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Dext Commerce
Website: dext.com
Dext Commerce at a glance
- Best for
- Firms with multi-channel e-commerce clients
- Pricing model
- Per client, tiered by transaction volume
- Deployment
- Cloud
- Regions
- UK, US, AU, CA
- Key integrations
- Shopify, Amazon, eBay, Xero
Last reviewed . Pricing and features change frequently — confirm current details with the vendor.
Dext Commerce is an e-commerce bookkeeping tool that extracts transaction-level data from sales platforms, categorises it, and syncs it into QuickBooks Online or Xero. It sits alongside the core document capture product in the Dext range.
How accounting firms use it
The problem it solves is reconciling online sales to platform payouts. A marketplace deposits a net figure covering hundreds of sales less commission, advertising fees, refunds, chargebacks, and tax that may have been collected by the marketplace rather than the seller. Reconstructing revenue from that deposit manually is slow and error-prone, and it is the single largest bookkeeping cost for e-commerce clients.
Firms use the tool to pull the underlying transactions rather than the summary, so revenue, fees, refunds, and tax post separately and the payout reconciles by construction. For clients selling across several channels this compounds, since each platform reports differently.
Key features
Connections cover the major marketplaces and payment processors, with transaction-level extraction including per-sale tax detail and jurisdiction. Fee types are separated rather than netted, so commission, fulfilment, and advertising costs land in their own accounts.
Categorisation rules can be set per channel and product type, and refunds and chargebacks are matched to original sales rather than posted as unexplained debits.
Output syncs to Xero and QuickBooks Online at the level of detail the firm configures, from individual transactions to daily summaries.
Who it’s best for
Firms with e-commerce clients selling across multiple channels, or single-channel clients with enough volume and tax complexity that summary posting is inadequate.
Clients on one platform with straightforward domestic tax are often served well enough by the accounting platform’s native integration. Firms needing supplier invoice capture rather than sales data should look at Dext, AutoEntry, or Datamolino instead.
Dext Commerce FAQ
- Which sales channels does Dext Commerce support?
- Shopify, Amazon, eBay, Etsy, PayPal, Stripe, Square, WooCommerce, and a number of others, with coverage varying by region. Multi-channel sellers are the intended case — the value comes from normalising data across platforms that each report sales, fees, and refunds differently.
- How does it handle sales tax and VAT?
- Transaction-level tax data is captured per sale, including the jurisdiction where it was charged. This matters for sellers with obligations across multiple states or countries, where a platform payout summary gives a net figure that cannot be decomposed into the underlying tax positions.
- Why not just use the platform's own accounting integration?
- Native integrations typically post summarised payouts rather than individual transactions, which is adequate for a single-channel seller with simple tax. It breaks down with multiple channels, refunds, chargebacks, marketplace-collected tax, and fee structures that differ per platform — the point at which reconciling a payout to revenue becomes genuinely difficult.
- Is it included with a Dext subscription?
- No. It is licensed separately from Dext's core document capture product, though both sit under the same account and are commonly sold together. Firms should confirm which clients need it rather than applying it across the whole book, since it is only worth the cost where sales volume is meaningful.
Dext Commerce Alternatives
Other supplier automation tools for accounting firms, ordered by how much of Dext Commerce's functionality they cover.
AutoEntry
Automates data entry for accounting firms by capturing receipts, invoices, expenses, and statements using OCR technology.
Bill.com
Cloud-based accounts payable and receivable automation that streamlines payment processes for businesses and accounting firms.
Brex
Corporate card and spend platform with expense management, bill pay, and real-time visibility integrated with accounting software.
Datamolino
Datamolino is data extraction software that captures line items from purchase invoices, receipts, and bank statements for Xero, QBO, and FreeAgent.
Dext
Dext automates receipt and invoice capture for accounting firms, extracting data and pushing it to Xero, QBO, or Sage.