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Format spec

Donation receipt template

A charitable acknowledgment carrying the organisation's EIN and the mandatory goods-and-services sentence.

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.

Physical spec

Paper
A5 page
Roll or sheet width
148 mm
Printable width
128 mm

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.Organisation legal name
  2. 2.Address
  3. 3.Employer identification number
  4. 4.DONATION RECEIPT or acknowledgment title
  5. 5.Donor name and address
  6. 6.Date of contribution
  7. 7.Amount for a cash gift, or a description without a value for donated property
  8. 8.The mandatory goods-and-services statement
  9. 9.Tax-status sentence
  10. 10.Authorised signature and title

Alignment

Letterhead document layout, left-aligned, with the mandatory sentence on its own line.

Tax convention

None. A contribution is not a sale.

Tender

The method of the gift, stated for the donor's own records.

Machine-readable code

None.

How to recognise it

  • Employer identification number in the header
  • The goods-and-services sentence printed verbatim
  • No dollar value assigned to a non-cash gift
  • Authorised signature with a title

Get Receipt renders this as Donation receipt

A5 acknowledgement letter format: donor block, gift amount, and the statement that no goods or services were exchanged. 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.