Editorial policy

Who writes and reviews

Our guides and templates are written and reviewed by the Makecepeit team, drawing on hands-on experience with small-business receipts, bookkeeping and expense reporting. Guides are grounded in how receipts actually work in practice, and every template is reviewed for accurate fields and layout before it is published.

Accuracy and sources

We aim to describe receipts, fields and common practices accurately. Where a guide states what a rule requires, we cite the body that issued it — the IRS, a state legislature, or the EU and UK tax authorities — and link to the document itself rather than to someone else's summary of it. Every source we cite is kept in a single registry that records the publisher, the specific claim the document backs, and the date we last confirmed it says that. Pages built on those rules list their sources at the end, with the same detail.

Rules differ by jurisdiction. What a receipt must show in California is not what it must show in New York, and neither matches the EU or the UK. Where a rule is specific to a state or a country, the source list says so.

Citing a rule is not advice

Citing a regulation is not legal, tax or accounting advice, and nothing on this site is. We publish what a rule says and where to read it in full — we do not tell you how it applies to you. Whether a rule covers your situation, and what you should do about it, depends on facts we do not have. For that, ask a qualified professional.

Makecepeit is a tool for producing receipts, not a tax, legal or accounting service, and reading a page here does not create a professional relationship of any kind.

How often we re-check sources

Government and standards bodies move documents, and a dead link on a cited rule is worse than no citation at all. Every source link is re-checked monthly — automatically, for link rot and for redirects that quietly land on an error page while still returning success. A few legislature and standards sites refuse automated requests while serving readers normally; those we open by hand in a browser and confirm the text still supports the claim we attached to it.

After a clean pass we update the verification date, which is shown alongside the sources on every page that cites them, so you can see how recently the link was confirmed rather than taking our word for it. If a document has moved, we follow it to its new home. If the rule itself has changed, we rewrite the page rather than quietly re-point the link.

Keeping pages current

Articles show their published date, and a modified date when they have been meaningfully revised. We update pages when the product changes or when the underlying facts change — not on a cosmetic schedule to look fresh.

Corrections

If you spot an error, email hello@makecepeit.com or use our contact page. We correct confirmed mistakes and update the modified date.

Independence and disclosure

Makecepeit is a receipt-making product, and some pages compare it with other tools. On those pages we disclose that Makecepeit is our own product and describe what we compared. We do not publish fabricated reviews, ratings or testimonials, and we do not invent credentials.

Responsible use

Our guides and templates are for legitimate purposes — record keeping, replacing lost or faded receipts for real purchases, expense documentation, and design or mockup work. We do not present generated receipts as proof of purchase, and we say so on brand-inspired templates. Creating receipts to deceive anyone is fraud. See our Terms of Use for the full policy.