Tax receipts

Automatic tax receipts for donations

If you're a registered charity (US, Canada) or an organization with Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status (Australia), you can use Zeffy to automatically issue tax receipts for donations made through your donation forms and peer-to-peer campaigns.

Before setting up automatic receipts, make sure your account is configured correctly: Setting up your account to generate receipts.

Turn on automatic tax receipts for donation forms

  1. Go to Campaigns in your left menu and click on the donation form for which you want to activate automatic tax receipts.

  2. Jump to the Tax Receipts section of your form editor.

    Tax Receipts section in form editor
  3. Check the box to Auto generate & send tax receipts.

    Auto generate and send tax receipts checkbox
  4. Click Save in the bottom of your form editor.

Tax receipts will be automatically generated every time you receive a donation on this form and sent to donors in their confirmation email.

In Canada and Australia, enabling tax receipts on your campaign will automatically make the "Full address" question required as this information is required to generate tax receipts in Zeffy.

How your donor receives the receipt

Each time a donation is made, your donor automatically receives a confirmation email. If you have activated automatic tax receipt generation, the receipt will be included in that email as a PDF attachment.

Confirmation email with tax receipt

Resend a tax receipt

If a donor needs their receipt resent:

  1. Go to Payments in your left menu.

  2. Click on the payment in question and a panel will open to the right.

  3. Click on resend receipt in the top right-hand corner.

Resend receipt option in Payments

You can resend to the original email address or enter a different one if the donor made a typo.

Download a receipt

To download a receipt directly:

  1. In Payments, click on the payment.

  2. The receipt will appear under receipt in the panel that opens. Click to download it.

Download receipt from Payments panel

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