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Comparing Dext and Apron? The difference shows up at month-end.
Over 99% extraction accuracy, errors caught before they reach the ledger, and one platform from invoice to payment — working with the accounting software you already use.
No credit card required.
WHY PRACTICES CHOOSE DEXT
The whole bookkeeping month, handled. Not just the easy part.
Everything the client sends
Receipts, invoices, bank and supplier statements, credit notes and mileage claims, all captured in one place and all handled the same way.
Automation that catches the errors
Dext matches, reconciles and processes transactions, and flags duplicates and anomalies before your team has to go looking for them.
Ten clients or
three hundred
High-volume workflows, practice-wide visibility and room to grow, with no extra complexity to manage on the way.
BUILT TO SCALE
Every client works differently. Dext was built for that.
Dozens of clients, sometimes hundreds, each with their own submission habits, their own paperwork and their own accounting software. Dext adapts to all of it rather than asking anyone to change.
36 accounting software integrations including Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, and FreeAgent
11,500+ bank connections via open banking
Multi-stage approval workflows for invoices, expenses, and payment runs
Practice-wide visibility into client data health
Intelligent workflows that standardise how your team works, client by client
CONNECTED WORKFLOWS
Fewer tools open. More of the month, done.
Documents, expenses, approvals, payments and practice insights sit in one platform, so the work moves from one step to the next without anyone carrying it across. Your team spends its time keeping client books accurate and complete instead of keeping tabs open.
Capture, extract, and categorise documents automatically with high accuracy
Manage expenses end-to-end, including mileage claims, approvals, and payments
Pay suppliers and employees directly without leaving the platform
Track client data health in real time, with clear scores, automatic issue detection, and insights to improve practice productivity
INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION
Built for bookkeeping, not for everything. It shows.
Dext's AI was built in-house for accounting work and trained on accounting documents. AI Assist learns how your practice codes, categorises and reviews, then automates those decisions across your client base — with your expertise setting the standard and your sign-off closing it.
Automatically codes, categorises, and processes documents based on your workflows and client history
Identifies duplicates, anomalies, and potential errors before they slow your team down
Extracts line items from complex receipts and invoices
Delivers smart recommendations through features like AI Assist, helping your team make faster, more confident decisions
SECURITY & COMPLIANCE
Ten years of documents, stored intelligently. Found in seconds.
Every document submitted to Dext is encrypted and kept retrievable for up to ten years, in intelligent document storage that tags and summarises as it files. Ask for a receipt, invoice or statement from three years ago and it surfaces while you're still talking.
For practices preparing for MTD for IT or answering to HMRC, a complete, auditable document trail isn't a nice-to-have. It's the job.
ACCURACY & RELIABILITY
Accuracy isn't a feature. It's what makes the rest of it work.
In financial data, close enough is a correction waiting to happen. Dext is built to hold its accuracy at volume, so your team spends its week reviewing the books rather than putting them right.
Over 99% extraction accuracy, which means fewer manual checks and fewer corrections to pay for later
Trained on 2 billions real receipts and invoices, so it copes with the crumpled, photographed and half-legible documents clients actually send
Duplicates and anomalies spotted automatically, before they reach your client's books
16+ years of AI built for bookkeeping from the ground up, rather than a general-purpose model pointed at an invoice
Recognised by industry partners including Xero
END-TO-END PAYMENTS
Capture, approve, pay. Without switching tools.
The invoice arrives, the approval routes to whoever signs it off, and the payment goes out. Dext syncs the lot back to your accounting software, so reconciliation is mostly done by the time anyone looks at it.
Pay supplier invoices directly from Dext, individually or in batches
Built-in approval workflows, including client sign-off
No bank access required: run the payment process without logging into client accounts
Pay employee expenses and payroll all from the same place
Syncs automatically to your accounting software, eliminating re-keying. Currently available for Xero with more integrations on the way
RETURN ON INVESTMENT
The monthly price is easy to compare. The monthly hours are the ones that count.
Most practices know what their software costs. Fewer have added up the rest of it:
paperwork chased twice, approvals that stall, onboarding that drags, and reconciliation errors that pull a senior member of the team back into work they'd finished.
Dext is built to hand those hours back, so they can be billed instead of absorbed.
Example output for a typical UK practice. Get your own estimate below.
"Dext is an easy return on investment. For the costs it has to run, the time it saves. Just the time it saves, pays for itself."
Jonathan Carr, Co-Founder, Gravitate Accounting, UK
An alternative to Apron that covers the whole workflow, not just the start of it.
Accuracy, intelligent automation and every step from invoice to payment, in one platform your practice already knows how to run.
99%+
accurate data capture
12K+
accounting & bookkeeping firms trust us
16+
years of AI bookkeeping at the forefront
MAKING THE SWITCH
Switching from Apron? The hard part is deciding.
Setting the practice up and getting clients submitting documents takes days rather than weeks, and none of it needs to wait for a quiet month.
1
Start your free trial
Sign up and connect your accounting software in minutes. No credit card required.
2
Invite your client
Multiple submission methods – email, mobile app, drag-and-drop – mean clients can start sending documents immediately.
3
Lean on the support team
Our support team and the Dext U learning hub are there for the whole transition, not just the first week.
A technical question on deadline day? That's exactly what support is for.
Ask by chat or email and get an answer you can act on, plus practical guidance for the rest of your digital transition.
customer satisfaction rating (NPS)
48 hours
median time to first response
+ 250 tutorials
available on our Help Centre and through the Dext U certification
Frequently asked questions comparing Dext to Apron
Because Dext covers the whole bookkeeping workflow rather than one step of it: over 99% extraction accuracy, intelligent automation that learns how your practice works, approvals and payments in the same platform, and a direct connection to the accounting software you already use. That is why 12,000+ accounting and bookkeeping firms and 700,000+ businesses trust us with their bookkeeping.
Over 99% across invoices, receipts and statements, built on more than 2 billion accounting documents and 16+ years alongside practices. Supplier rules, duplicate detection and auto-publishing handle the repetitive decisions, so the hours your team spends on a client go into reviewing the books rather than correcting them.
The return comes from capacity. Automating capture, categorisation, approvals and payments takes the repetitive work off your team, which means more clients handled by the same people and fewer hours lost to rework. Our ROI calculator will estimate it against your own numbers.
Receipts, invoices, bank statements, supplier statements, credit notes and mileage claims, submitted by mobile, email, WhatsApp or desktop. Dext connects to 36+ accounting software platforms, including Xero, QuickBooks, Sage and FreeAgent, plus 11,500+ banks and financial institutions and the main e-commerce platforms.
Duplicate detection, a complete audit trail and over 99% extraction accuracy work together to keep double payments, mispostings and VAT errors out of the ledger. When something does look wrong, Dext flags it for your expertise rather than posting it and hoping.
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Over 700,000 businesses and 12,000 accounting and bookkeeping firms worldwide use Dext to make more time for what matters.
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