The receipt designer is a three-column editor: components on the left, the page at its real printed size in the middle, properties on the right. Publish a version and it is frozen — every receipt issued against it reprints identically, for good.
What is a receipt template here?
A template is a receipt design your organisation owns, held as a set of components placed on a page of a chosen paper size. It has versions: a version is edited as a draft, then published, and a published version can never be modified.
That rule is what makes the design more than decoration. A receipt records the exact published version it printed from, so reprinting a receipt from three years ago produces the document that was given to the donor, not today’s design filled with old data.
How a design is made
Five steps, from opening the editor to issuing against the result.
Start from a design
A new template opens on one of the 2 built-in designs, already complete and ready to print. There is no blank canvas to face, and no markup to write.
Move things around
Three columns: a component library on the left, the sheet at its real printed size in the middle, and the properties of whatever is selected on the right. You choose “Donor name” from a list — you never type a token.
Preview it
The preview renders the same way the finished receipt does, on the same paper size, so what you approve is what will print.
Publish a version
Publishing makes that version available to issue against, and makes it immutable. Editing a published template does not change it; it creates the next version as a draft.
Issue against it
Receipts record the exact published version they printed from. A later redesign changes new receipts and leaves every issued one exactly as it was.
The editor with the amount block selected. Ready-made sections drop several components at once on the left, the sheet in the middle is at its real printed size, and the panel on the right changes whichever component is selected.
The designs supplied
Every one is a complete receipt, editable like any template you draw yourself. A new organisation is created with two of them already published; the rest are one click away in the designer.
Donation Receipt A4 (Boxed)
A4 portrait — The traditional receipt drawn for a full A4 sheet — nine ruled bands, a three-cell letterhead, and the amount, thanks and signature closing it on one line.
Donation Receipt A5 (Boxed)
A5 landscape — The traditional receipt drawn for an A5 counterfoil — nine ruled bands, a three-cell letterhead, a boxed amount and the 80G note inside the frame.
Document. Receipt number, date, financial year and status, singly or as a label-and-value table.
Donor. Name, full postal address, and the tax identifier the donor is reported under together with which kind it is.
Donation. The amount in figures and spelled out in lakh and crore, the donation head, the donation type and the payment method.
Organisation and compliance. Your trust’s name and address, its registration numbers, its 80G registration and the declaration that goes with it.
Branding. The organisation logo and the signature block.
Verification. A QR code carrying the receipt’s own verification link.
Layout. Text, tables, dividers, spacers and two- or three-column rows.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to know HTML to design a receipt?
No. Receipts are built by placing components on the page, not by writing markup.
The library holds 37 components grouped as Document, Donor, Donation, Organisation, Compliance, Branding, Layout — including the receipt number, the date, the donor’s details, the amount in figures and in words, your registration numbers, the 80G declaration, the logo, the signature block, a verification QR code, and layout pieces such as text, tables, dividers and multi-column rows.
What happens to receipts already issued if I change the design?
Nothing. A receipt renders from the published template version it was issued against, and a published version cannot be modified.
Editing a published template creates the next version as a draft. Until you publish that draft, nothing changes; after you publish it, new receipts use it and old ones are untouched.
What paper sizes are supported?
A4, A5, Letter, Legal, in portrait or landscape.
A5 landscape is the usual size for a donation counterfoil, and A4 portrait for trusts that file receipts alongside correspondence. Both are among the designs supplied.
Can I use my own fonts?
No. Type is chosen from a fixed list of families the renderer can guarantee.
A free-text font name would render on the designer’s own machine and quietly fall back to something else in the PDF — and a receipt that looks different each time it is reprinted is not a document anybody can rely on.
How small can the print be?
Eight point is the floor, and it is enforced rather than advised.
Below that a printed receipt stops being reliably readable, and a receipt nobody can read is not worth the paper — so the setting refuses smaller values instead of allowing a design that cannot be used.
Related pages
Donation receipt managementRecord a donation, submit it for approval where your trust requires one, issue it under a numbered series, and void it without losing the number.
Authorised signatures on receiptsHold as many signatories as your trust has, decide who may print each one, and freeze the signatory name and image onto every receipt as it is issued.
Receipt delivery, download and printingEmail or WhatsApp an issued receipt with the PDF attached, or download and print it. Every copy that leaves the system is recorded, and failures retried.
Put your own receipt on the page
Register your organisation and open the designer on a finished receipt you can rearrange, rather than a blank sheet.
