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Dext alternatives

Dext, formerly Receipt Bank, collects receipts and supplier invoices for accounting practices. Documents come in by photo, by email or from a bank feed, and the whole workflow is organized around the practice and its client list.

Why people look

Why teams look for a Dext alternative

The reasons that come up in evaluations. Whether they apply to you depends mostly on where your receipts come from.

Half of month-end goes to reminding people to submit receipts that are already sitting on their phones.

Stores that use Smartbills issue a digital receipt at payment, so most documents are before anyone would have thought to ask for them.

The data we get back is only as good as a photo someone took in a parking lot.

A network receipt carries the line items from the merchant's POS. The detail comes from data and nobody has to guess at a blurry image.

Cards, expense policy and supplier payments all sit in different systems from the receipts.

Receipts, policy, corporate cards and payables share the same record in Smartbills. An approved receipt is already a coded accounting entry.

The shortlist

6 alternatives to Dext

The products teams shortlist against Dext, each with what it's for. The order isn't a ranking, and the criteria are explained below.

  1. Hubdoc

    Hubdoc moves documents into Xero and stops there. Smartbills adds digital receipts, expense policy, cards and payables around those documents.

    Best forXero users whose only need is getting bills and receipts into Xero at no extra cost.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  2. Shoeboxed

    Shoeboxed digitizes the paper you've already collected. Smartbills gets receipts from the stores that send them. Less paper is printed.

    Best forBusinesses sitting on a physical archive, or whose purchases still come with paper receipts.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  3. Expensify

    The expense report app most finance teams already know, set against Smartbills on where each receipt comes from before anyone files it.

    Best forChoose Expensify if your team already runs on its expense reports and wants a familiar, well-supported report-and-approve workflow it won't have to relearn.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  4. WellyBox

    WellyBox finds receipts in your email. Smartbills does that too, and also captures receipts for purchases you pay for by card in person.

    Best forSole proprietors who buy almost everything online and want years of email history pulled in at once.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  5. Veryfi

    Veryfi sells an extraction API to build a receipt workflow on. Smartbills is that workflow, already built.

    Best forEngineering teams building their own expense feature who need extraction delivered as a service.

    Compare it with Smartbills

  6. Klippa

    Klippa sells document AI plus a spend app built on it. Smartbills cuts out the reading step by getting digital receipts straight from the merchant.

    Best forEuropean organizations that want one supplier for extraction, document verification and expenses.

    Compare it with Smartbills

Disclosure

And Smartbills, which is ours

Slipping our own product into a roundup without saying so is exactly what makes these pages worthless, so to be clear, this one is ours.

Smartbills

Best for: Businesses that want each receipt captured as data when the purchase happens, with expense policy and approvals applied to it.

Smartbills vs Dext

How this list was put together

These are the products that come up in the same evaluations as Dext, drawn from what prospects actually shortlist against it and from the rest of its category. The order is editorial rather than a ranking, because we don't run benchmarks on products we don't operate, and a scored table written by a vendor about its competitors isn't evidence. Each entry links to a full comparison with claims specific enough to check.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What people ask us before they sign up.

No. Both publish to the same accounting systems. Your accountant keeps working the way they do now and receives cleaner documents.

Yes. Bill fetching signs in to vendor and utility portals on a schedule and pulls each invoice when it is published. Recurring bills are in before their due date.

Dext. It was designed around practice management, which is not what Smartbills is built to do.

Get started

Comparing Dext with something else?

Bring one month of your own receipts and card transactions. The number that settles it is the share of transactions that ended up with an itemized document attached, and you can measure that in one cycle.

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