# Add or edit a donor

> Creating a donor record by hand and keeping it accurate.

Source: https://donorcare.my/help/organizations/donors/add-or-edit-a-donor/

**Who can do this:** Owner, Admin, Member

Add a donor before you have a donation to attach it to, or fix a donor's details after the fact — both go through the same form.

## Before you start

- If your organization's tax-exemption approval is active, creating a donor asks for their identity type, identity number and address up front, because those are required before you can issue a tax-deductible receipt to them. Otherwise, only name, email and phone are asked for.
- Editing a donor's tax and identification fields — TIN, identity number, address — only appears when your plan includes MyInvois e-invoicing.

## Steps

1. **Open Donors, then select Create New** (or **Edit Donor** from an existing donor's profile).

   *Screenshot: the Create Donor form, Donor Identity card visible.*
2. **Enter the donor's Full Name.** This is the only required field on a non-tax-deductible form. Enter it as it should appear in your records — DonorCARE stores it in capitals.

3. **Add an email or phone number if you have one.** Either is optional, but at least one makes this donor easier to find later and lets DonorCARE tell them apart from someone with the same name. Leave the phone number blank if you don't know it — don't enter your organization's own office number here, or unrelated donors will start showing up as possible duplicates of each other.

4. **If your organization issues tax-deductible receipts, fill in the identity fields.** Choose the Identity Type (NRIC, Passport, Business Registration, or Army ID) and enter the matching Identity No. and address. Select **Validate** next to the TIN field to check it against LHDN before saving — a validated TIN and identity number lock against further edits, so change the Identity Type first if you need to correct one.

5. **Add internal notes if useful.** These are private to your organization — the donor never sees them.

6. **Select Create Donor** (or **Save Changes**). You're returned to the donor's profile, and a toast confirms the save. If both the donor's own fields and their tax profile changed, one confirmation covers both.

## If something goes wrong

| What you see | What it means | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| "Company TIN (C-prefix) requires Business Reg (BRN) identity type" | You're validating a company TIN against an NRIC or another identity type. | Change Identity Type to Business Registration (BRN) before validating. |
| "Donor saved, but tax profile failed: …" | The donor's name, email and phone were saved, but the tax fields were rejected. | Re-open Edit Donor, fix the flagged tax field, and save again — you won't lose the fields that already saved. |

## Related

- [Read a donor profile](https://donorcare.my/help/organizations/donors/understand-a-donor-profile/)
- [Manage donor tax profiles](https://donorcare.my/help/organizations/donors/manage-tax-profiles/)
- [Donor identity and ID types](https://donorcare.my/help/organizations/donors/donor-identity-and-id-types/)