 monthly) for 5 users and 250 documents, about what Xero's $27 and FreshBooks' $23 cost. And the ledger is paid for on top.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A 14-day free trial with no card needed, long enough to run a couple of weeks of real receipts through it. There's no free plan after that.
- **Features: D.** Next to its alternatives it does one slice of the job. Capture is done fully: phone, email, WhatsApp, supplier fetch, coding, expense claims and mileage. But it keeps no books, and needs Xero, QuickBooks or Sage, bought separately, to be useful at all.
- **Ease of use: A.** 4.77 from 7,553 App Store ratings. Snap the receipt and it's read and coded for you, which is about as easy as bookkeeping gets.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone, Android and a browser extension, publishing to 36+ accounting and e-commerce platforms, with bank feeds from over 11,500 banks. There's no desktop app, which keeps it off an A.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Dext's own pages on 18 October 2026, and its App Store rating. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among accounting and invoicing tools

- Dext's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 6 of the 20 other accounting and invoicing tools we grade, and level with 6.
- It stands best on ease of use (A, above 15 of 20) and worst on features (D, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $25.21 a month, against a middle price of $21 for the category: 11 of the 19 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 3 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/accounting

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Dext you would be making live feeds from your bank, which take an agreement with each bank or a service that has them. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 8 of the 20 other accounting and invoicing tools grade higher. It costs $302.52 a year.

- You could make: Expense tracking: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: Live feeds from your bank, which take an agreement with each bank or a service that has them.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Xero, QuickBooks Online and Sage Accounting among them.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.8 out of 5 from 7,553 ratings in the United States, read Oct 18, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id418327708

## Works with

Xero, QuickBooks Online, Sage Accounting, FreeAgent, WhatsApp

**Tags:** Bookkeeping, Expense tracking, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Synder](https://toolgpa.com/tools/synder): Syncs sales, fees and payouts from 30+ platforms into your books. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dext-vs-synder)
- [QuickBooks Online](https://toolgpa.com/tools/quickbooks): Cloud accounting from Intuit, from a free plan to 25-user Advanced. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dext-vs-quickbooks)
- [Xero](https://toolgpa.com/tools/xero): Cloud accounting for small businesses, with unlimited users. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dext-vs-xero)
- [Zoho Books](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zoho-books): Online accounting from Zoho, with a free plan and six paid tiers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dext-vs-zoho-books)
- [FreshBooks](https://toolgpa.com/tools/freshbooks): Invoicing and accounting for freelancers and service businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dext-vs-freshbooks)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://dext.com/us/business/pricing
- https://dext.com/us/partner/pricing
- https://dext.com/us
- https://dext.com/us/business/product/integrate-with-accounting-software
- https://dext.com/us/business/product/receipts-scanner-tracker-app
- https://dext.com/us/unified-platform
- https://dext.com/us/terms-and-conditions
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dext-expense-tracker/id418327708
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.receiptbank.android&gl=US&hl=en

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/dext
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