For the books, yes — your accountant probably chose Dext for that. For the gathering, no: it fetches from suppliers you connect and never starts from your own bank lines.
| Stage | Dext | Clerk.AI |
|---|---|---|
| Before | Fetch connections are set up for the suppliers you name, from the 1,249 on Dext's published list. | You start it and go away. You never tell it who your suppliers are, because working that out is the job. |
| During | It collects from those connections, and from whatever you forward or photograph, and reads the data off each document. | It reads the month's bank and card lines, works out which payments have no document behind them, and goes and gets those, from your mail, supplier portals, and photos on your phone.1 |
| After | Everything is coded and published into Xero, QuickBooks or Sage. | What it found is in a folder on your Mac, and goes into Dext like anything else you would have sent. |
1 It does not get every one: some suppliers block automation, and when that happens it names the supplier and asks, rather than leaving a hole you hear about six weeks later.
Two halves of the same month. Numbers point to the fine print under each table.
| Fact | Dext | Clerk.AI |
|---|---|---|
| Works out what has no document | No | Yes, from your own bank lines |
| Fetches from a supplier you connected | Yes, from 1,249 on their list2 | Yes3 |
| Fetches from one nobody connected | No | Yes |
| Reads the receipts on your phone | You photograph each one | It reads the camera roll itself |
| Signs into your bank | No — you supply a PDF statement4 | Yes, in a browser on your Mac |
| Reads the data off a document | Yes | No |
| Publishes into Xero, QuickBooks or Sage | Yes | No |
2 Counted from their own help-centre list, last updated 25 June 2026. 3 There is no catalogue to be in or out of. Some suppliers block automation, and then it names the one it could not reach and asks. 4 Bank Statement Extraction turns a statement you downloaded into data, from $13 a month or $0.32 a document.
| Fact | Dext | Clerk.AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | From €25.21 a month5 | Free, or what you decide |
| AI subscription | Not needed6 | Your own Claude, about €18 a month |
5 European Union business plan, excluding VAT, or €302.50 billed annually, for 250 documents a month. 6 Their AI Assist add-on is $10.50 a month.
Download it, point it at a month you have already sent off, and see what it says is missing.