Best Accounts Payable Automation Software in Ireland, verified for Irish compliance.

Dext (rebranded from Receipt Bank in February 2021) is a London-headquartered receipt-capture and accounts-payable automation platform widely used by Irish accountancy practices to eliminate manual data entry. It does not issue company cards or process payments; instead it ingests receipts and supplier invoices via mobile app, email forwarding, web upload, and direct supplier-portal fetch, then extracts the line-item data with OCR and pushes it into Xero, Sage (Sage 50, Sage Accounting, Sage Business Cloud), QuickBooks, and roughly 30 other accounting platforms. Pricing in Ireland starts at around EUR31.50/month for the Business plan (5 users and 250 documents/month included, with a 20% discount on annual billing), with a separate Practice plan for accounting firms starting around EUR239/month for 10 clients. The platform supports automatic VAT-rate detection including Ireland's 23%, 13.5%, 9% and 0% rates. Data is hosted in the UK and the EU - on the EU side this satisfies GDPR residency expectations; the UK side relies on the EU's UK adequacy decision and should be confirmed with your DPO. Receipt images stored in Dext meet Revenue's 6-year retention requirement per eBrief 09/15. Dext (formerly Receipt Bank, founded 2010) was acquired by Hg Capital in April 2021 and then sold by Hg to IRIS Software Group in December 2024, so it now sits inside the IRIS portfolio - Dext has never been a Sage product, which matters because it competes directly with Sage's own receipt-capture product, AutoEntry (Sage-acquired in 2019).

Sage AutoEntry is the OCR and data-entry automation layer Sage built around the receipt-to-ledger workflow. Sage Group acquired AutoEntry from the Dublin-headquartered OCREX in September 2019 and has run it as its own in-house capture product since. It scans receipts, supplier invoices, expense claims, supplier statements and bank statement pages, extracts the line-item data, and publishes the verified records into the connected accounting platform. Supported integrations include Sage Accounting, Sage 50cloud (UK and IE), Xero, QuickBooks Online, FreeAgent, KashFlow, SortMyBooks and ClearBooks; Sage 200 and Sage Intacct integration was not confirmed at the time of last verification. Pricing is credit-based: every receipt or invoice consumes 1 credit, line-item invoices consume 2, and each page of a bank statement consumes 3. Monthly tiers start at 50 credits for around €17/month and step up through 100 (€32), 200 (€57), 500 (€131), 1,500 (€349) and 2,500 (€545). Unused credits roll over for 90 days and users are unlimited on every tier. The free trial includes 25 credits. The supplier-statement reconciliation feature is a meaningful differentiator over receipt-only competitors: AutoEntry matches the supplier's monthly statement against invoices already posted to that supplier, which materially shortens month-end close for construction and trades businesses on RCT. For Irish finance teams, AutoEntry's receipt images stored in the platform satisfy Revenue's 6-year retention requirement per eBrief 09/15, which permits digital originals in place of paper. VAT codes from the connected accounting platform are picked up automatically, so Irish multi-rate VAT (23% / 13.5% / 9% / 0%) is applied based on whatever the underlying Sage Accounting or Xero file already has configured.

Payhawk is a spend management platform headquartered in London with engineering in Sofia, Bulgaria. It combines physical and virtual Visa company cards, expense management, invoice processing, and reimbursement workflows in a single platform. Pricing is quote-based; the Essential plan is publicly cited at around €149 per month. Payhawk is EU-hosted and issues EU IBANs, with SEPA settlement supported for top-ups and reimbursements. VAT amounts are captured and categorised on receipts, supporting multi-rate VAT environments including Ireland's 23%/13.5%/9% structure. Payhawk integrates with Xero, Sage, QuickBooks, NetSuite, and Microsoft Dynamics 365. Account management is London-led with no dedicated Irish support desk. Receipt images stored in Payhawk satisfy Revenue's 6-year digital retention requirement per eBrief 09/15. A strong option for Irish mid-market finance teams that want spend visibility across cards and invoices with tight ERP integration.

Pleo is a Copenhagen-based spend management platform that combines physical and virtual company cards with automated receipt capture, expense categorisation, and reimbursement workflows. The Starter plan is free for up to 3 users; the Essential plan starts at around €45/month flat. Pleo issues EU IBANs (via its e-money licence) enabling SEPA settlement, and uses open banking (Tink) to connect to EU banks including AIB and Bank of Ireland for spend reconciliation. VAT rates on receipts are auto-detected, which is useful for Irish businesses managing mixed 23%/13.5%/9% VAT inputs. Pleo has a Dublin presence as part of its EMEA operations and lists Ireland as a supported market. Receipt images stored in Pleo satisfy Revenue's 6-year retention requirement per eBrief 09/15, which permits digital originals in place of paper.

Soldo is a London-headquartered, Italian-founded spend management platform that combines prepaid Mastercard cards, departmental wallets, automated receipt capture, and accounting integrations. Soldo's Irish customers are served by Soldo Financial Services Ireland Designated Activity Company (Companies Registration Office number 610705), an e-money institution authorised and regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland under reference number C179925, with registered office at P.O. Box 559, Dublin 1. The Dublin entity holds the SWIFT BIC SFSDIE22 and issues IE-prefix IBANs to its Irish business wallets, which is unusual in this category - Pleo's wallets carry Danish IBANs, Spendesk issues French IBANs, and Payhawk issues Bulgarian IBANs. For an Irish finance lead reconciling a Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) top-up against an AIB or Bank of Ireland statement, an IE IBAN counterparty is one less line of mental friction. Soldo's published EUR pricing for European customers in 2026 is approximately €21/month plus VAT for the Standard plan (1 wallet, 3 users, 3 cards, up to 20 outbound bank transfers per month) and approximately €33/month plus VAT for the Plus plan (3 wallets, 3 users, 3 cards, OCR receipt capture, multi-currency wallets, up to 30 outbound bank transfers per month). The Unlimited tier is quote-based for businesses needing unlimited wallets, users and cards. A 30-day free trial is available on the Standard and Plus tiers. Card issuance, ATM withdrawals, FX, and outbound transfers above plan allowance are charged separately under the published Soldo Financial Services EU Fee Summary. Soldo integrates with Xero (daily automatic bank feed), QuickBooks Online, Sage Intacct, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Exact Online, DATEV, SAP Concur, and TravelPerk - covering the accounting stack most Irish SMEs from 10 to 500 staff are running in 2026. The platform's spend control surface is the strongest differentiator versus a generic business debit card: per-user budget limits, merchant category restrictions, time-based rules, and approval workflows at issue time, rather than retrospective receipt-chasing. Soldo's data residency is EU; receipt images stored in Soldo satisfy Revenue's six-year retention requirement under Section 886 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, in line with Revenue eBrief 09/15 which permits clear, unaltered electronic image storage in place of paper originals. Soldo is not a current account replacement, does not offer overdrafts or business lending, and does not participate in any deposit guarantee scheme - Soldo Financial Services Ireland DAC is required under EU e-money regulation to safeguard customer funds in segregated accounts at credit institutions, but those funds are not deposit-insured. Multi-currency FX is functional for occasional spend but materially less competitive than Wise Business or Revolut Business for businesses paying suppliers regularly outside the eurozone.