Meaning & use
purchase invoice
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Meaning
nouncountable
A document from a supplier listing the goods or services a business has bought and the amount it must pay.
Grammar: Often shortened to invoice; the plural is purchase invoices.
Patterns
- a purchase invoice for something
- a purchase invoice from someone
The accountant checked each purchase invoice against the delivery note.
We received a purchase invoice for the office chairs yesterday.
Please keep every purchase invoice for tax records.
Word forms
| plural | purchase invoices |
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Common combinations
- process a purchase invoice
- She processes about fifty purchase invoices a day.
- approve a purchase invoice
- The manager must approve every purchase invoice over five hundred dollars.
- match a purchase invoice
- Match the purchase invoice to the order before paying.
- pay a purchase invoice
- The company pays each purchase invoice within thirty days.
- record a purchase invoice
- Record the purchase invoice in the ledger today.
Synonyms and how they differ
- supplier invoice
- Supplier invoice names the same document by who sent it, while purchase invoice names it by the buyer's action.
- bill
- Bill is the everyday word and can be for households; purchase invoice is formal accounting language.
- vendor invoice
- Vendor invoice is common in American business, and means the same as purchase invoice.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: purchase invoice or purchase order?
purchase invoice vs purchase order
A purchase order is what the buyer sends to request goods; a purchase invoice is the bill the supplier sends afterward.
Practice
After the goods arrived, the supplier sent a ______ asking for payment within 30 days.
Choose one answer.
The supplier's request for payment is the purchase invoice. A purchase order is sent by the buyer before delivery.
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