Dext Payments launches in Canada, giving businesses and advisers one place to manage supplier and employee payments

TORONTO – MONDAY 5TH OCTOBER 2026 – Dext, a world leading provider of AI-powered bookkeeping automation, is today announcing the launch of Dext Payments in Canada. Payments, Dext’s most requested feature to date, is now available to Dext customers using QuickBooks Online and Xero across Canada, including Quebec. During beta testing ahead of today's launch, Canadian businesses and their advisers already processed more than $2 million through Payments. The move marks Dext’s first expansion of its payments feature outside of the UK, where the capability launched earlier this year.

A fully integrated payment solution, Payments lets businesses and advisers manage, approve and make supplier invoice and employee expense payments directly within Dext. Closing the invoice-to-payment gap, Payments connects document capture, invoice processing, approvals and payments in one place, so businesses and advisers can go from a captured invoice to a completed payment without switching tools.

For many Canadian businesses, late supplier payments come down to disconnected processes on the paying side, tracking what's owed, when it's due, and who needs to approve it, often across separate tools. Dext built Payments in Canada based on direct feedback from Canadian firms and businesses throughout development to make sure it fits how they actually work. Payments is built to help close that gap, giving businesses and their advisers everything they need to get supplier payments out the door on time, from one connected platform.

Launched in the UK in February 2026, UK businesses have processed more than £16 million through the platform, demonstrating strong demand for bringing invoice capture, approvals and payments into one place. The Canadian launch brings that same workflow to a new market for the first time.

"Canada is a significant market for Dext, and launching Payments here is an important step in our growth beyond the UK,” said Sabby Gill, CEO of Dext. “We've seen how much time and control UK businesses and their advisers have gained by bringing payments into Dext, and Canadian businesses are dealing with the same disconnected processes, on top of some of the slowest payment times tracked anywhere. Payments gives them one trusted place to manage it all."

Invoices are uploaded to Dext and details are extracted automatically, with AI turning invoices into structured data before they reach the ledger. From there, users import invoices awaiting payment from QuickBooks Online and Xero, build single or batch payment runs, send for approval through secure workflows, and submit payments, all without leaving the platform.

Payments in Canada runs through the rails Canadian businesses already use: Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), Bill Pay and Interac at launch, with EFT Pre-Authorized Debit following shortly after.

Stephen Edginton, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Dext, says, "We see Canada as a proof point for where Payments is headed: infrastructure that adapts to how a market actually pays, rather than a one-size-fits-all product. Native support for EFT, Bill Pay and Interac is just the beginning. We're already building towards virtual cards and spend cards, giving Canadian businesses more flexibility over how they pay."

Security is built into every step. Payments is regulated via its partnership with Airwallex. Airwallex holds an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licence and in Canada is registered with FINTRAC as a money services business, with additional registration through Revenu Québec for Quebec-based customers. In addition Payments also has in-built security features such as Strong Customer Authentication, fraud shields and full audit trails run through every transaction.

Benefits for practices and businesses

For accounting and bookkeeping practices, Payments offers a way to bring client payments into one consistent workflow. Practices can reduce time spent chasing approvals and switching between systems, gain clearer oversight of client payment activity, and offer payments as a value-added service to clients.

Melissa Jackson, Accountant at Oxford Milkway in Woodstock, ON, says, “Payments helps us streamline our accounts payable process by keeping bills, approvals and payments within one connected workflow. We've now processed more than 178 successful payments, covering 660 distinct bills. It reduces manual steps, saves time and improves visibility over each payment. Dext gives us a more efficient, paperless process with a clear approval trail, which strengthens our internal controls and makes it easier for the finance team to track what's been approved and paid."

For businesses, Payments means fewer logins, less manual entry, and full visibility over every invoice from upload through to payment. Supplier invoice and employee expense payments, a business's regular outgoing payments, are now covered in one place.

Alongside the Canadian launch, Payments has added multi-currency support, letting businesses pay suppliers in currencies beyond CAD without leaving the platform.

Payments is available now to Dext customers in Canada using QuickBooks Online and Xero.

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About Dext

Dext is a world leading provider of AI-powered bookkeeping automation. Built on more than 2 billion receipts and invoices across 16 years, Dext combines the power of AI with human control to make bookkeeping effortless, accurate and trusted.

Dext connects the full capture-to-pay workflow in one place: capturing documents however firms and businesses prefer, turning invoices, receipts and bank statements into structured data with over 99% accuracy, and managing expenses from claim to payment. It integrates with the accounting software professionals already use, while helping accountants and bookkeepers spot missing documents, delays and bottlenecks before they reach the books.

Trusted by more than 12,000 accounting and bookkeeping firms and 700,000 businesses worldwide, Dext processes over 350 million documents every year. As part of IRIS Software Group since 2024, Dext continues to innovate to deliver a more seamless, end-to-end accountancy workflow, giving professionals more time for what matters.

For more information, visit www.dext.com.