Dext Prepare vs ReceiptsAI

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.

ReceiptsAI is AI bookkeeping software that extracts and organizes data from receipts, invoices, and bank statements. It captures details such as merchant names, dates, amounts, taxes, and currencies. Bank statements are accepted as PDFs, while receipts and invoices can be JPG, JPEG, or PNG files; users can upload documents or forward them by email. Expenses are categorized automatically, with custom categories and rules available. Exports include CSV, Excel, and PDF reports for accounting software. Premium adds automatic matching between bank transactions and receipts, as well as connected Gmail or Outlook mailboxes for receipt forwarding. The service runs on Android, iOS, and the web. Its free plan costs nothing and includes 30 one-time credits, with one processed page using one credit. Starter costs $12 a month, billed $144 annually; Premium costs $24 a month, billed $288 annually; Premium+ costs $39 a month, billed $468 annually.