receipt

1. 1. The act of receiving: We are in receipt of your letter.
   2. The fact of being or having been received: They denied receipt of the shipment.
2. A quantity or amount received. Often used in the plural: cash receipts.
3. A written acknowledgment that a specified article, sum of money, or shipment of merchandise has been received.
4. A recipe.

1. To mark (a bill) as having been paid.
2. To give or write a receipt for (money paid or goods or services delivered).

[Middle English receite, from Old North French, from Medieval Latin recepta, medical prescription, money received, from Latin, feminine past participle of recipere, to receive. See receive.]

Written record of a transaction or payment of a debt. A deposit receipt is a bank customer's copy of the deposit ticket submitted with a check being deposited. A transaction receipt is a customer's copy of a bank card sales draft or, in an electronic funds transfer, the terminal receipt that is required by Regulation E. A receipt acknowledging payment of debt is not a promise to pay, and therefore is not a negotiable instrument, but if it is an order to pay, may be transferrable through assignment. See also American Depositary Receipt; International Depositary Receipt.

A written acknowledgment by one person of having received money or something of value from another.

Acknowledgment in writing that something of value, or cash, has been placed into an individual's possession; written confirmation of payment rendered. Receipt of goods refers to the act of taking physical possession of them.

(DOD) A transmission made by a receiving station to indicate that a message has been satisfactorily received.

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A receipt is a written acknowledgement that a specified article or sum of money has been received as an exchange for goods or services^{[citation needed]}. The receipt acts as the title to the property obtained in the exchange^{[citation needed]}.

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Contents 1 Printed 1.1 Gift receipts 1.2 Barcodes 2 Non-printed 3 Related industries 4 See also

Printed

A receipt, obtained in a Swiss mountain restaurant on the top of the Grosse Scheidegg. Includes a list of meals with prices, Tisch (table) number (7/01), total price information in two currencies (Swiss Francs and Euros), a note about the 7.6% tax, contact information and name of the cashier (Ursula).

In English speaking countries the term most frequently applies to the printed record given to a customer at checkout that lists the purchases made, the total amount of the transaction including taxes, discounts and other adjustments, the amount paid and the method of payment. Increasingly, these receipts may also include messages from the retailer, warranty or return details, special offers, advertisements or coupons. Receipts may also be provided for non-retail operations such as banking transactions. A receipt is a legal document^{[citation needed]}.

Printed receipts are usually produced by thermal printing on rolls of narrow paper tape, although dot-matrix technology is also used.^{[citation needed]} Recent innovations have led to multi-colored thermal printing technology and the ability to print double-sided receipts.

A receipt obtained in a Walgreens, it features a Barcode

Gift receipts

Receipts may be presented as proof of a transaction for the purpose of exchanging or returning merchandise. Some retailers provide special "gift receipts" specifically for this purpose. Unlike a standard purchase receipt, the gift receipt omits certain information, most notably the price that was paid for an item. The receipt usually has a barcode along the bottom so that the retailer can call up the transaction information from a database of previous purchases, thus authenticating a return.

Barcodes

Increasingly, retailers are using barcodes on receipts that allow them to identify the transaction in their system later on. This is helpful for proving the authenticity of the receipt, especially when a customer is returning or exchanging goods. Some retailers' point-of-sale systems allow the salesperson to see a complete record of the customer's buying history, including information about other store locations the customer has visited, what they purchased or returned, and total accumulated spendings, among other things- all by scanning a receipt barcode. This kind of monitoring has led to considerable savings among retailers by helping to prevent fraudulent returns.

Non-printed

Hand-written or hand-completed receipts are more often used for infrequent or irregular transactions, or for transactions conducted in the absence of a terminal, cash register or point of sale (for example, as provided by a landlord to a tenant for receipt of rent money.)

Related industries

Organizing receipts and similar financial documents is a multi-million dollar industry in the United States. Consumers can use desktop and online software to organize electronic receipts; sometimes, receipts are sent digitally from point of sale devices to consumers.

See also

• Australian Business Number
• Point of sales
• Invoice
• Cash register
• return receipt
• Biometric passport

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Common misspelling(s) of receipt

• reciept

Dansk (Danish)
n. - modtagelse, kvittering, indgående beløb, indtægt
v. tr. - kvittere, kvittere for
v. intr. - kvitteres

idioms:

• in receipt of    modtage, få

Nederlands (Dutch)
kwitantie, kassabon, ontvangst, (mv) ontvangen bedrag/ goederen, kwitantie uitschrijven

Français (French)
n. - (Comm) reçu, récipissé, ticket de caisse, quittance, accusé de réception, (Admin, Comm) réception, (Comm) recette (npl)
v. tr. - acquitter
v. intr. - donner un reçu

idioms:

• in receipt of    recevoir (des revenus, des bénéfices)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Quittung, Empfang, Einnahmen
v. - quittieren

idioms:

• in receipt of    erhalten habend

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (εξοφλητική) απόδειξη, παραλαβή, λήψη, (πληθ.) (οικον.) εισπράξεις, έσοδα
v. - εκδίδω (εξοφλητική) απόδειξη, εξοφλώ

idioms:

• in receipt of    που έχει λάβει

Italiano (Italian)
ricevuta

idioms:

• in receipt of    in ricevuta di

Português (Portuguese)
n. - recibo (m), receita (f), recebimento (m)
v. - passar recibo

idioms:

• in receipt of    em poder de

Русский (Russian)
получение, квитанция, расписка

idioms:

• in receipt of    по получении

Español (Spanish)
n. - recibo, comprobante
v. tr. - dar un recibo
v. intr. - dar un recibo

idioms:

• in receipt of    obra en (mi) poder

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kvitto
v. - ta emot

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
收到, 接到, 收到的物品, 收据, 收入, 出具...的收据, 在...上注明收讫字样, 承认收到, 出具收据

idioms:

• in receipt of    已收到...

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 收到, 接到, 收到的物品, 收據, 收入
v. tr. - 出具...的收據, 在...上注明收訖字樣, 承認收到
v. intr. - 出具收據

idioms:

• in receipt of    已收到...

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 영수증, 받음, 수령액, 요리법
v. tr. - 영수필이라고 쓰다, 영수증을 발행하다
v. intr. - 영수증을 발행하다

idioms:

• in receipt of    ~을 받다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 受け取ること, 受領, 領収書, レシート, 受け取り高
v. - 領収書を出す, 領収済みと書く

idioms:

• in receipt of    受け取り次第

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) وصل, استلام (فعل) يعطي ايصال‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮קבלה, מתכון, מרשם, הכנסות (ברבים), תקבולים (ברבים)‬
v. tr. - ‮אישר שנפרע‬
v. intr. - ‮כתב קבלה‬

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