What are the different kinds of receipt slips?

Several kinds of receipt documents may be relevant, depending on how you apply for a residency card. 

In person at the prefecture: If you hand in an application and the official checks the paperwork and deems it ‘complete’ (no further questions; no more documents requested), they should give you a récépissé de demande de titre de séjour. 

During the instruction (processing) of your card this is itself a legal residency document. It will have a validity expiry date on it; in the case of a first request for a card, its duration is usually four to six months, and if necessary you can request one extension for up to three months. 

For renewals, the duration is usually three months, and you can request extensions if necessary. Contact the prefecture to ask about how to renew (if necessary) or see its website’s section about foreign people’s residency cards. 

If you applied online: the first document issued via the Anef website is an attestation de dépôt de demande de carte de séjour, generated automatically. It is not a legal residency document. If you have submitted a ‘complete’ application, in the required timeframe, you should in due course receive an attestation de prolongation de l’instruction de la demande de carte de séjour, valid for up to three months (check your personal space on Anef regularly and also look out for emails alerting you to messages). 

This can be renewed as long as no decision has been made. You can contact your prefecture about this or see its website. If the prefecture decides to issue the card, it sends an attestation de décision favourable, a provisional residency document pending obtaining the card.