Manage supplier invoices, store costs & expenses with one retail bookkeeping software
Take control of your retail store costs and expenses, so you can spend more time with customers and less time on paperwork.
Less paperwork with bookkeeping software built for retail businesses
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Why retailers choose Dext’s AI-powered bookkeeping solution
Retail businesses handle a constant flow of supplier invoices, staff receipts, and store expenses. When documents come in through paper or email, it's easy for them to get lost, delayed, or entered inconsistently.
Dext helps retail teams collect documents quickly, extract the key details automatically, and keep records organised in one place so bookkeeping is faster, cleaner, and easier to manage. Dext supports receipt and invoice capture through mobile, email, and upload, stores documents centrally, and connects with accounting software to streamline the bookkeeping workflow.
With Dext, you can:
Capture receipts instantly by mobile or email, reducing lost paperwork and late submissions
Extract key data from supplier invoices automatically, including supplier, date, VAT, and totals
Categorise transactions more consistently across stores, teams, and expense types
Publish clean, structured data directly into your accounting software to keep records ready for month-end and tax time
Store important documents into a secure document management system (EDMS)
Integrate with your accounting software to keep everything accurate and up to date
Benefits of using Dext for retail bookkeeping
Retail bookkeeping gets harder as your business grows – more suppliers, more store costs, more employee expenses, and more documents to manage. Dext helps retailers reduce admin, improve visibility, and keep financial records organised with one workflow for capturing, reviewing, and publishing costs.
Less time chasing paperwork
Retail staff can submit expense receipts on the go, while supplier invoices can be emailed in or uploaded by the team, helping reduce the delays and lost documents that slow down finance processes.
Reduce manual data entry & errors
Dext automatically extracts key details from invoices and receipts, which cuts down on repetitive entry into accounting software and improves accuracy.
Keep store finance organised
When documents are centralised in one place, it becomes easier to manage supplier invoices, staff expenses, and supporting records without relying on paper files, inboxes, or shared folders.
Standardised process for retail growth
For retail businesses with multiple stores or locations, standardised capture and categorisation helps keep finance processes more consistent and easier to oversee.
Key features of Dext’s bookkeeping for retail
From supplier invoices to staff expenses, Dext helps retail businesses reduce admin, improve consistency, and keep financial records accurate as the business grows. Dext’s features include receipt and invoice capture, expense management, integrations with accounting software, and automation tools across the bookkeeping workflow.
Tools that work together across your retail business.
Capture receipts and invoices how your team works
Store managers and staff can submit documents by mobile, email, or upload, making it easier to collect paperwork quickly and reduce missing receipts.
Extract supplier invoice data automatically
Dext’s AI captures the key details from supplier invoices and receipts, helping remove manual entry and making incoming paperwork faster to process.
Manage employee expenses with more control
Track and manage employee expenses in one workflow, helping teams submit, review, and approve claims in real time instead of relying on paper trails and spreadsheets.
Keep records centralised and easier to retrieve
By storing financial documents in one place, Dext helps retail teams find the records they need more quickly when queries, month-end checks, or audits come up.
Sync your accounting software and standardise processes
Once documents are captured and structured, Dext publishes the data to your accounting software, reducing rekeying and helping teams follow a more consistent bookkeeping process across locations.
One dashboard for multiple stores
For retailers with multiple locations, Dext’s multi-entity dashboard helps finance teams or store owners oversee costs and expenses more easily from one login for all their branches in one place.
Retail bookkeeping software for growing businesses
Retail businesses deal with a constant flow of financial documents – supplier invoices, receipts, employee expenses, stock purchases and payment records. As your store grows, keeping these records organised becomes harder without the right bookkeeping tools.
Dext helps retail businesses capture and organise financial documents automatically so they are ready for bookkeeping and accounting.
Whether you run:
a single retail shop
multiple store locations
an e-commerce store
a retail and online hybrid business
Dext helps you manage receipts, supplier invoices, expenses and supporting documents in one organised bookkeeping workflow.
Connect Dext to your store
Dext connects to the platforms where you do business (POS, e-commerce, stock tools). We collect transactions from e-commerce sites and marketplaces so you don’t have to.
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Plans to suit your business
All pricing plans cover the accounting essentials, with room to grow.
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FAQs about retail bookkeeping software
Bookkeeping software for retail businesses helps manage the admin behind store costs and expenses, including supplier invoices, employee expense receipts, and financial records. It is designed to make document collection, data extraction, categorisation, and publishing into accounting software more efficient.
Dext helps retail businesses capture receipts and invoices through mobile, email, and upload, extract key data automatically, centralise records, manage expenses, and sync clean data into accounting software.
Yes. Dext’s mobile receipt scanner app allows users and employees to snap, sort, and sync receipts and expenses quickly while away from their desk.
Yes. Dext is built to collect invoices by email or upload and automatically extract the relevant details. In the UK (and other regions soon) our payments feature allows you to pay supplier invoices and complete the full accounts payable workflow.
Yes, Dext offers expense management features that help businesses capture, track, and manage expenses.
Yes. You can manage multiple retail locations from one Dext account while keeping records cleanly separated per store. All from one dashboard.
Dext is designed to reduce repetitive bookkeeping tasks by automating document capture, extraction, and publishing directly to your accounting software, which should help reduce the manual work that builds up at month-end.
Yes. Dext syncs directly with Xero, QuickBooks, Sage and more sending clean, categorised data ready for reconciliation.
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Deep integrations
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