For South African non-profits that receive tax-deductible donations. Send us your donation records. We check every one, file your IT3(d) return with SARS, and issue a Section 18A certificate for each donor, with your logo and your signatory on it.
Since 2023, every Section 18A-approved organisation has to report each deductible donation to SARS on an IT3(d) return, twice a year, and give each donor a certificate SARS will recognise. DonorAssured does both, and the checking in between.
Your twice-yearly third-party data return, prepared to SARS's specification and filed in the submission window. When SARS responds, you get a plain-language note of what was accepted.
One certificate per donor, as a PDF, with your logo, your PBO details and your authorised signatory. Worded to SARS Public Notice 3082, so your donors can claim their deduction.
Every record is checked first. Anything missing or wrong comes back to you as a short list, pointing at the exact row. Nothing is corrected silently and nothing goes to SARS until it's clean.
If SARS queries a record, send us the fix. The return is re-filed as a correction, certificates keep their numbers, and you get a note saying which ones changed and need re-sending.
A single spreadsheet: your organisation's details at the top, the period's donations below. No system to learn, no logins to manage, nothing to install.
Donor information is stored encrypted in South Africa, used only to file your return and issue your certificates, and deleted once it's no longer needed.
You keep control of what gets filed. We do the checking, the filing and the certificates.
Fill in our template with the period's donations and your organisation's details, and send it to us with your logo. We confirm receipt the same day.
YouEach donation is checked against what SARS requires before anything else happens. If something needs attention you get a clear list, by row. Fix it and send it again.
UsOnce your records are clean and you've signed off, we file your IT3(d) return with SARS in the submission window and tell you what SARS accepted.
You, then usA Section 18A certificate for each donor, numbered and ready to send. Your donors claim their deduction, and you keep a complete record of what was issued.
UsNothing is fixed quietly.
A silently corrected donation is a donation nobody checked. If a record is wrong, you hear about it, by row, before anything is filed. If SARS queries one, you hear about that too, in plain language rather than a code.
Numbered certificate per donor per month, traceable to the exact donations on your return
Filings a year, in SARS's submission windows, so your organisation never misses one
Systems to learn, logins to manage or software to install. A spreadsheet and an email address are enough
If donors can deduct what they give you, SARS expects an IT3(d) return from you. DonorAssured is for the organisations that would rather have it done than learn how.
Charities, welfare organisations, churches, schools and foundations with Section 18A approval and donors who expect a certificate.
Accountants, auditors and tax practitioners with non-profit clients, who would rather hand the IT3(d) to someone who files them every season.
Hundreds of debit orders and once-off gifts a year, each needing a certificate and a line on the return. The volume is the point.
Anything else, email info@donorassured.co.za or WhatsApp us, and a person will answer.
Yes. Once your records are clean and you've approved them, we file the IT3(d) return with SARS for your organisation and tell you what SARS accepted. DonorAssured is operated by Tax A Sured (Pty) Ltd, a registered tax practice, which files as the submitting entity. You don't need to log in to eFiling or work with SARS's file formats.
Our spreadsheet template, filled in: your organisation's details (registered name, PBO reference, tax reference, contact details and signatory) and one row per donation (date, amount, donor's name, ID or registration number and contact details). Plus your logo for the certificates. We'll send you the template and walk you through it.
Twice a year. SARS opens a submission window after the end of each half of the tax year, one for March to August and one for September to February. We'll remind you ahead of each window and tell you when your records are due.
Checking is quick: you'll usually have either a problems list or a clean bill within a business day of sending your records. Filing happens inside SARS's window, and certificates are ready as soon as the return is filed.
You get a list, one line per problem, each pointing at the exact row and what to change. Nothing is corrected on your behalf and nothing is filed until the list is empty. Most problems are a missing ID number or an ambiguous date, and take minutes to fix.
We tell you what SARS said in plain language, you fix the record, and we re-file it as a correction. Certificates keep their numbers, and if any certificate changed you get a note saying which ones to re-send.
As a PDF per donor, with your branding, numbered and ready to email. Each certificate covers a donor's donations for a calendar month, so a monthly debit-order donor gets one certificate a month rather than a pile.
Donor information is stored encrypted on infrastructure in South Africa, used only to check your records, file your return and issue certificates, and deleted when it's no longer needed for that. We act as your operator under POPIA; your organisation stays the responsible party. The detail is in our privacy policy.
It's quoted per filing, based on how many donors and donations you have. Tell us roughly how many donations you receive a year and we'll send a quote the same day. No subscriptions, no software licences.
A few details and roughly how many donations you receive a year. We'll come back with a quote and the template, usually the same day.
Prefer email or WhatsApp? Write to info@donorassured.co.za or message us on WhatsApp.