Getting started with FreeCharityReceipts
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FreeCharityReceipts makes official donation receipts for Canadian registered charities. You fill in a form, and the receipt downloads as a PDF. You then give it to the donor yourself.
What is free
You don't need an account for your first receipt. Each charity registration number gets one free receipt per day, for a cash gift of up to $10,000 CAD. There is no card and no sign-in. Details are in Free tier.
What needs credits
You need credits, or a pass, for:
- more than one receipt a day for the same registration number
- a gift over $10,000
- a gift-in-kind or a gift with advantage (see Gift types)
- a correction to a receipt you already issued
A cash receipt costs 1 credit. Gift-in-kind, gift with advantage and corrections cost 2. A pass covers all of these, including Bulk. See Credits and passes for prices.
Make your first receipt
- Go to Create a receipt.
- Fill in Organization Information, including your Authorized Signature.
- Fill in Donor Information and Gift Information.
- Click Generate Receipt. If you are signed in, you click Preview Receipt first, then Generate Receipt in the preview.
- The PDF downloads. A copy is also sent to your Organization Email.
The full walk-through, field by field, is in Create a receipt.
Good to know
- Receipts are downloads only. FreeCharityReceipts doesn't print or mail receipts. You give the PDF to the donor yourself or, if you pay with credits or a pass, email it from the form.
- FreeCharityReceipts is not a donor database. On the Create Receipt page it has no saved receipts and no receipt history. If you close the tab, you start over. Keep your PDFs. See What we keep.
- If you spot a mistake after issuing a receipt, you can issue a correction. It costs 2 credits.
- Receipts can be in English, French or both. See Receipt languages.
- For what an official receipt must show, and where FreeCharityReceipts prints each item, see What a CRA official donation receipt must show.
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