Dext is a solid tool. Across a mixed client portfolio — retail, trades, hospitality, professional services — it makes sense: it captures documents, extracts data, pushes clean entries to Xero or QuickBooks. For most clients, that's the whole job. Restaurant clients aren't most clients.
It captures the document, extracts the totals, and pushes a journal entry to Xero or QuickBooks. From an accounting perspective, the job is done.
What doesn't happen: the ingredient data doesn't go anywhere useful for the operator. Recipe costs don't update. The COGS dashboard stays static. The chef still doesn't know whether the duck breast dish is profitable this week or not.
That's not a criticism of Dext — it's a general-purpose capture tool doing general-purpose work. The problem is that restaurants need more from their invoice data than any general tool can provide.
For you: a draft journal entry in Xero or QuickBooks. Line items mapped to the Chart of Accounts, original image attached, ready to review and approve.
For your client: live ingredient cost data. Recipe costs that update the moment a supplier price changes. A COGS dashboard that reflects what they're actually paying — not last month's estimate.
Your restaurant clients are paying for Dext, or you're absorbing that cost in your fee. They're getting clean books. Are they getting any better at running their business?
The operators who understand their food costs — who know which dishes make money, which suppliers are creeping up, which weeks are going sideways before month-end — are the ones who stay in business long enough to keep being your clients.
Foodrazor integrates with Xero and QuickBooks the same way Dext does — draft entries, your review, your approval. The difference is what happens on the operator's side of the same transaction.
Most accounting partners run Foodrazor alongside Dext for their general clients and switch restaurant clients over. The onboarding takes about two hours per client. After that, the system runs itself.
Your mixed portfolio — retail, trades, professional services. For most clients, document capture and a clean journal entry are the whole job, and Dext does it well.
Your restaurant clients — where every line item is ingredient-level cost data that should be updating recipe costs and COGS in real time, not just feeding a journal entry.
Run Foodrazor alongside Dext for your general clients and switch your restaurants over. Onboarding takes about two hours per client — then it runs itself.
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