# Get Donation Receipt
We can provide receipts for all donations. Corporate donations are receipted annually. User donations can be receipted individually or aggregated into a single, annual receipt per user, per foundation. Receipts can be sent directly from Benevity to the donor, or they can be retrieved by the participating business and forwarded to the donor.
These endpoints allow you to obtain a downloadable PDF of your receipt, either directly through an API call, or sent to a provided email. These endpoints will require the backendReceiptId that you can find in the response body of the call to the /payments/transaction (make a donation) endpoint here.
# Get Donation Receipt PDF
To directly obtain your receipt call the /receipts/test_receipt_id_4G801PXR6W endpoint.
# Sample request:
# Sample response:
The response from this endpoint is a binary file that is intended to be read as a PDF file.
# Emailing a Receipt
To email the receipt PDF to a user, you need to make a request to the /receipts/test_receipt_id_4G801PXR6W/email endpoint.
# Sample request:
# Sample response:
You should receive a 202 Accepted response on a successful invocation, and an email will be sent shortly to the email provided in the request body, please allow couple of minutes for the email to be sent.
# Understanding the Donation Receipt
The tax effective receipt that you will obtain contains the following information:
Date Receipt Issued: The date the donation receipt was issued, it is important to note that this date might differ from your donation dateDonated By: This would represent the person/entity that made the donation.Address: The address of the donor person/entityDonation Amount: The total amount of donationReceipting Charity: The receipting charity will be one of Benevity's partner foundations, that operates a donor-advised fund. This is due to the way Benevity aggregates funds before sending the money to causes.