Dext Review 2026: Receipt Capture Pricing, Pros, Cons and Alternatives

Dext, formerly Receipt Bank, turns receipts, bills, invoices and statements into coded entries in your accounting software. It sells two products: a business plan priced by documents and users, and a practice plan for accounting and bookkeeping firms priced per client. Dext says more than 700,000 businesses and 12,000 firms use it.

This review answers one question: is Dext worth it for a small business or a bookkeeper in 2026? It works out what the business plan costs at three document volumes, adds up the extraction add-ons that most reviews skip, and sets Dext against Hubdoc, Shoeboxed, AutoEntry and the capture built into Xero. We read vendor pages only; we did not process documents ourselves.

Dext is a document capture and bookkeeping automation tool. You photograph a receipt in the app, forward an invoice by email or upload a batch, and Dext extracts supplier, date, amounts and tax, suggests a category and publishes the entry to your ledger. Dext says it connects to more than 36 accounting platforms, names QuickBooks and Xero among them, and claims over 99% accuracy before data reaches your books.

Around the core sit paid extras: line item extraction for receipts that need several cost codes, supplier statement reconciliation, bank statement extraction from PDFs, a document Vault, Commerce Lite for online sales reports and an AI Assist agent that suggests bookkeeping calls. Each plan includes a few free credits for the heavier extraction jobs.

Toolradar data: Toolradar, the software directory we run, tracks 90 expense management tools as of November 4, 2026, and the median cheapest paid plan among the 47 that publish a price is $12 a month. Dext's entry plan works out to roughly twice that median on annual billing, which is the price of statement and line-item extraction a basic receipt app does not offer.

The business plan has one slider. At its lowest point it covers 250 documents a month and 5 users; each step adds 50 documents and one user, so the slider's 500-document point comes with 10 users and the 1,000-document point with 20. Dext's pricing page prices each step at $56.50 a year on annual billing or $5.75 a month on monthly billing. The cost therefore rises in a straight line with volume, with no volume discount until the top setting of 50,000 documents, so a growing business pays the same rate for its thousandth document as for its three hundredth.

Hitting the cap does not stop uploads, but it stops extraction. Documents above your monthly limit are stored without data being pulled out until the next bill date or an upgrade. A business with a lumpy month, such as year-end receipts, should size the plan for its peak or expect a backlog.

Cancellation follows the billing term. A monthly plan can be cancelled any time before the renewal date; an annual plan needs 30 days' notice before renewal. Dext takes card or direct debit, and prices exclude tax. More than 5 business entities on one account moves you to bespoke pricing.

Accounting firms buy differently. The practice pricing page prices per client, with the rate falling as the client list grows, and quotes a plan through a builder rather than printing it. Add-ons there are printed: data health and Commerce Lite each cost $7.50 per client a month.

Dext's US pricing page, read on November 4, 2026, prices the business plan at $25.21 a month billed annually, $302.50 a year, for 250 documents a month and 5 users, excluding tax. Monthly billing costs $31.50 a month for the same allowance, so annual billing saves 20%, our arithmetic. The slider's top setting, 50,000 documents a month, costs $12,160 a year on annual billing or $1,352.75 a month.

The add-ons change the real price. Line item extraction and supplier statement extraction each run from $20.50 a month, or pay-as-you-go from $0.50 a document; bank statement extraction runs from $13.00 a month or $0.32 a document. AI Assist is listed at $10.50 a month until 31 January 2027, Commerce Lite from $7.50 a month, and Vault storage is free up to 100MB, then from $4 a month. A business that needs line items and bank statements every month adds at least $33.50 a month to the base plan, our arithmetic.

Dext loses on price for plain receipt capture. Hubdoc costs $12 a month after a 30-day trial with unlimited usage, so at 250 documents a month Dext's annual plan costs about twice as much, and at 1,000 documents about eight times as much, our arithmetic. Shoeboxed Pro, at $297 a year for 250 digital scans a month and 5 users, matches Dext's entry allowance for $5.50 less and adds paper scanning by mail. AutoEntry bills in credits, one per receipt and three per bank statement page, and is the dearest here at every volume.

If you already pay for Xero, check its US plans first: Early, Growing and Established all list Smart Document Capture, so basic capture may already be in your subscription. Dext earns its premium only where you use what the others lack: statement reconciliation, line items across cost codes, multi-entity setups or a firm managing dozens of clients.

Dext fits bookkeepers and accounting firms that process documents for many clients and need per-client pricing, data health checks and consistent coding. It also fits small businesses with heavier paperwork: construction, hospitality and multi-site operators that reconcile supplier statements, split receipts across cost codes or run several entities from one login. Our practice management software ranking covers the rest of a firm's stack, and online bookkeeping services covers firms that would rather outsource the whole job.

It is a weak fit for a freelancer or small business that only needs receipts captured and matched. Hubdoc, Shoeboxed or the capture inside your accounting plan does that for less; see our Hubdoc review, the best receipt scanner apps and our Xero review. QuickBooks users comparing ledgers can read our cheaper QuickBooks alternatives, and anyone weighing AI tools for the books should look at AI for bookkeeping.

Before you commit to annual billing, run the 14-day trial on a real month of receipts and count the documents, line items and statements you actually process. That count, not the headline price, decides whether Dext's add-ons turn a $25 plan into a $60 one. Toolradar keeps profiles for Dext and Shoeboxed.