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Dext

Receipt capture and accounts-payable automation for accountants and SMEs

Last verified: 19 May 2026 Methodology

From €31.5/user/month

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Irish Compliance Assessment

Verified pass Partial · caveats Not supported
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Revenue Integration

No native Revenue Online Service (ROS) connection. Tax submissions must be exported and filed manually, or handled via a paired Irish accounting tool.

verified 2026-05-19 · scope: not supported
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PAYE Modernisation

Not a payroll product. Real-time PAYE reporting required since 2019 is out of scope.

verified 2026-05-19 · scope: not a payroll product
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Irish Bank Feeds

No native AIB / BOI / PTSB feed. Bank reconciliation flows rely on third-party gateways.

verified 2026-05-19 · via third-party gateway
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SEPA / Irish IBAN

No native SEPA Direct Debit XML export. Collection requires a third-party gateway.

verified 2026-05-19 · SEPA via gateway
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VAT Handling

Irish VAT supported. Automatic VAT-rate detection on captured receipts and invoices, including Ireland's 23%, 13.5%, 9% and 0% rates, mapped to the corresponding VAT code in the connected accounting platform (Xero, Sage, QuickBooks)..

verified 2026-05-19 · Automatic VAT-rate detection on captured receipts and invoices, including Ireland's 23%, 13.5%, 9% and 0% rates, mapped to the corresponding VAT code in the connected accounting platform (Xero, Sage, QuickBooks).
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Irish Support

No Irish-business-hours support tier. Tickets answered from the vendor HQ time zone.

verified 2026-05-19 · support hours: HQ
GDPR Data Residency EU data centres verified 2026-05-19

Overview

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).

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Compliance vocabulary for Dext

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Editor's verdict on Dext

stamped 2026-05-19

Dext is the strongest match if you already have an accountant plus an accounting stack (Xero, Sage, or QuickBooks) and need to eliminate receipt-chasing - it is not a card programme, it is the layer that makes a card programme plus accounting integration actually work for Irish VAT compliance. Irish accountancy practices have used Receipt Bank (now Dext) for over a decade, so onboarding is usually a single conversation rather than a vendor-evaluation exercise. The trade-off is that Dext only earns its keep when paired with a card or banking layer below it (Pleo, Revolut Business, AIB or BOI business cards) and an accounting platform above it - on its own, it solves the receipt-capture problem but not the spend-control problem.

Irish compliance score

Dext Irish compliance score1 of 6 pass
CRO active
Revenue integration
PAYE Modernisation
Irish bank feeds
GDPR (EU residency)
Irish support
Dext Irish compliance score
CriterionStatusNote
CRO activeNot met
Revenue integrationNot met
PAYE ModernisationNot met
Irish bank feedsNot met
GDPR (EU residency)Pass
Irish supportNot met

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Wide adoption by Irish accountancy practices - your accountant likely already supports Dext or AutoEntry
  • Deep, certified integrations with Xero, Sage (50, Accounting, Business Cloud) and QuickBooks - the three platforms most Irish SMEs run on
  • Automatic VAT-rate detection on Irish 23%, 13.5%, 9% and 0% rates with line-item OCR
  • Multiple capture routes: mobile app, email-to-Dext forwarding, web upload, and direct supplier-portal fetch
  • Receipt storage in Dext meets Revenue's 6-year digital retention requirement (eBrief 09/15)

Cons

  • Not a card or payment programme - sits alongside Pleo, Revolut Business, or your bank cards rather than replacing them
  • Per-user pricing scales linearly; large finance teams should price-compare against flat-fee alternatives
  • Requires an existing accounting stack (Xero, Sage or QuickBooks) to be useful - it is the layer between cards and the ledger, not a standalone system
  • Support is UK-timezone with no confirmed Irish desk
  • UK component of data hosting relies on the EU's UK adequacy decision rather than pure EU residency - confirm with your DPO if Schrems-style scrutiny matters

Best For

Company Size

1-5 employees6-20 employees21-50 employees51-200 employees

Sectors

Professional ServicesRetailHospitalityConstructionTech

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Head-to-Head Comparisons

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DextvsSage AutoEntry
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Sage AutoEntryRated unrated

Two close matches.pick on accountant familiarity and Irish support.

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Verification Notes

Seeded 2026-Q2 from dext.com, getapp.ie (Ireland listing), and ownership-change reporting (Hg Capital acquired Dext in April 2021; Hg sold Dext to IRIS Software Group on 23 December 2024 - Sage has never owned Dext). EUR pricing surfaced via getapp.ie Ireland listing (EUR31.50/month Business); Dext's own pricing pages are configurator-driven and not deep-linkable to EUR. Hosting confirmed as UK + EU per getapp.ie vendor profile; UK adequacy decision applies but flagged in description. No Irish or Dublin entity confirmed - support is UK-timezone. AutoEntry is the direct competitor and is also in this dataset (slug: sage-autoentry).

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