CRA-compliant receipts,
issued the moment a gift lands.
“Canadian support” usually means an American tool with a checkbox.
Most platforms are designed around US rules: the IRS, Form 990, EIN numbers. Canada gets added later, if at all. That leaves Canadian charities working around receipts that don’t quite meet CRA requirements, giving methods their donors don’t actually use, and support teams who have never heard of a T3010. You end up bending your compliance to fit their software, when it should be the other way around.
We built DonorsBase for Canadian charities from the start.
CRA receipts, done right
Every field the CRA requires, on every receipt, automatically.
DonorsBase builds each official donation receipt to CRA requirements the moment a gift settles, so nothing is left to a template or a manual check.
- A statement that it is an official receipt for income tax purposes
- Your charity's name and CRA registration number
- A unique serial number for each receipt
- The place and date the receipt was issued, and the date the gift was received
- The donor's name and address
- The eligible amount of the gift, after any advantage
- A clear description and amount of any advantage received
- The name and website of the Canada Revenue Agency
- An authorized signature where required
Advantage and eligible amount
When a donor gets something back, the receipt reflects it. Correctly.
A gala seat or an event ticket: the CRA calls what the donor receives an advantage, and the eligible amount is the gift minus that advantage. Set the advantage on each ticket type and DonorsBase shows the total paid, the advantage, and the eligible amount on the receipt.
Year-end reporting
Year-end summaries in bulk, and totals close at hand.
Generate year-end summaries for every donor in a single bulk run, and donors can download their own from the portal any time. Because donations, funds, and receipts live in one place, the totals for your annual return are easy to pull.
How Canadians actually give
Your donors send e-Transfers. Your software should keep up.
Interac e-Transfer is one of the most common ways Canadians give, and most US-built platforms have no answer for it. Connect the mailbox your e-Transfer notices land in, set one rule, and each transfer becomes a donation you approve with a click, recorded against the right donor.
How Anba Abraam Charitycut monthly costs by 75%
Anba Abraam Charity was paying too much every month for tools that quietly ate into their fundraising. They wanted to keep more of what their donors gave, without a painful switch or months of downtime.
Today, more of every gift goes straight to the mission, and their team spends less time wrestling with software and more time on the people they serve.
Under 2 weeks to full migrationQuestionsfor Canadian charities
Yes. DonorsBase builds each official donation receipt to CRA requirements the moment a gift settles, including your charity's name and registration number, a unique serial number, eligible amount after any advantage, and the other fields the CRA expects.
When a donor receives something in return, such as a gala seat, auction item, or event ticket, DonorsBase splits the deductible and non-deductible portions automatically so the eligible amount on the receipt is correct.
Yes. Connect your own Stripe, PayPal, or Authorize.Net account, keep your own rates, and receive payouts in your own Canadian bank. Software pricing is a flat fee in CAD. We take 0% of donations and never ask donors to tip.
Because donations, funds, and receipts live in one place, the figures you need for your annual return are ready when you prepare it. Year-end summaries support T3010 preparation without copy-pasting between systems.
Yes. Receipts send automatically when a gift settles, and donors can re-download their own receipts and year-end summaries from the donor portal at any time.
Switch for free.Keep everything.
We migrate your donors, giving history, recurring plans, and past receipts off your current platform at no cost. Most organizations are live in under two weeks, and nothing is lost along the way.
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