Payments in Dext: Streamline Invoice Approval and Payment Runs
Key Takeaways
Chasing sign-off is the opposite of advisory work. Time spent waiting on email replies, re-explaining invoices or logging into client bank accounts is time taken away from work that grows your practice.
The whole payment cycle can run inside Dext. Invoice capture, approval, payment and reconciliation are connected, so there is no separate banking portal and no juggling of email threads and spreadsheets.
Customisable approval workflows replace the email back-and-forth. Clients approve payment runs with a click, and the approval step is where most of the friction usually sits.
Payments fits into your existing workflow. Firms already using Dext for bookkeeping need no new login or client relationship to manage, and early users can initiate payments weekly while clients keep control through simple approvals.
Fewer interruptions mean more time for advisory conversations. The benefit goes beyond faster payments: fewer status-update calls and more capacity for the work clients value most.
Chasing sign-off isn't advisory work. It's the opposite of it. Every hour spent waiting on an email reply, re-explaining an invoice, or logging into a client's bank account is an hour you're not spending on the work that actually grows your practice.
That's the gap Payments in Dext is built to close. Instead of managing payments through a separate banking portal, or across email threads and spreadsheets, you can run the whole cycle from inside Dext: invoice capture, approval, payment, and reconciliation, all connected.
The approval step is usually where the friction lives. Payments in Dext replaces the back-and-forth with a customisable approval workflow, so clients can approve payment runs with a click rather than a chain of follow-up emails.
It's a shift that firms using it early are already noticing:
"Now I can initiate payments as part of my weekly workflow, with clients still in control through simple approvals." Jane Rasquinha, founder of Digital Advisory Bookkeeping
The result isn't just faster payments. It's fewer interruptions, fewer status-update calls, and more time back for the advisory conversations your clients actually value. Firms already using Dext for bookkeeping don't need a new login or a new relationship to manage — payments simply becomes another workflow inside the platform you're already working in.
Dext Payments is enabled through a partnership with Airwallex (UK) Limited, authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 (FRN 900876). All regulated payment and electronic money services are provided by Airwallex (UK) Limited.
FAQs
Payments in Dext lets accountants and bookkeepers manage the full payment cycle inside the platform: invoice capture, approval, payment and reconciliation. It removes the need for a separate banking portal or manual tracking across emails and spreadsheets.
Payments in Dext uses a customisable approval workflow, so clients can approve payment runs with a click instead of replying to a chain of follow-up emails. Clients stay in control while the practice avoids chasing sign-off.
No. Firms already using Dext for bookkeeping can use Payments as another workflow within the same platform, with no new login or additional client relationship to manage.
Dext Payments is enabled through a partnership with Airwallex (UK) Limited, which is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 (FRN 900876). All regulated payment and electronic money services are provided by Airwallex.
