Dext Launches Payments Bringing Supplier Invoice, Expense and Payroll Payments Into One Trusted Platform

 Dext, the leading bookkeeping automation platform for accountants, bookkeepers and businesses, today announces the launch of Payments, a fully integrated payment solution that enables businesses and advisers to manage, approve and make payments directly within Dext.

The launch marks the delivery of Dext’s most requested feature to date, responding directly to long-standing customer demand to bring payments into the same platform they already trust with their financial data.

Dext Payments embeds payments into Dext’s trusted, intelligent platform, allowing users to move seamlessly from invoice capture to approval, payment and reconciliation, all in one place.

During the three-month beta period, customers processed nearly £800,000 in payments through Dext, validating demand for an integrated, end-to-end payments workflow ahead of general availability.

With Payments now live, UK users of Xero can pay supplier invoices directly from Dext, either individually or in batches, and make employee expense payments with the same workflow. Payroll payments will be introduced in Q1 2026, enabling users to run payroll payments directly from Dext.

Additional functionality, including spend cards and invoice payments links, will be introduced throughout 2026.

“Payments has been the single most requested feature we’ve ever had,” says Sabby Gill, CEO of Dext. “Our customers already trust Dext with some of the most important financial data in their business, and they’ve been clear that they want to manage payments in the same place. By delivering Dext Payments, we’re acting on that feedback – removing friction, reducing risk and giving accountants, bookkeepers and businesses confidence that every transaction is handled accurately and securely, without switching systems or adding complexity.”

Accountants, bookkeepers and businesses already trust Dext to process over 350 million documents every year with industry-leading accuracy. Until now, paying suppliers has remained one of the most fragmented parts of the finance workflow, spread across disconnected banking portals, spreadsheets and manual approval chains. Payments in Dext changes this by delivering a complete end-to-end supplier payment workflow in one place, from invoice capture through to approval, payment and reconciliation.

“Automating invoices with AI solved one of the biggest problems in bookkeeping, but payments remained fragmented and manual,” says Stephen Edginton, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Dext. “Dext Payments completes that workflow, from invoice capture through to payment and reconciliation, without forcing accountants or businesses to rely on multiple systems. Building on the AI capabilities customers already use within Dext, it is purpose-built for real-world practice workflows and already proven in