AI-powered bookkeeping for UK businesses & accountants
Upload invoices. AI does the bookkeeping.
Upload invoices and bank statements. AI categorises everything, files your VAT & Income Tax returns to HMRC, and keeps your books in order. From £9/month.
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Too many tools. Too many subscriptions.
Sound familiar? There's a better way.
3-5
Separate tools just to do your job
One app for extraction, another for accounting, another for VAT, maybe another for ITSA. Each with its own login, its own subscription, its own way of doing things.
What if one tool handled extraction, invoicing, VAT, ITSA, and reporting?
£200+
Per month in stacked subscriptions
Dext for scanning, Xero for bookkeeping, separate MTD software for VAT. And now ITSA needs yet another tool. The costs add up fast.
Distil replaces all of them. From £9/month.
Apr 2026
MTD ITSA goes mandatory
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax is mandatory from April 2026 for sole traders earning £50k+. Quarterly submissions to HMRC. Are your clients ready?
Distil files both MTD VAT and ITSA returns. No extra software.
Simplify your accounting with Distil
One tool replaces your entire stack. Here's how it works.
Upload
Each client gets their own upload link. They install it as an app on their phone and send receipts as they go. You bulk-upload at month-end. Bank statements too, with each transaction categorised per client.
Process
AI extracts data and maps to each client's chart of accounts, not generic codes. Uses their actual Xero or QBO nominals. Supplier rules per client. 95%+ accuracy that improves with every invoice.
Publish & File
Known suppliers auto-publish as drafts in Xero or QuickBooks with PDFs attached. Create and send sales invoices. File MTD VAT and ITSA returns directly to HMRC.
Report & Comply
P&L, cash flow, and balance sheet update live as data lands. 6-year HMRC-compliant storage per client. Evidence packs on demand.
Upload
Each client gets their own upload link. They install it as an app on their phone and send receipts as they go. You bulk-upload at month-end. Bank statements too, with each transaction categorised per client.
Process
AI extracts data and maps to each client's chart of accounts, not generic codes. Uses their actual Xero or QBO nominals. Supplier rules per client. 95%+ accuracy that improves with every invoice.
Publish & File
Known suppliers auto-publish as drafts in Xero or QuickBooks with PDFs attached. Create and send sales invoices. File MTD VAT and ITSA returns directly to HMRC.
Report & Comply
P&L, cash flow, and balance sheet update live as data lands. 6-year HMRC-compliant storage per client. Evidence packs on demand.
Bills in Xero/QBO, coded, attached, auto-published as drafts.
Known suppliers auto-publish to Xero/QBO. New ones: upload, review, publish.
Without Distil
- ✕ Chase clients for receipts via email
- ✕ Rekey every supplier invoice manually
- ✕ Look up VAT codes for each line
- ✕ Copy-paste into Xero/QBO
With Distil
- ✓ Clients upload daily via their installed app
- ✓ VAT codes assigned automatically
- ✓ Nominal codes matched to your chart
- ✓ Known suppliers auto-publish as drafts
Bank Statement Transactions → Individual Invoices
Before
50 transactions typed manually from bank statement PDFs. Each one looked up, categorised, and entered into Xero/QBO by hand.
With Distil
Each transaction categorised, VAT-coded, and importable to Xero/QBO as individual purchase or sale invoices. No other tool does this.
Built specifically for UK accounting workflows. Not generic OCR with a CSV export.
How it works
From upload to published bills, filed returns, and live reports. No re-entering data.
Set Up Clients & Upload
Sync clients from Xero or QuickBooks in one click, or create them manually. Each client gets their own upload link that installs as an app on their phone.
- One-click client sync from Xero or QuickBooks
- Per-client upload links that install as a PWA, no App Store needed
- QR codes for instant client setup
- Works for invoices, receipts, and bank statements
AI Processes Instantly
Extracts supplier, date, VAT, and amounts, then maps to each client's actual chart of accounts. Not generic codes. 2-3 minutes per document.
- 95%+ accuracy on standard UK invoices
- Automatic VAT code detection (S/R/Z/E)
- Per-client chart of accounts from Xero or QBO
- Two-tier supplier rules: practice defaults + per-client overrides
- Bank transactions extracted and categorised at no extra cost
Publish, Invoice & File
Known suppliers auto-publish as drafts in Xero or QuickBooks with PDFs attached. Review and approve, or let the AI handle it. File MTD VAT and ITSA returns to HMRC.
- Auto-publish to Xero/QBO for known suppliers (drafts, never finalised)
- Sales invoicing with line items and payment tracking
- MTD VAT and ITSA returns filed directly to HMRC
- Bank transactions importable as categorised purchases or sales
- P&L, cash flow, and balance sheet update live as data lands
Ready to save hours on bookkeeping?
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Pricing, features, and capabilities vs the tools UK businesses and accountants actually use
Monthly cost comparison
Excl. VAT| Tool | Monthly cost | AI Extraction | Bank Statements | VAT Filing | Reports |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distil | From £9/mo | ||||
| Dext | From £16.50/client | Add-on | |||
| AutoEntry | From £9/mo (50 credits) | 3 credits/pg | |||
| QuickFile | Free (no AI) | Basic |
From £9/month with everything included. No per-document fees, no per-client surcharges.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Distil | Dext | AutoEntry | Hubdoc | QuickFile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI invoice extraction | Basic only | ||||
| Bank statement processing | Included | Add-on | 3 credits/pg | CSV only | |
| Xero & QuickBooks | Xero only | ||||
| Auto-publish with PDFs | |||||
| Sales invoicing | |||||
| MTD VAT return filing | |||||
| MTD ITSA submissions | Add-on | ||||
| P&L, cash flow & balance sheet | Basic | ||||
| Mileage tracking (HMRC rates) | |||||
| Client upload portal | Invite only | Invite only | |||
| HMRC 6-year storage | |||||
| Flat pricing (no per-doc) | |||||
| Two-tier supplier rules | |||||
| Bank txn categorisation | Add-on | Manual | |||
| Bank reconciliation | Xero only | Basic | |||
| Business owner self-service mode | |||||
| Built-in accounting ledger | |||||
| Bank feeds (Open Banking) | Soon |
* Hubdoc is free with an active Xero subscription (from £15/mo) but offers basic extraction only, with no line items and limited bank statement support. Distil pricing is page-based — your tier depends on pages processed, not client count. Dext pricing based on publicly available Essentials plan rates (2026). AutoEntry estimates based on typical credit consumption (~30 docs + 5 bank statement pages per client per month). QuickFile costs estimated from Affinity daily rates for small/medium accounts; QuickFile is accounting software with manual data entry, not an AI extraction tool. All prices exclude VAT. Competitor pricing is approximate and subject to change.
Why trust Distil
GDPR Compliant
UK data centres, encrypted at rest
6-Year HMRC Storage
Evidence packs on demand
95%+ Accuracy
AI trained on UK invoices
MTD Ready
VAT & ITSA returns built in
Trusted by UK businesses & accountants
Hear from practitioners who switched to Distil.
“Other software I used required multiple add-ons to do what Distil does out of the box. One flat fee, everything included. Invoices, bank statements, client uploads, VAT and MTD. Nothing else comes close for the price.”
Stefano Costa
SMD Accountancy
“My team was spending a full week a month just doing bookkeeping. Now I upload invoices, bank statements, AI categorizes it, we review, and publish in under an hour. It's really all in ONE!”
Vanusa de Aveiro
Accurate Accounting
“I tried three other OCR tools before Distil. None of them understood UK VAT codes or nominal categories. This one does. And the flat pricing means I know exactly what I'm paying.”
Priya Patel
Bookkeeper, 40+ clients
Simple pricing. Everything included.
Extraction, invoicing, VAT, ITSA, P&L, and reporting. All included. 14-day free trial, cancel anytime.
Essential
14-day free trial included
- Up to 100 invoice pages per month
- Up to 100 bank statement pages
- Smart AI categorisation
- MTD VAT filing
- Basic spending reports
- 6-year HMRC-compliant storage
- CSV & spreadsheet exports
Business
14-day free trial included
- Up to 300 invoice pages per month
- Up to 100 bank statement pages
- Everything in Essential, plus:
- MTD Income Tax (ITSA) filing
- Sales invoicing with payment tracking
- Full P&L, cash flow & balance sheet
- Mileage tracking at HMRC rates
- Top-up packs available
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Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about AI invoice processing