Generating Bilingual or French-only Receipts

If your organization is in Quebec, or has a national donor base within Canada, you will need to generate either French/English bilingual or French-only receipts. To do that, go to the Maintenance à Receipt Options window, and check one of the "Quebec" radio buttons before generating any receipts. (One is for bilingual, the other for French-only.)

In that same window, you can check the Use French Dates checkbox, in the "Options for Canada Only" section, to force the dates displayed in both the built-in receipts and in all mail-merge letters and receipts to be in French. If you select "Quebec (French only)", you must check that checkbox.

When you select either Quebec option, the main portion of the receipt, which you submit with your tax form, will be bilingual or French-only. In addition, there will be two copies of the main receipt, one for the federal and one for the provincial tax return. Please note, however, that the rest of the program is not at all bilingual.

If you wish to have tear-off forms created for these receipts as described in a section of the topic Generating Charitable Receipts, you will have to have the printers create two lines of perforations.

One disadvantage of the bilingual and French-only receipts is that because of the extra space taken by the 2nd copy of the receipt, receipts tend to go onto a 2nd page. If there is only one donation covered by the receipt, however, it may still fit on one page. To help force receipts to be only one page, you may want to tell it to skip either the Details section or the Summary section of the bottom part of the receipt, in Maintenance à Receipt Options.