Original Document Custody Receipt Book

Original Document Custody Receipt Book is an offline app (one HTML file in a zip) for an office that keeps clients' original papers for a while: a typing centre, a PRO or visa services office, an agent, an accountant. Each time a client hands over documents you write one custody receipt with a line per item. The client signs, you sign, the receipt is numbered. When items go back you tick them off and print a return slip. The app always knows what is still with you.

The problem it removes: Originals are put in a drawer with a note on an envelope. Nobody can say quickly which passports or deeds are still in the office, which were returned and when, or which client has been waiting for weeks. A disagreement with a client about what was handed over has no written record. This app gives every handover a numbered receipt and every return a date.

What is inside:

• Custody receipts numbered DC with the year, one line per item: passport, ID card, deed, contract, certificate, cheque book or other
• Return dates per item, so a part return is recorded and the receipt shows Held, Part returned or Returned
• A5 custody receipt with signature lines for the client and for your staff, and a separate return slip for what was collected
• Desk page: items held now, receipts overdue for return with a WhatsApp reminder, and returns this month
• A reference field limited to six characters so nobody types a full document number by habit
• 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: An office manager or counter staff member who receives clients' original documents and wants a signed, numbered record and a list of what is still held. One person at one computer.

What it is NOT: It does not make your office responsible for, or protect, anyone's documents, and it is not a legal custody agreement or advice on one. It does not store scans or photographs of documents, and it should not hold full identity or passport numbers: the reference field accepts six characters at most. It does not send reminders by itself. 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 (105 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 284 calculated values (25 randomised rows plus the example data) with 0 mismatches. Safari engine (WebKit): smoke test passed; Firefox: could not be launched. Not tested: Firefox beyond what is stated here, and no real printer was used (print layouts were checked as PDF).