Construction expense management
for all trades
Dext is your digital tool to manage construction bookkeeping on the go.
Capture receipts from your mobile, whether you’re on-site or in the office. Never miss a project cost and free up time to focus on your craft.
Helping you save time and money,
whilst growing your business
As a construction business or tradesperson, you need bookkeeping software that saves you time and money. Whether you’re budgeting carefully or project planning, Dext is the leading construction expense management app, helping construction companies track their costs accurately and achieve financial success.
Accelerate accounting tasks - even during busy projects
Our cutting-edge automation technology offers significant time savings, especially crucial during the busy phases of construction projects. By automating your bookkeeping data, Dext allows your team to focus on what they do best - building and managing construction projects, saving both time and money.
Streamline management of expenses and invoices
Struggling to manage different invoice formats from clients or suppliers? Constantly chasing the team for expense receipts? Dext digitises your paperwork, creating electronic records of invoices, receipts and bank statements. This simplifies your construction expense management and tracking of financial documents, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks.
Easily capture and track receipts on the move
In construction, being on-site or in meetings means you need tools that move with you. Dext is as mobile as your business, enabling on-the-go accounting. Capture expense receipts, email invoices and review costs directly from your phone, keeping your accounting up to date, wherever your projects take you.
Tailored for businesses handling multiple projects
Managing finances across several construction projects or sites can be daunting. Dext allows you to separate and allocate expenses to specific projects, providing clear insights into the costs associated with each. Pass your invoice and receipt information into your accounting software to generate comprehensive reports of where to optimise, ensuring financial oversight across your projects.
- Small and medium-sized
- Multiple projects and teams
- Subcontractors and suppliers
Small and medium-sized construction companies
From builders and contractors to landscapers and electricians, we help businesses and tradespeople reclaim control of their finances.
Connect Dext with your accounting software
Dext offers over 30 integrations and supports over 11,500 banks and institutions. This means you can use Dext at the heart of your construction accounting and bookkeeping workflows without any worries. Enhance your construction business's accounting processes with the ease of Dext integrations, making it the ultimate construction expense manager app and bookkeeping software for construction companies.
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Frequently asked questions
Construction accounting focuses on the unique financial needs of construction businesses of all sizes - including individual contractors. It involves tracking project costs, managing budgets, reconciling invoices and ensuring compliance with tax regulations.
Construction accounting automation uses software to streamline manual tasks like data entry, expense tracking and invoice management. This saves time, reduces errors, and gives you deeper insights into your project finances. It’s also crucial for tax compliance purposes.
Dext automates expense data extraction to fast and accurate bookkeeping. It integrates with your existing accounting software, giving you a complete picture of your finances and freeing you up to focus on building. Dext is the most reliable tool in the market, chosen by thousands of accountants and business owners worldwide - especially in the construction industry.
Dext is not an accounting software - it’s a bookkeeping automation tool designed to be part of your whole accounting workflow. Dext is built to seamlessly integrate with leading accounting software such as QuickBooks, Xero and Sage. See here for a complete list of the softwares we integrate with.
Builders, contractors, landscapers, electricians and other professionals in the construction industry currently make up a large part of our existing user base. They use our award-winning Dext tool to:
- Capture expenses instantly with the mobile app;
- Easily submit invoices, bank statements and other important documents to ensure accurate accounts;
- Eliminate manual data entry with intelligent data extraction, eliminating the risk of inaccurate bookkeeping;
- Track project costs and budgets in real-time;
- Generate custom reports to identify cost savings opportunities;
- Stay compliant with organised and accurate records;
- Analyse business performance and plan ahead.
Dext is a bookkeeping automation tool used to manage the receipts, invoices and other documents that businesses depend on to keep accurate and secure financial records. The construction bookkeeping software enables you to easily import, export and publish relevant financial records across multiple devices and softwares. Whether it's a receipt, an invoice or a bank statement, upload it (using the Dext Mobile App / Email / Desktop / Invoice Fetch) and Dext will extract the data you need, then send it to your accounting software.
- Capture expenses: Snap photos of receipts, upload digital invoices, or connect your bank accounts for automatic import.
- Automatic data extraction: Dext automatically reads and categorises your expenses, saving you hours of manual work.
- Project tracking: Allocate expenses to specific projects, track budgets in real-time, and gain insights into project profitability.
- Reporting and analysis: Generate custom reports to analyse costs, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions.
- Accounting integration: Connect Dext with your existing accounting software for a seamless workflow.
Visit our Dext pricing page for small to medium businesses. If none of these plans fit your business, you can also email us at direct@dext.com.
Yes, Dext uses the strictest possible controls in place to keep your data safe. In line with GDPR regulations, we don’t even store your bank details.Your records are protected by bank-level encryption, supported by a dedicated online security team. Read more about where your data is saved in our terms and conditions.
While Dext isn't a direct cash flow solution, it does provide construction business owners with an up to date, accurate and real-time view of their business spending. That includes receipts, invoices, bank statements and other financial documents. With the many demands and unpredictabilities linked to the construction industry, having an accurate record of accounts can give you the confidence and control you need to stay on top of your cash flow.