Head to head
Dext vs Hubdoc
Dext and Hubdoc both get receipts, bills and statements into your books without retyping them. Hubdoc is Xero's own document tool and is included with every Xero plan in Canada. Dext is a paid product with a deeper extraction toolkit, built for businesses and the accounting firms that keep their books.
Who each one is for
Choose Dext if
You or your accountant need line-item extraction, supplier statement checks or bank statement conversion, or you publish to software other than Xero and QuickBooks Online.
Choose Hubdoc if
You're on Xero, your documents are ordinary receipts and bills, and you'd rather use what your subscription already includes.
Dext and Hubdoc, side by side
Checked against both vendors' own pricing and product pages on October 22, 2026. Prices exclude tax and promotions. Plans change often: confirm the details on each vendor's site before you decide.
- Price
- Dext: Business plans from about US$25 a month billed annually, for 250 documents and 5 users
- Hubdoc: Included with every Xero plan in Canada; US$12 a month on its own
- Free trial
- Dext: 14 days
- Hubdoc: 30 days, no credit card
- How documents come in
- Dext: Mobile photos and uploads, with connections to 11,500+ banks and financial institutions
- Hubdoc: Mobile photos, desktop uploads, email forwarding and scanning
- What it reads
- Dext: Receipts and invoices; line items, bank statements and supplier statements as add-ons
- Hubdoc: Bills, statements, invoices and receipts
- Line-item extraction
- Dext: Add-on from US$20.50 a month, or US$0.50 a document
- Hubdoc: Not listed
- Bank statement extraction
- Dext: Add-on from US$13 a month, or US$0.32 a document
- Hubdoc: Bank statements are among the documents it reads
- Accounting systems
- Dext: 36+ platforms, including Xero, QuickBooks and Sage
- Hubdoc: Xero and QuickBooks Online, plus Box
- Built for
- Dext: Businesses and accounting and bookkeeping firms, with separate partner pricing
- Hubdoc: Small businesses on Xero and their accountants
- Spend controls and cards
- Dext: No
- Hubdoc: No
The differences that decide it
Included versus paid
If you're on Xero in Canada, Hubdoc costs nothing extra: Xero's pricing page lists it on Starter, Standard and Premium. Dext is a separate subscription priced by document volume and users, with extraction add-ons on top.
How deep the extraction goes
Hubdoc reads the key data from a document and publishes it with the image attached. Dext adds line-item extraction, supplier statement reconciliation that flags missing or duplicate invoices, and bank statement conversion, each as a paid add-on or pay-as-you-go.
Where it publishes
Hubdoc syncs to Xero and QuickBooks Online. Dext works with 36+ accounting platforms, Sage among them, which matters to a firm with clients on different systems.
What neither does
Both work from a document someone has to photograph, upload or forward. Neither gets the itemized receipt from the store at the moment of sale, and neither controls spending before it happens.
How to choose
If you're a business on Xero
Start with Hubdoc. It's already in your plan, it takes photos and forwarded emails, and it publishes to Xero with the document attached. For most small businesses with ordinary receipts and supplier bills, it's enough.
Move to Dext when you hit a specific limit: you need each line of a receipt coded to a different account, you want supplier statements checked against the bills you've recorded, or you're converting PDF bank statements for months the bank feed doesn't cover.
If you're an accounting firm
Dext was built with firms in mind and has separate partner pricing on its site. Supporting 36+ accounting platforms lets one tool cover clients on Xero, QuickBooks and Sage. Hubdoc fits a practice whose clients are mostly on Xero, since each client's subscription already includes it.
Counting the real cost
Dext's business pricing starts around US$25 a month on an annual plan for 250 documents and 5 users, and the price rises with the document allowance. Add-ons are separate: line items from US$20.50 a month and bank statements from US$13 a month, or pay per document. Dext shows prices by region: check the Canadian figure on its site.
Hubdoc's cost is zero on Xero. On QuickBooks Online it's US$12 a month after a 30-day trial.
Supplier statements and storage
Dext's supplier statement extraction checks that every invoice and credit note on a supplier's statement lines up with what you've recorded, and flags gaps and duplicates before they reach your books. It's an add-on from US$20.50 a month or US$0.50 a document. Dext also includes Vault, free for up to 100 MB, for contracts, licences and certificates, with reminders on their dates.
Hubdoc keeps the source document attached to each transaction it publishes, which covers what most small businesses need for an audit trail.
Where Smartbills fits
Dext and Hubdoc read documents after someone captures them. Smartbills also starts earlier: stores that use Smartbills send the itemized receipt as data at the moment of sale, receipts in your team's mailboxes are found where they land, and bills are fetched from supplier portals. What's left gets photographed and read down to each tax line, then posted to Xero or QuickBooks Online with GST, HST and QST split out. We've written our own comparison against each.
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