Format spec
Rent receipt template
A statutory format in New York and several other states, with the period covered and the unit number as required fields.
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.RENT RECEIPT title
- 2.Receipt number
- 3.Date received
- 4.Amount received in numerals
- 5.Amount received in written words
- 6.Received from — the tenant name
- 7.Property address including the unit or apartment number
- 8.Period covered
- 9.Payment method
- 10.Amount applied to rent, late fee, utilities and deposit
- 11.Balance remaining
- 12.Signature of the person receiving payment, with their title
Alignment
A form layout with labelled write-in fields rather than a money column, and the amount stated twice — numerals and words.
Tax convention
None. Residential rent is not a taxable sale.
Tender
Cash, money order, check number or transfer reference, stated explicitly.
Machine-readable code
None.
How to recognise it
- Period-covered line
- Apartment or unit number
- Signature with the signer's title
- Amount written out in words
Get Receipt renders this as Rent receipt
A5 rent receipt: tenancy address, period covered, amount received, and the landlord signature rule. 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.