Receipt Prefixes define how your receipts are numbered in Enlivy.
Each Receipt Prefix creates its own numbering series, ensuring every receipt receives a unique, sequential number. You can customize the prefix, suffix, date components, and numbering behavior to match your organization’s requirements.
Open the Receipt Prefixes settings
From the Enlivy dashboard, navigate to Settings → Accounting → Receipt Prefixes.
Here you’ll find the Receipt Prefixes dashboard. Every new Enlivy organization comes with a default Receipt Prefix that is ready to use.
The dashboard also includes helpful information explaining how receipt numbering works, including:
- What a numbering series is
- Prefix, suffix and date segments
- Yearly reset
- Default receipt prefixes
Create a new Receipt Prefix
Click Add Receipt Prefix in the upper-right corner.
The process is very similar to creating an Invoice Prefix.
As with Invoice Prefixes, you’ll find a live Receipt Preview on the right side of the window, allowing you to immediately see how your receipt number will look as you configure the prefix.
Complete the Receipt Prefix information
- Name
- The internal name of the receipt numbering series — for example Cash Receipts, Digital Receipts, or Store Receipts.
- Prefix
- The leading text that appears before the receipt number, such as REC, CHT, or CASH. If you leave this field empty, only the sequential number will be used.
- Suffix
- An optional text segment added after the receipt number, such as DIG, RO, or STORE. This can be used to distinguish different receipt series.
- Description
- Optionally describe what this receipt series should be used for. The description supports Markdown formatting.
- Current Number
- Defines the current number of the numbering series. The next receipt created using this prefix will continue from this value — for example, if the current number is 150, the next generated receipt will use that sequence.
- Include Year
- Adds the current year to the generated receipt number.
- Include Month
- Adds the current month to the generated receipt number.
- Include Day
- Adds the current day to the generated receipt number.
- Reset Yearly
- Automatically restarts the numbering sequence from 1 at the beginning of each calendar year. This is useful for organizations that maintain separate receipt numbering each year.
Receipt Preview
As you modify the prefix, suffix, numbering options, and date settings, the Receipt Preview updates in real time.
This allows you to verify the final receipt numbering format before saving the new prefix.
Example
In this example we create a receipt numbering series for digital receipts, using Digital Receipts as the name, REC as the prefix, DIG as the suffix, and 1 as the current number.
The generated receipt number will appear as REC-1-DIG.
After reviewing the information, click Add Receipt Prefix.
Receipt Prefix created
Your new Receipt Prefix is now available.
Return to Settings → Accounting → Receipt Prefixes. You’ll now see your newly created receipt prefix alongside the default receipt prefix included with every Enlivy organization.
From this dashboard you can:
- Create additional receipt numbering series
- Edit existing receipt prefixes
- Delete custom receipt prefixes
- Manage multiple numbering series for different receipt types