Create a receipt book to match a physical booklet of numbered paper
receipts, and hand it out to a rep so their collections draw serial numbers
from it.

## Before you start

- Your workspace must have receipt books turned on.
- You need the receipt-book create, and separately the assign, permissions —
  these are admin-only.
- Only people whose role is marked as eligible to hold a book can be
  assigned one.

## Steps

1. Open **Receipt Books** and choose **Add receipt book**.
2. Enter the **serial book number**, the **starting receipt serial**, and
   the **number of receipts** (defaults to 50).
3. Save the book — it starts out inactive.
4. Assign a **user** to the book from the autocomplete of eligible reps.
5. Choose **Activate**.

## What can go wrong

**"The receipt book owner must be set first before the receipt book can be
activated."** You tried to activate before assigning a rep. Assign someone
first, then activate.

**The serial range overlaps another book.** Every book's receipt range must
be unique across the whole workspace — you'll be blocked from creating or
editing a book whose range overlaps an existing one. Pick a different
starting serial or a smaller number of receipts.

**You can't edit the book anymore.** Once a book has any receipts written
against it, it is frozen — you cannot edit its details, remove its assignee,
or delete it. This is by design, to keep the paper trail consistent.

## Related

- [Use your receipt book](/field-app/use-your-receipt-book/)
- [Monitor and close a receipt book](/setup-admin/monitor-and-close-a-receipt-book/)