Receipt Generation Guide

Learn how to generate, customize, and send IRS-compliant donation receipts. Choose from professional templates and add your branding.

What's included on every receipt

Thankly receipts include all IRS-required elements for tax-deductible donations:

Organization name and EIN (tax ID)

Donor name and address

Donation amount and date

Statement about goods/services provided

IRS tax attestation text

Custom thank-you message

Organization logo

Choose from 6 professional templates. All templates include the same required information—the difference is in the visual styling.

Clean, traditional layout with centered logo

Contemporary design with sidebar accent

Simple and elegant, lots of whitespace

Strong typography with prominent branding

Refined styling with decorative elements

Business-focused with structured layout

Choose from preset colors or enter a custom hex code. The accent color appears in headers and decorative elements on your receipts.

Write a custom message that appears on every receipt. Thank donors for their generosity and share the impact of their gift.

From the Donations page, click the send icon next to any donation to generate and email a receipt to that donor.

After a CSV import, use the bulk send feature to generate and email receipts to all donors at once with progress tracking.

Click the download icon on any donation to download the receipt as a PDF file for your records or manual delivery.

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