Datamolino vs Dext Prepare

Datamolino captures supplier invoices, receipts and bank statements, applies saved coding rules, routes invoices for approval and exports checked data to accounting software. Documents can arrive by email, web upload or mobile receipt photo, and ordered PDF batches can be split into individual invoices. Approval workflows are configurable, with decisions kept alongside each invoice. Line-item capture and editing are available on selected plans, including account and tax-code assignment to individual lines. Connections include Xero, QuickBooks Online and FreeAgent, specialist connections and a Capture API for uploading documents, receiving processing webhooks and retrieving structured data. Bank statement PDFs are converted to transaction data and charged per page. Start costs £17 a month excluding VAT and includes 100 bills and receipts per month for one company, with unlimited users; Build is £29 a month, LAUNCH 39.00 GBP, Grow 55.00 GBP, SCALE 135.00 GBP and EXPAND 500.00 GBP. A 14-day trial is available. The mobile app captures documents for Purchases only; sales invoices, bank statements, coding and exports are handled in the web app. Datamolino says stored files are encrypted with AES-256 and customer data is hosted with Amazon Web Services in the European Union.

Dext Prepare captures receipts and invoices and extracts their details for bookkeeping. Documents can come in through the mobile apps, computer upload, supplier invoice fetch, or email. Dext says its AI extracts supplier, date, tax, and total with 99.9% accuracy, and the product can apply learned categorisation rules and flag duplicate transactions. It includes line-item extraction, purchase-order matching, and approval routing. Dext says it connects to 36+ accounting platforms, e-commerce platforms, and more than 11,500 banks and financial institutions; named examples include Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, Shopify, PayPal, and Stripe. The annual Business plan is £290 a year, billed at £24.17 per month, excludes VAT, and includes 250 documents per month for five users. There is no free plan; a 14-day free trial requires no credit card. Access is available on Android, iOS, web, and as a Chrome or Edge extension. Dext says it is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and encrypts stored data with AES-256 and communications with TLS 1.2 or higher.