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About Dext
Accountants make better businesses.
At Dext, we give accountants, bookkeepers and businesses powerful tools that automatically and intelligently process and analyse financial data. Now you can advise in real time with new levels of insight, better than ever.
We believe that when given the right tools, accountants and bookkeepers are the backbone of every successful business. It’s that simple.
With Dext, those tools have become even more powerful and integrated to meet the demands of businesses today.
Dext pricing
Dext does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. Dext paid version starts at £24.00/month.
Starting Price:
£24.00/month
Free Version:
No
Free trial:
Yes
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Dext Reviews for UK Users
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Russell
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Review Source
4
Reviewed on 21/12/2021
A useful - and usable - alternative to expensive
Overall this has been a good product for my accounting practice. I use it personally for my own firm and for many of my monthly bookkeeping clients as a method to capture receipts in the moment.
Pros
Designed for accountants and their clients, allows for easy collaboration and receipt capture. Does a much better job than QBO receipt capture and does not restrict the source email for forwarded emailed receipts, making it much more usable and efficient.
Cons
The refusal to allow us to use American formatted dates is a constant and significant irritant. It would be so simple to correct this that it is extremely annoying that they won't do it.
Receipt matching to existing QBO transactions is inconsistent and only looks back 3 months so it is not ideal for clean up projects.
Pricing structure isn't very flexible.
Alternatives Considered
HubdocReasons for Switching to Dext
Better features, and Ledgersync does not provide client data privacy as they have access to look at all of your documents whenever they want.
Faruk
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 30/05/2023
Streamlining Accounting Processes: A Review of High-Cost Software for Improved Client and...
Our overall experience has gone well with DEXT, the only downside it the price hike.
Pros
The process is the strongest aspect of Dext. The process is as followed, if DEXT is unable to retrieve all the data it marks it for review. Dext also has features like auto publishing, supplier rules and bank feed as well e-invoicing. With auto publishing you can have documents/invoices automatically published to Xero and ready for reconciliation. Supplier rules also help with have the invoices automatically allocated to the correct supplier. Dext can also connect directly to your supplier they are bringing on a lot of support which can be beneficial to a lot of practices to streamline and increased their performance. Have bank fetch can also help with company tax returns and not having to contact your client to get bank statements all the time as you will have access to this in Dext. Dext have 3 different products: Prepare Commerce and precision. We are currently using DEXT prepare.
Cons
The pricing is a big factor. Also, for the price DEXT should offer more, currently they have split their product into 3 categories, DEXT precision features should be a part of their prepare features. Recently they also increased their pricing significantly. Their only advantage is that there is no software at its calibre. I would say another factor is ensuring your client use Dext as some from the older generations can struggle.
Alternatives Considered
HubdocReasons for Switching to Dext
The only advantage of Dextis that there is no software at its calibre. However HubDoc gets the job done and is included within Xero's subscription. So for companies starting out I would recommend that they use HubDoc to save on costs. Although it doesn't have the fancy features of DEXT you can complete basic tasks. You can complete things like uploading your receipts and having HubDoc automatically allocate to the right accounts and also have HubDoc push the invoices to Xero.
Wendy
- Industry: Leisure, Travel & Tourism
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 17/10/2024
Dext does the Job
I have been using Dext for years and it is a great product
Pros
The accuracy and speed of the uploads, the conversion of bank statements from .pdf to .csv is very helpful with cloud based accounting software.
Cons
Nothing I do not like about the software, it has so many features that are useful.
Kaylee
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Review Source
3
Reviewed on 14/03/2024
Useful tool but under delivers
Customer service is lacking. It is hard to move away from a product though once it has been integrated. So we continue with it despite these major issues.
Pros
Easier for clients to use for scanning in their receipts and invoices rather than into QuickBooks directly as the third degree of separation allows for us to ensure they do not accidentally post anything to the books.
Cons
There are a lot of features we were promised that do not work at all. Including the invoice fetch. It is totally unusable for every single one of our clients, and customer service never seemed to care about the fact we are paying for a service they advertise yet cannot deliver.
Verified Reviewer
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Review Source
5
Reviewed on 18/09/2024
Does exactly what it needs to
Pros
So simple and automatic. Makes submitting expenses painless
Cons
I’m not an admin so can’t test those features. But for regular user it’s great
