{"id":9417,"date":"2024-05-02T13:43:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T12:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leogeracademy.hestia.wpspace.me\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=9417"},"modified":"2024-10-31T17:43:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:43:52","password":"","slug":"19-how-to-create-donation-receipts","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/donations\/19-how-to-create-donation-receipts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create donation receipts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the help of ChurchTools Finance, you can create donation receipts, also called collective receipts, quickly and easily. You can only do this for past accounting years. However, you can create draft donation receipts even before the end of an accounting year. You can identify those by the watermark Draft on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Navigate to Donor<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>To create donation receipts for a past accounting year or the current draft of a donation receipt, navigate in the <em><strong>Finance module<\/strong><\/em> (1) to the <em><strong>Donors<\/strong><\/em> tab (2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here you have the option of creating either <em><strong>all<\/strong><\/em> (3) donation receipts or the donation receipt for a <em><strong>single<\/strong><\/em> (4) donor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"406\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-355.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-355.png 940w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-355-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-355-768x332.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-355-360x155.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Option 1: Create an individual donation receipt<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To create a donation receipt for an individual donor, find the donor in the list and click on <em><strong>Create donation receipts<\/strong><\/em> in the corresponding line (4 &#8211; see above).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This opens the <em><strong>Preview<\/strong><\/em>, where you can check whether the donation receipt looks correct and contains all the required data (1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can switch between the <em><strong>Cover letter<\/strong><\/em> and the <em><strong>Attachment<\/strong><\/em> (2) and choose which <em><strong>Template<\/strong><\/em> (3) to use if you have saved several templates in ChurchTools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If everything is correct, you can <em><strong>Download a draft<\/strong><\/em> (4) or directly the finished <em><strong>donation receipt<\/strong><\/em> (5). Two separate pdf files are always downloaded, the cover letter and the attachment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-357.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-357.png 640w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-357-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-357-360x255.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the donor overview you can <em><strong>download<\/strong><\/em> (1) an already created donation receipt again, create a <em><strong>duplicate<\/strong><\/em> (2) of that donation receipt or delete the already created donation receipt and <em><strong>create a new one<\/strong><\/em> (3) instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-359.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-359.png 940w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-359-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-359-768x359.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-359-360x169.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group ct-box ct-box-blue has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-80af7bfe1f2cac9aad48f56ff78dd877 is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-002f1c27 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:8px;border-left-color:#e7c000;border-left-width:0.5rem;color:#3f3400;background-color:#ffe5644d;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0.5rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0rem;margin-left:0.5rem\"><strong>Warning<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0.5rem;margin-left:0.5rem\">Only one version of a donation receipt may exist at a time. If you have already created a donation receipt and sent it to the donor, always use the <em><strong>Create duplicate<\/strong><\/em> function if you need a copy of this donation receipt. The donation receipt then automatically shows the addon <em><strong>Duplicate<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Option 2: Create all donation receipts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In ChurchTools you can also create all available donation receipts at once. To do this, click on the button <em><strong>Create all donation confirmations<\/strong><\/em> (3 &#8211; see above) in the donor overview or <em><strong>Create remaining donation receipts<\/strong><\/em> if you have already created individual donation receipts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group ct-box ct-box-blue has-background is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-002f1c27 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:8px;border-left-color:#22c55e;border-left-width:0.5rem;background-color:#dcfce7;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0.5rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0rem;margin-left:0.5rem\"><strong>Tip<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0.5rem;margin-left:0.5rem\">As explained above, you can use the <em><strong>Preview<\/strong><\/em> to check the donation receipts to be created.<br>Then click on <em><strong>Trigger PDF creation<\/strong><\/em> to generate all donation receipts at once.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Depending on the number of donation receipts, this process may take a little time. You can track the progress in the <em><strong>donor overview<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-356.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-356.png 940w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-356-300x69.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-356-768x176.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-356-360x83.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Once all donation receipts have been generated, you can download them either <em><strong>collectively<\/strong><\/em> (1) or <em><strong>individually<\/strong><\/em> (2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-358.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-358.png 940w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-358-300x117.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-358-768x301.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-358-360x141.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you download all donation receipts together, you have the option to configure the file before downloading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-360.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-360.png 340w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-360-243x300.png 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group ct-box ct-box-blue has-background is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-002f1c27 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:8px;border-left-color:#22c55e;border-left-width:0.5rem;background-color:#dcfce7;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0.5rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0rem;margin-left:0.5rem\"><strong>Tip<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0.5rem;margin-left:0.5rem\">You can delete all donation receipts already created at once in the donor overview:<br><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"406\" class=\"wp-image-16430\" style=\"width: 750px\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-361.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-361.png 940w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-361-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-361-768x332.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-361-360x155.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the help of ChurchTools Finance, you can create donation receipts, also called collective receipts, quickly and easily. You can only do this for past accounting years. However, you can create draft donation receipts even before the end of an accounting year. You can identify those by the watermark Draft on them. Navigate to Donor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[440],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[224],"class_list":["post-9417","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-donations","knowledge_base-churchtools-modules"],"acf":[],"year_month":"2026-06","word_count":342,"total_views":"786","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"Jasper Stehmeier","author_nicename":"jstehmeier","author_url":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/author\/jstehmeier\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Donations","term_url":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/donations\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[{"term_name":"Modules","term_url":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/","term_slug":"churchtools-modules"}],"knowledge_base_slug":["churchtools-modules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/9417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/9417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17767,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/9417\/revisions\/17767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=9417"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=9417"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=9417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}