Tag: Xero

5 Features That Make Datamolino Unique

Most invoice capture tools will pull a supplier name, a total and a VAT figure off a PDF without much trouble. That part has been a solved problem for years. The interesting question, once you're processing invoices at volume, is what happens after the header. Below are the five things Datamolino does that most of the competition either doesn't do at all, or only half does.

FreeAgent Invoice Scanning: Automate Receipt Capture and Data Entry

If you run your books in FreeAgent, you've probably noticed the same thing most of its users notice eventually: the accounting side is excellent, but the document side is on you. Bills get keyed in by hand. Receipts get photographed, attached, then categorised one by one. For a sole trader doing twenty invoices a month it's fine. For a practice with fifteen clients, or a landlord with a stack of contractor invoices, it stops being fine pretty fast.

Line Items vs Invoice Totals: When Each Matters for Your Bookkeeping

Every invoice you capture gets reduced to data. The real question is how much data.

Pricing & Features – AutoEntry vs. Hubdoc vs. Dext vs. Datamolino in 2026

Manually entering purchase invoices and receipts is one of the most time-consuming parts of bookkeeping — and one of the easiest to automate. It’s a task prone to human error and unnecessary admin. If you’re using Xero, FreeAgent or QuickBooks Online, the leading tools for automating this process with OCR and data extraction are: Dext Prepare (formerly Receipt Bank), AutoEntry, Hubdoc, and Datamolino.

How to Import Bank Statements into Xero in 5 Simple Steps

Importing bank statements into Xero is straightforward when you have a working bank feed. The trouble starts when you do not. Old transactions outside the feed window, clients on banks Xero does not support, scanned paper statements from a shoebox handover. All of it has to land in Xero somehow, and retyping a year of transactions by hand is not really an option.

How to use Xero Projects with Datamolino

Projects is a new Xero feature that gives you a simple way to capture, track and report on the time and money spent on each job so you can proactively invoice, make informed decisions and manage your project financials more efficiently. Great.

Xero HQ + Datamolino

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Export line items to Xero. (video)

Datamolino can capture line items from invoices for you automatically. This means that you can export invoice item descriptions and send them straight to Xero! Watch this video if you want to see how easy it is.

How to use Datamolino and Xero in just 5 minutes!