Dext vs. Zoho Expense

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dext
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
Dext is a bookkeeping automation platform now from IRIS (acquired December 2024) that eliminates much of the manual work associated to accounting processes.
$23
per month per client (10 minimum, for accounting & bookkeeping firms)
Zoho Expense
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Zoho Expense is online expense reporting software, tailor-made for businesses worldwide to automate expense report creation, streamline approvals and make swift reimbursements.
$0
Pricing
DextZoho Expense
Editions & Modules
Dext Essential
$23
per month per client (10 minimum, for accounting & bookkeeping firms)
Dext Advanced
$24.72
per month per client (10 minimum, for accounting & bookkeeping firms)
Dext for Businesses
starting at $30
per month per user (5 minimum)
Free
$0
Standard Plan
$5
per month per user
Premium Plan
$9
per month per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DextZoho Expense
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.20% discount for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
DextZoho Expense
Features
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Expense Management
Comparison of Expense Management features of Product A and Product B
Dext
-
Ratings
Zoho Expense
7.9
Ratings
8% below category average
Employee Expense Reporting00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Corporate Card Reconciliation00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Payment Management
Comparison of Payment Management features of Product A and Product B
Dext
-
Ratings
Zoho Expense
7.2
Ratings
13% below category average
Customizable Approval Policies00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Financial Document Management00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Payment Status Tracking00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Payment Audit Trail00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Duplicate Bill Detection00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Advanced OCR00 Ratings5.20 Ratings
Electronic Funds Transfer00 Ratings5.20 Ratings
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User Ratings
DextZoho Expense
Likelihood to Recommend
9.8
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
3.5
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
DextZoho Expense
Likelihood to Recommend
Application suits well to multiple user structure where users buy and pay expenses on the go so each user would have their own mobile app and access to Dext Prepare and soon after the purchase, they take a picture of the receipt and upload so finance team can access the information straight away. It would not suit well where a business has very few users who pay the bills and most bills are on the cloud (via emails, all-digital in the first place). Because these bills can be emailed to the accounting system in the first place anyway or other software providers where monthly subscription is much cheaper.
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Zoho Expense is wonderful when you have a distributed or remote team or workforce that needs to submit expenses reports throughout the month into a single software and approval system. Zoho Expense does make it easy to train, onboard, and use all of the end-user features for submitting and generating expense reports.
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Pros
  • Key metrics on the submissions by clients and any delays. This allows for early identification where client may be struggling to get the information submitted to Receipt Bank, holding up the bookkeeping processing and ultimately delays in delivery of information to the clients.
  • Identifying unprocessed receipts sitting in the clients Receipt Bank file.. This assists in managing internal workflow and aiding team members who may find they need assistance in completing key tasks.
  • Identifying which clients are using Receipt Bank effectively and which clients need assistance. This can provide the opportunity to discuss with all clients what works well for them and what needs improvement by sharing some of the wins from other clients.
  • Providing managers the ability to review with ease the progress of Receipt Bank processing by client and by bookkeeper. This allows them to identify issues literally before they occur.
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  • The program will notify users if they have entered a duplicate charge.
  • Once the end-users understood that receipts were mandatory, attaching those receipts has become second-nature. The app makes it very easy to do so.
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Cons
  • On the Inbox screen include a 'due date' column so items can be easily sorted in due date order to assist managing accounts payable
  • improve the data matching between XERO and DEXT. Currently it performance is 'random' and does not occur on each customer file. Seems it is something that needs to be requested from support. It should be an automatic feature
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  • Banking integration should be two ways, once corporate card is paid for, it should close the line item
  • Reports should be available on demand
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Likelihood to Renew
Dext is the best way for us to manage our business expenses. Physical and PDF receipts/invoices will be around for a while, but the move to eInvoicing is very good and we look forward to Dext adding this feature
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Usability
Receipt Bank was great 3 years ago when I started using it. Now it’s way to expensive for what you can get elsewhere for free. Also the rebranding didn’t work in my opinion so the Dext name doesn’t have the same feeling to me as Receipt Bank.
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Ease of use for the simple basic options. I wish the there was an option for reimbursement to be marked separately. Example for all corporate credit expense reports with $0 reimbursements still have to be marked as reimbursed in order to be removed from pending reimbursement section. For the cost the features offer benefits
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Support Rating
When I think I have broken the platform the help guys and girls are simply fantastic. They take time to understand the problem and usually resolve the issue on the spot. I have not had to wait more than an hour to get anything resolved - be that an issue I have created or a fault in my understanding of the program. Can't rate their support I have received to date highly enough.
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The only reason I give Zoho a 9 is because of the issue with the Chart of Accounts skewing every time I export/import. I believe this is due to the fact that I use sub-accounts and Zoho cannot differentiate. Still hoping. :)
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Alternatives Considered
I have never been able to get Expensify to work for me. The reports are just completely unintuitive and I end up having my client generate the report I need and send it to me instead. For QBO the restriction on which email addresses can send receipts is too limiting. They also do not extract data well and the overall system is very clunky compared to Dext. Of course the trade-off there is that you aren't paying a separate monthly subscription fee.
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Zoho Expense is on the lower end with limited features however the cost out weights all the fancy features the others have. As they charge way to much and have limited return on investment. The return on investment for the other platforms is only worth it when operating large scale operations. Zoho Expense is a great product
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Return on Investment
  • Receipt Bank has helped alleviate the frustration felt by both our clients and our staff when it comes to the detail needed for some of the organizations that we serve. In some cases it's just NECESSARY to have all of that detail for the financial statement preparation, and prior to Receipt Bank, we had to email back and forth, download attachments, manually enter the information into Quickbooks Online, save the document etc. It was a tedious process. Receipt Bank took care of all of that, and it saves both our clients and our staff HOURS of work each month.
  • Receipt Bank has given our clients the confidence to make their work places paperless offices. It frees time and money for them, because they don't have to keep track of the documents, they don't have to store the documents (and find a place to store them), and they never have to file them away. Receipt Bank archives all of the documents so you can find them if you ever need them, and the documents are in their financial data as well, which is where they really need them. I've never had a client regret going to Receipt Bank just because it makes life so much simpler for them.
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  • It's included in our Zoho One Subscription which was cheaper than QuickBooks, and we now have so many more options at a much cheaper cost.
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ScreenShots

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Screenshot of Dext Prepare Inbox & Mobile app