At a glance
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.
Best for
Businesses that want each receipt captured as data when the purchase happens, with expense policy and approvals applied to it.
Where it's stronger
Best for
Accounting practices collecting documents from many clients at once, who need client reminders and publishing built in.
Where it's stronger
Every comparison on this site names what the other product does better. If we couldn't think of anything, we didn't publish the page.
Side by side
These are structural differences, not plan checkboxes. Capabilities change, so check the vendor's own documentation before deciding on any single row.
How the receipt reaches you
Fetching invoices from vendor portals
Line-item detail without reading an image
Corporate and virtual cards
Expense policy and approvals
Working across many client files
Applying customer payments to invoices
None of this needs a big-bang cutover. Most teams run both tools for one cycle and compare capture rates before switching anyone off.
If your accountant's practice is the main user, keep Dext. Smartbills is built for the business that spends the money.
Point Smartbills at the ledger Dext publishes to. Your chart of accounts and reports stay as they are.
Compare how many documents arrived without anyone chasing them. That's where month-end hours go.
Once capture is reliable, move expense approvals and card spending too.
FAQ
What people ask us before they sign up.
Keep comparing
The products people evaluate alongside Dext.
Hubdoc moves documents into Xero and stops there. Smartbills adds digital receipts, expense policy, cards and payables around those documents.
Read the comparisonShoeboxed digitizes the paper you've already collected. Smartbills gets receipts from the stores that send them. Less paper is printed.
Read the comparisonThe expense report app most finance teams already know, set against Smartbills on where each receipt comes from before anyone files it.
Read the comparisonEach product works on its own, and when you run two, the same record carries from the receipt to the ledger entry.
Digital receipt software that turns every sale at your POS into an itemized electronic receipt, hosted online and delivered by app, SMS, email or API.
Invoices that only live on vendor portals, downloaded on a schedule and passed to accounts payable while there's still time to approve them.
Accounts payable automation that reads each supplier invoice, codes it and matches it to the purchase order before anyone is asked to approve payment.
Get started
Bring one month of your own receipts and card transactions, and we'll show you the capture rate on both sides instead of a slide deck.
