Dext Prepare vs Saldo Receipt Scanner

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.

Saldo Receipt Scanner turns receipt images into categorized expense records and reports on Android, iOS, and the web. Its OCR captures details such as merchant, date, and total; users can assign or create categories, add or edit notes, and attach receipt photos to expenses. Reports can be emailed, shared, or printed as PDFs. The app supports any currency and automatic conversion for travel expenses. It can be used offline, with receipt images uploading automatically when a connection returns. The Free plan costs nothing and allows 10 expenses with unlimited reimbursement requests. Business costs $14.99 a month and includes unlimited expenses and reimbursement requests, access to all apps and web, multi-device sync, a web version, and unlimited multi-user access. Accounts can be registered with email, Google, or Apple and provide access to other Saldo Apps applications. Support is available through in-app live chat, Facebook Messenger, or email. The privacy policy says the maker uses SSL encryption and limits data access to people with a business need to know.