Thousands of receipts, batched
Are end-of-year receipts a big deal for you?
By "big deal", I mean:
Important
Lots of work
A headache
CiviCRM already has basic features for this.
But the headaches usually start when:
A donor needs a corrected receipt
Finance needs consistency across thousands of gifts
Someone asks, “Are we sure every receiptable gift actually got one?”
If you're issuing receipts at scale, there’s a new extension worth knowing about: Donation Receipts.
It's not flashy, but it brings a lot to the table:
It finds what should be receipted before you send anything.
It lets you dry-run the whole process.
It locks things down so records don’t drift after receipts go out.
It can batch, queue, and send at scale.
In other words:
It assumes things can go wrong --
and builds structure so they don’t.
You can find it in CiviCRM under
Administer → System Settings → Extensions → Add New
One caveat: it comes with just one receipt template (in German).
You might want some help creating one in English.
Here's the thing:
The CiviCRM community keeps on producing great tools like this --
practical, powerful, and usually free.
They’re not always plug-and-play.
But they beat building from scratch.
And they definitely beat doing it all by hand.
All the best,
A.
P.S. Yes, it’s April. That’s exactly why now is the time to try this -- not the week your receipts are due.