Receipt Books

Ensure your cashflow is recorded effectively, efficiently and with little effort by using receipt books. Cromwell offer a wide range of receipt books from well-known brands such as Q-Connect®, Challenge®, and Silvine®.

What are receipt books?

Receipt books, which are also known as duplicate or triplicate books, are an essential part of any business or individual that deals with cash and services regularly. They are an easy way to create multiple copies of hand-written invoices for record keeping between various parties. They usually use carbon sheets to create subsequent impressions on documents.

When are receipt books used?

Receipt books should be used when multiple copies of handwritten invoices or receipts need to be made to be kept between different parties. The carbon sheet effectively copies the impressions to the subsequent pages allowing for multiple same copies of receipts.

Considerations when choosing receipt books

• Number of copies - The number of copies created should be a key consideration based on the number of receipt copies will be required in transactions.
• Size - The size of the pages needs to be considered to ensure all the information required can fit on the receipts.
• Spine - The spine of the receipt book greatly impacts the usability of the receipt book in different scenarios. Wire and coil bound books allow previous pages to fully fold back and get out of the way, so the book can be used with one hand.

Receipt book jargon buster

What is carbon paper?
Carbon paper consists of sheets of paper which are coated in a layer of carbon (or other types of pigmentation), which transfers the impressions left by a pen onto subsequent sheets to create multiple copies.

FAQs

Who gets what copy in a receipt book?

With receipt, duplicate and triplicate books, the master sheet (white) should be given to the payer. The subsequent pages should be kept for records by the payee.

Are handwritten receipts legal?

Handwritten receipts are legal and can be used for tax purposes if all the required information such as business name, address, date, description of goods, price, and VAT is displayed.