Charity Collection and Distribution Register

Charity Collection and Distribution Register is an offline app (one HTML file in a zip) for a small charity, mosque committee, residents group or school fund that collects money and goods for campaigns such as winter blankets, food baskets or school bags. Money received and goods received are recorded against a campaign. Money paid out and goods given out are recorded against a household. The app stops you paying out more money than the campaign holds and giving out more of an item than is in stock. Large payouts need the name of the person who approved them, and you can ask the app to refuse a second handout to the same household in the same campaign.

The problem it removes: Donations arrive in cash, by transfer and as boxes at the door, and handouts go out over weeks. The committee cannot say how much of the winter fund is left, whether the rice in the store is already promised, or whether one family received twice while another received nothing. This app keeps receipts and handouts together so the balance is always there.

What is inside:

• Campaigns with a target and a live balance of money received less money paid out
• Donors, who may be anonymous, with phone and kind
• Items such as blankets, rice bags and school bags with received, given out and stock
• Money received and goods received, each with an automatic receipt number
• Households you help, with a code, area and household size
• Money payouts and goods handouts with a check on balance and stock, an approver name above a limit you set, and an optional one-handout-per-household rule
• Today page with campaign balances, items in stock and households not yet helped
• Printable receipts, handout slips for the household to sign, and a campaign report
• Example data you can load in one click, a Start here guide and an Honest limits panel
• JSON backup and restore, CSV export, and CSV import with a check of every row before anything is added

Who it is for: small charities, community groups, mosque and church committees, school funds and residents associations that collect and give out money and goods.

What it is NOT: It is not an accounting system and does not issue tax receipts. It does not decide who qualifies for help, does not check identity or eligibility, and makes no statement about what a registered charity must keep or report. The approval limit is a number you choose. Names of households are personal data, so keep your device and backups safe. It is not legal, tax or accounting advice, it is not connected to any government system, bank or messaging service, and it does not file or send anything by itself. UAE e-invoicing is not part of it.

Your data stays on this device in your browser. Back it up with Export; clearing browser data loses it otherwise.

Verified by us: scripted tests in Chromium (262 checks through the real screens: adding, editing and deleting records in every table, required-field messages, backup then clear then restore, CSV export then import, keyboard order, print layouts rendered to PDF, no horizontal scrolling at 375 and 1280 pixels, no network requests) and an independent recalculation by a separately written Python evaluator of 816 calculated values (25 randomised rows plus the example data) with 0 mismatches. Safari engine (WebKit): smoke test passed. Not tested: Firefox beyond what is stated here, and no real printer was used (print layouts were checked as PDF).