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Format spec

Credit card slip template

The terminal's own authorisation record, printed twice — a merchant copy with write-in lines and a customer copy without.

This is a generic industry format — the printing convention, not any company’s trade dress. You supply your own business identity; Get Receipt supplies the grid it prints on.

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Physical spec

Paper
80 mm thermal roll
Roll or sheet width
79.5 mm
Printable width
72 mm
Horizontal dots
576
Head density
203 dpi (8 dots/mm)
Characters per line
48 (ESC/POS Font A)

The character grid is the printer’s, not an approximation: at 203 dpi a Font A cell is 12 × 24 dots, so 576 dots of printable width is exactly 48 characters. Anything you render has to land on integer dot multiples or the edges blur.

Ordered field list

Top of the document to the bottom. This is the order a reader expects and the order a scanner, a bookkeeper or a returns desk looks for.

  1. 1.Merchant DBA and address
  2. 2.Merchant ID and terminal ID
  3. 3.Date and time
  4. 4.Card brand, masked number and entry method
  5. 5.Authorization code and reference number
  6. 6.EMV block: AID in hexadecimal, application label, TVR, application cryptogram, ATC, TSI
  7. 7.Cardholder verification method result
  8. 8.Amount
  9. 9.Tip line
  10. 10.Total line
  11. 11.Signature rule
  12. 12.Cardholder agreement sentence
  13. 13.Copy designation

Alignment

Label-and-value pairs left-aligned, amounts right-flush. The tip and total write-in lines are blank underscores on the merchant copy only.

Tax convention

None printed. The slip authorises an amount; the itemised bill carries the tax breakdown.

Tender

The whole document is the tender record. Entry method is one of chip, contactless, swiped, keyed, or chip fallback.

Machine-readable code

None.

How to recognise it

  • Blank underscore tip and total lines on the merchant copy
  • X ____ signature rule
  • MERCHANT COPY or CUSTOMER COPY at the foot
  • RETAIN THIS COPY FOR STATEMENT VERIFICATION on the customer copy
  • AID printed as hexadecimal characters

Get Receipt renders this as Restaurant card slip

The narrow slip the card terminal prints after the check: total, tip rule, signature rule and a copy designation. Every total is recomputed by the engine from the line items, so the printed lines always sum to the printed total — the one thing generated receipts most often get wrong.