Short answer: Dext (the product many firms still call Receipt Bank) is for turning receipts, invoices, and statements into bookkeeping data. Slippie is for getting the missing pack from the client in the first place — over WhatsApp, with a checklist and reminders.
If your bottleneck is typing slips into Xero, look at Dext. If your bottleneck is clients who never send the pack, look at Slippie. Plenty of practices need both.
What Dext actually does
Dext, formerly Receipt Bank, sells AI bookkeeping software. Clients and staff submit receipts, invoices, and bank statements through a mobile app, email-in, or upload. Dext extracts supplier, date, amount, VAT, and (on some documents) line items, then publishes into the accounting file.
Their public site (August 2026) positions it as:
- Capture via app, email, upload, and bank feeds
- AI extraction they market at 99%+ accuracy
- Sync into 30+ accounting products, including Xero and QuickBooks
- A practice view so a firm can run many clients in one place
- South Africa-specific pages around staying SARS-ready
That is a real product for a real job. Bookkeepers who used to key every till slip into the ledger are the reason Dext exists.
Dext also talks about stopping the paperwork chase. In their model, chasing means “get the client onto the Dext app or forwarding address so the source documents arrive.” Once they arrive, the software does the bookkeeping work.
What Slippie actually does
Slippie is a document-request tool built in a South African accounting practice. Staff build a checklist (monthly pack, onboarding, VAT rec, whatever the firm needs). Slippie sends the request on WhatsApp, where those clients already reply. Clients can also use a portal upload link. Reminders follow up until items are in. Files land against the client record.
It is not a ledger. It does not extract line items. It does not replace Xero, Sage, or Dext.
The job is narrower and earlier in the month: make the outstanding list visible, send it where the client will see it, and stop the staff WhatsApp chase.
Typical items on a Slippie request are not only till slips. They are bank statements, signed resolutions, IDs, medical-aid tax certificates, CIPC documents, and the odd PDF that will never become a purchase invoice.
Side-by-side
| Slippie | Dext | |
|---|---|---|
| The job | Collect the documents on the firm’s checklist | Extract bookkeeping source docs into the ledger |
| Client channel | WhatsApp plus a portal link | Mobile app, email-in, upload, bank feeds |
| Reminders | Automated WhatsApp reminders on open items | Clients submit into Dext; the firm works the inbox |
| What gets collected | Anything the firm lists | Receipts, invoices, statements, expenses |
| Data extraction | Not in Slippie | Core product: capture, code, publish |
| Accounting software | Standalone collector | Publishes into Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, and others |
| South Africa | Built for SA firms first; WhatsApp is the default channel | Global product with a ZA presence and SARS-oriented pages |
| Pricing model | Per firm, by active clients, unlimited staff | Per users and monthly document volume |
Where Dext wins
Keying. If the pain is “we have the slips and now someone types them,” Dext is the tool. Slippie will not post a receipt to Xero.
Client-side capture of day-to-day spend. A client who already photographs every till slip in the Dext app does not need Slippie for those slips.
Ledger integrations. Dext is built to sit in front of the accounting file. Slippie files the document; it does not become the books.
Scale of paper. High-volume bookkeeping shops processing hundreds of invoices per client per month are Dext’s home turf.
Where Slippie wins
WhatsApp. South African owner-managed clients live there. Asking them to install another app, remember a forwarding address, or log into a portal is often why the pack is still outstanding on the 7th. Slippie sends the request to the number they already use.
The rest of the pack. Dext is specialised around bookkeeping source documents. A monthly request in a small SA practice is often broader than that. Slippie does not care whether the item is a statement, an ID, or a signed mandate.
Staff adoption. Slippie is priced per firm by active clients, with unlimited staff. Dext’s public business plans are built around users and document allowances. A three-person practice that does not want to count seats will read Slippie’s packaging as simpler.
The chase itself. Slippie’s product loop is request → remind → file. The outstanding list is the point. If your week is lost to “please send March” messages, that is the job.
Pricing, without the theatre
Slippie (from our pricing page):
- Starter — up to 50 active clients — R599 / month
- Growth — up to 150 — R1,199 / month
- Practice — up to 400 — R2,499 / month
An active client is one the firm sent at least one request to that month. Unlimited staff on every plan. WhatsApp on Slippie’s shared sender is bundled; a custom sender is a once-off R1,500 invoice.
Dext prices by users and monthly documents, and the public numbers move. On their South African business page (24 August 2026) a starting annual plan showed about R366 / month excluding VAT for 5 users and 250 documents. Confirm current figures on dext.com before you budget. Practice pricing is a conversation with them.
Do not pick a tool because one homepage number is lower. Dext is priced for extraction volume. Slippie is priced for how many clients you are chasing.
Can a firm use both?
Yes. They are not substitutes.
A workable split:
- Slippie asks for the pack on WhatsApp (statement, slips, the VAT folder, the one signed form).
- Dext (or the firm’s bookkeeper) extracts the bookkeeping documents that arrived.
- IDs, contracts, and “please just send the PDF” items stay in Slippie’s request. They never needed OCR.
If every client already lives in Dext and the only missing items are invoices Dext can fetch, you may not need Slippie. If Dext is empty because nobody opened the app, adding more extraction will not fix the month.
Who should choose what
Choose Dext if the documents arrive and the unpaid work is coding them.
Choose Slippie if the documents do not arrive, the clients are on WhatsApp, and staff still type “just checking in” every Thursday.
Use both if you already like Dext’s extraction and still lose evenings chasing the items Dext cannot pull by itself.
Skip both if you are a full-stack practice-management shop that already collects, reminds, and files inside the PM. Slippie is for firms that still chase packs by hand.
Try Slippie on one client
Create an account, pick one real client who always sends late, and send one request. If the file comes back on WhatsApp, you know the job. Pricing is on /pricing. Sign up at /app/register.