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What FreeCharityReceipts does, what is free and what needs credits, and how to make your first IRS donation acknowledgment as a PDF you download.

Receipts made on the Create Receipt page are downloads with no saved drafts or history. This page also covers saved details, the record kept per receipt, donor email and Bulk file upload.

Every section of the Create a receipt form in order, which fields are required, and what happens when you generate the PDF.

Cash, non-cash and IRS Option B on the form, what each is for, which need an account and credits, and how bank transfers are handled.

What the Gift Date and Receipt Date fields mean, how they are filled in, and how they print on the receipt.

The signature is required and the logo is optional. How to upload or type them, which image formats work, and how signed-in users save them for next time.

The EIN is your organization's 9-digit Employer Identification Number. The format the form expects, where it prints on the receipt, and the mistakes to check for before you generate.

How to receipt a donated item, why the receipt describes it instead of valuing it, what the form asks for, and what it costs. Sign-in and 2 credits needed.

How to receipt a gift where the donor received goods or services in return, what value and description to enter, what the receipt shows, and what it costs. Sign-in and 2 credits needed.

Make many cash receipts in one go, either by pasting up to 100 rows or by uploading a spreadsheet of up to 2,000. What each way does, what it costs and which one to choose.

Fill in the organization details, paste donors into the grid, generate, and download a ZIP of PDFs. Includes the row limits, Option B rows and what happens if a row is wrong.

Upload a spreadsheet of up to 2,000 donations, map the columns, review every row, then let it run in the background. Covers IRS statements, stopping, resuming, results.csv and Recent uploads.

The columns, IRS statement and amount and date formats, file types and size limits for Bulk upload, plus the most common warnings and errors you will see when you review your rows.

To fix a receipt you already issued, make a new one that replaces it. You enter the original receipt number and a reason. What the new receipt shows, what it costs and what it doesn't do.

How to email a receipt straight to the donor on Create, Correct, pasted Bulk or file upload. It needs credits or a pass and a tick box. Covers limits, bounces and what is kept.

Each EIN gets 1 free cash receipt a day for gifts up to $10,000 USD, with no sign-in. What counts, when it resets, and what needs credits.

What each receipt type costs in credits, the credit packages and the two Unlimited Passes with their prices in USD, how to buy, and where to see your balance.

You can make a free cash receipt without an account. Signing in adds credits and passes, Bulk, non-cash and Option B receipts, receipt preview, and saved organization details.

The IRS list of what a written acknowledgment for a gift of $250 or more must say, matched to what a FreeCharityReceipts receipt prints, and what it doesn't.

When the IRS requires a disclosure statement for a payment over $75 that is partly a gift, what it must say, the exceptions, and how an Option B receipt prints it.

What the IRS says about acknowledging and valuing donated property, and the Form 8283 and appraisal steps at $500 and $5,000 that are the donor's job, not the charity's receipt.

The IRS pages and publications behind the receipt rules pages, with one line on what each covers. Read the IRS's own pages for your situation.

What to do if the sign-in code doesn't arrive, you can't see your credits, or you signed in to the wrong account. Explains why the .com and .ca sites have separate accounts.

What to do when a card payment is declined, your credits or pass don't show after you pay, or you need a receipt for your purchase. Covers refunds and the .com and .ca sites.

What to check when your receipt doesn't download or won't open. Covers blocked downloads, finding the file, phones and tablets, and what to do if you lost the file.

The messages you can see on Create a receipt, Bulk and Correct, what each one means and how to fix it.