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SyncWise

SyncWise compared

Capture tools read a document and pass the numbers across. Payables platforms add approvals and payment runs. Neither decides whether the accounting behind the number is right — and that is the whole of what SyncWise does.

Feature by feature

Capability
SyncWise
Dext
AutoEntry
Hubdoc
Lightyear
Reads documents and posts them into Xero or QuickBooks
The table-stakes job. Everyone here does it.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Line-item detail included, not a paid extra
Some price per-line extraction as an add-on on top of the subscription.
Yes
Partly
Partly
No
Yes
Decides the VAT treatment itself
59 rules applied to every sales invoice — not a code copied from last time.
Yes
No
No
No
No
Works out place of supply
Where the supply happens, not where the invoice is addressed.
Yes
No
No
No
No
Checks EU VAT numbers live
VIES lookup at the moment the decision is made, and the result is kept.
Yes
No
No
No
No
Sales invoices as well as supplier bills
Most of this market is built around purchases only.
Yes
Partly
Partly
No
No
Duplicate check against your live ledger
Checked three ways, including against what is already in your accounts.
Yes
Partly
Partly
No
Partly
Supplier history and bank-detail change alerts
A bill that doesn't fit the supplier's pattern is held, and changed bank details are caught before anything is paid.
Yes
No
No
No
No
Supplier statements reconciled line by line
The statement ticked off against the bills, with what's missing named.
Yes
Partly
No
No
Partly
Profit per job
Revenue, cost and margin on each job, units ordered against units invoiced.
Yes
No
No
No
No
Month-end reconciliation against the ledger
What was pulled, what posted, what didn't, and why.
Yes
No
No
No
No
Connects to a system with no API
Council portals, order systems, message threads. Built to order.
Yes
No
No
No
No
ISO 27001 or SOC 2
They hold recognised certifications. We do not — see our security page.
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Self-serve free trial
There is no free trial of SyncWise. You can start on your own card with them; we onboard you directly, with a demo on your own documents and a 14-day money-back guarantee.
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

A dash means partly, or through a paid extra. Taken from each company's published pricing and product pages as at September 2026 — they change things, so check before you rely on it.

The honest summary

Buy one of them instead

If the problem is simply the volume of receipts and supplier bills coming in, these tools are built for exactly that and have been for years. If you are a practice wanting one licence across fifty clients, they sell it and we do not. If your procurement requires ISO 27001 or SOC 2 on paper, they have it and we have not — set out plainly on our security page.

Buy SyncWise

When the VAT on what you sell is not obvious — cross-border goods, services to overseas customers, mixed-rate invoices — and getting it wrong is expensive. When you need the margin on each job, not the total at year end. When the system holding your orders has no API and every other tool has told you it cannot be done.

On price

We are not the cheap option. SyncWise starts at £30 a month, roughly what an entry capture plan costs — the difference is what sits inside it: the full VAT engine runs on every invoice from the first tier, and line-item detail is not a separate charge. There is a one-off setup fee, because we set you up rather than handing you a login. Full pricing.

Not sure which side you fall on?

Send us the invoices you find hardest to get right. We will tell you what SyncWise would do with them, and if the answer is that you do not need us, we will say so.

automation@syncwise.co.uk