Construction accounting software that knows every job.
Down to the last delivery note.
Merchant receipts, subcontractor invoices and fuel stops arrive from wherever the work is.
Dext reads them, codes them to the job and sends clean records into the accounting software you already use.
Every cost against the right job.
Before the job is finished.
Margins on a build are decided by costs that land in ones and twos: a merchant run on Tuesday, plant hire on Friday, a subcontractor’s application at the end of the month. Dext captures each one as it arrives and puts the detail where it belongs, so construction bookkeeping keeps pace with the work instead of trailing a month behind it.
The busiest weeks on site. The quietest ones for the books.
Work does not slow down so the paperwork can catch up. Dext takes in receipts and invoices while the job runs and processes them the day they turn up, so a heavy month on site is not a heavy weekend at the kitchen table.
Every merchant sends something different. One set of records comes out.
Timber yard docket, plant hire invoice, a fuel receipt from a motorway stop. Dext reads all of it at over 99% accuracy, so supplier, date, amount and tax arrive correct and construction expense management stops meaning an evening of corrections.
Photographed at the trade counter. Filed before the van pulls out.
Site, cab, yard or office, the phone in your pocket is the whole capture process. Photograph a receipt, forward a supplier invoice by email, and it is in the workflow before you are back on the road.
Four sites running at once. Four sets of costs, kept apart.
Allocate every receipt and invoice to the job it belongs to, then pass that detail into your accounting software for job-level reporting. When a build starts drifting over budget, you find out while there is still something you can do about it.
Built to sit alongside your ledger. Not to replace it.
Dext connects with 36+ accounting software platforms and over 11,500 banks and financial institutions, so bookkeeping for construction companies runs through the setup you and your accountant already have. Nothing to migrate, nothing to rebuild.
Plans sized to the job list. Change them when it changes.
Every plan covers the bookkeeping basics, with headroom for the months when four sites are running at once.
$25.21
Per Month$302.50
billed annually250
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FAQs
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.
It is software doing the repetitive part of construction bookkeeping for you: reading receipts, invoices and statements, pulling out the detail, coding costs to the right job and passing the lot to your accounting software. The errors that usually surface weeks later are caught while correcting them still costs nothing.
Dext captures site receipts, supplier invoices, subcontractor applications and bank statements however they arrive, reads them at over 99% accuracy and sends the details into the accounting software you already use. Costs sit against the right job from the start, so the figures you price the next build on are the real ones. 12,000+ accounting and bookkeeping firms and 700,000+ businesses work with us.
No. Dext is an intelligent bookkeeping automation platform that sits in front of your accounting software rather than replacing it, and it works with QuickBooks, Xero, Sage and 36+ other platforms. See here for the full list of integrations.
Builders, contractors, groundworkers, electricians and landscapers make up a large part of our customer base. They use Dext to:
- Send receipts and invoices in from the mobile app, by email or from the desktop;
- Have supplier, date, tax and line detail read off each document at over 99% accuracy;
- Allocate costs to individual jobs and sites;
- Keep bank statements and supplier statements reconciled as the month runs;
- Hand their accountant a complete set of records rather than a bag of paperwork;
- See what a job has cost while there is still time to act on it.
Send the document in whichever way suits the day: the Dext mobile app, email, desktop upload or Invoice Fetch. Dext reads it, applies the rules you have set for that supplier and job, and publishes it to your accounting software.
- Capture: photograph a merchant receipt, forward a supplier invoice, or upload a bank statement.
- Extraction: supplier, date, amount, tax and line detail come back structured and categorised, at over 99% accuracy.
- Job costing: allocate costs to projects and sites, so job-level reporting is built as you go.
- Review: nothing reaches your books without your sign-off.
- Integration: clean records land in the accounting software you already use.
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.
Your records are encrypted at every stage and stored in the EU, with access granted on a least-privilege basis. Dext is ISO/IEC 27001 certified and GDPR compliant, our security team monitors the platform around the clock, and independent experts test our defences at least once a year. You can check how we handle your data any time on our Trust Centre.
Dext is not a cash flow forecasting tool, but it keeps current the picture that forecasting depends on. Receipts, supplier invoices, subcontractor costs and bank statements are captured and processed as they arrive, so what you owe and what a job has already consumed is visible now rather than at month-end. On a build where payment terms and retentions are unpredictable enough on their own, that is the difference between deciding and guessing.