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Dext

FINANCE
Velocity0.0

Accounting platform doubles down on UK compliance and rolls out a Payments product touching supplier, payroll, and credit-note flows.

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◆Current state
Dext is a UK-focused accounting and bookkeeping platform across three product lines: data extraction, Dext Solo (tax/MTD compliance), and the newer Dext Payments. The visible window concentrates on Dext Payments capability — credit-note application, Direct Debit filtering, payroll runs — and on UK Making Tax Digital workflows for income-tax compliance.
◆Where it's heading
Two parallel arcs. Dext Payments is being filled out from supplier-invoice runs toward a complete payments product, with payroll, credit-note allocation, and Direct Debit awareness landing in the same release window — currently UK and Xero only. Dext Solo is leaning hard into UK MTD-for-IT readiness with the obligations dashboard, IRIS export, and HMRC income-source onboarding, ahead of HMRC's quarterly reporting deadlines.
◆Prediction
Dext Payments likely expands beyond UK and Xero — QuickBooks Online support and a second-country rollout are natural next steps. On the Solo side, expect deeper MTD compliance tools, automated reminders for quarterly deadlines, and tighter HMRC handshakes as MTD for IT reaches its mandatory dates. Approval-flow refinements continue across the platform.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2mo ago

    Dext Payments: Credit note application to invoices

    Dext Payments lets users apply credit notes and unallocated balances to supplier invoices during a payment run, with full or partial allocation. Reduces overpayments and refund-chasing — table-stakes payments capability newly available. UK and Xero only.

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  2. 2mo ago

    Dext Payments: Direct Debit filtering for supplier invoices

    Supplier invoices paid via Direct Debit can be hidden from Dext Payments lists, with a warning if Direct Debit is enabled while invoices are already in progress. Targeted fix for the duplicate-payment risk that combining bank-managed Direct Debits with workflow-managed payments creates.

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  3. 2mo ago

    Dext Payments: Payroll payments

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    Dext Payments now handles employee payroll runs via CSV import — validation, flagging, approval, and processing all in the same flow as supplier invoices. The most directional move in the window: expands Dext Payments from a supplier-invoice runner into a broader payments product.

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  4. 3mo ago

    Edit Tax and Products and services in Approvals

  5. 3mo ago

    HMRC Income Source Connection (UK)

  6. 3mo ago

    Improvements to the Connections page

    Connections page gets a more consistent layout and tighter compatibility checks — Bookkeeping and Data Health & Insights now must share a GL platform, Commerce is limited to supported accounting software. Plumbing rather than product change, but reduces a setup-error class.

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