Tax receipts
Issue CRA-compliant donation receipts to the true donor, with the charity as issuer of record.
Relae issues CRA-compliant donation receipts from the clean giving record. A receipt names the true donor on the gift, computes the eligible amount, and carries your charity's legal details. Your charity is always the issuer of record. Receipting is switched on with you during onboarding; if you would rather keep receipting in your current system, Relae produces the per-donor totals to receipt from instead.
What Relae handles
- The eligible amount, including the split-receipting rules when a donor received an advantage.
- A unique serial per receipt, never reused, so your numbering stays clean.
- A single consolidated annual receipt for a donor's cash giving in a year, or a receipt per gift.
- Void and reissue, with the original kept on the ledger so the audit trail is intact.
Advantage, fair market value, and the eligible amount
Sometimes a donor gets something back for their gift: a gala dinner, an event ticket, a bottle at the auction. In receipting terms that is an advantage, and its fair market value is what that thing was worth. The eligible amount, the part you can actually receipt, is the gift minus the advantage. A $500 ticket to a dinner worth $80 receipts at $420, not $500.
When you record a gift, enter the advantage value and a short description if there was one. Relae does the split for you and receipts the gift on its own, kept out of any consolidated annual receipt, so the numbers stay clean. If the advantage is too large a share of the gift, CRA rules say no receipt is due at all, and Relae will hold it rather than issue something wrong.
What you provide
You complete your receipting settings once: legal name, registration number, address, and signatory. You attest the values, including the fair market value of any advantage. Relae will not issue a receipt that is missing the donor's address or your charity details, or where the advantage exceeds the CRA intention-to-give cutoff.