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How to get a Dollar General receipt
Founder & CEO, Smartbills
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To get a copy of a Dollar General store receipt for business purposes, contact Dollar General customer support with the store address, purchase date, amount, payment method and the last four digits of the card. If you return an item without a receipt, Dollar General exchanges it for merchandise of equal value or gives you a gift card of equal value. A refund needs a receipt, digital or register, and is given within 90 days of purchase.
How the business receipt lookup works
Dollar General's Help Center has a Business Receipts article for exactly this case. Send customer support all of the following:
- The store location or address.
- The date of purchase.
- The purchase amount, if you know it.
- How you paid: cash, check or card.
- The last four digits of the card, if you paid by card.
Reach support by email or phone from the Contact Us section of the Help Center. The article does not give a turnaround time.
Bringing an item back with no receipt
The store return policy is short on this point. No receipt means an even swap for something of equal value, or a Dollar General gift card for that value. Items bought with EBT or SNAP follow USDA rules for returns.
What a receipt adds
With a receipt and the original packaging, the refund is guaranteed within 90 days. A few categories have their own limits:
- Some seasonal merchandise can only be exchanged for the identical item.
- Opened CDs, DVDs and software are exchanged for identical titles.
- Tobacco products are never refunded or exchanged.
- Alcohol needs the receipt, is refunded only, and goes back to the store where it was bought.
- Propane cylinders are exchanged only when defective.
Delivery and shipped orders
For a myDG Delivery order, the receipt, discounts and promotions are in Order History in your myDG account. Same-day orders placed through DoorDash are handled by DoorDash support, and Dollar General stores cannot accept a DoorDash receipt for a return. Shipped items can be returned unused within 30 days, excluding food and hazmat; contact Customer Care for a return address and authorization number first.
Dollar General runs without the paperwork chase
Asking support for one copy at a time works for a missing slip, not for a year of supply runs. Photograph each register receipt in the Smartbills app while you are still in the parking lot. myDG Delivery receipts can be collected by bill fetching, where our AI agent opens your myDG Order History and stores each one, and both kinds land on the same expense report.
Have receipts like this captured for you
- Receipt scannerCapture receipts with your iPhone or Android. Smartbills extracts merchant details, dates, line items and taxes.Learn more
- Bill fetchingInvoices that only live on vendor portals, downloaded on a schedule and passed to accounts payable while there's still time to approve them.Learn more
- Expense reportsExpense report software that attaches the receipts for you, works out mileage, routes the approval and shows each employee when they'll be paid back.Learn more
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