Dext

Dext is bookkeeping automation software for businesses, accountants and bookkeepers (formerly Receipt Bank / Dext Precision / Dext Commerce). It captures receipts, invoices and bank statements, extracts and validates the data with high accuracy, and publishes it into accounting software such as Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, Zoho and MYOB. Dext serves over 700,000 customers worldwide across the UK, US, Canada, Australia, France and South Africa. For accounting practices, Dext exposes a read-only Data Health & Insights REST API that returns client data-health metrics and rolling activity statistics, authenticated with practice-scoped bearer tokens and rate limited to 60 requests per minute.

Dext publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Clients API. Tagged areas include Company, Accounting, Bookkeeping, Receipts, and Expense Management.

Dext’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 22 more developer resources.

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51.8/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 58/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyAccountingBookkeepingReceiptsExpense ManagementFinancial AutomationData HealthOCR

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 51.8/100 · developing

Contract Quality 14.6 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 11.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 9.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 58/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Dext Clients API

Practice client data-health metrics and activity statistics

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

dext-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

MCPServer

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Lifecycle

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

DataModel

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

Security

Compliance

Authentication

DomainSecurity

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

HelpCenter

Support

StatusPage

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

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  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
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name: Dext
description: Dext is bookkeeping automation software for businesses, accountants and bookkeepers (formerly Receipt Bank /
  Dext Precision / Dext Commerce). It captures receipts, invoices and bank statements, extracts and validates the data with
  high accuracy, and publishes it into accounting software such as Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, Zoho and MYOB. Dext serves over
  700,000 customers worldwide across the UK, US, Canada, Australia, France and South Africa. For accounting practices, Dext
  exposes a read-only Data Health & Insights REST API that returns client data-health metrics and rolling activity statistics,
  authenticated with practice-scoped bearer tokens and rate limited to 60 requests per minute.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dext/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Accounting
- Bookkeeping
- Receipts
- Expense Management
- Financial Automation
- Data Health
- OCR
apis:
- aid: dext:dext-clients-api
  name: Dext Clients API
  description: Practice client data-health metrics and activity statistics
  humanURL: https://help.dext.com/en/articles/272702-data-health-insights-api
  baseURL: https://api.precision.dext.com
  tags:
  - Clients
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dext-clients-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/dext-trust-center.yml
- type: Website
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- type: Documentation
  url: https://help.dext.com/en/articles/272702-data-health-insights-api
- type: APIReference
  url: https://help.dext.com/en/articles/272702-data-health-insights-api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://help.dext.com/en/articles/272702-data-health-insights-api
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://help.dext.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://help.dext.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://dext.com/en/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://dext.com/en/business/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://dext.com/us/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://dext.com/us/privacy-policy
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.dext.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/dext
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.dext.com/
- type: Security
  url: https://dext.com/us/security
- type: Compliance
  url: https://dext.com/us/security
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/dext-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/dext-authentication.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/dext-rate-limits.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/dext-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/dext-lifecycle.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/dext-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/dext-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/dext-data-model.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/dext-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/dext-data-health-openapi.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/dext-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/dext-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence