The Global Partner Update – Q2 2025

Accounting technology is moving quickly, and Dext is helping partners stay ahead. In our latest Global Partner Update, we introduced new tools, smarter features, and AI-driven capabilities designed to reduce admin, improve accuracy, and support stronger client outcomes.

From product enhancements to upcoming innovations, here’s what’s new and what to look forward to.

A record year and smarter experience

CEO Sabby Gill opened the session with news of Dext’s strongest year yet. With growing customer adoption, strategic partnerships, and ongoing investment in innovation, the enhanced Dext experience now brings everything into one streamlined platform.

Keeping up with AI

CPTO Stephen Edginton led a thought-provoking deep dive into the pace of AI development. With over 1.6 million public AI models now available and tens of billions in investment from global tech giants, the landscape is changing fast. Yet many models still struggle with reasoning, accuracy, and basic edge cases.

At Dext, we don’t just adopt AI – we rigorously test it. We sample over 100,000 documents a month to evaluate real-world performance and continuously train our models for the specific demands of bookkeeping. With 99% accuracy, Dext AI is already saving practices hours, but, we encourage you to keep testing, questioning, and experimenting with it in your wider workflows.

Voice of the customer

Sabby also shared direct feedback from partners, including this comment from Adam Ginns, Co-founder of Layers Accountancy:

“I've been very impressed with Dext across all three sizes of business I've been involved in.”

At Dext, these insights shape our roadmap – so a huge thank you to all who continue to share their feedback.

Recent updates

We’ve continued to enhance both Essentials and Advanced plans with features designed to help practices operate more efficiently and scale with confidence. Essentials now includes Auto Split for breaking up multi-page PDFs and Automatic Expenses to create grouped claims on a set schedule. Advanced adds tools like Teams & Locations to monitor productivity across your firm and a central Workflows Dashboard to manage key tasks.

Additional upgrades across the platform include:

• Mileage: Over 40,000 claims so far, with GPS tracking coming soon.
• Approval Workflows: Now with sales invoice approvals.
• Supplier Statements: Now supports JPEG, PNG, and PDF files, with email-in coming shortly – nearly 1 million statements processed to date

Vault

Vault is a secure, intelligent space for storing everything that doesn’t belong in Cost, Sales, or Bank – from contracts and leases to engagement letters and insurance documents. More than just storage, it helps you stay organised with smart tagging, summaries, and access controls tailored to clients, teams, and workflows. In a world where data is your competitive edge, Vault positions you to unlock future-ready services like automated reporting and personalised insights, giving your practice a clear advantage. Vault is available now with unlimited free access until 28th July.

Dext Solo (UK 🇬🇧) 

Dext Solo continues to evolve to meet the needs of self-employed and landlord clients.

• CIS ensures accurate handling of subcontractor deductions.
• Submission Permissions give practices control over how much access clients have.
• Rental Statements (Beta from 7 April) is the first tool of its kind, using AI to pull and categorise income lines from rental statements.

We’ve also introduced Line Item Aggregation. This lets users manually or automatically group related line items into a single entry before publishing – simplifying cluttered invoices and speeding up approval workflows.

Coming Soon

Efficiency Score

Efficiency Score gives you insight into how much time you’re spending per client across Dext and integrated tools like Xero and QBO. It’s not about working faster, it’s about working smarter, using platform features to reduce time spent and increase value.

Available in Essentials, with more advanced time tracking in Advanced. If you’d like to be part of the beta, we’d love to hear from you.

Dext Payments

Payments are about to become even easier. With Dext Payments, you’ll be able to import supplier bills and payroll runs, batch and submit them for client approval, automate payment processing, and reconcile everything, all in one place.

Looking ahead: Agentic AI

To close the session, Stephen offered a look at the future and it’s intelligent.

We’re developing AI Agents within Dext that will actively assist with bookkeeping and advisory workflows, including:

• Mailbox Agents: Pull documents from your clients’ inboxes automatically.
• Supplier Verification Agents: Validate invoice legitimacy and help mitigate fraud risk.
• Personalised Automation Agents: Learn how you work and apply rules accordingly.
• Advisory Agents: Combine GL data, Vault documents, and Data Health insights to help you deliver deeper client value.

These are more than features – they represent a new way of working, where the system proactively supports you in delivering a higher standard of service. Lots of exciting things are on the way at Dext.

Join us next time

Explore more in our upcoming webinars:

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