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AI Receipt Generator
Describe what you want and it writes the store, the line items, the tax and the payment block for you. Ask for “a gas station receipt for around $42” or “a sushi bar in Chicago, in euros”, then download a print-ready PNG or PDF at 300 DPI.
It is running below, not a waiting list. Switch to the Editor tab at any point to change a field by hand.
Edit with AI
Describe a change and it rewrites the receipt for you.
Try one of these:
Exports as PNG or PDF at 300 DPI with no watermark. Open the full receipt editor for store templates and a bigger canvas.
- Cost
- Free, no signup
- Totals
- Calculated, not guessed
- Export
- PNG and PDF, 300 DPI
How to
How the AI Receipt Generator Works
- 1
Describe what you want
Type it into the box at the top of this page. Name a store, a total, a city, a currency, or a handful of items. Vague is fine, and there is nothing to install or sign up for.
- 2
Keep talking until it is right
Every follow-up edits the same receipt instead of starting over, so you can change the total, add a line, then switch currency in three separate messages.
- 3
Download it
Export a PNG or a PDF at 300 DPI straight from the preview. Open the full editor if you want to change paper width, fonts or the order of the blocks.
Prompts
What to Ask For, and How to Phrase It
Every message edits the receipt that is already open rather than starting a new one, so you can work in small steps. Start from the sample above, or open any store template and steer from there. Every field your instruction does not mention is copied across untouched.
“Change the store to a sushi bar in Chicago”
Rewrites the business name, address, phone and the whole item list at once, and keeps your paper size and layout.
“Make this a gas station receipt for $42.10”
Prices fuel and snack lines to land near the figure you name. Tax is added on top, so say “make the total exactly $42.10” if you need it to the cent.
“Add three grocery items and set tax to 6%”
Appends new lines to what is already there and changes the tax rate, leaving the store and payment block alone.
“Switch the currency to euros”
Sets the ISO currency code so every price and total reformats. Name a country and it will pick the right code.
Four things that make an instruction land
- Work in small steps
- Every message edits the same receipt. “Make it a hardware store”, then “add six items”, then “bring the total near $80” beats one long paragraph.
- Name what you want kept
- The model rewrites the whole receipt each time, so an unmentioned block can drift. “Change the store but keep the items” holds the lines you liked.
- Give it something concrete
- Numbers and places land well: around $42, in Chicago, in euros, yesterday at 8:15. Vague direction like “make it look real” gives it nothing to act on.
- Do not ask for layout
- Paper width, fonts, colours and block order are in the Editor tab. Asking for a 58mm slip in chat will not move it, because the model cannot reach those fields.
Accuracy
Why the Totals Always Add Up
Most AI tools ask a language model to produce a finished receipt, including the subtotal and the total. Language models are poor at arithmetic, which is why those receipts often print a total that does not match the lines above it. Anyone who reads receipts for a living spots it immediately.
Receipt Canvas splits the job. The model returns only the things it is good at: a plausible store, a sensible list of items, a tax percentage and a tip. The app then calculates the subtotal, the tax and the total from those line items.
The practical effect is that even a vague request produces a receipt that reconciles. Ask for a gas station receipt for around $42 and you get fuel and snack lines that genuinely sum to the printed subtotal, with tax and the total derived from them.
Naming a figure gets you close rather than exact, because tax is applied on top of the lines. If you need a specific number on the TOTAL row, say so in a follow-up, or type it into the editor yourself.
Scope
What the AI Changes, and What It Leaves Alone
Layout and styling are deliberately outside the model’s reach. A request to change the store cannot quietly reformat your 80mm thermal slip into an A4 page, or drop a block you added.
| Field | AI can set it | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Business name, address and phone | Yes | Rewritten together so the header stays consistent |
| Date and time | Yes | Ask for a specific day or just say yesterday |
| Info lines (order number, cashier, register) | Yes | Rows are replaced as a set |
| Line items, quantities, prices, modifiers | Yes | Quantities are rounded to whole units of one or more |
| Tax rate and tip | Yes | Tax is a percentage, tip is a flat amount |
| Currency | Yes | Any ISO 4217 code, such as USD, EUR, GBP or JPY |
| Payment method, card type, last four, auth code | Yes | Custom payment rows you added by hand are kept |
| Footer message and logo emoji | Yes | An uploaded logo image is never touched |
| Barcode or QR code | Yes | One of QR, barcode, or none |
| Paper width, font, colours, alignment | No | Set these in the Settings block |
| Which blocks appear and their order | No | Drag them in the editor |
| Second tax line, custom tax labels, fees | No | Carried over from the open receipt untouched |
Compare
AI Chat or the Form, Which to Use
| What you are doing | Faster with | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Starting from a rough idea | AI chat | One sentence fills every block at once |
| Landing near a target total | AI chat | It prices the lines to sit close to the figure you name |
| Hitting an exact total | The form | Type the number instead of asking the model to reverse into it |
| Changing one field you can see | The form | Clicking the field beats describing it |
| Prices exact to the cent | The form | Type the number rather than negotiating for it |
| Matching a real chain's layout | A template | The store's real format is already built |
| Switching currency or country | AI chat | It sets the ISO code and reformats every price |
| Changing paper width or font | The form | Styling is outside the AI's scope by design |
Fixes
If It Does Not Do What You Meant
Nothing here is destructive. The preview toolbar has undo and redo, so you can always step back to the version before a bad edit and try a different wording.
- It rewrote line items I wanted to keep
- The model returns the whole receipt on every turn, so a block you did not mention can drift. Press undo, then repeat the request with “keep the current items” on the end.
- The total is not the number I asked for
- Tax is applied on top of the line items, so naming a figure sets the subtotal rather than the total. Ask for “a total of exactly $42.10”, or set the prices yourself in the Editor tab.
- It ignored my paper size or font
- Those are not fields the model can write. Switch to the Editor tab and open Settings, where paper width, font, alignment and colours live.
- It said something went wrong
- The request failed or was declined. Rephrase it more plainly, or make the change by hand in the Editor tab. Your receipt is untouched either way.
Starting points
Start From a Real Store Layout
The AI works best when it is editing rather than inventing. Open a store template first, then describe your changes. The layout, the code fields and the payment block are already right for that chain.
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