Meaning & use
remittance advice
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Meaning
nouncountable or uncountablebusinessfinance
A document sent to a supplier or payee saying that a payment has been made and listing which invoices or items it covers.
Grammar: Often countable: a remittance advice, but advice itself is uncountable, so some write remittance advice notes.
Patterns
- remittance advice for something
- send a remittance advice
The client emailed a remittance advice showing which invoices were paid.
Please attach the remittance advice when you contact our accounts team.
Without a remittance advice, we could not match the payment to your order.
Word forms
| plural | remittance advices |
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Common combinations
- send a remittance advice
- We send a remittance advice once the transfer is made.
- remittance advice note
- The accountant filed the remittance advice note.
- match a payment to a remittance advice
- Our team matched each payment to a remittance advice.
- request a remittance advice
- The supplier asked us to request a remittance advice.
- attach a remittance advice
- Please attach a remittance advice to your reply.
Synonyms and how they differ
- payment notice
- Is a plainer description but does not always list the invoices covered.
- payment advice
- Is nearly identical and is simply a shorter form used in some countries.
- receipt
- Is issued by the person receiving money, whereas a remittance advice comes from the payer.
- statement
- Summarizes an account over time, not one specific payment.
Word family
- remit verb
- to send money as payment
- remittance noun
- a sum of money sent
- remitter noun
- a person who sends a payment
Commonly confused: remittance advice or invoice?
remittance advice vs invoice
An invoice is a request for payment sent by the seller; a remittance advice is sent by the payer after paying.
Practice
Who normally sends a remittance advice?
Choose one answer.
The payer sends it to say a payment was made. The supplier sends an invoice, which is the tempting wrong answer.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “remittance advice”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.